<3
Hardcore Jase:
*lol*
http://theplummetonions.wordpress.com/2008/05/page/2/Let me tell you about the gig I saw last night:
Spiritualized.
Opening act was called the
Sian Alice Group. They were cool in a post-rock repeat-the-groove rock-trance kind of way. Pretty heavy with some light touches from the singer. They switched up instruments a lot; I like that.
I was glad to see
Spiritualized again. I’ve caught Jason Pierce’s band twice before: once at the Brixton Academy in very intense band mode, and once at the Forum in a more reserved semi-acoustic mode (Pierce sat for the entire performance). He’s since
come close to death but is touring to support a new album released next week called
Songs in A&E, written in the wake of his lengthy hospitalisation.
The band was back to intense mode, but was more visceral than before.
Part of that was because they were playing at Koko. The Camden nightclub is much smaller than either of the previous venues in which I’d seen the band, and smaller is always better. Still, there were quite a few people on stage: Pierce singing and wailing on his guitar, a guitarist, bass player, drummer, keyboardist, and four excellent backup singers for most of the songs. There were no strings this time.
The first song started quietly but Pierce launched into an audio guitar assault before it was halfway through. This is what Spiritualized is all about: gentle gospel-country tunes that build tension through repetition, then crescendo into a wall of painful, wailing rock that eventually explodes into release and redemption. It is the new blues. It’s working through addiction in the language of faithfulness.
Song after song came at us like this: the rhythms repeat, Pierce’s guitar morphs into a screaming thing, and the soul singers in the back are like angels on top of it all. These songs are manipulative, all the more so because they sound like they’re coming from someone who’s still learning how to hang on.
There were a couple of new songs, including
“Soul On Fire”, that sounded very much of a kind with his past work. But there were more old ones than I expected. I didn’t make note of everything they played but I recall hearing “Shine A Light”, “Take Good Care of It”, “Walking With Jesus”, “Angel Sigh”, “Lord Let it Rain On Me”, “She Kissed Me (It Felt Like a Hit)”, the Spacemen 3 track “Take Me To The Other Side”, and one of my favourites, “Come Together”, to finish us off. The encore was a huge “I Think I’m In Love” and a truly epic “Lord Can You Hear Me”.
Pierce remains an introverted performer: he faced across the stage the whole time, never looking at us, sometimes looking heavenwards, never moving his feet, only starting to move a bit and shout in the last few songs. But throughout he taunted fierce noises from his guitar in order to thrash out a violent, clashing catharsis for each song. He only acknowledged the audience at the very end: he finally looked out at us, smiled, clapped a bit, and said thanks twice.
It’s a weird sort of healing you get from this music. Pierce seems to be expressing personal pain when he plays live, much more than the shared experience you can talk yourself into when listening to it on CD. This perception might have been heightened when Pierce lost his trademark defensive sunglasses at about the third song (they seemed to break). It seemed, last night, like Jason was confessing. I’m glad that Spiritualized are back, and I’m glad I got to hear his confession.
This perception might have been heightened when Pierce lost his trademark defensive sunglasses at about the third song (they seemed to break). <3
And it's still a long way to go for me... becoming a proper Spiritualized fan. Not doing bad with Spacemen 3 at the moment... I somehow get the feeling it should come naturally, but it doesn't. ^^ So I have to force myself I guess...
Love his hair here.
Cute.
http://www.blackmailmag.com/Spiritualized.htm
Portuguese?
Ah, that one again: http://www.kindamuzik.net/achtergrond/spiritualized/onvoltooid-verleden-tijd-spacemen-3-en-spiritualized-oftewel-liefde-haat-en-overdaad/14713/
in Dutch.
Hahaha, awesome:
Kevin looks quite good there. Bilinda's head is a bit large though. ^^
Look, it's Loop:
Not bad...
Hahaha, how cute:
Hahaha, oh man... I have to post the link to that great site: http://www.kittenpainting.co.uk/timebomb1990.html
http://theguestroom.wordpress.com/
3 times Jason.
Omg.
Omg omg.
Eeeeeeeek. How did I find that? <3
Awwww, there are more: http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/308905
I was really just looking for Jason Pierce and Kate Radley.
Awwwwwww.
Pics of Pierce Brosnan, oh yay, lol:
http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-US&family=editorial&assetType=image&p=jason%20pierce#2
Hahaha, what the hell, but it's his sliver shoes again:
Not bad, not bad.... Not bad at all:
My eyes just went like this oO:
Omg, omg, omg... That's in the league of that one of him smoking that I found yesterday...
I know I should stop because I freaked out several times in the last... 12 hours...
I know it sounds stupid, but I have to watch my pulse.
Aaaaargh.
:O
I might be terribly superficial, but omg... omg...
And this one:
Fortunately I have reached the last page...
I didn't know it could reach even higher... um... heights.... But just wait for the Kate pics...
I really DO have to calm down...
I need water I think... I feel so dizzy...
*weak manic laughter*
It's not even laughter anymore...
God...
I have to add yet another post... Too large...
Gives me time to get some water...
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LEEDS, ENGLAND - AUGUST 30: Johnny Marr of The Cribs signs a young fan's t-shirt at HMV on August 30, 2009 in Leeds, England. (Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/Getty Images) 
