Autechre were very good, but Russell Haswell rules. That recording he has of
the journalist getting really excited about "Altern-8 are about to take the
stage" is classic. Although he seemed to upset quite a few people I loved
his harsh noise/death metal set, but then a mis-spent youth doing acid and
listening to Whitehouse records will do that to you.
Jeff
on 5/9/01 1:56 PM, R. Lim at rlim@escape.com wrote:
quoted 31 lines On Mon, 7 May 2001, Rob Salit wrote:> On Mon, 7 May 2001, Rob Salit wrote:
>
>>> Yeah, this pretty much sums up night one. My biggest complaint with the
>>> venue was the sound system. The bass only existed as a diffuse thudding
>>
>> That's interesting considering Bowery Ballroom has one of the best
>> soundsystems of all the venues in NYC. I thought the sound was superb.
>> Maybe there were some funny spots where the sound got too distorted.
>
> OK, maybe I should have used the word "acoustics" instead of "sound
> system." My bad. There's no need to make the Bowery Ballroom sound
> reasonable- it's probably my least favorite place in New York to see a
> gig, even worse than the Cooler (who, [un]fortunately, books a lot of
> interesting acts). Next time.... Twilo? Has anybody been downstairs @
> Centro-Fly? Respond off-list if need be.
>
> Sigur Ros- lugubrious two hour set (including one lighter-rousting ballad
> and a couple songs towards the end which were downright mid-tempo), guitar
> sound lifted wholesale from Slowdive, makes me want to dye my hair black
> again and put eggwhites in it. Hmmm, I guess my hair's already black,
> fuck.
>
> in the same deep water as you,
>
> -rob
>
>
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