From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V7 #123 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Wednesday, April 21 2004 Volume 07 : Number 123 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Re: Swim / Githead last night? [Ian Grant ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:22:03 +0100 From: Ian Grant Subject: [idealcopy] Re: Swim / Githead last night? At 09:30 18/04/2004, Bunny wrote: >Did anyone here go? I was planning to but sadly was too sick. Reports very >welcome ... No-one? Oh, go on, then.... Unfortunately, I can't really comment on Githead as I had to leave to catch a train after just one song, which featured guitar strumming and monitor problems in equal quantity after some brief mutterings from Colin. It didn't really set my heart aflame, so perhaps the Silverlink timetable just served to maintain the illusion that the rest would've been marvellous and inspiring. Time - and further encounters - will tell, no doubt. There was plenty to enjoy elsewhere, anyway. For me, the unquestionable (and predictable) highlight was Silo, an astonishing, extraordinary and unique band. No-one, to my knowledge, has managed to create music that is informed so completely and intensely by both rock and dance without diluting anything from either genre, and only their apparent reticence prevents them from being truly pivotal. Their set featured no new material and was too damn short, particularly as it took a little while to get going - I can live without "Templates" and "K2" betrayed a few signs of human creation, whereas the recorded version sounds as if it comes directly from the core of the earth. Still, by the time that they finished, they'd thoroughly proved the point - even live, where most guitar-based bands become swamped by a confusion of white noise, their sound was all precisely looped groove, thunderous bass, head-nodding snare. For a long, long time, I felt that I'd never again hear anything new or surprising from a guitar-bass-drums band. Silo (and no-one else) have proved me wrong. A sublime set from Symptoms too, I thought. He has a way of creating something genuinely emotive from a few simple elements and he filled the place with a delightful melancholy smog for half an hour, despite appearing to do nothing more than fiddle with a laptop and occasionally fiddle with a guitar. It sounds as if anyone could do it...and the world would be a much more pleasant place if they did, frankly. Really lovely stuff. Otherwise, I really couldn't see the point of Rhodes - loud, shouty and thoroughly obvious. And Lobe spent a while playing Minesweeper on his laptop before giving us a cheery thumbs-up for watching him do so. That said, his set was occasionally charming, with a few lithe, fluent tunes that were a little undermined by a couple of stumbles into Plaid territory in the middle. (Nothing wrong with Plaid territory as far as I'm concerned, except that Plaid already live there.) In short, a rewarding something-for-everyone kind of evening that summed up the label rather well and deserved to be populated rather less sparsely. Happy birthday, here's to another ten, and so forth. Cheers, ig. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:29:53 +0100 From: Andrew Walkingshaw Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Re: Swim / Githead last night? On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 12:22:03PM +0100, Ian Grant wrote: > At 09:30 18/04/2004, Bunny wrote: > >Did anyone here go? I was planning to but sadly was too sick. Reports very > >welcome ... > > No-one? Oh, go on, then.... I was gutted I couldn't make it. Thanks for the review. - - A - -- Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/ Programme Controller, CUR1350 http://www.cur1350.co.uk/ email: andrew@lexical.org.uk Random Walk ::: Wednesday, 11pm ::: cur1350.co.uk ::: is this music? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:51:23 +0100 From: "Ian B" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT This is the News! - ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Astbury And don't even get me > started on the news - Trevor McDonald now talks to us as if we're all > simpletons with those over-emphasised pronunciations. Yeah, the next time I hear a newsreader start a story with "Now, have you ever wondered..." I swear I'll kick the telly in. Stick with John Snow and chums on Channel 4 News. ITV news *is* news for simpletons. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V7 #123 *******************************