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Post by thegl0r on May 31, 2014 0:39:47 GMT -5
Wow. London was fun from somewhere in the middle of the room - my map master skills were a bit flaky that night, and I got to the venue rather late and the room was already packed. But the mosh pit in Bristol was brutal, though somehow I managed to survive. photo uploading
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Post by thegl0r on Jun 3, 2014 11:27:11 GMT -5
If you fancy a Glor's eye view of Melt Banana at The Fleece, try this youtu.be/4CVYEuXuG-s It is just the two encore songs that they did. Some of you may recognise the second song which starts at about 5.30 on this clip. I let YT do its image stabilising thing on this one, it drops the picture quality a bit, but makes it more watchable, though I'm not entirely certain if I should have done that or not. Enjoy.
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Post by thegl0r on Aug 8, 2014 8:16:31 GMT -5
Cute pic for a forthcoming Melt Banana gig in Tokyo.
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Post by tangerinesun on Mar 23, 2015 9:05:53 GMT -5
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Post by thegl0r on Mar 23, 2015 12:20:59 GMT -5
Wow, that is a huge tour they will be doing. Running around all over the US in a flurry of activity and bringing noise to the masses.
So huge that it makes me fear that the UK is going to miss out on a visit this year. But I hope they won't be too tired to at least play a few dates over here.
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Post by thegl0r on Jun 27, 2015 19:55:02 GMT -5
How to morse code "melt banana"...
"Return of Hedgehogs North America tour ROUTE B" starts soon. And I can't be there. Boo-hoo, poor me.
JUL 02 Dante's Portland, OR JUL 03 Chop Suey Seattle, WA JUL 04 The Venue Vancouver, CAN JUL 06 The Pawn Shop Edmonton, CAN JUL 07 The Gateway at SAIT Calgary, CAN JUL 08 Amigos Saskatoon, CAN JUL 10 Pyramid Cabaret Winnipeg, CAN JUL 11 The Aquarium Fargo, ND JUL 13 The Hi-Fi Indianapolis, IN JUL 14 The Empty Bottle Chicago, IL JUL 15 High Noon Madison, WI JUL 16 Wooly's Des Moines, IA JUL 17 Waiting Room Omaha, NE JUL 18 Eaux Claires Music Festival Eaux Claires, WI JUL 20 The Exit / In Nashville, TN JUL 21 The Rose Music Hall Columbia, MO JUL 22 Record Bar Kansas City, MO JUL 24 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO JUL 25 Urban Lounge SLC, UT JUL 26 Bunk House Las Vegas NV JUL 28 The Casbah San Deigo, CA JUL 29 The Casbah San Deigo, CA JUL 31 The Roxy Los Angeles, CA AUG 01 Metro Oakland, CA
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Post by tangerinesun on Jun 28, 2015 0:32:32 GMT -5
How to morse code "melt banana"... -/..../.-/-./-.-/...//..-./---/.-.//-/...././/.-././--/../-./-.././.-.//// t-h-a-n-k-s--f-o-r--t-h-e--r-e-m-i-n-d-e-r
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Post by thegl0r on Jul 6, 2015 22:53:20 GMT -5
Melt Banana recently wrote a song called "Halo of Sorrow" for the closing credits of Ninja Slayer From Animation Episode 2. Here is the whole of Episode 2 with English subtitles, the MB song starts at 12.40. Or if you prefer to see them doing it live...
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 7, 2015 3:08:29 GMT -5
Nice! The unrelenting Wall of Signal, the Minnie Mouse vocal. Does this remind anybody of Tim Smith and the Cardiacs? Psyched for Oakland on August 1! Torche and two others round out the bill, and I am going to need new earplugs. Pushbutton psychedelic collage by Numbskull Productions.
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Post by thegl0r on Jul 7, 2015 5:19:58 GMT -5
Lucky you getting to see Melt Banana on their current tour. I hope that your earplugs don't get embedded too deeply into your brain by rampant sound waves, or even MxBx-plode! I'd not listened to any Cardiacs stuff for ages, so rather than go digging out the cassette of Toy World that I got at one of their gigs in the sweaty back room of a pub rather longer ago than I'd like to admit, I got lazy and checked some of it out on YT. It sounds just like I remember it did. Thanks. But I think that Cardiacs are much more mellow than MxBx, though perhaps coming form a similar region of the oral/aural universe.
