Sinister: i'm going out tonight

[Schaffenberger, Kristen]

-----Original Message-----

marie elia asked:
> why is no one excited about tortoise at bowlie 2?  granted, i can't
>imagine what they'd be like live, but i thought the same about
>stereolab...

  I saw Tortoise at a somewhat open-air type place (re: it was inside, with
trees growing up through what I remember to be a dirt floor and poking
through big gapes in the sort of flimsy ceiling, their leaves catching the
glow of city lights like so many stars); it was one of the nicest shows I've
been to.  Stereolab never fails to disappoint live either.  I think it has
to do with the fact that Laeticia and Mary can actually sing without
funneling their voices through-- ?? whatever it is that people funnel their
voices through to make themselves sound like Lush^1 or My Bloody Valentine.
This makes all the difference in the world w/r/t live performances, I think.


  2 cents from Kristen 

  ^1 A funny story about Lush for anyone who's interested: a few years ago
(you know, when shoegazing ruled the scene), two of my friends had monstrous
crushes on Mickey and Emma, the girls from the band.  They had the
(mis)fortune of meeting the two after the show.  One of said friends said
something like, "I think you're beautiful" to one of the Lush girls (I can't
remember which one).  The girls started to laugh and blush.  However, the
horror of the story is that, without their voice thingies that made them
sound all breathy and soft, they both had incredibly deep, scratchy,
masculine voices and Beavis and Butthead-esque laughs.  Totally incongruous
with their pretty, pretty music and countenances.    
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
   +---+  Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list  +---+
  To send to the list mail "sinister at majordomo.net". To unsubscribe
   send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to
  "majordomo at majordomo.net".  WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister
 +-+  "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+
 +-+  "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+
 +-+                     "jelly-filled danishes"                   +-+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+