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22 December 2023
I came to several realizations during the Ladytron/Simian concert:
1. Bands with horrible vocals will never understand that they have horrible vocals. No, they\'ll undoubtedly play on through their set, the lead \"singer\" wailing away like a disemboweled cat. And while their instrumental precision will often prove to be wonderful, at that moment when you finally start to notice the music beyond the crappy vocals, all the instruments will take it down a notch so the \"singer\" can start driving railroad spikes of sound back into your skull. Mm-hmm. Simian is a band like that.
2. A little cowbell can go a long way for most bands in a clutch. Most bands, that is, except for Simian.
3. Seeing a stuffed chicken and various stuffed birds all over the opening band\'s instruments is usually a good sign. Unless, of course, that band is Simian.
4. Ladytron rocks live. They fill out their album routine by throwing live drums and bass into the synthesizer/detached vocals mix. It all makes for some amazing breaks from the recorded versions of their songs.
5. The men in Ladytron (Danny Hunt and Reuben Wu) are placed in the back for a reason: The girls (Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo) are H-O-T, and no one came to look at those dudes.
6. Ladytron can make a Missy \"Misdemeanor\" Elliot/Tweet song sound good.
7. Uh, the girls in Ladytron are still H-O-T.
8. My last and most amazing discovery: A show is only a show if people are eating, drinking, bumping, grinding, smoking, and rocking-the-fuck-out. Of course, a Cowboy Junkies show is an exception, but come on,.. people go to concerts to hear great music and get their freak on. And, for some reason, without alcohol or a contact buzz, a sold out, melting pot crowd of indie rockers, reporters, art school girls, and cynics, has absolutely no inspiration to shake their asses.
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1. Bands with horrible vocals will never understand that they have horrible vocals. No, they\'ll undoubtedly play on through their set, the lead \"singer\" wailing away like a disemboweled cat. And while their instrumental precision will often prove to be wonderful, at that moment when you finally start to notice the music beyond the crappy vocals, all the instruments will take it down a notch so the \"singer\" can start driving railroad spikes of sound back into your skull. Mm-hmm. Simian is a band like that.
2. A little cowbell can go a long way for most bands in a clutch. Most bands, that is, except for Simian.
3. Seeing a stuffed chicken and various stuffed birds all over the opening band\'s instruments is usually a good sign. Unless, of course, that band is Simian.
4. Ladytron rocks live. They fill out their album routine by throwing live drums and bass into the synthesizer/detached vocals mix. It all makes for some amazing breaks from the recorded versions of their songs.
5. The men in Ladytron (Danny Hunt and Reuben Wu) are placed in the back for a reason: The girls (Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyo) are H-O-T, and no one came to look at those dudes.
6. Ladytron can make a Missy \"Misdemeanor\" Elliot/Tweet song sound good.
7. Uh, the girls in Ladytron are still H-O-T.
8. My last and most amazing discovery: A show is only a show if people are eating, drinking, bumping, grinding, smoking, and rocking-the-fuck-out. Of course, a Cowboy Junkies show is an exception, but come on,.. people go to concerts to hear great music and get their freak on. And, for some reason, without alcohol or a contact buzz, a sold out, melting pot crowd of indie rockers, reporters, art school girls, and cynics, has absolutely no inspiration to shake their asses.
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artid
1215
Old Image
5_7_ladytron.jpg
issue
vol 5 - issue 07 (mar 2003)
section
entertainmental