Konnichiwa/T'nar pak sorat y'rani
Aug 19, 2009 21:47:45 GMT -5
Post by ptrek on Aug 19, 2009 21:47:45 GMT -5
Greetings Shonen Knife people, I am P'Trek from planet Vulcan. I have journeyed a long long way just to hear my favourite band. They played my favourite song 'Riding on the rocket'. I communicated with them, they didn't seem particularly communicative, but that might have been down to the Xctbdgrsrv barrier. Anyway, talk is cheap(as your favourite phone company will tell you), it is the music that matters. I saw them 3 times: in Brighton in a pub, in a record shop in central London and in a bowling alley in central London. There is something indefinable about this band. That is their appeal for me. There doesn't seem to be anything you can grab hold of and say "this is rock, or punk or.." They inhabit a space somewhere between pop and a schoolgirls uncontrollable imagination. They are intelligent, humorous and entertaining. They look amazingful and beautificious. And the British music press hate them. They spent 2 weeks touring the UK and the NME(the only major indie music mag) didn't mention them once. But then the UK is a sick country with a sick media, so they are not likely to get any glowing reviews there. I felt sad about this because I see so many bands getting hyped, but with no substance to back up the hype. I think SK will never really be accepted in the UK. I am sure that the US is much more broad minded in this respect.
My 2nd favourite song is Tower of the sun. It tells the strange tale of an old woman called Haruka who goes through a daily routine of feeding the birds. I subsequently met someone called Haruka and promptly formed a band. We made 2 songs, and then I never saw her again. So this song has profoundly affected my whole life. I'm not quite sure exactly how. I'm also a huge fan of Aiha Higurashi who used to play in Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her. Although she didn't invent the name, XTC did, for 10 years she made music worthy of that name. I mention her because together with Naoko, they both represent, for me, the best of Japanese female artists.
I have to rush back now to Vulcan, I've got 3 mind melds on the back burner, and a profound utterance. But I want to stay in touch with other SK fans. I took many photographs and a few poor quality videos of the 3 performances I saw, so if there is some way of sharing them, it would be most agreeable.
Live long and prosper.
Ramones forever, music forever.
Girl bands forever, Shonen Knife for e ver
My 2nd favourite song is Tower of the sun. It tells the strange tale of an old woman called Haruka who goes through a daily routine of feeding the birds. I subsequently met someone called Haruka and promptly formed a band. We made 2 songs, and then I never saw her again. So this song has profoundly affected my whole life. I'm not quite sure exactly how. I'm also a huge fan of Aiha Higurashi who used to play in Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her. Although she didn't invent the name, XTC did, for 10 years she made music worthy of that name. I mention her because together with Naoko, they both represent, for me, the best of Japanese female artists.
I have to rush back now to Vulcan, I've got 3 mind melds on the back burner, and a profound utterance. But I want to stay in touch with other SK fans. I took many photographs and a few poor quality videos of the 3 performances I saw, so if there is some way of sharing them, it would be most agreeable.
Live long and prosper.
Ramones forever, music forever.
Girl bands forever, Shonen Knife for e ver
