I was at the Gang Of Four gig - if only I'd known!
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-Original Message-
From: Fred Heutte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 26 June 2008 00:57
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: (313) X-102 clips - Mini Sonar Review.
In the end I couldn't justify the time and money to go to Barcelona.
So I stayed in london wishing I'd made it. But I did manage to catch Rob Hood
at Fabric (though it was touch and go as I again failed to pass whatever
coolness check the door idiots have, the first time through the guy told me I
had been drinking too much, a real laugh since the last drink I had was a beer
after the Gang of Four/Tom Tom Club gig at the Royal Festival Hall the night
before. Gang of Four were just great by the way.
Anyway I eventually managed to blag my way in and saw most of Rob's set, which
was mostly straight up DJing and not much with the advertised 909/effects. He
played strong and hard, I don't know what most of the tracks are though I
recognized a few.
Marco Carolla was eh-ok and my old pal Doc Martin was lighting it up pretty
nicely in the small room. So it ended up being a pretty good night after all.
fh
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Was Ronnie at the gig? surely if you wanted to see hands in the air and
dancing on stage you'd go to Movement?
X-102 was a great gig, great sound, great visuals, although the main
video screen was supposed to be projected
and not a massive LED screen, some of the visuals didnt tune out as well as
they should have. But you wouldn't even notice that they hadn't.
The whole gig was also shown on the big screens with lots of close ups
of Mills and Banks playing live. Lots of 909
from Mills and lots from Banks on the keyboards.
They had to stop after a couple of minutes, the curtains closed for
about 10 - 15 minutes, the video wasn't plugged
in. I think they played for about an hour. Definitley the best thing we saw at
Sonar this year.
A few other reviews:
Ewan Pearson: He played twice on the Friday night, nice tracks, mixed very
well.
Justice: Rubbish!
The Minus Crew: Nothing Special, I couldn't see the cube anywhere.
Villalobos: We didnt see much of this gig, it was after 5am when it
started, it was ok but not enough to keep us from
feeling tired.
BC vs JC feat. Darren Emerson: Nothing special.
Róisín Murphy: We didnt stay for too long at this gig, it didnt appear to be
anything special.
Milton Jackson: Just saw this for a couple of minutes, seemed good but we
didnt hang around.
We missed Theo, he was on late and we just forgot about it.
We saw some Deepcord, only for a little bit, it seemed ok, but didnt
see enough to really know how it went, the
crowd seemed to be loving it. We stood at the side of the tent they played in,
it didnt seem loud enough, but if we had of been in the tent it
COH plays Cosey: This got boring very quickly, we left with the lyric of Fcuk
it...Deeper...fcuk it Deeper...
The rest of Sonar by day was ok, nothing amazing grabbed my attention, it was
just nice to sit around in the sun.
There is always a great atmosphere in Sonar by day.
I'm sure I missed a few things, overall we had a good time, without the
X-102 gig, I think I would have been a bit
disappointed with the weekend. I have some Pics Video of the X-102 gig, I'll
post them up in a few days.
G
-Original Message-
From: 1-11 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 June 2008 10:11
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: Re: (313) X-102 clips
Perhaps they should have come out wearing inflatable farmyard animal
suits and even better, been suspended on rope with floating laptops and
every time they held down Ctrl and L on their keyboards, strawberry
laces fell from the heavens.
Sounds bang on to me.
- Original Message -
From: Ronny Pries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: (313) X-102 clips
Man, i guess would have been absolutely pissed there seeing Mills and
Banks standing around like waiting for a bus.
That's what's called a liveact in 2008? Good night.
Nice one.
Here's another:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMLkBUvGCu8feature=related
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:06 PM
Subject: (313) X-102 clips
A couple of clips from the X-102 performance on Saturday. More to
come later in the week when my brain gets back from the Barcelona beaches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?vîZvceNhGGI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QraP97Q6rc
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