What do you expect a electronic musician to do while on stage?
I ask this because i hear people saying "all he/she does is just sit there
with a laptop! how boring!" or "the band was not there for the fans, they
were just up there making noise!"
What, you want flaming skulls and a rotating drumset suspended over the
croud? :) I think anything more than twisting knobs and bobbing your head
to to the music you are making is pure "look at me im a star" BS. Unless you
are naturaly a jumpy show off. When i see a live electronic show, i am
interested in how they make thier music, and what gear they are using to
create it. Im not there to see a band jump up and down and look stupid. I
lose respect for anyone that is trying to "show off" on stage, and "create"
a false persona or "show"
Its important what comes out the speakers, not what is on stage.
What do you think?
~swamay~
www.swamay.com
www.mp3.com/swamay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rev Simon Rumble" <simon@rumble.net>
To: "Iain Forfar" <Iainf@ukgateway.net>
Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] All Tomorrow's Parties
quoted 35 lines I concur, somewhat. Tortoise were brilliant. Boards of Canada
> I concur, somewhat. Tortoise were brilliant. Boards of Canada
> brilliant. Broadcast were great. Def Jux Posse were great and seemed
> quite out of place since they were entertaining the crowd, not jerking
> off musically.
>
> This brings me to my gripe with the weekend. Most of the bands didn't
> seem to be there for their "fans" but were instead just up there
> making noise. Major culprits: Authechre, Television, Stereolab and
> Tortoise DJs (playing Whitney Houston may be tres-ironic but I heard
> the same track three times over the weekend bringing it to five times
> in the last week or so).
>
> These bands and DJs need to remember they're entertainers. An hour of
> wanking on stage isn't very exciting, although the turtleneck crowd
> seemed to be into it.
>
> Organisation was a bit lacking. 100 quid tickets and no way to get
> from the train station to the festival except a once-per-hour bus (the
> normal town bus) or one of the six taxis in town? Our "four berth
> chalet" ended up being four beds of six people in the room meaning we
> were meant to share with two strangers, until we kicked up a stink.
>
> --
> Rev Simon Rumble Current physical location: London, UK
> simon@rumble.net
> http://www.rumble.net
>
> Prejudice:
> A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
> -- Ambrose Bierce
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