BonosSaint
Rock n' Roll Doggie
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Just to make it 300.
BonosSaint said:Just to make it 300.
indra said:
or a touch over 3/5s of the way to being closed.
reptile said:
They wouldnt dare!.......
Would they?
reptile said:Thats the spirit!
We should have much to discuss, what with the new album and the commonwealth games gig coming up.
Imagine, The Church opening the games and U2 closing! Now theres a good rumour to get started!...
reptile said:I know, thats what i love about the senario!
I cant imagine Bono not finding common ground with someone. I think little stevie might soften his opinion of Bono and the boys if he actually met them. I mean even Henry Rollins is saying nice things about Bono now!!
Roll on march.....
i have not brought any food
or useful utensils
...
others go to find firewood and fresh water
naughty sk espies a tube of condensed milk
mmmm aint seen one o those in ages
despite being a vegan
despite that this tube must be the milknsugar
for many cups o tea
sk despicably sucks most of it down
and has to guiltily bear blame
everytime cups of tea are made
and drunk
all very unmilky and sweet
i score brownie points
for my big bag o pam and perrys finest
...
sk very proud of his bush skills
(can roll a spliff in wind
AND
rain
w/ filter and everything)
indra said:Hey reptile and Blueeyedgirl, it isn't the full band, but MWP is doing a series of solo shows that could be loads of fun. Here's the info for the Adelaide show.
MWP SOLO APPEARING WITH:
The Mood Maidens - Sophie Hutchings (Bluebottle Kiss/Hitchcocks Regret) on piano, Sophie Glasson (The Starboard Cast) on Cello and Amanda Brown (Go Betweens/Cleopatra Wong/Love Me) on violin.
WED MARCH 1ST - GRACE EMILY HOTEL, 232 Waymouth St. Adelaide SA
Tel: 08 8231-5500
Oooh, and the SK blog entry for today is hilarious. SK going bushwalking.
I'm not quite sure if he's the last guy you'd want for such a trip:
or the first:
(would it be considered weird if I said my goal in life is to share a spliff with the Stevester? )
reptile said:
oh for fucks sake....i just wrote a shitload to be told i had used too many smilies...now ive lost my original post
short version.....thrilled about MWP gig..i WILL be there!!...its bloody hot here (5.24am) and even drunk i cannot sleep...and now im pissed that ive lost my original and much wittier post...oh well
Love & Peace/....
indra said:From the photos I've seen, MWP is looking mighty fine these days.... And I think he's looking for a girlfriend...
(someone asked Marty where he lived and he said he was between homes right now. And he explained it by the following: "What do you call a musician without a girlfriend? Homeless." )
That sounds about right!
I have a friend who years ago dated a MWP wannabe...he did the whole dressing like him and working to look as much like him as possible. My friend just had a little girl....and named her Piper. She swears it was her husband's idea and not after Marty.
I like her style!
(Oh will someone please explain how you do the multiple quote thingy!!! Nevermind!)
blueeyedgirl said:
(Oh will someone please explain how you do the multiple quote thingy!!! Nevermind!)
(and look at my next post for the second half.... )
I've made a real point of personally meeting artists whose work I really like. If you pick your heroes well they're never a disappointment in the flesh.
One time I met Marty Willson-Piper out of The Church, my all time guitar hero. Unfortunately I'd been awake for a day and a half and gone into an Amsterdam coffee shop, bought the strongest weed in the house had two hefty bongs and gotten so high that even though I was sitting down I had to hold on to the table. Two minutes later this, in turn, became too hectic and I had to put my face on the table.
At this point Marty came in, had a half hour conversation with the man beside me, then left. I couldn't move or speak the entire time. I was shunted to the gig round the corner half an hour later which in that state was quasi-religious experience. (The gig, not the shunting).
Marty Willson-Piper incident...
I'd like to point out that part of the time you were actually asleep with your head on his arm...He didn't seem to mind. He was quite toasted himself.
All concerned, were pulled up sharp when it was realised that Marty was due on stage at 11 pm. This was at about 11 pm....
You waster you...
indra said:And just to help get you in the mood for the MWP solo shows, I've dug up this lovely blog entry from...well, someone named Merrick. I thought it was funny anyway...
and a comment about the incident:
(I think I might actually know the guy who made the comment)
blueeyedgirl said:That's a shockingly good likeness of Marty!
reptile said:Its official...my (current) fave Church song is a number...
0408
What an amazing song!!!!
But the title sounds like a postcode? Indra, what is the relevance of of the title 0408????
If you dont know, then nobody knows.....
....and i was just a stranger then........
Bizarre.
The Starboard Cast and The Mood Maidens were both no-shows in Brisbane, which was disappointing to say the least, and unexplained to say not much more. Instead we got something that may just have been better.
Marty opened for himself by doing about 45 minutes of poetry, including reading a letter from his mother, Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle into that good night' - "Funny-looking chap, but chicks dug him", according to the website Marty had taken the poem from - some other covers (do poets call them cover versions?) and a good chunk of his own work. It seemed the theme of the night was 'misery loves company', hence Marty's comment that his own anthology was "full of poems about death".
After a short break, Marty came back out and rattled through a collection of old and new, borrowed and blue. I was lucky enough to sit through the soundcheck, so I can't be sure what got played when, but I heard Tristesse, Chromium, Spark, Disenchanted (!) and Field Of Mars (!!!) from The Church canon, as well as a smattering of solo songs, Noctorum songs, and about half a dozen unreleased songs - most of which I reckon I heard at the Mood Maidens gig I went to in October. Of the newies, check out Lullaby For The Lonely and Feed Your Mind as standouts. There was also a Big Star song whose title I can't remember.
Then after about an hour of twelve-stringing, we got something Marty said he hadn't done before - solo electric. The Troubadour owner, Jamie, collects guitars and Marty borrowed two for the show - a Jazzmaster which he proceeded to whammy-bar into submission, and a mongrel called an Old Kraftsman - a solid-looking hollowbody shaped like a Les Paul Junior. It had a really low grunty tone and growled like an overdriven bastard. Truly a sound I have never heard from MWP before. I think there were a half a dozen or so songs on the electrics, then he slipped back to the Sod Off and finished with Ugly And Cruel.
I am hopelessly vague with what he played on what. Luscious Ghost was on the Jazzmaster and he did Spark on the OK. Wreck was re-subtitled 'A River Shanty' and was strikingly sung a capella for one of the night's highlights. Hey There, I Don't Think So, Kiss You To Death, Forever, and You Whisper appeared as well. I think.
All in all it was completely not what I was expecting, but strangely satisfying nonetheless. I'm still a bit vague about the whole thing: maybe I should get some sleep.