Why? - Hi-Dive, Denver, Co - 29.09.08

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I haven't posted for a loooooooong long time and I really need to get back on the ball. I'm gonna make some changes here soon, nothing major just a bit of a design overhaul and a review section. I'm not going to get into the business of reviewing big time albums that everyone else is reviewing but I get emailed all kinds of crap asking me to review them them so I'm gonna do it. I'd imagine that it will be a case of me dissing 98% of stuff so I'm hoping to gain a reputation as "that site where our album will probably get a really bad review" and bands will just have to take a chance in the hope that they may be one of the 2%.

I've got a pretty good Casiotone for the Painfully Alone recording which I made in Bristol a couple of months ago which I'll be uploading next I think but for today I present to you Why? live in Denver last year. I thought Alopecia was shit when I first listened to it but Duncan over at Faces in the Sand kept raving about it so I gave it another go and a few listens later I was hooked. Finding out that they supported Silver Jews certainly helped me to learn to love them I think, although they sound nothing alike and the lyrics are very different one can certainly compare their wordplay. Both Yoni Wolf and David Berman have a way with words, it's as though they invented English between them and they have the ability to twist and turn words into shapes you would never think of.

This live recording and YouTube clips is all I have got until Yoni and Co. come back to the UK cause I've not been able to catch them yet. This 16 song set from Hi-Dive in Denver, Colorado features mostly songs from Alopecia and a few older ones, the sound quality is great, enjoy :-)

Why?
Live at Hi-Dive, Denver, Co
29th September 2008

The Fall Of Mr. Fifths
Song Of The Sad Assasin
Waterfalls
Gemini (Birthday Song)
Fall Saddles
Good Friday
The Vowels Pt. 2
These Few Presidents
The Hoofs
Rubber Traits
Yo Yo Bye Bye
Brook And Waxing
The Hollows
A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under
Sanddollars
Simeon's Dilemma

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Acoustic InStore - 1986

I've been really really slack at uploading stuff recently, my obsession with the fixie is still raging like a Californian bushfire. Anyway, some dude messaged me and asked me to upload this Nick Cave acoustic instore a while back and today is the day I finally got around to getting it online.

The ten songs were recorded on 28/10/86 at Reckless Records, SF, the sound quality is pretty wack but it seems to be pretty rare so here it is for you Nick Cave obsessives. If anyone reading this is in Swansea (yeah, right) come to my Rebellious Jukebox Music Club on April 29th, the theme is Nick Cave and related projects, I'll be screening 'Pleasure Heads Must Burn' at the start of the night and then a load of Boys Next Door live footage I got off dimeadozen to accompany the DJ's.

Back to the matter at hand, here is the setlist and download links:

By The Time I Get To Phoenix (First known live performance)
Serves You Right To Suffer (Only known live performance + a soundcheck)
I Threw It All Away (Only known live performance)
Rye Whiskey (Last known live performance)
Wade In The Water (Only known live performance)
Green, Green Grass Of Home (Only known live performance)
Long Black Veil (Only known live performance)
Miniskirts (Only known live performance + a soundcheck)
Hey Joe (First known live performance)
Knocking On Heaven's Door (Last known live performance)

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Daniel Johnston & Friends - Glasgow - 23/07/08

The Duck is back! I've not posted for quacking ages for many reasons but mostly because I got obsessed with fixies and spent a month solid watching the MASH trailer and researching bar tape and shit. I built my bike up over Christmas and throughout January I've been all depressed and at a loose end so didn't bother posting here.

This blog has been going for just over a year now, 30,000 unique users (according to my stat counter) visited in 2008 which is pretty bloody amazing, just goes to prove that I'm the best :-p To celebrate this I'm staging a bit of a competition...

A photo I shot of Daniel Johnston backstage in Manchester back in 2007 has been used on the sleeve of a vinyl issue of his Lost and Found album put out by COPPERTREE RECORDS which in their own words is "...a lavish double album with a double-weight embossed sleeve, full colour inner lyric sleeves and virgin vinyl for the 180g pressings." In my words "it's fucking lovely!" check it out in all it's photobooth glory...

To be in with the chance of winning a copy of the record all you've got to do is download this A4 BOXING DUCK and get arty farty with it. I don't care whether you colour it in with pens, crayons, pencils, Photoshop, MS Paint or glue and glitter just make sure you make it special. Feel free to draw on your own characters, stick on cuttings, add speech bubbles etc. When you have finished post it to:

Boxing Duck

C/O Exist Outlet,

214 Oxford Street

Swansea

SA1 3BG

Wales

UK

Or if you are going the digital route email it to boxingduck@me.com

I will scan and upload every entry and my favourite one will get the vinyl in the post, the deadline is in a 2 months from today so make sure I get your entry by the 7th april 2009!!!

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Now for the download, Daniel toured with a bunch of 'friends' last year under the catchy title of "An Evening with Daniel Johnston and friends" which I would have loved to have attended but I was fighting 'The Man' at the time and was proper 'skint' so it was a no go. Luckily the internet is full of presents and I found this great recording of their performance at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow. Daniel is "... supported and backed by Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse, Scout Niblett, James McNew of Yo La Tengo, Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Jad Fair of Half Japanese." The setlist is flipping radical, check it:

Mean Girls Give Pleasure
There Is A Sense Of Humor
Mask
Mountain Top
Speeding Motorcycle
Casper
Hey Joe
Fish
Rain
Go
Story Of An Artist
Rock This Town
Walking The Cow
Love Enchanted
Rock N Roll
Crowd
True Love Will Find You In The End
Devil Town
Most Beautiful Widow

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Parenthetical Girls - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff - 18.11.08

Parenthetical Girls have a girlie boy man woman guys gals thing going on, know what I'm saying? It's all gender switch lyrics an' shit, which is always good, and in the case of Parenthetical Girls it's bloody good! This gig was in a weenie little venue, the downstairs of Clwb Ifor Bach in Cardiff.

There were three support bands who I will review...now!
Zissou: Heavy on haircuts and "indie". Nice cover of Nashville Parthenon by CFTPA.
Hail! The Planes: Terrible name, sounded really good during the intro for the first song but the singing spoiled it. Really didn't like the guy singing but when the girl sang it was really good. She should sing all the songs.
Ladybird: Sort of, like, funtime guitar pop. Ok.

There was one headline band who I will review...now!
Parenthetic Girls: Absolutely amazing, possibly the gig of the year and certainly in my top ten of all time. All four members of the band switch instruments between pretty much every song which I usually find a bit wack but in this case I thought it was spiffing. Zac was just great, he was "air twiddling", doing sort of scooty marching both forwards and backwards, rolling around on the floor, climbing on the seats, crawling across the bar, drumming on the walls, doors, steps, speakers, singing from outside the venue, and at one point he was even flat on his back with his head between the legs of the one, the only, the, Boxing Duck!,,,,,,,,,,,,,

(Click the photo to see the rest from the gig...)

Some dude from Los Campesinos! (?) sang the first song and kept giving me the evil's all night, I've never bothered listening to them, the name is a bit to (sic) fun sounding for me, I'm not a big fan of fun. Track, list:

Love Connection
Love Connection Pt. II
Four Words
I Was The Dancer
Avenue Of Trees
Gut Symmetries
The Weight She Fell Under
Stolen Children
This Regrettable End

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