What are you playing tonight?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:18 pm

Watching Man Utd make the FA Cup look boring

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:42 pm

Lennon wrote:Hide the sausage

lucky bugger!

Operation Ivy - energy

Dr Hotdog · Post by **Dr Hotdog** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:09 pm

superjohnmcginlay wrote:Various Youtube vids from Nine Inch Nails gig @manchester appollo on sunday - cos i was there.

jammy git, i couldn't afford it.

sore them both nights last time though in 2005. Great stuff.

fatshaft · Post by **fatshaft** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:18 pm

poker as usual

blurred · Post by **blurred** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:26 pm

A random collection of limewire downloads, and a bit of a shuffle on my iTunes. Up recently I've had Blessid Union of Souls, Sister Hazel, Easyworld, Old 97's... all sorts. Nothing better than just whacking it on random with 3000 odd songs and seeing what comes up

Last 10 tunes

Portishead - Half Day Closing (live)
Metric - The Police And The Private
Transcargo - Collision
Endorphines - The Beautiful Game
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (live)
Third Eye Blind - Deep Inside Of You
The Hives - A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T
The Breeders - Saints
Arctic Monkeys - Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts
The Streets - Turn The Page

forever_white · Post by **forever_white** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 11:10 pm

listening to savage gardens greatest hits.

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:14 am

Dr Hotdog wrote:
superjohnmcginlay wrote:Various Youtube vids from Nine Inch Nails gig @manchester appollo on sunday - cos i was there.
jammy git, i couldn't afford it.

sore them both nights last time though in 2005. Great stuff.

I was at the 2nd night in 2005, this was better as they were playing songs they dont usually play. Had to get tickets last year - 1st night sold out in a day. Theyre supposed to be coming back in summer.

Dr Hotdog · Post by **Dr Hotdog** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:23 pm

i hope they come back, the apollo is a great venue for them.
i also hope Tool come back again, anywhere indoor though.

tonight i read the news at 6pm on ALLfm 96.9 - www.allfm.org, ace it was too

Later i'm gonna listen to some progressive rock and watch the new Lost. yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:29 pm

forever_white wrote:listening to savage gardens greatest hits.

surely that comment shouldn't be plural?

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:44 pm

A strange choice tonight, 'Songs in the Key of Springfield'

Simpson, not Dusty or Wigan.

cowdrill · Post by **cowdrill** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:19 pm

dexys midnight runners live DVD

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:00 pm

Carmen Caprice, Brandenberg Variation and Bolero Fantasy. Man, I've been playing that Bolero for more years than I can remember and never tire of it. Saw the London Philarmonic do it live on TV and it knocked me out. I wrote the following review for my dance forum at the time. The following is only for music lovers who have nothing better to do on a Friday night than be here.

Last night continued the Spanish theme at the Proms festival. Since
the foro is quiet, indulge me and let me share it with you:

Bizets Carmen provided operatic content as an opener, followed by the
very Eastern elements of the overture from Samson and Delilah. All
immaculately performed to a full house at the Royal Albert Hall.This
set the scene and the mood for the highlight of an excellent evening,
Ravel's "love me or hate me" "Bolero" Despite having heard this piece
at least a hundred times or more, I can't get enough of it. To see it
performed on live TV with all the benefits of camera close-ups was
nothing short of staggering:

A muted snare drum, three-quarter draped in a cloth, sent out the
first far-away tappings of the rythmn. To the drummers eternal credit
he kept an immaculate heartbeat all the way through the full fifteen
minute performance. A solitary oboe played the first melody to the
muted string plucks of a concert harp. A clarinet continued the
melody as further unconventional playing methods brought more plucked
strings from violins, their bows temporarily abandoned. Next a flute
took the melody, then, in turn, a muted trumpet, then a soprano
saxaphone, followed by a tenor sax. Cello and double bass strings
strenthened the pluckings of their smaller relatives, the violins. A
spinell joined the band, a line of trumpets and French horns
strengthened the melody. The snare drum, now uncovered rattled the
incessant beat, joined by half a dozen others. Now a line of half a
dozen violins, played in the guitar position by musicians who could
hardly contain their amusement at this unusual use of their
instruments.

The plucking reached impressive heights as harp, violin, cello and
double bass increased the tempo, conventional violins lifted the tone
and a set of kettledrums began to pound out the driving roar of
sound. A row of trombones, then the full brass section lifted the
noise levels to a thunder, as the conductor, eyes closed, swayed from
side to side, his arms windmilling the full ensemble onwards. A six
feet diameter bass drum, tilted on its edge, hammered an even deeper
hearbeat as the conductor, now almost performing the role of a galley
master from the ancient roman triremes, urged his charges onwards and
upwards, his eyes rolling and his sparse hair all over the place.
Finally, the full awesome might of the combined sections of the London
Philarmonic crashed into the final e-major section and the
conductor's feet actually left the floor as he brought his regiment
to a crashing, thunderous blast that had hardly time to die before
the packed audience were on their feet in an ovation that lasted a
full five minutes.

Utterly, utterly magnificent. I must have at least eight different
recorded versions of the Bolero, but this was something else. Sorry,
but I just had to re-live it again.Hope you'll forgive me(-:

Jim

Nozza · Post by **Nozza** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:06 pm

You didn't write that.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:15 pm

Hoolio wrote:You didn't write that.

Oh, I did my friend, together with quite a few reviews on flamenco concerts etc.

Nozza · Post by **Nozza** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:16 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
Hoolio wrote:You didn't write that.
Oh, I did my friend, together with quite a few reviews on flamenco concerts etc.

Your name isn't Jim. It's Tango!

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:18 pm

Hoolio wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:
Hoolio wrote:You didn't write that.
Oh, I did my friend, together with quite a few reviews on flamenco concerts etc.
Your name isn't Jim. It's Tango!

Little Green Man · Post by **Little Green Man** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:55 pm

B. Fleischmann - The Humbucking Coil

followed by

Cujo - Adventures in Foam

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:22 pm

Hoolio wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:
Hoolio wrote:You didn't write that.
Oh, I did my friend, together with quite a few reviews on flamenco concerts etc.
Your name isn't Jim. It's Tango!

It's Tango when he's a Tango Dancer and Jim when he's a Morris Dancer, I think.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:39 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
Hoolio wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote:
Hoolio wrote:You didn't write that.
Oh, I did my friend, together with quite a few reviews on flamenco concerts etc.
Your name isn't Jim. It's Tango!
It's Tango when he's a Tango Dancer and Jim when he's a Morris Dancer, I think.

And thereby hangs a tale. The men in clogs and knee breeches whacking each other with sticks have an interesting history.
It's all in the Googlesday Book.

And playing tonight: "Tango music of Argentina" and (don't dare laugh) the wife's "Il Divo in Concert" with an unusual sung version of "Concierto Aranjuez".

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:29 pm

Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.

Absolutely outstanding stuff!

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