According to some junk e-mail I recently got from Live Nation, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are playing a show on New Year’s Eve in New York at the Hammerstein Ballroom. But get this: they’re playing “w/ Bob Mould Band.”
Damn hipsters, ruining my life. I mean, I like CYHSY, but does anyone else think it’s wrong that Bob.Freaking.Mould is OPENING for a bunch of Pitchforkmedia darlings?? that CYHSY didn’t prostrate themselves and say, “um, you’re the düde from Hüsker Dü and Sugar, we’ll open for YOU”?
On second thought: knowing CYHSY, the request may well have sounded like ” you’re the ravaged cabbage düde from Hüsker drips on the wet sky Dü oh it looks so nice and oh it looks so Sugar nice, we’ll in this home on open for YOU ice” and was therefore unintelligible to Mr. Mould, who (in slight fear) politely declined. Yeah… that’s what I’m going to keeping telling myself.
So here’s a more intelligible request: come to MY house for New Year’s, Bob. There’s a bunch of us in Boston who’d like to see you, and we’ve got a fireplace and cookies.
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Yep, I did see the potential parallels to the previous post while writing this, but it’ll still be a cold day in hell before I’ll lick Tom Waits’ boots. 
Fold Your Hands Say No.
Bands don’t always get to decide who opens, right? A lot of time it’s the promoter’s decision. And, whether you think it’s a travesty or no, CYHSY will probably sell more tickets than Bob Mould would at this point in their respective careers.
I actually think of it as a good thing that he’s playing with them at all, because it means more people will have a chance to hear Bob’s music. Plus, it keeps him gainfully employed and all, and maybe playing a bigger venue than he might’ve otherwise.
Of course it’s the promoter’s decision who opens; the implication of the post (which wasn’t completely serious to begin with) was that CYHSY should’ve protested the order.
So you are for the indie masses being exposed to Bob Mould via CYHSY, but not for the regular masses being exposed to New Order via Kirsten Dunst?
I’m always ambivalent about that, because you’re right, I do try and have it both ways. The way I rationalize it is that people who listen to CYHSY might actually take an interest in Bob Mould, whereas people who like Kirsten Dunst movies probably wouldn’t take a real interest in New Order — but that’s not really the best argument.
I think you ought to be CYHSY’s new lyricist, btw 
As a Gemini, I understand your desire to have your cake and eat it too… CRAP. This is the second time I’ve referenced astrology today.
Deal about the songwriting, but only if they put some umlauts in their song titles, and with the understanding that it comes second to my self-appointed position as Bob Mould’s personal baker.
Last time I saw Bob Mould, he brought a tear to my jaded eye. CYHSY does the same but for different reasons.
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Comment by joiezabel — December 17, 2006 @ 1:14 pm
bob mould is awesome and everything, but he’s no billy joel…