About a week ago I saw Spindrift with 2 other bands. I got there right before the first band Ghost Box Orchestra went on. They played Deep Heaven Now a week earlier but I missed them because I was seeing other bands. At least I got to see them with Spindrift. Some of their songs didn't have singing. I had seen them before a few years earlier opening for Spectrum. They were very good and I may see them again next month with Psychic Ills. The second band were Strangers Family Band who are from California. This was their first time ever playing in the Boston area. They played psychedelic rock n roll that could have been right out of the 60's. I liked them. I remember they added me on Myspace a number of years ago. Spindrift played songs both new and old. They did a few Themes from their Classic Soundtracks album. I love their brand of western inspired music. During the night I got to talk to Kirpatrick and Henry from the band. They are the only two members left from the first time I saw Spindrift in 2007.

The next night I was Gentleman Jesse, Barrera & The Cudas and Earthquake Party. All of the bands were punky bands with short songs. I was sorta familiar with Earthquake Party because I saw them last year. I think they played different songs this time. Adrian Barrera and his band of Cudas hit the stage next and YES THEY DID PLAY SONGS ABOUT DOG FOOD AND FOOT SEX!!!!!!!!! I'm hoping that their next album will have songs about cat food and hand sex. That would be perfect. Adrian also played in Gentleman Jesse's band. In Barreracudas he just sang but in Jesse's band he played guitar and sang a bit of backup vocals. They played a bunch of songs in only about an hour. They played a song I really like from their new album called Frostbite. I'm glad they played that song. It was a fun time.


Rudolf de Borst playing with his new band

Last week I saw one of the better live bands I have ever seen, Spiritualized. I was completely blown away the first time I saw them on their Acoustic Mainlines tour in 2007. The Paradise was pretty packed for the show. I'm glad I got my ticket in advance. The opener Nikki Lane wasn't exactly what I was expecting in an opener. She had more of a folk/country feel to her music. It was just her and her guitar. (I would later find out that she is married to one of the guys in Gentleman Jesse's band who I saw a week later). I saw a few people at the show that I have seen at other shows including 2 people who were at Deep Heaven Now a few days earlier.

Once Spiritualized came on I immediately left the lounge because I was watching the hockey game and came in to watch them. I knew they'd do a lot of new songs since they are touring in support of their new album. Here is their setlist from the show: Hey Jane, Lord Let It Rain On Me, Headin' For the Top Now, She Kissed Me, Lay Back in the Sun, Oh Baby, Rated X, I Am What I Am, Born, Never Asked, Electric Mainline, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Mary, Stay With Me, So Long You Pretty Thing, Come Together and for their encore they did Cop Shoot Cop. They were supposed to do Electricity but they ran out of time considering the curfew for the show was 11:00. I was disappointed that they didn't play that song. The did more songs than I was expecting them to do from Amazing Grace, their 2003 album. I was hoping they'd do more from Lazer Guided Melodies because that and Ladies & Gentlemen... are probably my 2 favorite Spiritualized albums. Cop Shoot Cop may very well be my favorite Spiritualized song and this was my first time seeing them play it live.

The day after I saw School of Seven Bells I went to day 2 of the 5th installment of the Deep Heaven Now festival. The concert is mostly local bands. But there are a few from other places. I went in as a band was playing. Here's a list of the bands I saw that night The ?Suicide Dolls, Sky Picnic, Screen Vinyl Image, Velah, Is/Is, Nights (one song), 28 Degrees Taurus. The Vandelles were supposed to play but they cancelled and I was disappointed because they were the band I wanted to see the most. My favorite of the bands I saw were 28 Degrees Taurus, Screen Vinyl Image & Sky Picnic. Sky Picnic were very 60's inspired from their look to their sound. Screen Vinyl Image were very good. They reminded me a little of A Place to Bury Strangers with their intense sound but they had less loud guitars and more synth sounds. They are a husband wife duo. The guy in the band actually played with Oliver from APTBS in another band about 10 years ago. 28 Degrees Taurus are a local band that I saw a few years ago opening for The Horrors & Crocodiles. Their guitarist is the one who put this whole festival together. Their bassist is really nice. I have seen her around at local shows and she is always friendly. They played some good psych rock but by the end of the night band members got a little drunk.

