From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V7 #286 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Sunday, October 3 2004 Volume 07 : Number 286 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] the nightingales ["Keith Astbury" Subject: [idealcopy] the nightingales Saw The Nightingales last night in Shrewsbury. Great stuff!! Tiny, tiny venue (room above a pub). Really good atmosphere. To be honest The Nightingales were more a band I *liked* rather than loved, but they were excellent - I'd seen them once before, way back in 1986 - and they were good then, but this was better, which i think - 18yrs on! - is a remarkable achievement. They played Parafin Brain, Cakehole and a few others I knew that I can't put names to as I haven't played them in a long time, but I was chuffed they played The Crunch (from Pigs On Purpose) which was always a fave. The last two tracks were excellent - a sort of swampy number and then a really relentless one with a great beat that again I can't put a name to. They also played a glam one which was funny - if someone had walked in at that point and seen some some overweight bloke in glasses gyrating to a glitterstomp whilst the punky looking guitarist was mincing about a la The Sweet's Steve Priest, they would surely have wondered what they'd walked into! I think the c&w number should go, though. What a strange looking band though - they all look like they should be in different bands! There's an aging bassist who looks like a roadie, whilst one guitarist looks like a college lecturer wand the other looks like he should be in the Angelic Upstarts. As for singer Robert Lloyd, he somehow manages the unenviable task of resembling both a Northern comedian and a bulky John Major!! Anyway, they were excellent, and they're on at Birmingham tonight (Sat) and Manchester on Tues. You'd be daft to pass them up. The support band Fracture were good, too. Only caught the end of them as there was a road closed and we had to take a massive diversion, but the last few numbers were really good - in a spirit of '76 kind of way. Anyone know anything about them? Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 02:09:44 EDT From: Eardrumbuz@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] the nightingales In a message dated 10/2/04 8:27:40 AM, keith.indoorminer@virgin.net writes: << I'd seen them once before, way back in 1986 - and they were good then, but this was better, which i think - 18yrs on! - is a remarkable achievement. >> hmm, like some other band we know?! :o) - -paul c.d. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V7 #286 *******************************