Go! Team in Tempe
My ears are overflowing with tiny metallic wasps' nests, which can only mean one thing: that some lucky bastard has played Claudius to my sleeping King. And we'll call the harmonium quicksilver.
Go! Team performed tonight at this venue (in a fucking stripmall) called "The Clubhouse" that I would link to but for the indignity. It was fun, tho much noisier than I would have expected. They still haven't learned to master mixes for their live shows, but theirs is not a music that lends itself to mastery. No, theirs lends itself to leaping wildly, booty dancing, high-speed chases, purple blazers for no reason and, apparently, horrible opening acts.
Yes, local scions Peachcake continue to offend my ears, just as they did the first time I heard them. To summarize, which is what I do best, if you take the worst elements of a Flaming Lips show and a Quintron show and combine them with the beats that Explogasm thought were too tasteless to use, then you'd have a close approximation of the musical abortion that is Peachcake.
Also, the very cute and half-purple The Grates are proving that while it may have taken 15 years for hair metal to make it to Saudi Arabia, it only took 5 for The Yeah Yeah Yeahs to make it to Brisbane. And they went and got all cute instead of singing about dicks.
What we got was an opening act shitty dance-off that was impossible to score and even more impossible to win. Some of my personal favorites:
"The oh-it's-my-shoe" - performed by The Grates - Used to good effect during that song that sounded like "Maps". The difference? Karen O would've rubbed her vagina on something instead of hopping and pointing at her footwear.
"The shaving-in-a-bucket" - performed by Peachcake - Their lack of facial hair didn't stop Peachcake's lead singer and...extraneous guy...from shaving over buckets with electric razors while their Fruity Loops played a kick drum for 7 minutes.
"The leaping-on-beat" - performed by The Grates - This was most effective during the song that sounded like "Art Star".
"The running-thru-the-crowd-playing-a-melodica" - performed by Peachcake - I do not remember a single song during which this didn't happen. You think I'm kidding, don't you?
"The mod-dress-so-mod-hand-dance" - performed by the Grates - This looked best on the song that sounded like "Bang".
This is how we all lose. I was so sore from disapproval that I almost didn't want to stay for Go! Team. That, and Tempe's draconian no indoor smoking laws. Fuck Tempe. Fuck Peachcake.
The Grates I actually have no beef with, I just sorry for them. They're one of those permanent opening bands, kinda like New Orleans' own The Public. Both quite likeable, tho.
This is my first show attended since the hurricane. Feel sorry for me.
Go! Team performed tonight at this venue (in a fucking stripmall) called "The Clubhouse" that I would link to but for the indignity. It was fun, tho much noisier than I would have expected. They still haven't learned to master mixes for their live shows, but theirs is not a music that lends itself to mastery. No, theirs lends itself to leaping wildly, booty dancing, high-speed chases, purple blazers for no reason and, apparently, horrible opening acts.
Yes, local scions Peachcake continue to offend my ears, just as they did the first time I heard them. To summarize, which is what I do best, if you take the worst elements of a Flaming Lips show and a Quintron show and combine them with the beats that Explogasm thought were too tasteless to use, then you'd have a close approximation of the musical abortion that is Peachcake.
Also, the very cute and half-purple The Grates are proving that while it may have taken 15 years for hair metal to make it to Saudi Arabia, it only took 5 for The Yeah Yeah Yeahs to make it to Brisbane. And they went and got all cute instead of singing about dicks.
What we got was an opening act shitty dance-off that was impossible to score and even more impossible to win. Some of my personal favorites:
"The oh-it's-my-shoe" - performed by The Grates - Used to good effect during that song that sounded like "Maps". The difference? Karen O would've rubbed her vagina on something instead of hopping and pointing at her footwear.
"The shaving-in-a-bucket" - performed by Peachcake - Their lack of facial hair didn't stop Peachcake's lead singer and...extraneous guy...from shaving over buckets with electric razors while their Fruity Loops played a kick drum for 7 minutes.
"The leaping-on-beat" - performed by The Grates - This was most effective during the song that sounded like "Art Star".
"The running-thru-the-crowd-playing-a-melodica" - performed by Peachcake - I do not remember a single song during which this didn't happen. You think I'm kidding, don't you?
"The mod-dress-so-mod-hand-dance" - performed by the Grates - This looked best on the song that sounded like "Bang".
This is how we all lose. I was so sore from disapproval that I almost didn't want to stay for Go! Team. That, and Tempe's draconian no indoor smoking laws. Fuck Tempe. Fuck Peachcake.
The Grates I actually have no beef with, I just sorry for them. They're one of those permanent opening bands, kinda like New Orleans' own The Public. Both quite likeable, tho.
This is my first show attended since the hurricane. Feel sorry for me.
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