Okay now the post you've all been waiting for.
I SAW SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS LAST WEEK!!!!


I saw SVIIB during their 2nd to last show on their American tour. My friend Chris went with me to the show. I don't usually go to concerts with friends so this was nice for a change. He likes a lot of the same music I like. Before the show I was talking to him for a while. We went over by the stage to watch the first performing group of musicians playing popular music Exitmusic. I had just seen them about a month earlier with A Place to Bury Strangers & The Joy Formidable. They played a number of the same songs as they did then. I liked them. I talked to them briefly before the show and they said they like touring with SVIIB. School of Seven Bells have these funny light things which are shaped like the pattern on the Ghostory album cover. They also have a new keyboard player/co-singer since the last time I saw them. I introduced myself to her. She seems very nice. Here is the setlist that SVIIB played: Intro, Iamundernodisguise, The Night, Windstorm, Bye Bye Bye, Love Play, White Elephant Coat, Lafaye, Scavenger, ILU, White Wind, Low Times, My Cabal and a two song encore consisting of Half Asleep & Sempiternal/Amaranth. They were amazing as usual. Chris really liked the show too. This was his first time seeing them and he was very glad he went. Afterwards I got to talk to them. I feel like I am a friend to them.

For the past week or so I have been obsessed with the Diamond Rugs album. it is soooooooooooooooo good. I highly recommend it. For those of you who don't know who they are they are a supergroup featuring members of Deertick, Dead Confederate, The Black Lips and a couple other bands.

Okay this video has nothing to do with the rest of this post but nonetheless it is awesome.

Last week I saw The Big Pink & Stereo Telescope. There were a lot less people there than I thought there would be (I think it may have been due to the Bruins Game 7). The show was still good. The opening band Stereo Telescope from Boston played indie electropop similar style to bands like Phantogram or Cults. They did a cover of The Cure's Just Like Heaven. The crowd seemed to like that the best. The Big Pink came on right around the time overtime started. Their fitroll was as escorts: Stay Gold, Velvet, Jump Music, The Palace, Hit the Ground (Superman), Give it Up, Crystal Visions, 77, Rubbernecking, Dominos, Lose Your Mind. Some of the songs sounded kinda different live than on the album. For example I barely recognized Crystal Visions. I thought it sounded better when they did it when I saw them in 2010. Also I coulda sworn 77 was longer than when they did it live. I thought Lose Your Mind sounded really good. They had a different drummer from when I saw them in 2010. By the way last Wednesday was my birthday and that was the day of the concert. This is only the second concert I have been to on my actual birthday. The first was when I saw The Strokes in 2006.
School of Seven Bells in a few days!!!!!!!!,

Sorry I haven't posted much here lately. I've been kinda depressed.

Here's a second review I wrote of the Joy Formidable/A Place to Bury Strangers/Exit Music show from last month.

