Music squee
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sabotabbySo this was total Music Week for me, in which I approached the level of Having a Life that I might have been at pre-surgery. (Of course, I am now totally exhausted, but that's to be expected.)
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chickenfeet2003 had scored free tickets to see Salome at the COC, which I had been wanting to see. It was completely fantastic. Everyone's singing was gorgeous, and Atom Egoyan's staging was suitably unsettling. Erika Sunnegårdh in the title role was particularly interesting, as she played Salome as a vulnerable and fragile girl rather than as a confident seductress, making her demand at the end far more chilling as a result.
Last night,rbowspryte, the_siobhan, and a bunch of others went to go see the always-fabulous Billy Bragg at the Danforth Music Hall. Also wonderful, of course. He was still giddy over Thatcher's death, which was quite cute, though the setlist was less on the hardcore political end than his famous banter was. I shall have to get ahold of the new album, as I quite liked the songs on it. The audience was weird as shit, though; there were a bunch of soccer hooligans in front of us and a girl in a sequined Union Jack dress who insisted on debating him for reasons probably explained by some mind-altering substance or another.
One of his best ever songs, which I can never get enough of no matter how many times I hear it, with whichever lyrics (alas, it does not show his new beard, which, in a shallow aside, is a really good look for him):
At any rate, music bliss, for two very different ends of the musical spectrum that I'm into.
Speaking of which, I already squealed about this on The Face, but for yet another musical obsession of mine, there is new Skinny Puppy:
Finally, the new Unibroue is called Seigneuriale, for those who were asking. It's very strong, though, so if you're on Oxycontin and have a gigantic hole in your spine, you should probably lay off it for a bit. Did I say "you"? I meant "me."
On Wednesday,
chickenfeet2003 had scored free tickets to see Salome at the COC, which I had been wanting to see. It was completely fantastic. Everyone's singing was gorgeous, and Atom Egoyan's staging was suitably unsettling. Erika Sunnegårdh in the title role was particularly interesting, as she played Salome as a vulnerable and fragile girl rather than as a confident seductress, making her demand at the end far more chilling as a result.Last night,
rbowspryte, the_siobhan, and a bunch of others went to go see the always-fabulous Billy Bragg at the Danforth Music Hall. Also wonderful, of course. He was still giddy over Thatcher's death, which was quite cute, though the setlist was less on the hardcore political end than his famous banter was. I shall have to get ahold of the new album, as I quite liked the songs on it. The audience was weird as shit, though; there were a bunch of soccer hooligans in front of us and a girl in a sequined Union Jack dress who insisted on debating him for reasons probably explained by some mind-altering substance or another.One of his best ever songs, which I can never get enough of no matter how many times I hear it, with whichever lyrics (alas, it does not show his new beard, which, in a shallow aside, is a really good look for him):
At any rate, music bliss, for two very different ends of the musical spectrum that I'm into.
Speaking of which, I already squealed about this on The Face, but for yet another musical obsession of mine, there is new Skinny Puppy:
Finally, the new Unibroue is called Seigneuriale, for those who were asking. It's very strong, though, so if you're on Oxycontin and have a gigantic hole in your spine, you should probably lay off it for a bit. Did I say "you"? I meant "me."
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Date: 2013-05-04 03:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-05-04 07:52 pm (UTC)http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2013/04/08/billy-bragg-offers-thoughts-on-margaret-thatcher-while-shopping-for-pearl-snap-shirts-in-calgary/
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Date: 2013-05-04 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-04 08:09 pm (UTC)We had an Atom Egoyan Salome in Houston in 1994ish with Hildegard Behrens. I wonder if it was the same production or if he's done it more than once.
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Date: 2013-05-04 08:17 pm (UTC):( She's still an awesome singer, though.
It's probably the same production; I don't think this is a new version.
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Date: 2013-05-05 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-05-06 01:04 pm (UTC)I am told that one should always go see The Breeders if one has the opportunity, but I only know like two of their songs.
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Date: 2013-05-07 07:42 pm (UTC)I also wish he'd sung more of the political stuff. So I went home afterwards and played some of his earlier albums, which I have on scratchy ol' cassettes from way back when.
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Date: 2013-05-07 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-09 04:58 am (UTC)I would have liked to have been the one to give him the news; measured as his response in the article was, he must have had a momentary thrill.
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Date: 2013-05-09 01:20 pm (UTC)Then he asked the barista, who asked, "Margaret Thatcher's alive?" to read one of the e-mails to him and yelled, "Not anymore!"