was anyone here at Public Enemy at McGonagles circa 1987/88 ?
must have been great.
must have been great.
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Wasn't that Nick Cave gig in the SFX 91, Henry's Dream. Unless he played before that, before my time. I didn't see him until Let Love In, that was in London. Brilliant gig.
Well the Music Tapes are an odd band at the best of times, all musical saws and weird instruments. Their live show includes extended storytelling segments and at one point they turn on a tv they have on stage and it "sings" the next song. It'd be irritating if it was in any way an affectation but the lead fella clearly believes very strongly in what he's doing.
Anyway, about halfway through the gig he walks to the front of the stage with some bird cages and calls for some volunteers. He gives 3 birdcages to the volunteers and then to the rest of the crowd starts handing out something (i've actually forgotten what, @scutter?) that you had to balance on your palm. He announces that the people with the birdcages are "on" and they have to catch all the other people who have to keep balancing this yoke in their palm or else they're out. If you got caught you give them the thing (was it a light maybe?) and they put it in their birdcage.
So you ended up with 100 eejits running around the room playing chasing. At the end the last person left standing not caught and person with the birdcage with the most amount of lights won t-shirts or vinylS I think.
was anyone here at Public Enemy at McGonagles circa 1987/88 ?
must have been great.
Also he's full of shit, Black Sabbath was just the right volume, not too quiet and not stupidly break your ears and distort all the music anyway loud.
but he puts on a he'll of a show.
the apostrophe..what the fuck man?
We supported them that night. It was really fun. Koster is a lovely bloke, really reminds me of Ray or Dave Davies.they were little glow-lights. Like electric candles.
I remember thinking, when Neutral Milk Hotel were coming to play here, how someone clearly as nuts as Koster, and someone so serious as Jeff Mangum, could be in the same band. Then I saw Scott Spillane, a whole other level of nuts!
Yeah that first Battles show and Joanna in the Olympia were definite stonkers.Best gig ever in Dublin was the Boredoms in the Village in 2007. I was at the Boadrum77 thing in NYC earlier that year, and the Village show was even better. Shame they've not come back since.
Honourable mentions to At The Drive-In in TBMC in 2000, Battles first show in Whelan's in I think 2006, Portico Quartet in Whelans in 2007 and Joanna Newsom's first show in the Olympia in 2008 maybe. I actually was at her legendary gig in the Sugar Club, and it was great. But every gig since has been better.
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