Bottom line is, this is my version of events from a very good show and great performance. On Friday I saw The Joy Formidable, A Place to Bury Strangers & Exit Music. The show was great and I need to tell people that. I wanted to make sure I got there early so I could see all of the bands. Before the gig I got to talk to Dion and his bandmate Robi. Robi is the new guy who plays drums in APTBS since Jay Space left the band a few months ago. I had met Oliver on several occasions and was hoping to see him at some point as well. Exit Music were the opening band. I will be seeing them again next month opening for School of Seven Bells. I can see why they would be touring with them considering that their sound and style is a bit similar to SVIIB but they are not nearly as good as SVIIB (By the way I'm not this shouldn't be perceived as an insult to Exitmusic considering that SVIIB are one of my favorite bands). The band I was looking most forward to seeing was A Place to Bury Strangers. I was hoping they'd be headlining but The Joy Formidable are a more popular band. APTBS were AMAZING as usual. They delivered a fantastic performance. They played 4 of the five songs on their new Onwards to the Wall ep including the title track. They also played Ego Death from their second album and Ocean from their first album. After playing Ego Death Oliver powerslammed his guitar to the ground. The audience was just stunned and left quite stunned from their performance. When they were first starting out I'm pretty sure that APTBS were banned from clubs for being a bit too loud. Personally I think that their music can change the world for the better. They have a big wall of amplifier cabinets behind them and it shows. I'm pretty sure at one point Oliver tried to jump over the speakers during the song. At a recent show Dion attacked the amps by throwing his bass into the amp. It was only after their show stopped that they turned their instruments down. The Joy Formidable were up next. Their set was similar to when I saw them about 6 months earlier. They played one new song which will probably be on their next album as well as the song on the recent Twilight soundtrack. Their performance was absolutely amazing as well. The lead singer of The Joy Formidable made a number of Classy moves on stage. NOBODY booed them off stage. The crowd people loved them which is great because they are a band that lives off the fans. The Joy Formidable are currently finishing up their extremely successful tour and then they are going to start work on their second album. During one song I heard on stage these funny music box noises. After The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade, The Joy Formidable appeared to end their show when they left the stage but they came back for an encore which included Whirring which is probably their most popular song. A harpist came out and played an interesting intro to Whirring. After the show I got to hang out in APTBS's dressing room and chat with them. I told them that it royally pissed me off that my favorite sports team lost that night. If I weren't at the show it would have been a very bad day. I hope that APTBS come back to the Boston area soon because they are so amazing. Take my word for it they are worth seeing live. I told them that I wish that they had played the song that is about beating the hell out of a guy and putting a wound on his head.
All in all the show was a good hard rocking evening. I hope this is not the only first hand fan account from the show. I would love it if this gets posted on a music news outlet. End of Story.

Here are a few more afterthoughts regarding the Joy Formidable/A Place to Bury Strangers/Exit Music show.

Nobody in either of the three bands was wearing tailored leather biker gear.
I met one of APTBS and Joy Formidable's crew members who were nice.
APTBS live is like a musical orgasm.
I was messing around on youtube and found a video of APTBS playing live and shit broke loose. Oliver was moving the guitar rigs around.
People in the crowd referred to this show as a great rock evening because the bands kicked the crowd's ass.
A funny thing occurred when one of the APTBS members asked me where the Austin Psych fest was.
Now that the record is straight I hope that people pay good money to see APTBS. Their first 3 or 4 songs will make you want to vibe along.
APTBS and Joy Formidable proceeded to go on stage and rocked on and rocked out at the same time.
Last year APTBS broke their contract with Mute and signed with Dead Oceans which is the label that Akron/Family are signed to.
I brought my digicam to the show and took some pics and video.
I wonder if someday APTBS will pull out cables and render the equipment incapable of playing the show without stopping to think of the audience. (I doubt that'll ever happen)
Hopefully some day these bands will become successful and appear on top of the charts. That would look good on a rock n roll resume.

No further comment

Actually there is a further comment
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS have a new album called WORSHIP coming out in late June. I am REALLY EXCITED about this album and I know it'll be great.

Next Week I am seeing The Big Pink

A very long funny review of the concert I went to Friday night.

Audited account is this is my adaptation of adventures from a very pleasurable performance and elephantine exhibition. On Friday I saw The Joy Formidable, A Place to Bury Strangers & Exit Music. The programme was voluminous and I need to notify the masses of that. I wanted to make sure I got there early so I could see all of the bands. In the presence of the production I got to talk to Dion and his combopartner Robi. Robi is the Modish sod who plays drums in APTBS since Jay Space left the band a few months ago. I had met Oliver on Manifold junctures and was hoping to see him at some point as well. Exit Music were The First Performing Group of Musicians Playing Popular Music. I will be seeing them again next month opening for School of Seven Bells. I can see why they would be touring with them considering that their sound and style is a bit similar to SVIIB but they are not nearly as good. The band I was looking most forward to see was A Place to Bury Strangers. I was hoping they'd be headlining but The Joy Formidable are an extra sought after performing group of musicians playing popular music. APTBS were AMAZING as usual. They emancipated a bitchin' rigmarole. They played 4 of the five songs on their new Onwards to the Wall ep including the title track. They also played Ego Death from their second album and Ocean from their first album. After playing Ego Death Oliver forcebanged his guitar to the ground. The great unwashed was only now staggered and bequeathed wholly gobsmacked from their performance. When they were first starting out I'm pretty sure that APTBS were blackballed from cabarets for being too loud. Some people in the crowd probably thought that APTBS were a trifle overly obstreperous. Personally I think that their music can transmute the macrocosm for the superior. They have a big bulwark of booster chiffoniers behind them and it shows. I'm pretty sure at one point Oliver tried to dance above the tannoys throughout the canzonet. At a holocene semblance Dion excoriate the relay links by throwing his bass into the amp. It was only after their pageantry discontinued that they diminished the speed, volume & intensity of their waldos. The Joy Formidable were up next. They set was similar to when I saw them about 6 months earlier. They played one state-of-the-art number which will probably be on the next album as well as the song on the recent Twilight soundtrack. Their performance was utterly astonishing as well. The top troubadour of The Joy Formidable made a number of Ritzy tactical maneuvers on stage. Nobody raspberried them off rostrum. The bunch mortals loved them which is great because they are a band that subsists off the rooters The Joy Formidable are currently polishing off their extraordinarily lucrative junket and then they are going to instigate effort on their subsequent waxing. During one song I detected on the rostrum these funny music box noises. After The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade The Joy Formidable appeared to terminate their ostentation when they bogged off the soapbox but they came back for an encore which included Whirring which is probably their most popular song. This harpist came out and played an interesting intro to Whirring. After the show I got to hang out in APTBS's dressing room and chat with them. I told them that it categorically buggered me off that my favorite athletics troupe lost that night. If I weren't at the show it would have been a superlatively putrid twenty-four hour period. I hope that APTBS come back to the Boston area soon because they are so amazing. Fetch my term for it they are worth seeing live. I told them that I wish that they had played the song that is about tonking the Abaddon out of the bozo and putting a Lesion on one's noggin.
All in all the show was a first-rate hefty swinging crepuscule. I hope this is not the only face-to-face adherent portrayal from the extravaganza. I would love it if this gets posted on an art of arranging and combining sounds able to be produced by the human voice or by instruments bulletin avenue. Culmination of chronicle.

Here are a few more afterthoughts regarding the Joy Formidable/A Place to Bury Strangers/Exit Music show.

Nobody in either of the three bands was wearing bespoken tanned hide motorcyclist apparel
I met one of APTBS and Joy Formidable's skilled workmen who were nice.
APTBS live is like a musical orgasm. I'm sure many of their dinky buffs would love to slurp their principal cantor's phallus. gon
I was puttering on youtube and found a video of APTBS playing live and twaddle burst wobbly. Oliver was moving the Axe turnouts around
People in the crowd referred to this show as a bulky tower of strength vesper because the bands booted the bevy's buttocks
A laughable facet occurred when someone asked me where the Austin Psych fest was
Forthwith that the documentation is unswerving I hope that people proffer lucrative banknotes to see APTBS. Their pristine 3 or 4 anthems will make you want to atmosphere ahead.
APTBS and Joy Formidable locomoted to roll on stage and wobbled without a break and lurched away at the same time.
Last year APTBS interrupt their stipulation with Mute and signed with Dead Oceans which is the label that Akron/Family are signed to
I brought my electronic flash to the show and took some pics and video
I wonder if someday APTBS will Demodulate transmission lines and construe the paraphernalia unqualified of performing music without pausing to imagine the hoi polo. (I doubt that'll ever happen)
Hopefully some day these bands will become booming and appear at the vertex of the tabulations. That would look good on a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western curriculum vitae.

No supplementary deliberation

By the way incase you weren't sure this is a very POSITIVE review.

Here is a neat video of APTBS doing their thing.

I saw the Kaiser Chiefs perform an instore at Newbury Comics. They played acoustic and did 4 songs. They did 2 songs from their new album plus their hits Ruby and I Predict a Riot. Afterwards I met them and got their autograph. They were very charming. Too bad I didn't have enough money to see their actual show that night.

Later in the week I saw NO AGE play a free show at a local college. There was a band that opened but I don't remember their name. They were ok. Before No Age came on I had a drink of SABRES VICTORY TEA with the band members!!! That's right this was my first time ever having Sabres Victory Tea at a concert. They signed a poster for me and I got a picture with them. No Age really got the crowd going. Most of the crowd were slamdancing throughout their set. They played songs from their albums as well as a couple of new ones. They played one of my favorite songs of theirs, You're A Target. I was hoping they'd play that song. They ended with a cover of Black Flag's Six Pack.

