i just returned from a trip to vienna and sadly can’t attend I AM KLOOT in graz tonight because of lack of transportation back to klagenfurt :(
but I have managed to see Kettcar on friday, who were just about as awesome as I had expected them to be. unfortunately, I didn’t like the supporting act Kreisky at all. great concert from Kettcar, just about perfect.
I was there with Markus from graz who said that I should check out Tomte as well the following day because they are “better than Kettcar”.
they are not. at least in my oppinion. I enjoyed Kettcar way more. and it was quite a journey to get a Tomte ticket in the end because the show was sold out. luckily, there’s last.fm :)
what was surprising was that I ended up enjoying the supporting act Novillero a lot. so after the concert was over I purchased both Novillero cds and I’m listening to them right now. good choice, they are pretty cool. also I found out that they are from Winnipeg, Canada. does that ring a bell? my favourite band, The Weakerthans, is also from Winnipeg. how awesome.
take5 will be a new category here and is meant to be “take a 5 minute break and listen to the following recommendation”. take5 should not only mean that you take 5 minutes to listen or watch to the recommendation, but it also shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to write that post. except for this first one, of course :) i’ll add more recommendations from time to time. i’m glad i can just link to existing content over the net. there’s just so much good music i want to share with you :)
i’ll open up with Coheed and Cambria, who I already saw live this year and they were amazing.
Coheed and Cambria is an Americanrockband formed in New York.[1] The band has been active since 1995, although they did not go by the name Coheed and Cambria until 2001, when Nate Kelley left the band. Before this they were known as Shabűtie.
And here, the real take 5 part: listen to it and decide if you like it. if you like it, give them another shot with other videos linked below. if not, you’ve only wasted 5 minutes that you wouldn’t have spent any better otherwise.
opening up with:
Coheed and Cambria - Devil in Jersey City
i would have opened with “A Favor House Atlantic”, but embedding on the other videos has been disabled.
see how close we were? during the concert the guys went from the main stage right to the place where we were sitting.. and then played two songs unplugged :D how awesome is that? and what a great event it was! i’m still blown away…
(yes i was too late to buy tickets in the standing area, but obviously it was totally worth it :)
when you talk to someone there are always phrases that you really don’t want to hear. my best example is the question “what kind of music do you like”. there is a specific answer, that i really don’t want to hear. an answer, that makes me turn into the incredible Hulk when I hear it. seriously, it makes my heart and soul bleed.
here’s what happened: recently I had to work in Salzburg and had some co-workers with me. we were four people driving to Salzburg. in the morning, one of my co-workers drove to Salzburg and I myself drove back on the way home. as usual, driver picks the music and since I use the pool-car a lot, I have a few CDs in there and picked “State Radio - Year Of The Crow”. i don’t remember the correct quote, but my youngest co-worker (19) said something about the music, something like if there is anything else we could listen to. by the way, it was not very loud so we could talk as well.
then a co-worker asked her: “what kind of music do you like?”
and she said… wait for it, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait for it…
“well, i like everything”
UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRGGGG!!!!!!
and basically, what is the correct response? “well, then why should I change the music then?”
seriously, makes. me. mad. therefore my reaction wasn’t very nice. usually i’m much nicer, but “i like everything” basically means, that your musical horizon is limited. very, very, very limited. like only-one-radiostation-limited. ö3-limited. if only someone would think about this sentence, he/she would notice how fucked-up that quote i and that it only means that you didn’t think of the music that you don’t listen to because…. you don’t want to. there is a lot of music i don’t like or don’t want to listen to, but i know it’s there.
to hell with the most obvious choices like techno or folk, there are some kinds of music one couldn’t even imagine. for example, my brother once played pitbull grindcore to me. the recorded barks of pitbulls together with the usual instruments. take a look at “Caninus” - “Vocals are executed by two pit bull terriers. Both were rescued days before euthanization from refuges. Caninus - all strict vegans. It has come time really to allow the animals to have their say.”Hear/see them on last.fm :D
Also, there is “Hatebeak“ - Face-crushing guitars, head-pounding drums, bass so low you’ll vacate your bowels, and vocals so scorching, so extreme they simply can’t be human! They’re not. This death metal outfit with a parrot for a singer makes trashes the pathetic birdfeeder you call the metal underground”. see them on last.fm :D
But why go to such extreme measures? For sure you find easier examples much faster (“Metallica? ewwww gross!!!”) for the average “I like everything”-person, because it’s pretty obvious that there is not a snowball’s chance in hell someone likes everything. take classics like Bach or Mozart for example as well… and for that reason I’m thinking of doing a small compilation to play to people when I hear the famous “i like everything” sentence. I’ll call it “some things you just don’t know yet”. But then again, i’m probably a freak.
… or maybe i just like music that much.
the answer is somewhere in between.
but i ask you: what do you think, why would someone say he/she likes everything?
at first i didn’t believe it, but hey, it’s their own newsletter, they should know, right? right! so i’m taking this to be great news and i’m really looking forward to this years installment of the acoustic lakeside, which allowed me to take some cool photos last year.
in 2007, monta had to cancel his gig, but i really hope he will come this year, though nothing is announced so far.
infobox:
the “acoustic lakeside 2007″ was a concert with a few bands and supposed to be an all acoustic show. despite not being a full acoustic show, the atmosphere was great, the crowd enjoyed it and i think the artists as well. plus, the landscape is really cool for a concert location:
