my heads up with the birds on the t-hut
positively *interesting* developments happening late yesterday re: taking this site to the 'next level'. hopefully will have an announcement of some sort next week...
Snow Patrol
w/ Athlete
Kool Haus
May 18/05
stunned to see the area outside the club a veritable empty wasteland last night, which maybe shouldn't have been too surprising given the presence of Bright Eyes, Deerhoof, The Blood Brothers and others all playing in the city this same night, but nonetheless weird.
Kool Haus officially reverted back into stupid mode as well after monday's very promising show in terms of sound and layout, as the 19+ corral was back up and pissing off again. We arrived just in time for about 20 minutes or so of Athlete, who are sort of a Keane-lite(!) or something, but more gangly and cuter I suppose. They did the requisite big-single-last routine, and yes, Wires did not disappoint.
Snow Patrol, though tardy, focused on a lot of the crowd-pleasing material off of Final Straw, with some extra new and older tracks to fill out their 70-minute set. Singer Gary Lightbody was most amiable, taunting the audience to cheer loud enough so "Conor could hear us down the road" and even jokingly breaking into Bryan Adams' Run To You before Run.
Perhaps the critical difference between these 2 emotive bands last night was that SP had the awareness of the sometimes shlockiness, while Athlete still seems to be taking itself way too seriously.
Another issue was that although louder and more intense live, the songs didn't really transcend their recorded forms. Run is an anthem, but still clocks in to the second as the album version. Build it up already!
Snow Patrol
w/ Athlete
Kool Haus
May 18/05
stunned to see the area outside the club a veritable empty wasteland last night, which maybe shouldn't have been too surprising given the presence of Bright Eyes, Deerhoof, The Blood Brothers and others all playing in the city this same night, but nonetheless weird.
Kool Haus officially reverted back into stupid mode as well after monday's very promising show in terms of sound and layout, as the 19+ corral was back up and pissing off again. We arrived just in time for about 20 minutes or so of Athlete, who are sort of a Keane-lite(!) or something, but more gangly and cuter I suppose. They did the requisite big-single-last routine, and yes, Wires did not disappoint.
Snow Patrol, though tardy, focused on a lot of the crowd-pleasing material off of Final Straw, with some extra new and older tracks to fill out their 70-minute set. Singer Gary Lightbody was most amiable, taunting the audience to cheer loud enough so "Conor could hear us down the road" and even jokingly breaking into Bryan Adams' Run To You before Run.
Perhaps the critical difference between these 2 emotive bands last night was that SP had the awareness of the sometimes shlockiness, while Athlete still seems to be taking itself way too seriously.
Another issue was that although louder and more intense live, the songs didn't really transcend their recorded forms. Run is an anthem, but still clocks in to the second as the album version. Build it up already!
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