I'd agree with the Super_Collider comments. It looked like an A-Level Art performance. Everybody seems to be raving about their new LP though.
----- Original Message ----- From: Jonny McIntosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall > And mine too: > > > My tuppeny worth > > I thought the film was almost awful. I'm glad they cut it down. God only > knows why such a lumbering primary school plot originally required over two > and half hours. The feeble grasp of Marxism (in the 1920s for God's sake!) > is bad enough, never mind the saccharine "love conquers all" resolution. Oh > dear. Visually, though, "Metropolis" entirely deserves it's reputation. The > robot replica was pretty techno. Mills' music is ace, but I don't think it > fitted all that well, though it worked best when it was more storming: > "Robot Replica" and the destroy the machines scene. There were a lot of > moments where I thought the music was ill timed - though it was cool to > watch a film with the soundtrack as the object of interest, and I think I > appreciate much more how much effort has to go into scores to be successful. > Scoring for a silent movie and striking the balance between subtlety and > expressing when there's no dialogue is probably even harder. I think Mills' > Metropolis comes down more on the, err, "Scarface" side of that balance :) > > From where I was sat in cheap seats, the mosh pit that developed during the > DJ set was pretty entertaining, though some charted accountant behind me > started dancing as if he'd been restraining himself all evening at this > point and whipped out one of those little light gadgets. > > Matt Herbert put on a great show. Though I still liked the idea of it better > than the sound. I got one of those free cds which I've not listened to yet, > but I might do as requested and pass it on :) Super Collider, by contrast, > seemed pretty inept. I really liked the LP, but this show, IMO, was like > sitting through bad performance art set to turgid trip hop (with a weak > drummer to boot). > > Oh, and it was a tremendous view from the balcony out behind the stalls. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
