Showing posts with label Of Montreal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Of Montreal. Show all posts
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Of Montreal @ Roseland Ballroom - Oct 13, 2008
An Eluardian Instance
I went to see the best Broadway musical happening last night in the city. Of Montreal was in charge of the music, and Kevin Barnes, his brother David, his wife Nina, ninjas, and buddhas, were in charge of the theatricality. There's not much of 2008 left, so I might as well say it now: Of Montreal @ Roseland Ballroom might have been be the best spectacle I've seen this busy 2008 (and I just got home after seeing Madonna at MSG!).
So yeah, that's a real horse. And that's Kevin Barnes wearing super short shorts on a real horse. That was one of the many extravagances that happened last night and that everybody is talking about today, or at least all the teenagers (I am not one) who were in attendance, because I doubt people would forget a show like last night's just like that.
I have been excited all day listening on repeat their entire catalog (that's a lot!), particularly their new good album Skeletal Lamping, having flashes of half-human-half-animal creatures and a creamy Kevin asking for a hug. I am sure I am not the only one. Kevin Barnes and his gang played in its entirety his new baby, Skeletal Lamping, plus some great (now) oldies and an impressive cover of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Very appropiate... it did really smell like it.
Of Montreal's new music is very adventurous, not conventional pop, twisted in its own and these days very melodic changing even within one same song. Only after way too many times listening to their new stuff I could start identifying where really the songs end and when they don't. With that in mind, I am very fucking proud of putting together the set list in the middle of all the dancing and fisting I did. Here it is:
He has several tricks to keep our eyes on the stage and don't, let's say, start doing some texting. He sometimes uses Sunlandic Twins' instrumentals, sometimes let his two drummers (yeah, now he has two!) get creative while he dresses up as a centaur, or wears some bath clothes just to be murdered, or sometimes he just gives us one of those classic Satanic Panic in the Attic tracks we all old school fans love.
Even though I loved Id Engager (and his scream) as a set opener, making clear from the beginning a party was about to start, the show really kicked off for me after hearing one of my favorite songs off Hissing Fauna, She's A Rejector, when I couldn't stand still with my (old) friends and had to go to join the youth. Stickiness and sweatiness came right after, with Skeletal's highlight Four Elegant Caste and its infectuous chorus about doing it softcore and going both ways that everybody loves singing to, and it pretty much lasted until what I think is the real closer track on Skeletal, Mingusings. I am glad I bought a t-shirt at the beginning of the show... I really needed it afterwards.
This time, I will never forget how much I enjoyed live my current favorite Of Montreal song, An Elurdian Instance, how touching Kevin sounded solo in a piano, and of course, Kevin on a horse in a venue in Manhattan. So thanks yet one more time... I couldn't feel luckier of being an Of Montreal fan. [photos of the show]
I went to see the best Broadway musical happening last night in the city. Of Montreal was in charge of the music, and Kevin Barnes, his brother David, his wife Nina, ninjas, and buddhas, were in charge of the theatricality. There's not much of 2008 left, so I might as well say it now: Of Montreal @ Roseland Ballroom might have been be the best spectacle I've seen this busy 2008 (and I just got home after seeing Madonna at MSG!).
So yeah, that's a real horse. And that's Kevin Barnes wearing super short shorts on a real horse. That was one of the many extravagances that happened last night and that everybody is talking about today, or at least all the teenagers (I am not one) who were in attendance, because I doubt people would forget a show like last night's just like that.
I have been excited all day listening on repeat their entire catalog (that's a lot!), particularly their new good album Skeletal Lamping, having flashes of half-human-half-animal creatures and a creamy Kevin asking for a hug. I am sure I am not the only one. Kevin Barnes and his gang played in its entirety his new baby, Skeletal Lamping, plus some great (now) oldies and an impressive cover of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Very appropiate... it did really smell like it.
Of Montreal's new music is very adventurous, not conventional pop, twisted in its own and these days very melodic changing even within one same song. Only after way too many times listening to their new stuff I could start identifying where really the songs end and when they don't. With that in mind, I am very fucking proud of putting together the set list in the middle of all the dancing and fisting I did. Here it is:
Id EngagerWow, that was long. Last time I saw Of Montreal they played most of Hissing Fauna, and this time they did the same but with Skeletal. When you hear the album, after several spins, you realized there is no other possible ordering for its tracks, and Kevin agrees. He is playing (like he did for the Hissing Fauna tour) most of the new songs in several groups keeping the same order as they come on the album without interrupting the flow.
So Begins Our Alabee
Triphallus, to Punctuate!
She's A Rejector
For Our Elegant Caste
Touched Something's Hollow
An Eluardian Instance
Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse
Gallery Piece
Wraith Pinned To The Mist & Other Games
Women's Studies Victims
St.Exquisite's Confessions
Ero's Entropic Tundra
Nonpareil of Favor
October Is Eternal
Wicked Wisdom
Disconnect The DotsOur Spring Is Sweet Not FleetingKnight Rider (Thanks P4K!)
And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow
Plastis Wafers
Death Is Not a Parallel Move
Beware Our Nubile Miscreants
Mingusings
A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger
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Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
Gronlandic Edit
He has several tricks to keep our eyes on the stage and don't, let's say, start doing some texting. He sometimes uses Sunlandic Twins' instrumentals, sometimes let his two drummers (yeah, now he has two!) get creative while he dresses up as a centaur, or wears some bath clothes just to be murdered, or sometimes he just gives us one of those classic Satanic Panic in the Attic tracks we all old school fans love.
