Vampire Weekend

[The Filth Wizard]

I went to see this band last night at Sydney's The Metro and certainly can say that they are worth the hype. For a relatively new band their set is incredibly tight, and the band really benefit from their debut album being one of the most enjoyable track to track of any I've heard in a long time. They also debuted a couple of new tracks which suggest their follow up will be as classy as their debut. One in particular sounds like a weird cousin of Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights'.

Anyhoo, the band are playing at the Prince Of Wales on Thursday and Friday nights. If there are any tickets available make sure you snaffle one. Also, I think the band are supported by Red Rider for their whole tour so thats just another bonus if you ask me.

 

[The Other Dean]

I went to see this band last night at Sydney's The Metro and certainly can say that they are worth the hype. For a relatively new band their set is incredibly tight, and the band really benefit from their debut album being one of the most enjoyable track to track of any I've heard in a long time. They also debuted a couple of new tracks which suggest their follow up will be as classy as their debut. One in particular sounds like a weird cousin of Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights'.

Anyhoo, the band are playing at the Prince Of Wales on Thursday and Friday nights. If there are any tickets available make sure you snaffle one. Also, I think the band are supported by Red Rider for their whole tour so thats just another bonus if you ask me.

Good call on Red Riders (there's more than one!!). They're a cool band.

Heard the great Robert Forster on JJJ on Sunday, saying how much he enjoyed the Vampire Weekend set at Splendour In The Grass. He also declared their album one of the year's best. Needless to say, Forster knows his stuff.

Props, Filth.

This is still my favourite track on the album.

Vampire Weekend - "A Punk"

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[Bowski]

Oxford comma for me lads.

 

[wombles]

Cool. Like the Beatles on a GHB bender.

Speaking of Splendour acts, i saw Band of Horses last night. Great show. The Gin Club were tip-top as well.

 

[The Other Dean]

Cool. Like the Beatles on a GHB bender.

Speaking of Splendour acts, i saw Band of Horses last night. Great show. The Gin Club were tip-top as well.

Was going to go. Until I found that tickets were sold out in rather quick time.

I'm sure they were superb. Killer band.

Splendour fans were really spoiled this year -

Devo, Sigur Ros, Polyphonic Spree, Tricky, The Wombats (aces ), Band Of Horses, Vampire Weekend, Robert Forster, The Drones, Fratellis (if that's your thing), Cold War Kids (same again), The Presets, The Grates (back with another very fine album), The Presets, Van She, The Panics, Clare Bowditch, British India.....

That is a seriously kick-ass bill.

 

[Divado]

Just got the album today, it's very good. I'll try to go to see them if possible.

 

[ApplecrossWC]

Saw the Fratellis on Tuesday night at the Hifi Bar and managed to get down the front. One of the most fun shows I've been ever been to

 

[The Filth Wizard]

I must print a retraction.

Vampire Weekend were supported by Little Red, not Red Riders.

Put it down to turning up in the last song of their set, stoned, with a massive cold.

 

[j flex roo]

I must print a retraction.

Vampire Weekend were supported by Little Red, not Red Riders.

Put it down to turning up in the last song of their set, stoned, with a massive cold.

Tight pop band.

Too bublegum though. Some love it. I don't.

Vampire Weekend...heard their stuff here and there. Remind me of The Police on speed.

Just my opinion.

 

[pharro]

Anyhoo, the band are playing at the Prince Of Wales on Thursday and Friday nights. If there are any tickets available make sure you snaffle one. Also, I think the band are supported by Red Rider for their whole tour so thats just another bonus if you ask me.

Oh cool, missed that act last tour and been wondering ever since - "When you comin' back, Red Rider?"

 

[The Other Dean]

Tight pop band.

Too bublegum though. Some love it. I don't.

Vampire Weekend...heard their stuff here and there. Remind me of The Police on speed.

Just my opinion.

If you're talking early Police (which, let's face it, you'd have to be for the reference to carry the most weight....ie. Outlandos D'Amour and Regatta De Blanc-era Police), then I'd be putting that description of yours in the plus, rather than the minus, column. They were alright in the beginning. Cracks started to show in Zenyatta Mondatta, with the rut setting in on Ghosts In The Machine. And let's leave it there for fear that I may have to discuss Sting's solo career. I just ate.

As for Vampire Weekend, I heard them say in an interview that one of their intended aims was to marry the guitar sound of Soweto township music, to good ol' white-bread US indie rock.

In the 'paying debts to' department, I'd also add Talking Heads, Wire, Gang Of Four, Paul Simon (yes, Paul Simon), and just about any UK Two-Tone band that ever existed.

