Sonic Youth Gossip - View Single Post

Georgekrz · 05.23.2007, 12:22 PM

my view, unedited shit so sorry for my ignorance, this was my first no fun fest
thurs:
just got back, id say the best band on the night was Hair Police, the crowd in front went into push and shove frenzy, and just kept at it through their 30 minute or so set.

Pain Jerk closed the night with a powerful Black Dice-y set. it was fun to see Yoshimi and Kim Gordon on the same stage, of course you dont know who to watch when that happens. How old is Yoshimi? she looks about 16..., also I guess Yoshimi's daughter was there she must be 3 or 4 years old, she wearing big gunshooting range style ear protectors. damn i should have asked her if she will be playing 77 drummers, im assuming she will. Thurston Moore was there of course. there was a guy with a professional-type video camera taping, so im hoping a lot of good footage will be surfacing soon. Hive Mind and Damian Romero were also quite good, they really worked their modulators through the whole spectrum of frequencies.. Evil Moisture threw his hamburger buns(he had his burger set up on his modulator) into the crowd and almost him me with it, the fucker...

also- it was fucking hot inside, the ac was just shut off, so no ventilation to speak of, lucky it was a cold night (50 F) even so, as soon as sets were over almost everyone went to hang in the courtyard.

day 2:
Incapacitants- they set-up to akira ikafube classic godzilla soundtrack(most of the album was played i think), many people got up on stage, giffoni, thurston, hive mind, there must have been 30 to 40 people around them. people climbing on the pa. insane attack energy, hitting yourself in the head with objects, a crowd surge? it was kind of a noise music version of beatlemania, the way the music and these two gentlemen moved people. pretty fucking cool. it was an aural equivalent of watching cities being destroyed. music for the apolacypse.

Sissy Spacek, from LA, they are masters of 1 minute song. at the end the singer did a suicide front flip into the audience, guitars were broken, etc.

Carlos Giffoni-, the man we thank for these 4 days

Raionbashi & Kutzkelina- kutzkelina is a yodeler and raionbashi controls the noise, it was heidi meets shining.

Anti-Freedom- the craziest set of the night, a hard-core skin band, though they have hair, beer throwing jumping in the audience, smashing things, general mayhem, basically flashback to 1985 hardcore scene. thurston even got into it from side of the stage.

Mouthus+Axolotl- great set, mouthus is definitely a band i want to see again,

Princess Dragonmon - a "robot" was outside when i got there, they whey they played the robot came in and started to attack, they were blowing soap bubbles and throwing a cardboard box with stuff on it, the theme was dr who, the robot was destroyed.

i was looking for the no fun fest dvd but they didnt have it i think it might be sold out, (in the basement theres a record fair with lot of stuff for sale from many dealers). i did pick up the new merzbow - giffoni - o'rourke cd electric dress for $10

day 3:
sat- because of the mets game which finished late and subway line construction work which rerouted the trains, i didnt get there till 10 on sat.

religious knives- this is kind of hipster band from brooklyn with noise elements, probably one of the more mainstream sounding on the bill that ive yet seen. that is not to say they werent good- they were!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_9LReXmMA

Tom Recchion, Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia - wow! i dont know the name of the woman in this band but she is probably in her 60s? she destroyed. there is another older gentleman and a guy who plays a trumpet. they use vinyl records, sound loops etc. to make these weird sound collages. it was a pretty good set. one weird thing is at one point this skinhead out of his mind jumped on the stage and ripped his shirt off and starting doing a strip-tease thing, and we were like wtf is this part of the show? then he went down and almost knocked tom's table over some of his modulators and cables got pulled off, then some dude who works for the club jumped on the stage and pulled this guy off the stage, grabbed him by the legs and pulled him off the guy was totally out of it.

toms myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tomrecchion

thats them: http://www.myspace.com/smegmatheoriginal

i should mention - quite a group of characters were at this show- there was another skin type who must have been 6'8" 260 lbs muscle linebacker type, thank god he wasnt too violent cause he could have destroyed all the music nerds! plus there was a "man who enters the pit backwards" the guy was in a trance like state and then when he turned around and raised his hand in front of his face you knew what was coming.

