Just thought you«d like a little break from this bootleg discussion...
Here«s a short concert review from Finland.
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This was the second time I was to see them live. The first time was last
summer, then they played in a big evening concert, other performers being
Raoul Bjorkenheim with his composition for 30 electric guitars, some IRCAM
tape music and Kinos. There they managed to empty the huge tent in
about 30 seconds, leaving just a handfull of people to follow their,
well, good gig.
Yesterday they played in Tavastia, a rock-club in the middle of Helsinki,
or actually they played in the basement, which is actually another club
(very familiar to me, I do the mixing there once a month for a club
presenting modern ethnic music), but was now «connected« with the
upstairs. Two other bands played upstairs and they showed two Jimi Tenor
films during the intermissions. «Urinator« (the film I saw) was a
no-budged super-hero mock-up with an unbelievably stubid/funny plot.
Tons of pop-culture quotes, low-tech sound and picture and a main
character («Urinator«) who fights by, well, urinating. What else do you
need? «The Adventures Of Dr.Abortenstain« (or something) I didn«t see,
because it was smartly shown at the same time with the Panasonic show.
Panasonic took the stage at about 11.00. The basement was pretty much
packed then they started and it stayed packed until the end: The people
clearly knew what was coming :) A couple of people tried to dance, with
limited success. Those asyncronyous loops don«t make it easy... The music
was great, maybe a little more accessible than the last time (then they
scared most of the people off with one loud foghorn-drone), lots of
groovy bassdrum. And of course now and then: complete white-noise
wipeouts with ear-splitting volume.
The general appearance was very cool, very professional. No enchore.
They are often claimed to be better known outside of Finland, which may
be true, but they are at least mentioned in the papers quite a lot. Even
«Rytmimusiikki« (the leading muso-magazine in finland, yak) reviewed
«Vakio«, of course after it had been re-released by Rough Trade.
from Teemu ----> tkorpipa@siba.fi
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