From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #313 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, November 20 2004 Volume 04 : Number 313 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] GBV (Scott content, too!) ["Bradley Skaught" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] GBV (Scott content, too!) I second Gil's enthusiastic report from the last SF GBV show. They were really stunning. Digging deep, too--lots of weird songs from weird EPs. They sounded great, though, despite the fifth of tequila, bottle of champagne and the usual beer. Pollard didn't smoke and even turned down a few offers of cigarettes from the audience. I seem to remember Doug Gillard being at a solo Scott performance a year or so ago, and he talked to Scott for awhile about what an influence Scott was on Pollard--quite flattering. The other great show this week was Oranger, Rogue Wave and Augie March. A really flawless bill--nice to see an indie pop show so thoroughly loaded with skilled musicianship--great singing and writing from everyone. Augie March were the underdogs (around here anyhow) but they nearly stole the show--I highly recommend the new release of their album _Strange Bird_. It's got a kind of otherworldly folkiness to it--similar in vibe, perhaps, to more recent Mercury Rev or even Nick Cave. Lyrically, it's stunning--the main songwriter has really come up with a strange, very distinct and highly literary style. I stumlbed across the album on accident awhile ago and it was one of those great "I have no idea where or when this is from" moments. Really, really great. Rogue Wave is much more of a guitar pop band live--still odd and distinctive, but punchier and, perhaps, more instantly accessible. I would highly recommend going to see them--especially if you like The Shins or New Pornographers or things like that. It may work more immediatly for you live than it does on record. The new Bowie DVD is brilliant, too. It's got a lot of tricky, gimmicky editing stuff going on, and that gets old to me, but the performances are a perfect representation of the tour. It's the first time I can think of that Bowie has been entirely convincing playing things from every era. The 70's rock stuff, the Eno stuff, all the great lost stuff from the 90's--it's all done brilliantly. Sadly, he neglects what i'm increasingly considering the "great lost album" of the Bowie catalog..._Hours_... B ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #313 *******************************