the world's shortest review
excellent show. futureheads rocked. hard. so tired now. reek of smoke. must get up in a couple of hours. pictures here. good night.
p.s. where were you, david???
p.s. where were you, david???
posted by laura at 2:24 AM
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So happy you had a good time! They rock, don't they? Did they play any new stuff?
Me? I was puking and shivering. Sorry.
babymama,
they played a cover tune, that sounded really familiar but I can't place it and the b-side to their UK single. Pretty good, solid sounding stuff, but it lacked their brilliant 4-parts 'do-wop' element, which is their strongest trait if you ask me.
I hope this is not some record exec attempt to make a 'front man' poster child!?!
Beyond that, they (as always) ripped, and are always so happy to be doing what they do.
There was this huge bald man and his partner dancing next to us, having a hell of a time. This guy's smile, bear hugs of his partner and the goofy dance moves just made the evening!
He later passed us on the street, in his tame (as our Volvo) car, screaming to us and laughing at the fact that a couple like ourselves and him (in badass European cars!) really knew how to get our rock on!
David, feel better.
well, david, i don't suppose you have to apologize for being sick. but next time try to be well, okay?
i am sorry you missed it. i think you would have loved it.
feel better.
Puking and shivering? Yes, feel better David.
just - the cover wasn't Neil Young's 'Piece of Crap' was it? They played that here the first show and it was hilarious because everyone sang along.
It sounds like a wonderful gig, you audience sounds much more lively than stick in the mud Torontonians, people here never MOVE and it drives me crazy! We went to see Robert Randolph at a small venue and people still stood there like idiots, I mean how can you not shake your hips when that man commands you to?!
Our crowd would have been much smaller than TO's crowd. Small venue, a cult following, but nothing really amass about the crowd. Infact, when they were doing the call-sing "ohOhohOH" "ohhhhohhhh ohhhhhh oooo" bit with the crowd, they designated the back of the club to "keep talking". Pretty funny. They then closed the encore with "Piece of Crap", Laura thinks that this was a statement to the geeks in the back, but they played that tune at Slims as well. So it's standard.
There was another cover. I can't remember who it was, I'll snoop around my record collection and see if I can score it.
The folks who were boogy boogy, hoever, really did boogy down. Which is good.
they did the "hounds of love" cover again - but that's on "le garage" - was there another one? if so, it went over my head. typical.
Yeah, they did 'Hounds of Love', which even though it's an original Kate Bush tune, in it's Futureheads incarnation, is entirely a Futureheads song (if that makes any sense?). They also did 'Piece of Crap', but there was another cover that I was unfamiliar with.
Well, Charlie, Mike and I are back from Great Lakes, so I may very well dig out the 200 or so records and cd'd that I have, and try to figure this out! I know that I know this tune from somewhere.
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