How funny that they opened for B&S! Although not so funny if you were there I suppose. Gosh, what a match-up, you might as well have had Cannibal Corpse play! At least they would've been entertaining. I had the misfortune to see them open for the Lilys last week, and while they weren't *terrible*, it's sometimes worse to be mediocre, which they were. And again, the match-up made little to no sense. THe only think I could appreciate were some of the guitar squeals and squalls, but not much else. I even remember hearing about them on another stop of the Lilys tour and the person who posted at the time said something to the effect of how bad they were. I thought "Oh, how bad could they be?" Well, not BAD bad, but in the context of the show... I feel sorry for you Sinisterites who saw what must have been a *painful* juxtaposition. I think one of the worst match-ups I've heard of (but not seen) was Counting Crows opening for Suede. I myself witnessed a Godawful band called Distant Shores open for Blur...it was supposed to be Pulp but I guess Philly (the last stop on the Parklife tour) was not on their itinerary. So we got this American band who pretended they were British all glammed up in makeup and glittery sleeveless shirts. The singer would regularly shake an open water bottle to simulate ejaculation...bleah. On top of the glammy rock was some awful sequenced electronic parts... At the very least, these things pummel the audience and allow the headlining band to come in and slay. Best match-ups, tone-wise, could very well be Codeine and Mazzy Star...ah, so that's what it feels like to be in a coma! (It was good though, don't get me wrong). Anyone else have bad match-up concert stories? Xavier -- BXK "It's recess everywhere bkim0@dept.english.upenn.edu but in his heart." http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bkim0 --Ralph Wiggum X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+