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duchess_of_piewelcome to fall. last night, storms ripped the cities, downing trees and playing host to tornados and baseball-sized hail. *shrug* i was safe and warm in the target center!
REVIEWS OF DUCHESS #149: FRANZ FERDINAND (concert)
hoh my god. i was told they put on a good show, but damn. their performance style is a little bit bowie, a little bit stones, all disco rock 'n roll! i flat out refuse to put much into words except to say lots of guitar-jumping, audience connection, and backup musicians running out to do a three-man on drumkit for...shit, what was that song? aw hell! who cares! yee fucking haw, kids!
but there is more to say regarding the conduct of concert-goers. siri (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
musiquesas)and two of her friends got the front rail and hot sauce neal (shedonwanna) and i took up barracade duty behind them--one of siri's girls had to get stable pics of franz for a webzine. and damn, the two of us were a WALL! neal pretty much got tackled from both sides, by concert moshers on his right and by me pushing back on his left. let me tell you...two years riding the korean subways has endowed me with stability of a mountain! yar! we took it on all sides, but i for one had more fun staving off the crowd by going wild and living it up. and i pride myself on keeping siri jostle-free (franz is her favorite band and i wanted her to have a good time)!
at the end, our boys threw out the drumsticks. one of siri's girls got a hand on, neal got a hand on, and they both got bitten--BITTEN!--by a complete bitch. we're talking spitting and scratching holding-on-for-life possesed by a demon psyco blonde from hell. totally. unnecessary. neal, you should have pulled her hair and kicked her in her (probably disease-ridden) snatch! but then again, hey. that's rock 'n roll.
i heard a guy behind me offer beer to another guy. the second one said, "i can't drink, i'm only 15!" which made me think that i should feel really old, realizing that many of the audience members were half my age. nah, not really. in between bands, "superfreak" played over the speakers and the same kids wondered if we were listening to m.c. hammer. cute.
of the opening bands, cut copy was one i'd like to hear more of. pretty girls make graves was not a favorite, other than one said pretty girl on a carnivale-sounding accordian. eh. that was fun.
thank you, siri, for getting me really started on the franz fascination and convincing me i had to see them in concert. once again, you were right and i love you for it. i went to bed with a smile on my face and it was still there in the morning, and it's still there now.
bonus: had to leave immediately after the concert and go home to soak and stretch, fully expecting the following morning to be a cane day (yes, i actually own a cane and have had to use it). i had some trouble with walking from my parked car back to the oak grove. normally, that doesn't get better overnight and i was more than ready to pay the price. but behold! the new eating regimen = amber got up this morning and was sore, but fully functional! *dance* look at me dancing!!! yay for soy and fish and flax! score!
sorensens: did you get to meet the bands?
"YOU'RE SO LUCKY!!! LUCKY, LUCKY!!!"
REVIEWS OF DUCHESS #149: FRANZ FERDINAND (concert)
hoh my god. i was told they put on a good show, but damn. their performance style is a little bit bowie, a little bit stones, all disco rock 'n roll! i flat out refuse to put much into words except to say lots of guitar-jumping, audience connection, and backup musicians running out to do a three-man on drumkit for...shit, what was that song? aw hell! who cares! yee fucking haw, kids!
but there is more to say regarding the conduct of concert-goers. siri (
musiquesas)and two of her friends got the front rail and hot sauce neal (shedonwanna) and i took up barracade duty behind them--one of siri's girls had to get stable pics of franz for a webzine. and damn, the two of us were a WALL! neal pretty much got tackled from both sides, by concert moshers on his right and by me pushing back on his left. let me tell you...two years riding the korean subways has endowed me with stability of a mountain! yar! we took it on all sides, but i for one had more fun staving off the crowd by going wild and living it up. and i pride myself on keeping siri jostle-free (franz is her favorite band and i wanted her to have a good time)!at the end, our boys threw out the drumsticks. one of siri's girls got a hand on, neal got a hand on, and they both got bitten--BITTEN!--by a complete bitch. we're talking spitting and scratching holding-on-for-life possesed by a demon psyco blonde from hell. totally. unnecessary. neal, you should have pulled her hair and kicked her in her (probably disease-ridden) snatch! but then again, hey. that's rock 'n roll.
i heard a guy behind me offer beer to another guy. the second one said, "i can't drink, i'm only 15!" which made me think that i should feel really old, realizing that many of the audience members were half my age. nah, not really. in between bands, "superfreak" played over the speakers and the same kids wondered if we were listening to m.c. hammer. cute.
of the opening bands, cut copy was one i'd like to hear more of. pretty girls make graves was not a favorite, other than one said pretty girl on a carnivale-sounding accordian. eh. that was fun.
thank you, siri, for getting me really started on the franz fascination and convincing me i had to see them in concert. once again, you were right and i love you for it. i went to bed with a smile on my face and it was still there in the morning, and it's still there now.
bonus: had to leave immediately after the concert and go home to soak and stretch, fully expecting the following morning to be a cane day (yes, i actually own a cane and have had to use it). i had some trouble with walking from my parked car back to the oak grove. normally, that doesn't get better overnight and i was more than ready to pay the price. but behold! the new eating regimen = amber got up this morning and was sore, but fully functional! *dance* look at me dancing!!! yay for soy and fish and flax! score!
sorensens: did you get to meet the bands?
"YOU'RE SO LUCKY!!! LUCKY, LUCKY!!!"
