I've been surrounded, immersed in music. From Black Kids, to Arctic Monkeys, Lupe Fiasco, TV On The Radio, Neil Young, Prodigy to Cut Copy. I find it intriguing (and Sean most likely won't agree with this) how all these bands/artists interact with each other while they line up for lunch and dinner in the artist tent backstage. Duh!? Huh? How else would meal time play out? But then I brought this up with a producer and he thought the same thing...
To me it's music school/camp where each group is a clique but everyone seems to get along. People from completely different musical genres having a hoot! Laughing, dancing in front of one another, commenting on each other's fashion etc.
I imagine 'small talk' conversation between Jules and Katie of the Ting Tings with Lupe, "Should we have the calamari rings and chips this afternoon or settle with a burger and salad?". "This food looks good but I can't pork up before my set..." Ok enough insane imagined stories from me. Small talk is my least favourite kind of conversation.
LUPE GETS BUSY AND GIVES ALMOST ALL HIS CLOTHES AWAY
Lupe went off in the Boiler Room. Commanded the stage with his slick lyricism and dancing. Forget just throwing the random white towel into the fan pit. Not only did his tee go in he threw his sweater out to the crowd that was ripped to shreads by the masses, two songs later (after 'Superstar' ) he swung both BAPEs out to the crowd in a split second, which, with any person's regular reaction, if they didn't slow it down like the matrix wouldn't have had quick enough reflexes to catch it and would've copped it in the face. So quick was his throw that I couldn't make out who became instantly messed up in the crowd.
It must be the best feeling to have a band that is so into your tunes. His band is tight, they don't mess around, and still well into his tour exchange a multitude of facial expressions which all mean "rad". Seriously, between the bass and keys player there must be 200 different facial expressions for having the best time.
ARCTIC MONKEYS VERY GC, AUSTRALIA
Arctic Monkeys have only really done 3 or 4 gigs after 13 months. Yet on stage on the Gold Coast Big Day Out everything was so fluid. Alex Turner is probably the most relaxed rocker I have ever seen on stage. He makes any guitar wannabe envious on how he glides up and down those frets. The new tracks sound awesome the only title I can remember is "Crying Man", I think the new tracks were different to the one's they performed at their side show in Wellington.
Just some of the highlights...
More from my travels soon
x
man i wish i stayed an did this tour!!!
ReplyDeletelooks like way too much fun
but yeah i totally agree with you actually fuzz, it's funny how all the artists interact, and even funnier how musos paying the same instruments always seem to instantly get along.
My drummer is friends with almost every drummer from most bands we've played shows with. But i don't think he knows anyone else in the band.
Backstage politics...
and it's so sad how the local support acts at each stop get totally left out of the fun...like the awkward foreign exchange student who you don't reeeally bother getting to know to well cause you know he's not gonna be there tomorrow anyway...
awkward...
meanwhile Lupe is still the truth despite our estrangement as of late...live the boy cannot be contested...it's true...
you tell no lies Fuzz