A real-time, stream-of-consciousness review of a ridiculous space pop show accomplished with the magic that is text messaging:
Oh No! Oh My!’s lead singer is wearing an Outback Steakhouse hat - I bet he loves the bloomin’ onion. 2 of their last 3 songs are “Walk in the Park” and “I Have No Sister.” The hipsters feign interest, light their cigarettes and look tough.
Oh No! Oh My! were good enough and all, but I guess it’s time for them to piss off - the hipsters have spoken and tonight this is the house Mew built. I don’t know much about this band but Joie talks them up and she’s the awesomest girl I know.
Yeah, I’m impressed already. Lead singer’s voice seems to have no limits. He sings much better than I can hear. “Zookeeper’s Boy” is really incredible - it’s amazing how much harder they rock in the live show than on their recordings. The live show is somehow more ethereal and atmospheric than the album too…I feel like it’s almost always the opposite.
Video visuals include a cat with fiddle, moths, human-faced bugs, etc…very effective. The girl in front of me just leaned over and whispered ‘i love you’ to what looks to be her bf. He kind of looks like Tom Chaplin, so what’s not to love. They will proceed to make out during most of the show. Love bites.
Oh and some girl just passed the fuck out. I’d give her about a 60% chance of surviving. Wait, this is the Double Door…make it 25%.
Dare I say on Superstarcastic that I like Coldplay at times? You just can’t be this ‘atmospheric’ without garnering some unwanted (?) comparisons to them. (Whew, Sam agrees with me.)
Jonas Bjerre looks like a muppet or or a character from Dark Crystal and is maybe even channeling a little Sanjaya, except for the complete doucheyness and awful voice (I’ve never watched American Idol so that’s just a guess). The lead guitarist has a porn star mustache that may or may not have begun falling off during one solo. For the rest of the show I will mentally refer to him as ‘Buck Naked.’ And the bassist loves to make hand motions to the music…he must be of Italian blood.
Mew is what the Secret Machines should be.
Buck Naked leads off the final cut, which builds and builds until they’re rocking the place so hard my adam’s apple shakes loose and I’m forced to swallow it.
THE END
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have i mentioned yet how incredibly annoyed i was to have been dying of some mysterious ailment last night when i was supposed to be with zak at the show?
I just went to this show and was trying to find the set list. No luck but I must have been standing right by you because I saw that couple making out too. I like this review. You must have been the guy on his phone the whole time.
Watching girls pass the BLEEP out can be fun. Joie and I had just such an experience while we were in the Czech Republic. Except…this girl passed out sitting up…on a bar stool. And then the immature Czech boys wanted to make her pee her pants…or something. Hey, I can’t say I remember it all perfectly, but I definitely remember it better than that Czech girl does. And maybe even better than Joie.
In actuality I’m usually the lame-ass passing out in the bar, so I can’t really talk…but this girl, she was being emergency’d out of that place like she had just shat out a kidney.
You have obviously never seen the Secret Machines play live.
ACTUALLY Andy, I\\\’ve seen them 3 or 4 times. Let the record state that I\\\’m a fan of the SM\\\’s, but their last album and especially the last live gig that I caught were of same-old-shit, ho-hum quality in a majoro way. After seeing this show I feel very qualified and justified in saying that Mew can make the SM\\\’s their bitches in the depth of talent department.
Burn.
Are you kidding me? Ten Silver Drops is anything but same old shit but I guess if your into fag pop you wouldn’t enjoy it. Mew’s singer sounds like a fucking girl.
Haha…fag pop. And here I thought I had moved past that…
if pop isnt fag then i dont want it.
i was really enjoying this review of one of my favorite bands until i saw these derogotory and prejudiced comments. i will not be coming back.
good, anonymous - if you are that easily offended, you will hate the rest of the site and we don’t want you anyway. have a lovely day.
seriously.
I have no idea who Secret Machines are but if this band sounds like Coldplay then I’m sold. Interesting way to do a review but it works.
No Zak, you can’t like Coldplay. Its watered down Radiohead. *Shakes fists angrily toward sky*
coldplay, aka ‘radiohead lite,’ got their first big break opening for james in 2000. and who got all famous in the states? coldplay, that’s who. americans have no taste.
David. Joie. Look at the stars…look how they shine for you. You’re all…yellow.
I’m rethinking this Coldplay thing. Allmusic.com says:
Coldplay was heart-rending like Travis, passionate like Jeff Buckley, and as fresh as Oasis when they burst onto the scene.
Guess I was wrong.
from wikipedia:
\”The members of [Coldplay] met at Ramsay Hall, a residence hall at UCL in September 1996. Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland were the first members of the band, having met one another during their orientation week. They spent the rest of the year planning a band, with their efforts culminating in an *NSYNC-inspired boy band called Pectoralz.[7] Eventually Guy Berryman, a classmate of the two, joined the band without consideration of what musical direction it was taking.\”
ahem…pectoralz?Â
i’ve seen travis open for dido…when they had 3 albums worth of material and she had a full 1 1/16 (if you count “Stan”).
fuck dat NOIZE.
i also saw travis open for leona naess…but i *heart* leona naess, so EFF YOU…besides, that was more of a twin-bill.
my sister like Mew…and has paid bootleg prices for both of us to see CMart & Co. so there’s another Coldplay/Mew connection for ya.
ahem…pectoralz?
I suspect some Wiki editing snarkyness, though that’s pretty clever.
mew sucks. manowar is better.
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Comment by Sam E. — March 29, 2007 @ 2:03 pm
Have I mentioned yet how irritated I am that they’re skipping Vegas on this tour?