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Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-15 15:44:51 +0000

Working on clearance - I will keep you posted. Now that its 2009, I have more 'personal' days at work to use, so I remain optimistic. thanks for the heads-up, dooder!

Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-01-15 15:47:51 +0000

Ahem - there will also be a PAMN! that evening. Just sayin'.

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-15 15:54:12 +0000

I think I know how this evening is starting to pan (ahem I mean PAMN)out re: MF DU's day planner. also FWIW: This wont be a typical Thurston noise show if Mats G is involved. I have seen Mats G perform w/ the Peter Brotzmann tentet several years back @ the Middle East Downstairs (also featured Vandermark, Fred Longberg Holm, Hamid Drake). Mats is pretty sick. The Thing sometimes does covers of White Stripes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs - in a 'fire music free jazz' fashion. Check out their album Art Star. There is another (uber?)group featuring thurston, Mats, Jim O'Rourke and Terry from The Ex worth checking out - I think they are called Original Silence...

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-01-15 18:09:30 +0000

Woo hoo to both of the above!!!

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-01-15 18:11:05 +0000

Hmmmm...checking...and looking forward to being surprised by whatever sick stuff Mats & Thurston do at the show!

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-30 13:12:39 +0000

Went to the Florence MA VFW last night after my WMUA show - caught the 10:45 PM to 11:45pm events of a Magik Markers / Thurston Moore & Mats Gustaffsson / et. al. concert. As I was arriving, I had missed the opening -opening acts and Thurston and Mats were starting to break equipment down had already played (rats!) - My impression of the M Markers: a duo from connecticut on ecstatic Peace. I had only heard their stuff @ the radio station a few times before seeing them last night. Spindly herky / jerky lead singer had this left handed guitar playing technique often using her thumb on the neck of the guitar in that Mark Sandman 'slide bass' technique (although these guys were certainly not Morphine). Erratic movement and textures combined with solid drumming and some garbled paeans to John Updike inbetween numbers. I was super tired (got up @ 5:30 am, dropped kids off @ daycare, worked all day and then dj'ed) and left before it was all finished. It was really cool seeing a show in a VFW again - first time for me since a High School metal show in Londonderry NH I think - I had to traverse the hall performance space over to the bar in the seperate room (where Mats was hanging out) where there was a spectacularly atonal rendition of Kiki Dee and Elton John's 'Don't go Breaking My Heart' going on through an apparently nightly karaoke event. (None of the regulars were in the performance space, 2 seperate crowds largely). I got a huge $2 PBR, marvelled @ the brevity of it all and then took off - (no Mats related merch - regrettably - I was looking for some more newer Thing or Original Silence recordings...) I know none of this helps in making a decision as to whether or not the show @ the Middle East will be good, but thought I would share.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-01-30 13:43:58 +0000

VFWs are da bomb, and this show will be, too. Y'all should go!

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-01-30 13:45:11 +0000

PS: thanks for the review. Enjoyable!

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-02-03 12:02:45 +0000

It was an awesome show, total craziness. Thurston Moore is the king of Boston avant-noise music. I wouldn't be surprised if he could convince Xenakis to come back from the dead. The bent pipe and the holes in the ceiling from the Fucked Up show are still there. What a show that was, too!

Posted by MF DU on 2009-02-03 14:42:20 +0000

Bummed to not be able to meet you there - thx for the update.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-02-03 15:52:24 +0000

Sorry you couldn't make it! I wish I could write a decent review. It's good to see electronic music thriving in the Boston area.