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 7, 2015 13:21:44 GMT -5
I hope that your earplugs don't get embedded too deeply into your brain... Cardiacs are much more mellow than MxBx, though perhaps coming form a similar region... I only hope for plugs that don't leak. Between a smoking PA, a loose seal, and a screaming girl, I already took a degree of hearing loss on the right side. The Cardiacs aren't noise, of course. Tim was always saying he wrote psychedelic pop. I think of them as giving Angel Dust to XTC. Or what you might hear if you sat on a carousel horse, next to a steam calliope, in a seaside resort with: - On your right, a prog band
- On your left, a pop orchestra playing Schoenberg's hits
- In your pocket, a Walkman with "200 Motels"
and you a choirboy thrown out for your disturbing chalk graffiti. There's this for comparative feels ("Fiery Gun Hand" live on BBC Choice, 1999).
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 21, 2015 15:01:08 GMT -5
Time to bring the engines online for Oakland on the 1st of August.
Melt-Banana: "Shield For Your Eyes…" Live (04:59) 2005 April 29, The Southgate House, Newport, KY Upped 2010 October 20 by BackwoodsFilms
As a warmup, one song from Cell-Scape, shot with multiple cameras and cut with audio help from the venue. Music it really helps to see. The band is a machine as always. Yako perambulates the stage hopping on one foot like a bored kid with a cognitive disorder.
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 21, 2015 15:05:20 GMT -5
Part ① (18:03)
Part ② (02:47)
Melt-Banana – Punks Were Made Before Sounds 2011 May 04 Tokyo Ueno Park Outdoor Music Hall Upped 2011 May 14 by Bolo Bellheimer
How noise is dance music. Melt-Banana on home ground. Well worth your 20 minutes. The audience is half the show. Yako's mic technique bothers me quite a lot, and she'd be very pleased to know that.
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 21, 2015 17:31:20 GMT -5
Melt Banana, 24.12.2010, Tracks, interview, live (09:14)Upped 2010 December 25 by letskickthat Combo interview and record party at Cafe des Sports in Paris, completely in Japanese and German, recorded from TV. Concert footage from 05:45, "Call of the Vague" and "A Hunter In The Rain…" I saved you ten minutes, the principal content is this: Next up, INTENSE club date, the one they were in Paris for. Awesome one-cam recording with good audio. This is a punk band after all. They do a hot rock show! They sound beautiful. Yako's in a great mood (for her). Drumming like a riveter. Rika gets so aggressive with that bass. You can't say much about Agata that hasn't been said. Part 1 (03:42)Opening up just like a real rock band with an iron groove. Yako does lazy one-handed bunny-ear flops (hipster Carameldansen). Part 2 (08:54)Waving spastically. "Bon soir. We are Melt-Banana from Tokyo, Japan. And it's very nice to see you all here in, PAH-REESE." Part 3 (06:50)Leads off with "Slide Down." Part 4 (08:18)Audience yells at Yako, Yako meows at audience. "We have T-shirts… somewhere out there…" Après, la Deluge. Part 5 (05:15)Yako leads audience in meow chorus of "Happy Birthday". "Anyway, thank you very much! Most people boo!" Then, "Scrubber" and the 10-second song cycle. "Thank you. Nekku-song is…" Part 6 (03:15)More improv meows, then the finish. Oh my wow, that was great. MELT BANANA-Live, La Maroquinerie, Paris 2010 September 09Upped on 2010 September 22 by ShinjuGumi
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Post by tangerinesun on Jul 26, 2015 1:30:46 GMT -5
For the record, another approachable party set from the quartet.
Melt-Banana - Live 2011 October 31, Union Transfer, Philadelphia PA (34:51) Upped on 2011 November 02 by aouoon
Just 360p, and there are audio problems with the camera. Yako's vocal mic is all but missing for the first 7 minutes.
But a Melt-Banana Halloween show with the full quartet is a recipe. All the songs, shot from right/front, less minor edits. Starts with "Chain-Shot…" finishes with a fuzztone version of "What A Wonderful World"(!!). The crowd shows its indifference toward human life, and Yako gives in to her lower nature (red devil horns and stuffed tail).
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