From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #261 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, December 15 2007 Volume 10 : Number 261 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] O.T: Radiohead............ [Ari ] Re: [idealcopy] The Crispy Ambulance / Triclops at Sub-Space, Manchester [Bunny Smedley ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:04:55 -0800 (PST) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.T: Radiohead............ ................Just got the new Radiohead pack. VERY impressive, superb packaging, 2 c.d's, 2 l.p sized 45's, and a 'pretty' booklet all wrapped in a hard-back cover, say what you like about their music, they certainly know how to give value for money and something fans shall treasure for years to come. n.p, In Rainbows, c.d 2......... I'm in heaven. A ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:32:49 +0000 From: Bunny Smedley Subject: Re: [idealcopy] The Crispy Ambulance / Triclops at Sub-Space, Manchester Glad to see this report - I had heard this was a fine gig but good to hear the details. Is anyone else from here off to Brussels tomorrow? > From: Keith A > Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:35:42 -0000 > To: > Subject: [idealcopy] The Crispy Ambulance / Triclops at Sub-Space, Manchester > > If The Crispy Ambulance are famous for one thing, it's probably not that their > debut album The Plateau Phase was one of the finest albums of the early 80's > or even their Factory Records connection, but that they are called The Crispy > Ambulance, a name that is considered by some to be one of the best band names > ever, whilst others think it simply ridiculous. I'm in the former camp. > > > I'd not seen The Crispy Ambulance before, however, and not having heard of any > of their albums since they re-formed a few years ago, I was unfamiliar with > most of this matinee set in a small basement club in Manchester. None of this > mattered an iota though because this was some of the most intense stuff I've > heard in a while. And whilst it was great to hear that early 80's intensity > with dark, miserablist basslines, slashing chords and that thump thump drum > sound live and loud, this was no nostalgia fest. The Crispy Ambulance may look > like four middle-aged men about to play some 70's covers set in a working > men's club - singer Alan Hempsall looked particularly incongruous, dressed as > he was in slacks and fitted stripy shirt and looking more like the manager of > a Next menswear shop than some minor cult figure - but he was fascinating to > watch as he flitted from smiling genially to the crowd to some mad- eyed > frontman bellowing out the lyrics with real intensity. I couldn't help > thinking that this is what Ian Curtis might look like now if he hadn't ended > his life all those years ago? > > > > Although Green Eyes White Shirt was an obvious highlight, the band saved the > best for the encore - a superb rendition of one of my favourite Crispy > Ambulance tracks, We Move Through the Plateau Phase. Bassist Keith Derbyshire > may have made great play of looking bored on the keyboard as he played the > same few notes over and over as the band powered on with Hempsall repeatedly > hitting the cymbals, but this did little to detract from the intense tribal > warfare sound that was probably as good as anything I've heard all year. "Play > that again", I heard myself shout as the band left the stage! Unfortunately, > there was a rumour circulating after this performance that the forthcoming > Factory Night gig with Section 25 in Belgium is to be their final appearance. > If this is the case, then I would seriously suggest that the band think again, > because on this evidence The Crispy Ambulance sounded nothing less than vital. > I'll definitely be investigating their recent releases. > > > > A quick word, too, for Triclops - three blokes and lots of electronic gear, > all set up on ironing boards, improvising to pre-set beats. There was a > definite Throbbing Gristle influence especially when the beat dropped away and > things got more atmospheric for a while as - to paraphrase Clock DVA on their > classic Four Hours 45 all those years ago - a clarinet played in the distance. > This was all fine and dandy, but it was when the more tribal beat started up > midway through their set that things really stepped up a gear. The trumpet > blared away again and various eastern looking pieces of percussion came out to > play as that beat rolled on and on and on. Somewhere in a faraway place Miles > Davis opened his eyes, cleared his throat and poked his fingers through the > soil in search of his long lost piece of brass in a forlorn attempt to join in > the fun, whilst the rest of us tapped our feet and nodded our approval. What > more can I say except I'd buy it. > > > > http://www.crispyambulance.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:31:21 -0800 (PST) From: Creatured Subject: Re: [idealcopy] a load of B&S I dont really care for them either. Every song sounds like a different 60's band sound,to me at least. NP: Monty Python The Hastily Cobbled Togeher For A Buck LP(that wasnt released) 1981 - --- Bart van Damme wrote: > While I totally understand people not liking B&S I think they're > fantastic myself. > > It took me a while to really appreciate them though. > > Have you tried White Collar Boy [The Life Pursuit]? > > Some of my faves: I Fought In A War, Dear Catastrophe Waitres, The > Boy > Done Wrong Again, Act of the Apostle, Is It Wicked Not To Care?, Nice > > Day for a Sulk > > Bart > > > > Never heard anything I liked by B&S though, Keith. > http://www.docuticker.com/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #261 ********************************