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Post by musecubed on Mar 23, 2009 22:03:53 GMT
Many thanks, James. I can almost hear all the songs you described  I've just bought Of the I from iTunes. Really good stuff, especially Cathexis. This slower part starting from 4:40 is really addictive. I know not everyone at Dingwalls enjoyed them, but I really got into them, I think they've got a lot of potential. Just the sort of band I've been looking for. |
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Post by jamesa on Mar 23, 2009 22:08:41 GMT
Many thanks, James. I can almost hear all the songs you described I've just bought Of the I from iTunes. Really good stuff, especially Cathexis. This slower part starting from 4:40 is really addictive. I know not everyone at Dingwalls enjoyed them, but I really got into them, I think they've got a lot of potential. Just the sort of band I've been looking for. I was really looking forward to them, and had held back on buying their album so I could buy it at the gig, but they did not get them to the merchandise desk until after their set, by which time I was holding my position down at the front, so I was at once gutted and pleased that they had sold all the copies by the time I got there at the end. I met their manager and he was a really nice guy - definitely a band I will be following very closely. |
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 23, 2009 22:21:59 GMT
My short review of Of The I at Dingwalls: They sucked. Not anywhere near as atrociously as Glasslights in Birmingham, but they still sucked. (The Domino State, on the other hand, were excellent.) I sense the beginning of a fine career in music journalism...  |
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Post by jamesa on Mar 23, 2009 22:26:27 GMT
Is it wrong that I am imagining your avatar actually saying that ?
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 23, 2009 22:35:59 GMT
Haha, my David Mitchell/Mark Corrigan obsession knows no bounds, good to see someone else catching the bug...  |
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Post by guziec on Mar 23, 2009 22:45:32 GMT
My short review of Of The I at Dingwalls: They sucked. Not anywhere near as atrociously as Glasslights in Birmingham, but they still sucked. I sense the beginning of a fine career in music journalism... Huh? Were we on the same gig? |
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Post by AlExMachina on Mar 23, 2009 22:55:58 GMT
Just to weigh in with a really pointless comparison, the lead singer of Of The I really reminded me of the family guy clip where Peter is Kevin Federline's style consultant. www.mypartypost.com/watchvideo/1068/Family_Guy_-_Kevin_FederlineThis is not a compliment for the guy - I found him very irritating during his "banter" sections. |
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Post by the dark fourth on Mar 24, 2009 11:02:11 GMT
So the Berlin gig was everything I knew it would be. It still infuriates me that they refuse to drop Ambassadors...it seems so out of place with all those other massive awesome rocking tunes in the set. I can see why Jon said he enjoys it though - he doesn't have to concentrate nearly as much - he can just sit back and play his guitar lines. For the rest of the set he was doing a million things at once - singing tricky harmonies, playing two keayboards and a guitar, managing the backing track etc etc. The sweat was pouring off him like the rain outside the venue. But the result was friggin sweet. All the new stuff sounds unbelieably brilliant - though I was annoyed that they dropped the cold heart emotion bit from Apogee...I wonder why they do that? The vocals where totally on amazing form and they've really got the sound from the guitars and synth, which has let them down in the past, nailed down. Sounds huge. And the crowd was pretty good too. Of the old songs, I really really enjoed Intention Craft at the end....in the past it's bored me because I#ve heard it so many times, but now after all the new stuff it was a really cool little change. VIW and Willows were cool too, though nowdays I feel they can't really compare with the new stuff.... Actually the set was hardly different at all from the Cargo, apart from some of the order...
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 24, 2009 12:09:20 GMT
Nice stuff, TDF - though you're so wrong about Ambassadors needing dropping ( ): it's sounding better than ever these days, and VIW should be miles ahead of it if a Dark Third song is going to be dropped from the setlist. The end. ;D My short review of Of The I at Dingwalls: They sucked. Not anywhere near as atrociously as Glasslights in Birmingham, but they still sucked. I sense the beginning of a fine career in music journalism... Huh? Were we on the same gig? Well we were evidently both at Birmingham since you were so spot on in hating Glasslights there, but I think you might've been in a parallel universe between 7.45 and 8.30 at Dingwalls...  ;D |
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Post by blondeambassador on Mar 24, 2009 12:22:33 GMT
Well we were evidently both at Birmingham since you were so spot on in hating Glasslights there, but I think you might've been in a parallel universe between 7.45 and 8.30 at Dingwalls... ;D Never mind a parallel universe...I was in the bar... ;D |
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Post by jamesa on Mar 24, 2009 12:22:49 GMT
Huh? Were we on the same gig? Well we evidently were at Birmingham since you were so spot on in hating Glasslights there, but I think you might've been in a parallel universe between 7.45 and 8.30 at Dingwalls... ;D This really demonstrates to me how diverse an attraction PRR actually are, that their audience can be so divided on the support bands. The three gigs I have seen have twice had one support band which would appeal to the prog/metal side, and one which would appeal to the more indie audience. I suspect guziec would have enjoyed The Wookies at Reading, but that you would have been far more taken with the Fox Cubs, but you both enjoy the main band. |
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 24, 2009 12:32:26 GMT
Hmmm, I dunno, James. It's not like I dislike heavy, proggy or metal-sounding music per se - I love the likes of 65daysofstatic and The Mars Volta who can both kick it up to radio UNfriendly notches that pass Of The I in the dust - but I just thought Of The I were rubbish. Musically they were ok (at best - not terrible, but not good), but their lead singer was beyond useless. Shame, cos he seemed quite a charismatic bloke up on stage who was trying hard with an audience that wasn't his own, but as soon as he opened his mouth to sing their songs all went on a one-way trip down the pan for me.
EDIT - I also HATED Glasslights at the PRR Birmingham show, but liked Dead Letter Office (so much so that I bought their album) at the same gig. And believe me, Glasslights are more 'indie' than you can possibly imagine, and - extremely depressingly - are probably more likely to make it big than anyone I've seen on the PRR tour in 2009 aside from maybe The Domino State if they catch a lucky break. Bah humbug.
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Post by Nikos on Mar 24, 2009 12:41:58 GMT
It still infuriates me that they refuse to drop Ambassadors...it seems so out of place with all those other massive awesome rocking tunes in the set. I can see why Jon said he enjoys it though - he doesn't have to concentrate nearly as much - he can just sit back and play his guitar lines. For the rest of the set he was doing a million things at once - singing tricky harmonies, playing two keayboards and a guitar, managing the backing track etc etc. no backing track. the laptop used on stage is used in conjunction with the samplers used by both chloe and Jon. as for Ambassadors, they play it because people love it, in Brighton, when the opening chords hit, the crowd loved it. it would be like going to see Metallica, and not getting Enter Sandman. |
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Post by Lawrie on Mar 24, 2009 12:46:54 GMT
Plus it's still one of the strongest songs in their set on its own merits, IMO.
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Post by Nikos on Mar 24, 2009 12:48:08 GMT
Plus it's still one of the strongest songs in their set on its own merits, IMO. too right, it's a masterpiece. |
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