Even though I loved Id Engager (and his scream) as a set opener, making clear from the beginning a party was about to start, the show really kicked off for me after hearing one of my favorite songs off Hissing Fauna, She's A Rejector, when I couldn't stand still with my (old) friends and had to go to join the youth. Stickiness and sweatiness came right after, with Skeletal's highlight Four Elegant Caste and its infectuous chorus about doing it softcore and going both ways that everybody loves singing to, and it pretty much lasted until what I think is the real closer track on Skeletal, Mingusings. I am glad I bought a t-shirt at the beginning of the show... I really needed it afterwards.
This time, I will never forget how much I enjoyed live my current favorite Of Montreal song, An Elurdian Instance, how touching Kevin sounded solo in a piano, and of course, Kevin on a horse in a venue in Manhattan. So thanks yet one more time... I couldn't feel luckier of being an Of Montreal fan. [photos of the show]
♫♫♫♫♫
Were you at the show? How did you like it?
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Of Montreal @ Roseland Ballroom - Oct 13, 2007
I'll take care of you if you take care of me
That's how Of Montreal said good bye last night at their biggest show in the city (and my third to date). It's sad for me cause this might have been the last time I could get to see them at a decent venue, but great for them because their so deserved success has finally arrived.
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is still one of my top 5 albums this 2007 and if you haven't listened to it carefully I urge you to do so. But probably you have, and you are now an Of Montreal fan, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this, right? Anyway, I think each of the five or six songs they played from this wonderful album last night sounded finally as excellent (but differently) as they sound on record. Gronlandic Edit was awesome and the best one this time for me... sounded as dancy as it is supposed to be. If only Kevin had played The Past is a Grotesque Animal as he did last time he played Irving Plaza, my night would have been complete. Instead we heard a couple of new songs. I think they were ok... hopefully they'll work on them before the new record comes out on October 2008.
The rest of songs they played are songs they have excelled playing them so many times in the past tho that I wasn't surprised. That doesn't mean I didn't shake my ass like everybody else. Lots of Sunlandic Twins, and surprisingly this time, lots of Satanic Panic in the Attic, made all the kids dance to Kevin and his gang. Because that's what was in attendance last night at Roseland... hundreds of kids. Man, Of Montreal has become ridiculously famous this year with the teenagers! They were all there (and with their parents).
I've seen Of Montreal three times since I got to know their music a couple of years ago and I think Kevin is conscious that there are some obsessive people out there, like me, who goes to see him every time the band comes around because they don't do exactly the same theatrical stuff that characterizes their show. They vary. This time Kevin now had an awesome light up stage with a sort of podium for each of the members, that was used to tell us different stories featuring a humanized tiger, his brother dressed in black tight pants, and a couple of guys having coffee when they were not freaking out to an Of Montreal song. Like The Flaming Lips, Kevin should think in a Broadway show!
I didn't think I was going to have a better Of Montreal show than the ones I had already, but I was wrong. It didn't even matter I was at Roseland Ballroom, Of Montreal ruled. [photos of the show]
That's how Of Montreal said good bye last night at their biggest show in the city (and my third to date). It's sad for me cause this might have been the last time I could get to see them at a decent venue, but great for them because their so deserved success has finally arrived.
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is still one of my top 5 albums this 2007 and if you haven't listened to it carefully I urge you to do so. But probably you have, and you are now an Of Montreal fan, otherwise you wouldn't be reading this, right? Anyway, I think each of the five or six songs they played from this wonderful album last night sounded finally as excellent (but differently) as they sound on record. Gronlandic Edit was awesome and the best one this time for me... sounded as dancy as it is supposed to be. If only Kevin had played The Past is a Grotesque Animal as he did last time he played Irving Plaza, my night would have been complete. Instead we heard a couple of new songs. I think they were ok... hopefully they'll work on them before the new record comes out on October 2008.
The rest of songs they played are songs they have excelled playing them so many times in the past tho that I wasn't surprised. That doesn't mean I didn't shake my ass like everybody else. Lots of Sunlandic Twins, and surprisingly this time, lots of Satanic Panic in the Attic, made all the kids dance to Kevin and his gang. Because that's what was in attendance last night at Roseland... hundreds of kids. Man, Of Montreal has become ridiculously famous this year with the teenagers! They were all there (and with their parents).
I've seen Of Montreal three times since I got to know their music a couple of years ago and I think Kevin is conscious that there are some obsessive people out there, like me, who goes to see him every time the band comes around because they don't do exactly the same theatrical stuff that characterizes their show. They vary. This time Kevin now had an awesome light up stage with a sort of podium for each of the members, that was used to tell us different stories featuring a humanized tiger, his brother dressed in black tight pants, and a couple of guys having coffee when they were not freaking out to an Of Montreal song. Like The Flaming Lips, Kevin should think in a Broadway show!
I didn't think I was going to have a better Of Montreal show than the ones I had already, but I was wrong. It didn't even matter I was at Roseland Ballroom, Of Montreal ruled. [photos of the show]
♫♫♫♫♫
Were you at the show? How did you like it?
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