http://hearsay.alphaquam.com/2005/12/29/best-shows-2005/ don't you think that if we knew how we would have already? Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:12:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://hearsay.alphaquam.com/2005/12/29/best-shows-2005/#comment-3181 Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:51:21 +0000 http://hearsay.alphaquam.com/2005/12/29/best-shows-2005/#comment-3181 [...] The show itself was pretty damn good though. Openers Mew and Secret Machines played great sets. I hadn’t seen Bloc Party for a couple of years, at what I referred to as their ‘New York coming out party’ The boys had freshly released their stunning debut record, and were still a bit wide eyed at all the praise. The band that played last weekend, still had the same energy and enthusiasm for the songs, but were obviously a much more well oiled machine, having toured on much of these songs for over 2 years now. Lead singer Kele Okereke told the crowd they’ve been under the radar for the last few months recording a new record. He seemed as impatient as the audience about hearing the new songs, lamenting that it should be out ’sometime after christmas’. Surprisingly, the band decided to keep the new songs under wraps, only playing a couple of new ones, opening with ‘Waiting for the 718′ and later plugging ‘Hunting for witches’. I must say it didn’t really hold up to their older anthems, nor chart any interesting new direction. Seemed especially odd to start with ‘718′ a song few people have heard. To me the song is a little flat. Perhaps they’re still trying to sort that out. What did happen, was an energetic, crowd pleasing romp through most of their best songs. I suppose my testament to the show is that the best songs wern’t the ‘party anthems’ but actually the slower songs like ‘Blue Light’ and ‘Compliments’ where the band was able to connect with the large audience without testing the limits of the sound and light system. [...] […] The show itself was pretty damn good though. Openers Mew and Secret Machines played great sets. I hadn’t seen Bloc Party for a couple of years, at what I referred to as their ‘New York coming out party’ The boys had freshly released their stunning debut record, and were still a bit wide eyed at all the praise. The band that played last weekend, still had the same energy and enthusiasm for the songs, but were obviously a much more well oiled machine, having toured on much of these songs for over 2 years now. Lead singer Kele Okereke told the crowd they’ve been under the radar for the last few months recording a new record. He seemed as impatient as the audience about hearing the new songs, lamenting that it should be out ’sometime after christmas’. Surprisingly, the band decided to keep the new songs under wraps, only playing a couple of new ones, opening with ‘Waiting for the 718′ and later plugging ‘Hunting for witches’. I must say it didn’t really hold up to their older anthems, nor chart any interesting new direction. Seemed especially odd to start with ‘718′ a song few people have heard. To me the song is a little flat. Perhaps they’re still trying to sort that out. What did happen, was an energetic, crowd pleasing romp through most of their best songs. I suppose my testament to the show is that the best songs wern’t the ‘party anthems’ but actually the slower songs like ‘Blue Light’ and ‘Compliments’ where the band was able to connect with the large audience without testing the limits of the sound and light system. […]

]]> http://hearsay.alphaquam.com/2005/12/29/best-shows-2005/#comment-85 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 18:07:51 +0000 http://hearsay.alphaquam.com/2005/12/29/best-shows-2005/#comment-85 In fairness to Bowie, <a href="http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2004/11/bowie_endorses_1.html" rel="nofollow">he (and Byrne) were both at the Bowery Ballroom show back in November 2004</a>. Byrne was first to jump on stage with them, but you can't say that Bowie was sleeping on them... He very nearly got a song dedicated to <a href="http://www.gawker.com/news/culture//gawker-stalker-bruce-willis-revives-chivalry-025768.php" rel="nofollow">his moustache</a>. In fairness to Bowie, he (and Byrne) were both at the Bowery Ballroom show back in November 2004. Byrne was first to jump on stage with them, but you can’t say that Bowie was sleeping on them… He very nearly got a song dedicated to his moustache.

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