Quiet weekend

[mrph]

Cash and exhaustion meant that I didn't get to go see Chaos Engine after all. Shame, as I really like them live - and I'd also like to see Action Directe, who were one of their support bands, again, too. Ho hum. Next time.

The weekend's other event, Blyth Power @ the Earlsdon Cottage, didn't go quite to plan, either - there was a distinct lack of BP and, instead, Cat and I found ourselves listening to the "Uncle Remus Rockin' Blues Band". Who were actually quite good (it's been far too long since I've been to any pub blues nights - not since the Hope & Anchor stopped them, years ago), but weren't what we came for. So we listened to their first set, then slipped away in the interval and headed to Whitefriars, where the usual cluster of goths had taken up residence. Not a bad night, after all.

As for the rest of the weekend... it's just been me, a mug or three of Green & Blacks hot chocolate, the Playstation2 (I finally completed Onimusha...) and one of the new Pratchett books ("The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents" - much fun...). It was all pleasantly, relaxingly, antisocial...

Oh, and it was also a chance to mess around with audiogalaxy. I don't really have moral objections to downloading songs that I can't find to buy on CD (especially when I will buy them, sooner or later), so I've downloaded some XIII Stoleti (Polish goth-rock), some Lucyfire (the Tiamat side-project) and most of Shriekback's impossible-to-find "Go Bang" album. All well worth having.

The Lucyfire stuff ("Pain Song" and "Thousand Milllion Dollars In The Fire") is memorable, catchy and has a definite Western twang to it. Not in an apocalyptic Nephilim way, more in a "sitting in a boxcar with a harmonica" style, if that makes any sense. Anyway, it sounds damn fine. Now, if I could just find the album over here...

XIII Stoleti is perhaps not a million miles away from Killing Miranda - so I can see why Phildo raves about them. The vocals take a definite second place to the guitars (probably just as well, given that the lyrics aren't all in English, are a bit repetitive, and are a bit high on the cheesy vampire stuff...) - but the songs work. I'm hoping they end up playing a German festival in the next year or so - they strike me as a band who'd sound seriously impressive live. My only complaint is that the two songs I've got ("Elizabeth" and "Nosferatu Is Dead") are a bit too long for clubplay - 6+ minutes each.

Comments

Re: The amazing Maurice

[mina-laury.livejournal.com]

I'm (a) in an unPratchettlike mood (I read too many back to back over the summer and started seeing the jokes a paragraph ahead) and (b) expecting one or both of the books for Christmas from one relative or another, so you may have to contain your plot discussion for a while...