so keiji haino- strarted with acoustic japanese mandolin type thing(honestly i dont know the name of the instument) went to electric guitar in the next movement, and closed with theramin table thing last movement, also blood curdling screams, this was a long set i didnt look at the watch but prob over 40 minutes long. i think during this set what was going on in the audience was at least as interesting as what was happening on the stage. even the photogs were turning around and taking pictures. (it was just haino, no band) this vid pretty much captures what the guitar part of the show was like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt2T68yzOSA

merzbow closed the night, this was noise thing on the table modulators, heavy underlying bass lines with high pitched lead lines, with a lot of variety/complexity thrown in. symphony for destruction. prob one of the more interesting sets of the weekend so far, though perhaps not as frenetic as incapacitants. also this set seemed to attract the most press types with professional photogs and writers scribbling in their note pads. i think a lot of people couldnt take it anymore at this point, in the back lot of people were sitting with their heads in their hands. i wish i had a picture of that.

i think there was supposed to be an afterparty show, but i hung around and nothing seemed to be going on except punk disco spins by the dj(girls were dancing crazy i give them credit for that). maybe it was cancelled since the show ran late, merzbow didnt finish till about 2:15

day4:

the guy who walks backwards into the pit, turns out that is Rodger Stella, who was performing sunday, with Leslie Keffer (the line-up gota changed around a bit Hacky pack sack sack werent there, or crumbling). so the set is leslie does a noise thing while rodger stares into the audience then he SLOWLY descends off the stage and walks slowly all the way to the back of the hall, then he SLOWLY walks backwards back to the stage. amazing. then after that a whole bunch of girls jumped on the stage and they all partied to a noise-y disco style, while rodger began to disrobe and touch himself etc, then the girls started hitting him with the shamoo doll and pushing him around. quite a performance artist, with the insane steady stare and the backwayrd walk, actually he was standing next to me during thurstons set. nice guy. .

other things that happened- during one of the sets towards the back two girls just went down to the floor and started going at it. i guess they were very horny. pictures might surface since some were taken...

back to the music, i missed deathroes- sounded awesome, from outside. we couldnt get in in the middle of the set because the strobe lights were too intense or some such nonsense, so about 30 or 40 of us had to listen from the outside, everyone agreed it sounded pretty awesome,

now that i watch this, i cant believe i missed it, this is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNjjVgcDoM

Stegm- a pretty intense dude sings and plays the electronics box, and another guy just works the knobs etc. home-made instruments.

Enema Syringe- this is almost house-techno style noise with a nice steady beat, just one guy working the table,

Aaron Dilloway- more complex electronics with a little more subtlety thrown in than some other acts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJGddFGnCaE

Burning Star Core + Zaimph this is a 4 piece band, violin/vocal screaming, girl on electronics/slide guitar, another electronic box, and a drummer. this sound like 1967-68 era floyd kicked up to another level. pretty awesome actually.
this is a pretty good clitp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7N3-ENXC9Q
this is zaimph, the girl who was playing slide guitar during this set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBbb...watch_response

Thurston Moore- and another guitarist (not jim o'rourke- Bill Nace) composition for two guitars, they pretty much covered all the bases on what you could do with a guitar and some electronic pedals/feedback/drumsticks/metal files etc. a nice long set.

then, to wrap up the festival it was Negative Approach w Thurston joining for the first song. they played about a 30 minute set, and action in the front was pretty intense- people flying jumping off speakers, beer and water flying, typical hardcore show.
their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/negativeapproach

i also picked up the 2004-2005 no fun fest dvd for 15 bucks. all in all i have to say pretty awesome 4 days. next year i will have to make sure to get there earlier each night since i missed some bands every night. im pretty sure a dvd will come of this, there were two camera people taping the whole time. cant wait to see it.

day later...

ok, someone corrected me, thurston did TWO songs with negative approach.

also, i checked the schedule and the girl on girl action took place during ludo mich who i guess was late addition(pretty interesting set- spoken word and then sound loops and screaming etc). there was no hacky pack sac sac.

i watched the dvd. one of the best music movies ever made? yes. money well spent, also as a bonus you get mp4/quicktime movies of the songs used in the movie.

