Given a choice I'd rather hear his 69 stuff more than anything else so I guess
that's a good thing since its my personal favorite of his.
He was wearing those masks at DEMF last year I think. I remember looking down
there from the Detroit stage where I was at most of the time.
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On Apr 8, 2012, at 8:48 AM, Benn Glazier b...@glzr.info wrote:
I caught Carl play in London on Thursday night.
A late venue change due to a stabbing at a BlackBerry party at the previous
venue meant we were now at the Coronet at Elephant Castle. For anyone who
doesn't know this space, it's generally used as a live venue. An old theatre,
it's quite a large space, and this meant that the gig lost a fair amount of
the intimacy that I was expecting.
Playing live as 69, he performed in three different masks. First up was
something that looked a cross between the Scream ghost mask and a hockey
mask, second was Medico Della Peste mask, a Venetian mask that was most
memorable as the long beak mask from Eyes Wide Shut. Last was the sad clown
or Pierrot. And then at the end he lost the mask 'revealing his identity'.
Not really sure what that had to do with the music, it wasn't as if he played
in 3 (or 4) parts.
Music was predominantly 69 with some sounds that sounded like a nod to
Paperclip People.
I can remember he played:
My Machines
Rushed
Sound On Sound
Poi et Pas
Ladies Gentleman
Desire (well a weird version that featured the beats reworked a little
without the strings)
Not sure whether Carl likes to play longer when he plays live, but 1 hour
felt short. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it was really a retrospective at
the end of the day. Considering he's not released any new music as 69 for 18
odd years apart from some reworkings, I was a little perplexed as to why he
was doing gigs as 69 today.
Also, interesting crowd. Was very young but I guess it's kinda cool to think
that there were quite a few in the crowd enjoying sounds that were produced
before they were born. They were into it though, the floor was full when he
started and remained that way.
Latest darling of the electronic set, Maya Jane Coles played after Carl, and
whilst most people I spoke to said they were attending the gig for her, she
was boring, flat and didn't get out of 2nd gear. After an hour or so I
left... which was a shame as Efdemin was playing, but not until 5.15 so I
doubt I was going to stay that late anyway!
BG
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