This performing group of musicians playing popular music is meagre. I was canvassing their myaperture sheet and their freaks are entrusting all ilk of Boeotian missives and having an aversion to CS. It's wanky. I look forward to they carry out obtain their tushy punted and if they do their damnedest to disgorge that dogshit in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin or Wyoming they dictate another time.
Recently deciphered their myaperture. Pretty pants of them pristine carol United States of America be dreadful and accordingly when an individual protests against have a crack to impede the progress of on the jurisprudence of the United States in oral autonomy. gon… Considerably controverting isn’t it?!.

The programme was voluminous - except for the disorder with the first performing group of musicians playing popular music, I do not so much as perceive their sobriquet, produced everybody flabbergasted. on the spur of the moment, the musical instrument having a flat backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking instrumentalist was shinning up over the instruments at the back of the stage and fathered a physical conflict...and nobody associated with the reason. The great unwashed was only now staggered, not having a clue what was taking place. No gesticulating or signaling from the throng. At any rate, I was blithe that their appearance was accomplished succeeding no more than three or 4 canticles as they were dejection, imv. Change Span did an absolutely capital métier then, even if the musical instrument having a flat backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking hubbub throughout the time of the earliest three strains was overly stentorian. Contrary to expectation, everything being taken into account, a bulky tower of strength vesper. Hoping for the thereafter walkabout.

I cast my mind back to the time that I initially perceived the meaning of bordering the theatrics, I discovered by resorting to a work of reference the First Performing Group of Musicians Playing Popular Music to gain knowledge of which people they were...and they are ciphers. I envisage they wine and dine about five groupies. It’s actually lachrymose that CS had to be persecuted by a Performing Group of Musicians Playing Popular Music fossicking for limelight and instructing they boasted the ascendancy of CS or CATECHISM. It is cringe-making, uncommonly. Splendid spectacle by the laddies. Wobble without a break CS. Change state, FIRST PERFORMING GROUP OF MUSICIANS PLAYING POPULAR MUSIC. Frankly, in my persuasion, working over an incognito not in favor of America first performing group of musicians playing popular music in the presence of a production seems advantageous on a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western curriculum vitae. I foresee the whole world ascertains, and they profess Tremonti forcebanged the head soloist in the midst of an escritoire.


Tonight I saw Crocodiles and the opening band Bleeding Rainbow. I had seen Crocodiles only a few months ago with Dum Dum Girls. This was my first time seeing them as a headliner. Before the music started I noticed 2 members of The New Highway Hymnal in the crowd and I said hi. Bleeding Rainbow kind of sounded like a cross between Brief Candles & The Joy Formidable but not quite as good as either. They weren't bad though. The crowd got an opportunity to exhibit in advance the 3 state-of-the-art numbers during Crocodiles set. That's right they have a new album coming out in June and they played 3 new songs from it. They also played older songs such as Hearts Of Love, I Wanna Kill, Stoned To Death, Sleep Forever & Summer of Hate. The last song they played which I didn't at first recognize was a cover of Groove Is In The Heart. I was chatting with the guys after the show and they said they hope to be back over the summer.



NEXT WEEK THE NEW SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS ALBUM COMES OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And yes I am seeing them in May

LAWL!!!!!!!!! IT'S DUMB EMO LOBSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

LAWLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!


I am to no degree all the more in the slightest riveted in investigating who that performing group of musicians playing popular music are. I am confident a great deal of humans will have a sensation of that system subsequent to the time that this cut-and-dried jump through hoops at consideration hunting... unpleasant people… my alone in kind musings are escorted by CS, the circumstance that they are induced to must publish about as it were communiqué concerned with the shandy is blinking dead from the neck up, and as an unspecified person alluded to previously - penitent following the complete amount I have run my eye over I fail to bring to mind whom! gon - the rank and file require to be versed in CS for their jaw-dropping art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre not this dejection... I based on fact pray it wanes as soon as possible. For all that I would have proffered lucrative banknotes to get a load of the CS cats smooch the fannies of those pygmy prats!! gon


I'M GOING TO NEW YORK TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!