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Going to see Kurt Vile in a few weeks. His new album is a little more folksy and I like it

Just got back from Vieux Farka Touré: https://www.jazzalley.com/www-home/arti … ownum=5177

Purchased tickets in early 2020. Various issues pushed it back until today.

Fantastic guitarist.

It's his dads song but he played Diaraby so I'm happy

i like KV, two early albums especially, but he’s also been an anti-charisma zone when it comes to live. i saw him on one of his first international tours and the meekness and mousiness was the whole draw … i really don’t know how it translates now that he’s several massive albums down the line and has tried his hand at MOR stadium rock stuff.

i bought a ticket for a 3-day outdoor electronic music festival in the korean mountains. have a friend from the UK coming. first music festival for me in about 4 years. going to a similar thing in the mountains of japan later this year, in october. ambient, techno, choice company …

pretty sure i saw him touring on the back of the same release. about a decade ago sounds right: i was in college and super got into his stuff then (saw deerhunter, animal collective, wild nothing, etc, in the same era … good time for college-radio indie rock).

i don’t besmirch him his success. it’s a neat life arc. i think he was a forklift driver in philly or pittsburgh or some p-town that reminds one of armpits. now he’s a rock star who is doting on his kids. there’s an audience for that. good for KV.

the war on drugs are another pretty good associated act, as i’m sure you know. only caught them in passing at a large outdoor show.

Last edited by uziq (2022-05-17 17:48:42)

Went to the annual Tchaikovsky Spectacular this past weekend. Was pumped to hear Dvorak's Symphony No. 9.

That was pretty much the only bright spot at an otherwise pretty shit concert. Was in an amphitheater with metal bleacher seating. Works for an Iron Maiden concert, but not so much for a classical concert.

There was a guest pianist there. My girlfriend is a pretty high level classically trained pianist. She was making fun of the guy the whole time, saying first "I played this piece better when I was 12 than he plays now", and then that "he playswith no passion."

Whatever. Going to see Wu Tang at the same venue at the end of September.

It's more of a concert in the park type event. I go every year, but they demolished the old amphitheater and with it the grass we used to picnic on and eat mushrooms so they could build more houses and apartments, and then built a temporary amphitheater about 5 miles away. I've been going to this event pretty much every year since I was a teenager.

Yeah exactly. That experience is now more or less a thing of the past now. Very sad.

Dua Lipa - 8/10

Dilbert_X wrote:

Dua Lipa - 8/10

jeez, high-risk covid activity: going to major international touring artist's shows just so you can watch a barely-legal teen writhe around on stage. can't you do that via livestream or youtube? what a senseless risk you're taking for your petty satisfactions.

and what sort of air miles are these popstars pulling per year to give 40-year-old virgins like you minor thrills? have you checked the emissions profiles of these tours? you really don't care about the planet, do you?

it's people like you, with your selfish need to go to pop shows and party, that are making covid suppression impossible, the glaciers melt, etc, etc.

plus didn't you know that dua lipa's albanian family have ties to the albanian mob, who run the UK cocaine trade? it's no accident that the major record label business has been flooded with popstars of albanian descent in recent years, you know. nor is it an accident when they 'mistakenly' post very albanian nationalist revanchist content to their instagram accounts, and so on. all that stuff is linked to the shqiptar.

so you're going to highly epidemiologically risky mass-crowd events and your money is likely going to a money laundering operation for a violent cocaine gang.

great news.

Last edited by uziq (2022-12-19 22:28:24)

Its a shame uziq isn't here to tell you your taste in music is wrong and you didn't understand it anyway.

I saw Distant Worlds back in March.  It's a live orchestra that plays Final Fantasy music while they show videos of gameplay and cutscenes from the relevant games on the screen.  Easily one of the coolest things I've done since getting off of night shift.