Oh, and of course, early Police.

 

[j flex roo]

If you're talking early Police (which, let's face it, you'd have to be for the reference to carry the most weight....ie. Outlandos D'Amour and Regatta De Blanc-era Police), then I'd be putting that description of yours in the plus, rather than the minus, column. They were alright in the beginning. Cracks started to show in Zenyatta Mondatta, with the rut setting in on Ghosts In The Machine. And let's leave it there for fear that I may have to discuss Sting's solo career. I just ate.

As for Vampire Weekend, I heard them say in an interview that one of their intended aims was to marry the guitar sound of Soweto township music, to good ol' white-bread US indie rock.

In the 'paying debts to' department, I'd also add Talking Heads, Wire, Gang Of Four, Paul Simon (yes, Paul Simon), and just about any UK Two-Tone band that ever existed.

Oh, and of course, early Police.

I don't mind some of the Police stuff. Just some.

As for early vs old Police...I am far too young, I fear. All I have to go by is the blurred vision of the odd Police video on late night Rage sessions after returing from the pub ****-eyed drunk.

But, yes. What you said.

 

[Boozeroo]

I must express my dismay at the thread title. Had the cape out, hair slicked and started a shopping list for raw meat.....

Oh Bugger it, I'll do it anyway. If you live in Launceston, don't be alarmed by the drunk guy with a cape this weekend.

I've pencilled in Pirate month for Nov. to coincide with the nice little Errol Flynn Mo I'll be sporting.....

 

[The Other Dean]

But, yes. What you said.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[The Other Dean]

Oh cool, missed that act last tour and been wondering ever since - "When you comin' back, Red Rider?"

Fair to say that Franz Ferdinand (who?) and The Shins (who?) would have totally rethought their respective decisions to give Red Riders the prized support slot on their Australian tours had they known that you weren't on board. Surprised you didn't let them know.

But you raise an interesting point about bands that toil away in obscurity for the first few years of their inception. As it happens, just recently I was lucky enough to secure a rare copy of a recording entitled "The Silver Beetles - Live at the Scampaignerhorpe Trades Union Club". Reports suggest there was a packed house of 20 there that night.

 

[roobear]

I must express my dismay at the thread title. Had the cape out, hair slicked and started a shopping list for raw meat.....

Oh Bugger it, I'll do it anyway. If you live in Launceston, don't be alarmed by the drunk guy with a cape this weekend.

I've pencilled in Pirate month for Nov. to coincide with the nice little Errol Flynn Mo I'll be sporting.....

Now this is the sort of quality posting that keeps me coming back to Lidge's Lounge!

 

[pharro]

Fair to say that Franz Ferdinand (who?) and The Shins (who?) would have totally rethought their respective decisions to give Red Riders the prized support slot on their Australian tours had they known that you weren't on board. Surprised you didn't let them know.

But you raise an interesting point about bands that toil away in obscurity for the first few years of their inception. As it happens, just recently I was lucky enough to secure a rare copy of a recording entitled "The Silver Beetles - Live at the Scampaignerhorpe Trades Union Club". Reports suggest there was a packed house of 20 there that night.

Ah... no I think you may have missed my point, in that there really wasn't one. Well other than to say IMDB is your friend.

 

[The Other Dean]

Ah... no I think you may have missed my point, in that there really wasn't one. Well other than to say IMDB is your friend.

Pay that. After ruling it out as a quote from the Justine Bateman tour-de-force, "Satisfaction".....or any film that has ever had Eric Stolz in it.....I found the movie in question.

A 1979 film, "featuring" (note inverted commas) Candy Clark, Marjoe Gortner, Stephanie Faracy, and Hal Linden.

Colour me out-obscured.

 

[pharro]

Pay that. After ruling it out as a quote from the Justine Bateman tour-de-force, "Satisfaction".....or any film that has ever had Eric Stolz in it.....I found the movie in question.

A 1979 film, "featuring" (note inverted commas) Candy Clark, Marjoe Gortner, Stephanie Faracy, and Hal Linden.

Colour me out-obscured.

Do I detect a note of condescension in that accent you're affecting?

 

[The Other Dean]

Do I detect a note of condescension in that accent you're affecting?

Maybe a touch. Was it the Eric Stoltz thing ?

Must have been. Cos' I know there isn't a person alive who doesn't love "Satisfaction".

Or "When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder ?" either, for that matter.

 

[Boozeroo]

I actually bit this chick at the pub....she actually has no sense of humour... does BF count as a legal defence against assault??

I have the "humourous" posts saved..