Thurston Moore & Mats Gustafsson at Mideast Upstairs, Monday 2/2. I have my ticket. Do you have yours? Hope to see any number of you there!
Here's Mats on sax with The Thing:
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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 <i>Art Star</i>.
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...
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.