From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #211 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Thursday, October 18 2007 Volume 10 : Number 211 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [idealcopy] tv eye / tube ["Keith Knight" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:26:42 +0100 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] tv eye / tube - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Keith A Yeah, I liked Switch, too. Very dark, dimly lit, it looked so much better than The Tube. The Cab's performance was great (I know they played Just Fascination, though I think they played something else, too). There were also great performances by Paul Haig, The Undertones and Soft Cell with Clint Ruin doing Ghost Rider, a performance that Another The Keith is also a big fan of. K. - --------------------------------------- Indeed I am - quite possibly the finest live performance I've ever seen on TV, with Jim Thirlwell as Clint Ruin throwing himself all over the place while Almond and Ball try to keep it together. The moment when Ruin comes into shot from the left, all shades and pasty face is classic. Just coming off an interesting four 'gig' (more or less) week: Misty's Big Adventure - great fun as always although is the latest work slightly substandard? Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 13: Hallucination City - a symphony for 100 guitars in which Branca advertised for people to turn up, rehearsed them for a day and then let them loose in the Roundhouse. One hell of an evening out, a noise like a million bees at its peak. One of the most interesting aspects was that if you moved a foot to the side you found yourself looking at a completely different set of people. I first saw Branca with Thurston Moore and Lee Ronaldo in the band before Sonic Youth were a big deal and I still recall them looking up at him for cues with a sort of awe in their eyes. That awe was present again amongst many of the players this time round (although Branca didn't personally conduct this one for some reason despite being present). Robert Wyatt in conversation with Sean O'Hagen and Frances Morgan. A great presence, surely one of Our Chief of Men. The evening covered a range of stuff, some familiar to those who have read this month's interviews in The Wire and Plan B. He's stopped drinking for six months as it was affecting his marriage and he says he's only written one song since, for someone else and they rejected it. He clearly doesn't know if he'll get the muse back - he said he can't recall that he's ever composed sober. When pressed on whether he'd ever perform live again - something he has a real antipathy to - he said 'Look, pretend I'm dead. Then you won't be disappointed and the albums will come as a nice surprise'. The new album, btw, is a real grower. Highly recommended. Jeffrey Lewis and the Jitters. A rather interesting support band open called The Wave Pictures who have a songwriter who has fascinating lyrical flights of fancy. Jeff, meanwhile, is touring his new album '12 Crass Songs' - which is 12 covers of songs by Crass rather than 12 unpleasant songs. Can't say that the Essex crusties ever really did much for me but in Jeff's hands the songs reveal themselves to be rather impressive - perhaps even more so now that a bit of anti-establishment polemic sounds rather quaint. Eve Libertine is invited on to sing a song called (I think) Mother Earth and after looking a little uncertain she launches into a full-blown rant, like a psychotic Siouxsie, which pins you to the spot. I'm rather regretting I didn't see them live now. Jeff then invites his uncle on, who performs as Professor Louie, who does an effective rap about war and oil. The gig ends with a frenetic version of 'No LSD Tonight' (I think I've said before that Jeff and brother Jack could be a great thrash band if they wanted to limit themselves to this). An encore is limited as the plug has been pulled but that doesn't stop our man as he performs a song unamplified with keyboardist Helen Schreiner. Another Jeffrey Lewis gig, everyone great, everyone different. Another the Keith ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #211 ********************************