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Post by soundscapemn on Apr 5, 2008 4:42:50 GMT
I bet they do some of the MUSIC FOR NURSES stuff..these remind me of those 2 dredg shows..fuck if I lived in Europe I'd not miss these. Then again..if I lived out East, I sure as fuck wouldn't miss the last TREOS show ever as well. But the annuls of history forget to mention the momentous occasion that occured on October 19th 1998 when five normal blokes met in a derelict building somewhere in Salford and formed the cohesive unit that became known as Oceansize. So in order to celebrate ten years of fucking about with our instruments and trying to make a "living" out of it we will be playing a series of shows at the Roadhouse in Manchester, the venue where we earned our stripes.
Three albums, three shows, three hangovers.
16th October - Effloresce night
17th October - Everyone Into Position night
18th October - Frames night
tickets at the link below.
look sharp; only 250 of you muthaluvvaz are gonna get in per night!
link
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Post by blondeambassador on Apr 5, 2008 9:38:40 GMT
Oooh I'm in for the Everyone Into Position night hopefully.
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Post by ryan on Apr 5, 2008 21:21:00 GMT
I'm going to all three. Hopefully it'll be b-sides for encores. I guess we might get M4N as the first night encore... it'd be pretty amazing if we did.
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Post by Lawrie on Apr 6, 2008 9:05:40 GMT
I've tried to get into Oceansize (bought Everyone Into Position on the back of their associations with PRR), but they don't do it for me. Again, they're a band whose songs I don't mind when I hear them, but equally there's nothing in the stuff that I've heard by them that makes me think "YES!" - it all seems like fairly meat-and-potatoes heavy rock to me. Can't really work out why they're termed a prog band either, aside from the fact their songs are longer than A N Other band's average effort. Before I get lynched, it's not that I dislike them per se, I just don't really hear anything in their music that differentiates them from a thousand other bands. Ditto the whole of the above for Porcupine Tree and Blackfield as well - pleasant but ultimately by-the-numbers alternative rock, as I hear it.
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Post by the dark fourth on Apr 6, 2008 13:17:19 GMT
I would agree possibly with that analysis of Porcupine Tree (although In Absentia is brilliant) and Blackfield, and even with oceansize for EIP, but sadly you've bought the wrong album. Frames is what you should hear. That album really does transcend "A N Other band's average effort": it's AWESOME. And it's also more than just meat and potates: the songs on Frames really are something else. Also, the first album Efflorescence is pretty good: Everyone into Position is definitely their most meh, although I do like that one too. I really wish I could go to these gigs, but sadly Manchester is really just too far for me, and I may not even be in the country in October.
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Post by ryan on Apr 6, 2008 15:01:41 GMT
You did start the most straight forward album as it happens, but if you didn't dig it i doubt you'd really dig the other two.
Also, I don't think they are called 'prog' are they? Progressive prehaps, but the two words are so different!
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Post by blondeambassador on Apr 6, 2008 15:18:06 GMT
Damn, looks like I won't be able to go after all...the only night I could go to is the Frames one and I just never quite engaged with the album-same, when you can hear it's good but you just can't quite get into it!
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Post by soundscapemn on Apr 6, 2008 22:47:31 GMT
well they definitely have a psychedelic element..just like PRR do.
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Post by Lawrie on Apr 6, 2008 22:54:46 GMT
well they definitely have a psychedelic element..just like PRR do. Maybe it's not that much in evidence on Everyone Into Position (which is the only record I've heard)? What I hear on that album is long QOTSA-sounding songs, but without the killer hooks that QOTSA have. Maybe I have water in my ears or summat ( ;D ), but that's how it sounds to me - can't pick up any PRR-like psychedelia on that album. Again, I'm not bashing them (and I'm in no position to do so, having only heard the one album), but that's genuinely what I'm hearing. |
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Post by soundscapemn on Apr 6, 2008 23:20:07 GMT
well they definitely have a psychedelic element..just like PRR do. Maybe it's not that much in evidence on Everyone Into Position (which is the only record I've heard)? What I hear on that album is long QOTSA-sounding songs, but without the killer hooks that QOTSA have. Maybe I have water in my ears or summat ( ;D ), but that's how it sounds to me - can't pick up any PRR-like psychedelia on that album. Again, I'm not bashing them (and I'm in no position to do so, having only heard the one album), but that's genuinely what I'm hearing. hmm maybe..but honestly I've heard probably less than 5 songs by The Queens of the Stone Age and whatever psychedelic elements they may have, I don't recall noticing it in those songs. In other words, I wouldn't really compare these guys to them from what I've heard. But possibly you haven't heard some of the more trippy stuff from 'Size..a few of the tracks on EFFLORESCE get rather spacey-rocky-like..and on "Frames"..check out the last epic piece 'The Frame"..off EIP..I'd say the closer "The Ornament" certainly has it's more psychdelic qualities. Dunno..EIP was the 1st one I heard..and I at 1st liked them but was annoyed by the screaming. But I've come to tolerate and actually like a lot of screaming from different bands. The new album only has 1 track with really any of that in "Sleeping Dogs and Dead Lions." do you like much "Post Rock"?..I hear bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor and even Russian Circles in some of their music, but as a whole I think they have their own sound (which is a good thing in my mind). |
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Post by the dark fourth on Apr 27, 2008 14:05:52 GMT
Saw them in Kingston last night and I thought they were on top form. They're an amazingly tight band, considering the ridiculous timing the give themselves, but it sounds really good as an overall effect. Not as good a gig as the Water Rats, but close.
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Post by ryan on Apr 27, 2008 21:48:06 GMT
slayed the water rats gig  |
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Post by soundscapemn on Oct 11, 2008 1:13:26 GMT
myspace blog info
ROADHOUSE GIGS SCHEDULE
hello
here's is your timetable for next week. ideally we would have made it into a special cut-out-and-keep format for you to keep all laminated and nice.
EFFLORESCE NIGHT:
DOORS - 19.00
support from Manatees
EVERYONE INTO POSITION NIGHT:
DOORS - 19.00
support from Rose Kemp and SPECIAL SECRET GUEST
FRAMES NIGHT:
DOORS - 18.00
support from Amplifier
now please spread the word about the alterations to the door times, cos we want our support acts to have a full house.
x
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Post by ryan on Oct 11, 2008 12:31:23 GMT
Oh yeah, I forgot there was a thread here.
Super Secret Support looks to be Biffy Clyro doing an acoustic set.
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Post by soundscapemn on Oct 17, 2008 1:50:25 GMT
another blog
EXTRA ROADHOUSE TICKETS!!
there will 20 tickets on the door each night, available on a first come first served basis....
good luck!
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