05.23.2007, 12:22 PM	#53
Georgekrz stalker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Forest Hills, NY Posts: 401	my view, unedited shit so sorry for my ignorance, this was my first no fun fest thurs: just got back, id say the best band on the night was Hair Police, the crowd in front went into push and shove frenzy, and just kept at it through their 30 minute or so set. Pain Jerk closed the night with a powerful Black Dice-y set. it was fun to see Yoshimi and Kim Gordon on the same stage, of course you dont know who to watch when that happens. How old is Yoshimi? she looks about 16..., also I guess Yoshimi's daughter was there she must be 3 or 4 years old, she wearing big gunshooting range style ear protectors. damn i should have asked her if she will be playing 77 drummers, im assuming she will. Thurston Moore was there of course. there was a guy with a professional-type video camera taping, so im hoping a lot of good footage will be surfacing soon. Hive Mind and Damian Romero were also quite good, they really worked their modulators through the whole spectrum of frequencies.. Evil Moisture threw his hamburger buns(he had his burger set up on his modulator) into the crowd and almost him me with it, the fucker... also- it was fucking hot inside, the ac was just shut off, so no ventilation to speak of, lucky it was a cold night (50 F) even so, as soon as sets were over almost everyone went to hang in the courtyard. day 2: Incapacitants- they set-up to akira ikafube classic godzilla soundtrack(most of the album was played i think), many people got up on stage, giffoni, thurston, hive mind, there must have been 30 to 40 people around them. people climbing on the pa. insane attack energy, hitting yourself in the head with objects, a crowd surge? it was kind of a noise music version of beatlemania, the way the music and these two gentlemen moved people. pretty fucking cool. it was an aural equivalent of watching cities being destroyed. music for the apolacypse. Sissy Spacek, from LA, they are masters of 1 minute song. at the end the singer did a suicide front flip into the audience, guitars were broken, etc. Carlos Giffoni-, the man we thank for these 4 days Raionbashi & Kutzkelina- kutzkelina is a yodeler and raionbashi controls the noise, it was heidi meets shining. Anti-Freedom- the craziest set of the night, a hard-core skin band, though they have hair, beer throwing jumping in the audience, smashing things, general mayhem, basically flashback to 1985 hardcore scene. thurston even got into it from side of the stage. Mouthus+Axolotl- great set, mouthus is definitely a band i want to see again, Princess Dragonmon - a "robot" was outside when i got there, they whey they played the robot came in and started to attack, they were blowing soap bubbles and throwing a cardboard box with stuff on it, the theme was dr who, the robot was destroyed. i was looking for the no fun fest dvd but they didnt have it i think it might be sold out, (in the basement theres a record fair with lot of stuff for sale from many dealers). i did pick up the new merzbow - giffoni - o'rourke cd electric dress for $10 day 3: sat- because of the mets game which finished late and subway line construction work which rerouted the trains, i didnt get there till 10 on sat. religious knives- this is kind of hipster band from brooklyn with noise elements, probably one of the more mainstream sounding on the bill that ive yet seen. that is not to say they werent good- they were! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_9LReXmMA Tom Recchion, Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia - wow! i dont know the name of the woman in this band but she is probably in her 60s? she destroyed. there is another older gentleman and a guy who plays a trumpet. they use vinyl records, sound loops etc. to make these weird sound collages. it was a pretty good set. one weird thing is at one point this skinhead out of his mind jumped on the stage and ripped his shirt off and starting doing a strip-tease thing, and we were like wtf is this part of the show? then he went down and almost knocked tom's table over some of his modulators and cables got pulled off, then some dude who works for the club jumped on the stage and pulled this guy off the stage, grabbed him by the legs and pulled him off the guy was totally out of it. toms myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tomrecchion thats them: http://www.myspace.com/smegmatheoriginal i should mention - quite a group of characters were at this show- there was another skin type who must have been 6'8" 260 lbs muscle linebacker type, thank god he wasnt too violent cause he could have destroyed all the music nerds! plus there was a "man who enters the pit backwards" the guy was in a trance like state and then when he turned around and raised his hand in front of his face you knew what was coming. so keiji haino- strarted with acoustic japanese mandolin type thing(honestly i dont know the name of the instument) went to electric guitar in the next movement, and closed