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April 19th, 2008 at 11:01 AM
Nigel:
You’re a bit of a hipster; I’m curious about what you think of this band (local to Berlin) …especially the last song on the player (Loserland):
http://www.myspace.com/fireproofflames
April 19th, 2008 at 10:48 PM
Sheryl Crow meets U2?
Afraid I wasn’t too excited by it. Woman’s voice was not very strong…lyrics were…uninspired…
Are you the drummer Steven?
April 20th, 2008 at 4:08 PM
Ha ha! The drummer is 20, I think!
April 20th, 2008 at 4:20 PM
NPR’s Rock Historian (a guy who wrote for the earliest incarnation of Rolling Stone, and who knew Willie Nelson, Janis Joplin and a billion other country or rock or jazz luminaries) turned me on to them; he thinks they’re great and I find them pretty interesting, in a young and not pre-prackaged way. The last gig of theirs I went to was only the third live music event I’ve bothered going to in I don’t know how many years and it was a thrill!
April 20th, 2008 at 4:45 PM
I’ll give them another listen. I don’t see much live music. The best performance I’ve seen in the past several years has to be Rufus Wainwright’s. Powerful, powerful voice. This guy is great.
Thinking about the omissions above…must link to an INXS song, then there’s John Hooker…and of course many more…
There must be a lot of interesting music being played in Berlin, not to mention art being painted.
April 20th, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Nigel: The so-called "Street Art" here is astonishing, actually. I just discovered a new large-scale work, of great beauty, on the side of a building today, in fact (most of the photos illustrating the stories on my site are of such things). The gallery Art, on the other hand, is fey or twee or gestural nonsense… Germans, being metaphysically inclined (homeopathic meds are a staple in mainstream pharmacies here), are suckers for the depths-implying non sequitur. Music scene: not nearly as robust. Still awash in echoes of punk, bleepy rave and acid jazz, all of which started life as marketing schemes, when you think about it. Berlin, being largely a city of flats (you don’t see houses until the suburbs), is light on garden sheds, rumpus rooms and garages and rehearsal space is expensive, so the indigenous music scene is rather… hmmm. Talky? Living-roomy? Unserious? I like these kids for being unselfconsciously serious about Rock, which is the music I still believe in as a growing thing (while I prefer my "Jazz" and "Classical" to be strictly period; I can’t listen to Jazz that was recorded after the early 1970s, or Classical from anything later than the early 1930s).
April 29th, 2008 at 7:25 AM
Coincidentally I just attended an opening of a show on stenciled graffiti art in Buenos Aries…see here:
http://www.lapetitemortgallery.com/events/HollywoodInCambodia2008.html