From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V9 #261 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Tuesday, October 17 2006 Volume 09 : Number 261 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] OT: KaitO no more ["Keith Knight" ] Re: [idealcopy] OT: KaitO no more [MarkBursa@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:12:17 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: [idealcopy] OT: KaitO no more After weeks of speculation the dread news arrives that KaitO have split up. Neither they nor their record label appeared to like their third album and this appears to have pushed them to the brink. Nikki is now working in a sculptor's workshop and drummer Dieta has a new band, 'Owl Eyes'. No news yet of the others. I realise that few here necessarily shared my enthusiasm - or even saw them, although of course they were on the same bill as Wire at the Edinburgh triptych - but I say again for perhaps the last time that this was one of the greatest live bands I've ever seen, an endlessly fascinating mix of noise, tunes, yelping, smiling, pose, rhythm, glamour and the riveting playing of guitar fx pedal genius Dave Lake a small, unkempt, dynamo of a man with a taped up guitar that he never fixed. A band who outshone every band they supported from Clinic, to Yeah Yeah Yeahs and even on the night Wire. God, I'll miss them. Another the Keith ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:21:22 EDT From: MarkBursa@aol.com Subject: Re: [idealcopy] OT: KaitO no more I think the problem was that they were so much a live band that they must have been almost impossible to capture effectively on record. Especially the guitarist, who seemed to be improvising completely throughout the gig... Got the first album, which is OK, but a bit weedy compared to the live experience. Only saw them the one time - enjoyable indeed; certainly one of the better bands of their ilk, though hardly the future of rock'n'roll. They certainly outshone the headline band that night too. Some turgid goth/metal/emo type affair that prompted mass exodus! Mark >>After weeks of speculation the dread news arrives that KaitO have split up. Neither they nor their record label appeared to like their third album and this appears to have pushed them to the brink. Nikki is now working in a sculptor's workshop and drummer Dieta has a new band, 'Owl Eyes'. No news yet of the others. I realise that few here necessarily shared my enthusiasm - or even saw them, although of course they were on the same bill as Wire at the Edinburgh triptych - but I say again for perhaps the last time that this was one of the greatest live bands I've ever seen, an endlessly fascinating mix of noise, tunes, yelping, smiling, pose, rhythm, glamour and the riveting playing of guitar fx pedal genius Dave Lake a small, unkempt, dynamo of a man with a taped up guitar that he never fixed. A band who outshone every band they supported from Clinic, to Yeah Yeah Yeahs and even on the night Wire. God, I'll miss them.<< ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V9 #261 *******************************