quoted 4 lines Autechre have a great following, they're the one who should be pushing the envelope. > Autechre have a great following, they're the one who should be pushing the envelope. I'd sure be ready to pay more
> than 18 bucks a ticket if they had a better show.
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> If they continue like that, nobody will go see their next shows cause we've all seen it 5 years ago...
Surely the point is that if the music's good enough you don't need visuals to keep it exciting. Noone goes to see the Berlin Phil play some Mahler and then complains that they should get past their 'sitting on stage playing their instruments' live show because it's exactly the same as it was when they played Beethoven last year. The deal with Autechre is that you go to the shows to listen and maybe dance, not to watch. If the music isn't interesting you then it might not be the show for you.
Lots of good dubstep nights are done in near complete darkness, too, fwiw. I read a great quote from one of Digital Mystikz to the effect that they'd been to too many clubs where they'd spent loads of money on decoration and visuals and then put in a limp soundsystem almost as an afterthought, which seemed to be precisely the wrong way round to do it. So they just wanted a plain, dark room with a monster system in it. Works for me.
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