awesome color: captains rest: glasgow
so yeah thanks to the the germridden fleshsack (or manky guinness glass) that infected me with the fucking ebola or hantavirus or something. resulting in two days of sweating spewing and shaking. yeah thanks dude(tte). i type this from my deathbed sickbed comfy chair. on the plus side i have dropped a dress size. and managed to pass off the symptoms of my strawberry crack withdrawal as the illness. so i’m clean again. huzzah.
on with the show.
my musical radar’s been all over the place recently, like david walliams the restless relentless sexual predator, unable to settle on any one thing. nothing’s really been clicking in my aural brain gaskets. i should have known that only the redemptive power of balls to the wall rock and roll could set me back on the path of righteousness. hallelujah. i’m reminded of the slint curated all tomorrows parties abomination, saved from dulldulldullness only by bad wizard. playing twice. records available here. putting more fire into a thirty minute smallstage set than slint did sitting down for a horrible hour and a bit. somebody else admit it. go on. it’ll make you feel better. slint were beige; diet coke; yawnsome; alan titschmarche; average; boring; sedate(d?). well? cowards.
back to awesome color. they have a similar flavo(u)r to bad wizard but with more of a stooges psych garage twist than a deep purple thin lizzy denim jacket and patches thang. looking like they’ve wandered out of the dogtown and z-boys movie. sounding like the greatest bar-room band ever (well after the detroit cobras). lacking that irritating postmodern irony of the ubiquitous stooges/ramones/sabbath t-shirts worn by hipster scenester scum. what’s not to like?
they’re signed to thurston moores ecstatic peace! label. which comes closer to the sonic and youth part of his day job than sonic youth do these days. also home recently to other shit i like such as mv/ee, magik markers and be your own pet (who i feel i’m way to old to listen to without seeming like a creepy old touchyfeely uncle).
*cough*
what awesome color are is an old fashioned three piece. tight drums, lolloping bass and a guy howling and wailing on a guitar. and that’s it. it’s not fancy. there’s nobody wearing capes or playing ukeleles through ancient communist recording equipment. it’s plain old rhythm and blues played with the amps cranked up and a punkish conciseness that i love. like what dinosaur jr (who they recently toured with) used to still do do. not that they don’t occasionally go for a wander but when they do it’s loud and pounding like what the stooges used to do.
eyes of light by awesome colour
the show? the show was well… awesome. it was a fuzzy heavy heady blur of reigned in flair and loose precision. the show was a hairy guy playing guitar solo making that hairy guy playing guitar solo face. the show was a locked in bass groove man. the show was a dainty lady (apologies for the vague patronisationing?) knocking goddam hell out of a drumkit. more ladies on drums please. more ladies in good bands please. and to the guy dancing looselimbed and freakedout floppy on his own in front of the stage. kudos sir. kudos. it was all unadulterated good fun. which on a wet tuesday night is all you can really ask for.
awesomespace / awesomepeace! / awesomesite / awesomevideo
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and a wonderfully crappy free man
