11 Comments:

 Anonymous said:

Finally, Art Brut get some recognition!!!
Did you notice all big blogs totaly ignored 'It's a bit complicated' in their top albums?
I'm grateful for blogs like yours and like this one that actually remembered them.

2:45 am  

 Pat said:

http://www.wirelessbollinger.com/general/insight/meredith_wrap_up_-_another_year_another_triumph/Wireless Bollinger have published a good review of Meredith

Why don't I read this site more often?

9:36 pm  

 Pat said:

Sorry. I fucked up the link

9:37 pm  

 Anonymous said:

Wish I had seen the Andrew wk show. Your description sounds really amazing. I saw him on my vacation in Florida last year and I was just blown away: crazy dance moves, banging like Jerry Lee Lewis on the keyboard, party and love and major loss of ego for everyone in the crowd.

Getting closer to the stage would be good for you next time. Or just losing your ego and not being a hater. Go along with the crowd when it comes to AWK. There's nothing else like it.

1:43 am  

 Pat said:

It was way too cultish for me. Seemed like everyone was going crazy for him without even thinking about what he had to say...More love,less hate, more partying??? WTF???

11:36 am  

 Anonymous said:

Since when is "more love, less hate" cultish?

3:46 pm  

 LETTERS TO ANDREW W.K. said:

Also:

http://www.iamfauxpas.com/blog/

top three life-changing live shows

- andrew wk at meredith
- andrew wk at meredith
- andrew wk at meredith

3:47 pm  

 Pat said:

I guess it seemed cultish in the way he was preaching to the crowd, and the way crowd seemed devoted to his message.

1:29 pm  

 Anonymous said:

nice wrap pat, i'm surprised there aren't more meredith breakdowns floating out there on the blogs.. some quick thoughts

- dr dog sounded a bit too by the numbers for me too

- cut copy and midnight juggernauts totally should have swapped slots, i don't think you and i are the only ones who had that brainwave. juggers were electric, better than i thought they'd be (my first time)... cut copy were, god bless them, a bunch of haircuts and pretty disappointing (also my first time)

- andrew wk. yes totally life changing. i'm with anonymous.. "more love less hate" is something to be agreed with, not to rally against. i totally agree about the loss of ego thing though i wouldn't put it like that its on the money. his aim was to unify everyone, get people to do the monkey dance, and make peoples lives better. if you were open to it, your life was a little bit better at the end of the set than it was at the start. i dunno it just worked for me... with a less able or genuine and charming guy, it wouldn't have. he can play the keys like a motherfucker, and it bizarrely worked with the john carpenter/vangelis thing that is coming back. methinks wk knows his oxygene, wakeman etc

- clutch made me go to bed when i wanted to stay up and party. because they were so bad

i wish i had more positive things to say about the bands at meredith, but mostly wk blew me away and everything else seemed a bit pointless after that. oh and mu-gen was absolutely nuts, so nuts that i couldn't even dance to what he was doing, i just stood there in a stupor watching him going "woahhh"

viva blogosphere interaction

7:48 pm  

 Pat said:

Hi Mr Tim faux pas

Thanks for your comments. From what I heard, I agree Clutch were pretty dull, although they didn’t get that much of my attention on the night to warrant a mention them in the earlier wrapup.

On Andrew WK, I’m not quite sure what is meant by losing your ego, but I will try and respond to yours and others comments!

I’m all for loss of ego if what anonymous means is to lose your inhibitions and just enjoy the moment, cause that what makes live music so great sometimes. Hell, if everyone could just do the monkey dance at gigs when they really felt like it, then I agree live gigs would be so much more enjoyable and we would all be better for it!

But if something doesn’t hit the mark, (and it’s always going to be a personal thing with music) then it doesn’t matter how inhibited you are, then it’s not going to work. I didn’t really like WK’s music so I was unlikely to respond like many of the audience did.

For this reason I guess automatically I was less likely to be receptive to anything he had to say. Telling me to just love more and party more, or whatever he said is unlikely to change my mind.

But I also thought they were painfully simplistic suggestions. And that in itself is OK I guess, because in reality lots of pop music has very simple messages, even if I generally prefer it conveyed with more subtlety than WK. Unifying people is a cool aim, but reaching people through happy non-provocative messages is only one way of unifying an audience, and not a particularly sophisticated one. I guess to me, he seemed to be preaching his universal message of love and happiness, without any irony at all, while commanding the stage and suggesting to the audience that we were listening to something profound.

So perhaps I was being a bit/very stubborn, and not as open as I could have, and maybe overly cynical, but I think that the main reason is that, when someone doesn’t actually have anything to say, I just find preaching quite irritating, no matter how noble the intentions.

May your blogosphere adventures continue.

Pat

1:01 pm  

 Anonymous said:

yeah i think thats all fair enough.

at the end of the day i just totally got sucked in by his 10-minute doom-prog-baroque keyboard solo and he could have done anything after that and i would have lapped it up... he had me at hello..

just as a disclaimer, i haven't really connected with andrew wk's music, before or after the gig. just during. happy new year pat! keep the blogs coming

6:27 pm  

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