with theramin table thing last movement, also blood curdling screams, this was a long set i didnt look at the watch but prob over 40 minutes long. i think during this set what was going on in the audience was at least as interesting as what was happening on the stage. even the photogs were turning around and taking pictures. (it was just haino, no band) this vid pretty much captures what the guitar part of the show was like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt2T68yzOSA merzbow closed the night, this was noise thing on the table modulators, heavy underlying bass lines with high pitched lead lines, with a lot of variety/complexity thrown in. symphony for destruction. prob one of the more interesting sets of the weekend so far, though perhaps not as frenetic as incapacitants. also this set seemed to attract the most press types with professional photogs and writers scribbling in their note pads. i think a lot of people couldnt take it anymore at this point, in the back lot of people were sitting with their heads in their hands. i wish i had a picture of that. i think there was supposed to be an afterparty show, but i hung around and nothing seemed to be going on except punk disco spins by the dj(girls were dancing crazy i give them credit for that). maybe it was cancelled since the show ran late, merzbow didnt finish till about 2:15 day4: the guy who walks backwards into the pit, turns out that is Rodger Stella, who was performing sunday, with Leslie Keffer (the line-up gota changed around a bit Hacky pack sack sack werent there, or crumbling). so the set is leslie does a noise thing while rodger stares into the audience then he SLOWLY descends off the stage and walks slowly all the way to the back of the hall, then he SLOWLY walks backwards back to the stage. amazing. then after that a whole bunch of girls jumped on the stage and they all partied to a noise-y disco style, while rodger began to disrobe and touch himself etc, then the girls started hitting him with the shamoo doll and pushing him around. quite a performance artist, with the insane steady stare and the backwayrd walk, actually he was standing next to me during thurstons set. nice guy. . other things that happened- during one of the sets towards the back two girls just went down to the floor and started going at it. i guess they were very horny. pictures might surface since some were taken... back to the music, i missed deathroes- sounded awesome, from outside. we couldnt get in in the middle of the set because the strobe lights were too intense or some such nonsense, so about 30 or 40 of us had to listen from the outside, everyone agreed it sounded pretty awesome, now that i watch this, i cant believe i missed it, this is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfNjjVgcDoM Stegm- a pretty intense dude sings and plays the electronics box, and another guy just works the knobs etc. home-made instruments. Enema Syringe- this is almost house-techno style noise with a nice steady beat, just one guy working the table, Aaron Dilloway- more complex electronics with a little more subtlety thrown in than some other acts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJGddFGnCaE Burning Star Core + Zaimph this is a 4 piece band, violin/vocal screaming, girl on electronics/slide guitar, another electronic box, and a drummer. this sound like 1967-68 era floyd kicked up to another level. pretty awesome actually. this is a pretty good clitp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7N3-ENXC9Q this is zaimph, the girl who was playing slide guitar during this set: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReBbb...watch_response Thurston Moore- and another guitarist (not jim o'rourke- Bill Nace) composition for two guitars, they pretty much covered all the bases on what you could do with a guitar and some electronic pedals/feedback/drumsticks/metal files etc. a nice long set. then, to wrap up the festival it was Negative Approach w Thurston joining for the first song. they played about a 30 minute set, and action in the front was pretty intense- people flying jumping off speakers, beer and water flying, typical hardcore show. their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/negativeapproach i also picked up the 2004-2005 no fun fest dvd for 15 bucks. all in all i have to say pretty awesome 4 days. next year i will have to make sure to get there earlier each night since i missed some bands every night. im pretty sure a dvd will come of this, there were two camera people taping the whole time. cant wait to see it. day later... ok, someone corrected me, thurston did TWO songs with negative approach. also, i checked the schedule and the girl on girl action took place during ludo mich who i guess was late addition(pretty interesting set- spoken word and then sound loops and screaming etc). there was no hacky pack sac sac. i watched the dvd. one of the best music movies ever made? yes. money well spent, also as a bonus you get mp4/quicktime movies of the songs used in the movie.
	\|QUOTE AND REPLY\|