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Apr. 9th, 2010 12:18 amBack just a little while ago from seeing Owen Pallett with Lindsey who does not to my knowledge have an LJ, and who is defending her doctoral thesis tomorrow morning besides, but was kind enough to share concert tickets with me. It was at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, which is a newish venue, I think? And a good one. Concert-hall big, and lovely acoustics/sightlines. Which was pertinent because it was also general admission and we had to score our own seats.
The opener was Snowblink, which is a band I am seriously going to like, and I can tell because:
1) They started playing and I slipped down into the mental space where there is nothing but music, washing around between my ears and under my breastbone;
2) While I was under, I solved a plotting problem with a stalled story, and it's a fix that'll work;
3) Her guitar has antlers on it. No, real ones.
They did an hour set, including a slowed-down, really pretty cover of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature." Yeah. I know. It worked. We didn't realize what song it was until the chorus, when we started giggling.
As for Owen Pallett...well. I think if you took twin violin prodigies, seperated them at birth, had one raised by scientists and the other raised on anime, console games, and high fantasy novels? You would accurately reproduce Andrew Bird and Owen Pallett (respectively). It was really, really similar to the Andrew Bird live show in the mechanics: foot pedals, laying down tracks, violin, skinny tall guy in suit, keyboards, loops and curls and structure. The thing is, Pallett feels that much more like the fantasy-genre version: his songs are much more broadly and wanderingly structured, and just the feel, the tone of them. Well, and the lyrics. He sang one which was largely about all the RPG characters he's played, if you listened close enough.
He's also not above playing little musical tricks with the audience: opening up a wall of sound or closing it with a snap, in a way that made me just laugh out loud. Or singing, for the second encore, a song that starts "Twice is enough; three times would be an insult." Yep. We are told. :)
Overall, light and bright and stringful night, and I have had a very good day. And now I really need a snack, and to at least figure out what I'm packing so I can go to Ad Astra tomorrow. Right: I'm going to be at Ad Astra this weekend. See you there if I'm seeing you.
Goodnight, O tubes. :)
The opener was Snowblink, which is a band I am seriously going to like, and I can tell because:
1) They started playing and I slipped down into the mental space where there is nothing but music, washing around between my ears and under my breastbone;
2) While I was under, I solved a plotting problem with a stalled story, and it's a fix that'll work;
3) Her guitar has antlers on it. No, real ones.
They did an hour set, including a slowed-down, really pretty cover of Michael Jackson's "Human Nature." Yeah. I know. It worked. We didn't realize what song it was until the chorus, when we started giggling.
As for Owen Pallett...well. I think if you took twin violin prodigies, seperated them at birth, had one raised by scientists and the other raised on anime, console games, and high fantasy novels? You would accurately reproduce Andrew Bird and Owen Pallett (respectively). It was really, really similar to the Andrew Bird live show in the mechanics: foot pedals, laying down tracks, violin, skinny tall guy in suit, keyboards, loops and curls and structure. The thing is, Pallett feels that much more like the fantasy-genre version: his songs are much more broadly and wanderingly structured, and just the feel, the tone of them. Well, and the lyrics. He sang one which was largely about all the RPG characters he's played, if you listened close enough.
He's also not above playing little musical tricks with the audience: opening up a wall of sound or closing it with a snap, in a way that made me just laugh out loud. Or singing, for the second encore, a song that starts "Twice is enough; three times would be an insult." Yep. We are told. :)
Overall, light and bright and stringful night, and I have had a very good day. And now I really need a snack, and to at least figure out what I'm packing so I can go to Ad Astra tomorrow. Right: I'm going to be at Ad Astra this weekend. See you there if I'm seeing you.
Goodnight, O tubes. :)
