| Updating... |
|
|
hyperactive emo leprechaun
famous by association
I got a message on youtube from an intern at Paste Magazine...
He was writing an article about the upcoming Helio Sequence album and found my videos of the concert from a few weeks ago on youtube. At the bottom of the article are links to my videos. Cool!
Paste article
Labels: concerts, music
new old posts
I'm cleaning... and I've found a few things... old photos that haven't really done much but sit on my computer. So I posted them in backdated posts. If you're so inclined:
baseball
*sigh*
ok, fine.
Go, Red Sox.
straw
Ok, dammit.
I finally won something from the McDonald's online Monopoly thing... I won a free download of Monopoly.
I'll take it. :)
So I downloaded it, but I guess it doesn't run on Vista b/c the installer keeps crashing.
What the hell.
The Helio Sequence
|
The Helio Sequence, somewhat amazingly, showed up in Charlotte this past weekend. They played between two bands I'd never heard of: Tiny Vipers and Minus the Bear. I didn't dig the Minus the Bear stuff on their myspace page, but I didn't care. $17.00 for The Helio Sequence right down the street... I couldn't pass that up.
|
| Uhm... Tiny Vipers consisted of a pretty cute indie-looking girl with a Dolores O'Riordan voice and soft stepping fingers and a kinda geekycute guy playing backup accousitc and accent bass. They had some technical problems, but regardless, I just didn't get it. Maybe it was just wrong for this soft flowing duet to be playing the big stage at Tremont. Or maybe it just wasn't right for me. Or maybe they just weren't very good. I dunno, but it seemed pretty painful for everyone - performers included. They definitely left the stage before finishing their set. I felt bad for them, but something just wasn't there. The bass was superfluous, the guitar was too soft... it was just background music to showcase her voice. It almost had a Velvet Underground feel, but I asked the guy later, and he was just like, "Yeah, I know who they are..."
|
|
|
|
So, enough of that...
I haven't seen The Helio Sequence since they opened for The Secret Machines and Kings of Leon in Asheville a couple of years ago. One of those bands that I remembered fondly but didn't think I'd ever get the chance to see again.
I remembered Benjamin's flailing arms, a bunch of groovy electronic beep-boops, and this really clean voice that I oddly enjoyed. When I bought the record (the, at the time, new Love and Distance), I really liked the upbeat first half but could rarely get into the more mellow second half. Luckily, for me, the show stuck to the live / first-half-of-the-record sound that I remembered...
|
I went alone... there were lots of people younger than me. Also, I didn't really take any pictures b/c I was video-taping the whole thing. I tried taking this one photo with my left hand while a I taped with the right hand. It didn't work out so well.
I should say that I can see some people thinking that it's a waste to go to a live concert and focus more on taping the thing than living in the moment or whatever.
Fuck you.
Anyway. I don't think I could have been happier with the set. Yeah, longer would have been nicer, but the battery on my camera was dying and I didn't want to try to swap to my other camera. OK... there's a reason that taping a show might not be cool... Ugh.
|
|
They played 4 out of the 5 songs from Love and Distance that I really like and none of the slower stuff that I didn't feel like hearing at a concert. I hadn't heard anything off their new album (Jan. 29th on SubPop), so I was also really really happy that they played a lot of new stuff. I can't figure out the name of the 3rd song they played, but they either played 4 or 5 from the new album, and I really liked all of them. Honestly, not too "new" when compared to the last album, but I still think it's good. (Am I changing tense improperly?)
You know, it's actually probably good that I was filming. If I had been free, I would have wanted to be moving much much more than the crowd in front of me. I guess that most everyone was there for Minus the Bear although I did hear some people calling out "Harmonica Song," so at least some people knew who The Helio Sequence were. Still. A bouncier crowd would have been nice.
And the lighting... There was one moment towards the beginning of the show where it looked like they might have had someone doing lights, but no one really was. I think I remember liking the light show from Asheville, but nothing was really going on here. But it was fine. It was bright enough for me to see the band, and that's what I really wanted. Benjamin is a freakin' machine on the drumkit. I suppose the both are, really, but watching him play the drums is so much fun. And he looks like he's having a blast too. Fantastic. :)
Plus Brandon and Benjamin were both really nice when I asked them to sign my record. For some reason, Brandon thanked me...
Then Minus the Bear came on... I listened for a minute while I waited to get the 2nd signature and left after I did. They were fine, but I didn't think they were very special. And I had things to do.
|
So... watch the show or download the mp3's... they only played about 47 minutes, and I think I did an ok job of recording and cutting, so hopefully it will be entertaining. There is a little bit too much bass, so maybe turn that down a bit.
I probably would have not really cared that much when their new record came out in January had I not seen them again. But now I'll be pre-ordering for sure.
|
Labels: concerts, music
The new Radiohead...
Radiohead suckno, Wait, they don't. Labels: music
ok, dammit. It is morning in the UK. Sure, it's early, but it's morning. Where the hell is my Radiohead download code.
Femme Fatale
|
They did this well... figured I might as well toss it up here too... enjoy...
|
|
|
Labels: Allison, Eston, music
*sigh*
My hero...
I guess that's pretty old, but I just now saw it. Labels: george bush
Subscribe to
Posts [Atom]
|
|