Original posting May 6th, 2006…
Skye say: meh.
Jen say: meh.
GTALK! So superior to MSN!*
well, the first song started badly, and has thus far picked up. second… well, its okay, but nothing spectacular
okay, just picked up a bit there too
but it’s a bit meh
kellas: I agree, I listened to it last week and thought it was way too Shins and not as good as them
Skye: I’m thinking Shins and Salako
kellas: bit pointless. So many bands are like that. So boring
i mean, i usually like most things, but I’m getting more militant
Skye: and i have to say, i totally think you two are wrong on the boy least likely to
lameness bandified
kellas: awwww, I like them!
kellas: I think their music is sweet but subtly sinister
Skye: i had a wee comment when we covered them last week, but no-one repsonded…
nah
just lame
they were so fun live, so I think that is colouring my opinion
Skye: i’m really not getting into band of horses
kellas: yeah, blah, get rid of it.
Skye: i’m determined to listen. even at the expense of the daily show!
kellas: come on now
*paid advertising. In that, if I say it’s paid, maybe Google will give me some money.
Original posting August 16th, 2007…
So last night, Skyeness managed to wangle an invite to the gala opening of the Edinburgh International Film Festival and U.K. premier (red carpets’n'all) of Billy Elliot Jamie Bell’s new movie Hallam Foe, a disturbing tale of voyeurism and creepiness set against the rooftops of Edinburgh. And he has to report that the film was a bit meh although it was beautifully shot and had some top notch performances. Of special note, however, is the soundtrack, featuring slutty faves Sons & Daughters, King Creosote and Franz Ferdinand. The film has already won a Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival for its soundtrack.
And the aftershow party at the Edinburgh College of Art was a showcase for Franz when they came on for a 4 song acoustic set, which included the new Hallam Foe song, Dark of the Matinee and Jacqueline and another one which Skye was so stoked on free booze for that he’s completely forgotten what it was (the free sausages on sticks were tip top too! yum!)
It was a really nice set – though the movie song wasn’t all that to be honest, but it was great to hear some old faves in a much more intimate setting (last time for FF was in Princes St gardens, which was lacking on the intimate side), although a bit disappointing that only two of the band showed up. Where were the other two slackers!?
Anyway, skye was most excited of all when he bumped into Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian fame (no photos, mind, so you’ll just have to take my word for it). Of course, by this point skye was uber-chutnied, and could manage only to bumble on about how much he loved the Murdoch, which got the response “oh, you don’t really”. Embarrassment ahoy, but you know, you’re only drunk every Friday once.
MP3: Franz Ferdinand – Matinee
Original posting April 18th, 2007…
Sometimes, like now when I am sitting in a dark bar on Orchard, nursing a half price beer, looking out onto the street as 20somethings pass in skinny jeans and knee high boots, I imagine my life to be a movie. A perfectly grungy, horribly tragic, absurdly happy New York movie. A movie where I fall perilously in love, totter around in too high heels and fall drunkenly down the stairs at any, all Lower East Side venues.
The entire film would of course be soundtracked by a friend’s struggling band- the band I go see at 3am on a Tuesday, the band I poster lamp posts for. Right now, that band is Man in Gray. With a big haired, big hearted guitar player and a sexy cupcake making lead singer, Man in Gray scream through my life as the camera pans to me running down Rivington, pulling a lover into a dark doorway and crying out into the night.
Find your own soundtrack, or steal mine- go on, I don’t mind.
April 24th, 7:30pm, Man in Gray will open for Pela at Mercury Lounge (sold out).
Go Tuesday May 22nd at 7 PM to The Delancey (168 Delancey St. , New York, NY) for the listening party of Man in Gray’s new, and wonderfully titled, I Can’t Sleep Unless I Hear You Breathing.
MP3: ‘Sleeping‘ (more on their site)
Original posting December 7th, 2007…
Matt so often likes to ask the question of bands “Who the hell are you?” Well, this time it is my turn and my focus of interrogation, into that age old philosophical question, is on Knoxville band Senryu. I discovered Senryu when I discovered The Physics of Meaning, back around Halloween when I DJ’d a party they were playing. Senryu Wil and Steve were on tour with The Physics of Meaning, acting as back up and teaching the crowd the moves to ‘Thriller.’ After hangovers were vanquished a few days later, Wil sent me his MySpace page and it was all over…
Photo by Josh Godin
Jen: What EXACTLY does the band Senryu have to do with the short form Japanese poetry Senyru? And to follow up, please make one up on the spot.
Wil: well, much like the poetry, Steven and I are both short. though neither of us are Japanese. We like Senryu because they started off as a satire of themselves. I always loved the idea of the vehicle getting bored with itself. An english professor at UT once saw one of our fliers, I heard, and said “they must not take themselves very seriously” to his class. He may be right. I mean, we’re silly, but we take our silliness very seriously.
(Read the article)
Oh summer, how we’ll miss you and all your drunken bbqs, rooftop hangs, pool parties and summer Fridays. So to celebrate, we’ll be taking a few days off to take part in that greatest of American traditions- a road trip. We’ll see you back here bright and early Tuesday morning and until then, enjoy some posts from our archives today and throughout the weekend!
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our Editor Mathew Gross. Mathew’s contributions over the past five years have been very significant and much appreciated. You can continue following his insights on the Max’s Kansas City blog and in Metrosource Magazine.
We wish you the best, Mathew!
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