.... and Jamie Liddell's giant skirt on a platform was amusing! ... the material seemed weak on first listen to me too, however. But so many such things have grown on me so I won't write it off yet ...
>-----Original Message----- >From: Toby Frith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 12:51 PM >To: Jonny McIntosh; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Org >Subject: Re: [313] Metropolis @ Royal Festival Hall > > >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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
