Laneway Auckland

Laneway Festival Auckland Anniversary 1/02/2010

 

Holy shit i was lookin forward to this day so much,the big draw card for me being Dirty Three,The 3D's,Daniel Johnston,The XX and Echo and the Bunnymen.All the other bands were a big fat bonus.I'm not gonna go into detail about each band so all i can say was that Dirty Three were incredible(this was the fourth time I've seen them and still think they're one of the best live bands in the world),Daniel Johnston was amazing,The XX were really good,quite mellow but had a beautiful sound and looked good on stage(posers but good posers at that)and well yeah was everyone else were good.No disappointments on the music side,oh except when Cut of Your Hands came started playing during Daniel Johnston. There's definitely a few things the organizers are gonna sort out for next time ie.bigger beer area,more food and time schedules for the bands.

So really all in all this was an amazing day,can't wait till next yeah.

Family Cactus

Phoenix Foundation

One of the ques

 The XX

Daniel Johnston

 it rained a wee bit.

The Black Lips

  

 Warren Ellis,Dirty Three

  

  

  

 Chris Knox and the Nothing

Echo and the Bunnymen

and then my camera ran out of room : (

But here's why............

These last 2 vids were taken by Naressa,not me.

What do ya think?

Yo La Tengo 8/02/2010

YO LA TENGO 
I saw these guys quite a few years ago and all i could remember was that they were wikud so i was pretty stoked that i got a ticket to see them again,thought i was gonna miss them.
The venue changed from the Powerstation to the Transmission Room by request of Yo La Tengo which was fine by me cause it was my 1st time goin there.Transmission is a dark little dungeon of a venue that has really good sound and a descent amount of room(it was flooded at the entrance though).
I missed the support which was supposed to be David Kilgour but ended up being Bob Scott,he from The Clean and The Bats and many solo projects etc.
I arrived to their 1st song which was a nice noisy landscape of sound which went on for over 10mins,this was not the only long song of the night,there were a few more.I love these songs,dreamy,blissed out stuff yeah.They mixed it up as usual,Ira Kaplan goin from guitar to keyboards regularly and his wife Georgia Hubley on the drums and vocals,also James Mcnew on bass and vocals to all having a good play around.
To me this was one of those gigs i would've been bummed if I'd missed it.It was bloody awesome!
They finished of the show with a Clean cover sung by Bob Scott(check out the vid down there) and then doin there beautiful cover of the Chris Knox song 'Coloured',the 1st time they've played it live.
So yeah this was a very sweet as gig.
Dim

 

  

  

  

 Bob Scottt on guitar and singing.

Chur

Telepathe and Ponytail

Wow it's 2010 now so this will be my 1st post of the new year and so far it's already been a massive 1 and not even 3 weeks in.I'll start the year of with Telepathe the Ponytail ok,good,here goes....

Telepathe supported by Hairdos,January 4th at the Whammy bar. 
1st up was The Hairdos,1st time I've seen them and well they're pretty good,wouldn't go out of my way to see them again but that's only cos there's so many bands to see these days.I think with a little bit more time they'll be tight as,still tho,a good band to have a jump around to.
Then after a bit of a wait Telepathe came on,I was looking forward to seeing these 2 girls cos i really like their music,very dreamy ya know(often play their music while nodding off) which i'm quite into.For a 2 piece band they can generate a lot of sound,probably something to do with their big set up as well.The sound was great,loved it,beautiful but.....they only played for about 45mins which is balls in my books and it's always too dark at Whammy.Good for the bands who are playing but sucky for us punters(especially for vids as you might see in the ones i put up ahem).
Oh yeah and they were pretty cute to,here's some pics and vids...........
                                                                   THE HAIDOS 

                                                                              

TELEPATHE

 

and then...PONYTAIL...

This was the next night on the 5th and wasn't really too sure what to expect,I di know they were gonna be noisey and that's about it also i did hear they were awesome live soooo....yes they were awesome,bloody awesome actually.The lead singer had a very controlled scream and had a wide range of face pulling.The guitarist was sweet to,loud,tight and just fully into it.I wish i could remember more so i could tell ya but this is what happens when you leave your blog for a few months.
Oh and support by Brand New Math was ok,definitely a crowd pleazer.I've put up a vid of them,you can't see much but its quite good to watch peoples feet dancing around and the sounds good to.Oh and same for the Ponytail vid as well,it's dark but sounz good.
Brand New Math

 

  

PONYTAIL

 
 

 

 

  

  

  

Feel free to comment on whatever.

Coming up later...Laneway,Yo La Tengo,Dialated People,The Wailers,a little bit of the BDO,The Dodos and MORE!