Camera Obscura live in Auckland

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Camera Obscura live at Monte Cristo Room 18/01/2010
With support from Family Cactus(who I missed) and English duo 'Slow Club'
Slow Club are a duo from Sheffield(maybe even a couple i dunno)who are Rebecca Taylor on drums and Charles Watson on guitar playing thrashy pop,rock,folky styles with a bit of humorous banter thrown in.I was glad I made it to see them,check their music out somewhere if you aint heard them yet,they're awesome.
Camera Obscura came on a little later,Monte Cristo was packed and eveyone seemed quite ready and buzzed.The six piece band played for about an hour,fulled their set with lots of moody yet soulful and upbeat 50s styles of music.Hard to explain really but the lead vocalist Traceyanne Campbells vocals were well beautiful.I don't know why but I started to get a wee bored(just a little),I think I was hangin out for French Navy which is their big hit song.
The band is very tight and they all know exactly what they;re doing.
So really to sum it up I actually enjoyed Slow Club more but Camera Obscura's Frnch Navy was also a highlight.
Photos of Slow Club....

and photos of Camera Obscura...

Here's a vid of French Navy by Camera Obscura






 ...and a vid of Slow Club.


 


Thanx

The Dodos live in Auckland 30/01/2010

Sorry it's been ages since the last post,way to long,so I'm gonna try do a catch up starting of with the Dodos.

 

The Dodos live at the Bacco Room
I saw these guys last time they were here not knowing that much about them and they were soo good that I had to see them again,and so I did.
They had good support with locals 'Spring Break' who is a solo project of Ryan Mcphun.He was pretty good,he seems to be gettin big ups more from overseas and not so much here tough.If ya like Animal Collective you might like Spring Break.I think I've got a vid somewhere,I'll put it up if I can find it.
So the Dodos....they came out so quietly that no one even noticed them on stage and started playing while everyone was still talking but eventually people noticed once he got a bit louder.Meric Long(singer/guitarist) has a lot of  power behind his voice,not too overwhelming and his guitaring is beautiful.I was lucky to get a spot right next to him so I fully soaked in all his goodness and watch his fingers do the work on his well used beaten guitar.I love the Dodos,more live than their recordings though.
So yeah another wikud gig attenended 

Heres some photos of Ryan...

and some Dodo photos....

Heres a couple vids  of The Dodos.....

 

 
ThaNx. 

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?