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Post by thegl0r on Apr 18, 2016 12:06:48 GMT -5
...Reports from the field should be showing up just any time. While waiting, I combed Twitter and Instagram for fan photography. I wasn't being scientific or fair about selecting. You decide who's winning... Phew, I only turned up in two of those pics. Or at least my fave gig hat did. Its too early for me to get my head together or to get organised yet. I've not long got home and haven't had enough sleep the last couple of days, but essentially this line-up of SK is awesome live. I still miss Emi, but Risa is a great successor to her and she's no slouch on the drums and cymbals. She's also very sweet and has a winning smile. Sigh! Damn it, why did I only get tickets for 8 of their gigs this time? Foolish old git that I am. Pah! Annoyingly I made the mistake of changing my email address recently, so didn't find out about the secret gig at The Pipeline in time to go. Sniff, sniff. Boo-hoo, poor me. Essentially it was a gig for the press, a select few and those who were paying very close attention. According to sources from Damnably, there were about 70 people present at that gig. SK had had a few days in the UK before the start of the tour and there was the choice of going into a practice studio to warm-up for the tour, or to have a warm-up gig. Naoko chose a gig. 2016 04 14 ruby lounge, manchester2016 04 16 02 academy, birmingham Atsuko's set-list from the Ruby Lounge was the result of worshipping at the feet of the lovely Atsuko and then being quick. Naoko's set-list from the O2 Academy in Birmingham was given to me my someone who'd got it just so that he could take a decent photo of it. He'd noticed that I'd wanted it, and taking pity on a mad old guy, he gave it to me. There's some very nice people at SK gigs. The reason for the two Birmingham tickets is because of a change of venue. For whatever reason, The Oobleck have stopped their various ventures and the gig got moved to Stage 3 at the O2 Academy.
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 18, 2016 12:47:29 GMT -5
Damn it, why did I only get tickets for 8 of their gigs this time? Look at it this way: you have 1/3 coverage, and somewhere an extra poor urchin with a rock fairy godmother is going to get into the ball and be blown out of her silken Chuck Taylors. Sorry about the Pipeline miss, that was completely random. Hindsight says they have probably practiced till they're all but stale, and Naoko would want to get some time under the stage lights with her green unit. You are definitely getting a good share of Kon'nichiwa!
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Post by Egg_Crisis on Apr 18, 2016 13:26:51 GMT -5
Damn it, why did I only get tickets for 8 of their gigs this time? Are you going to the Leeds gig? Oh and what's the situation like with people not filming? I assume the "no filming" request from the last tour still stands. Did you see anyone getting a few sly videos?
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 18, 2016 13:56:24 GMT -5
I assume the "no filming" request from the last tour still stands. Did you see anyone getting a few sly videos? There's a fair number of Vine-style video clips floating around so the PHONES OK must be in full effect. Would someone have a cow if you held that phone steady for half an hour? Maybe. The harder part is sound. If you're close enough to get a good video with a phone, its microphone is getting overwhelmed with peaks. Try to do much about that, and prepare for stern questioning...
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 19, 2016 18:46:20 GMT -5
Tour blogs are updated to the 19th with some items that haven't been duped on social media. shonenknife.net/blog/This debut for example: From Risa Risa's Journal No.12016/04/19 (Tuesday) shonenknife.net/blog/archives/19480Selfie! I took a picture before the show!I’m not good at English. I will try hard to learn English! At the STEP 3 level {graded English proficiency} I was able to go shopping by myself. I'll do my best to learn English! Cut it out, if you kill me with cute I can't read your blog anymore.
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Post by thegl0r on Apr 19, 2016 19:41:10 GMT -5
Are you going to the Leeds gig? Oh and what's the situation like with people not filming? I assume the "no filming" request from the last tour still stands. Did you see anyone getting a few sly videos? Yes, Leeds is one of the gigs I've got a ticket for, and a hotel about 2 miles from the venue. Getting there will be easy, getting back depends on what time the gig finishes. But I won't be leaving early. The "no filming" request still stands. There is a notice on the merch table saying about that and no flash photography and adds "thanks for your cooperation". I didn't get a photo of the merch table, but Naoko has posted some somewhere. As you probably have seen on YT, yes, a few people were filming, mostly using phones, and there were some very serious still cameras with changeable lenses in the room, and didn't see any "press" passes. But thankfully people weren't flashing at SK. One guy next to me and standing directly in front of Naoko at Dingwalls had a huge and very professional looking camera and a selection of lenses for it. I don't know what SK thought about any of this, they just carried on as usual. But there were one or two disapproving glances off Naoko. I only know of two people who were thrown out of the gigs that I went to, both happened at Dingwalls. One was for shouting abuse at one of the support bands, the other for grabbing Naoko's setlist half way through the last song of the set. After a stern talking to, they did get let back in, and at the merch table, Naoko apologised to the setlist grabber for his treatment by that overly enthusiastic bouncer. Annoyingly the bouncer had crashed straight into me as he leaped off the stage in hot pursuit of that miscreant. I got the impression that so long as you're not too blatant with photography/filming then you can get away with it. But I can't be certain and may be completely wrong. I've a feeling that uploads of high-quality video of the entire gig wouldn't be cool. As Tan said, phones are OK, and some phones are very good for video now and are way better than my video camera. Most of them are just let down by memory size and the audio side of things, though some manufacturers are getting that side of things sorted. But I'm not a phone person...
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 19, 2016 19:45:54 GMT -5
Shonen Knife on BBC Radio Cornwall2016 APR 19 David White's morning show bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03pz5jkGone in 30 days Promo photo from the show's Facebook page. No other push from these guys at all.Shonen Knife interviewed in studio on David White's broadcast the morning of their Falmouth show at The Princess Pavilion. Semi-appropriately, the David White Top 40 Retro-Machine was set to the year 1978. SK was simply slipped without fanfare into the flow of oldies from about 01:19:00… among chatter about Dad's Opel Berlina. A great deal of turning over the ancient history looking for juicy stories, because… it's David. The host is much, much more concerned with Nirvana than with his guests, partly due to a coincidental tie-in to a later interview with Cobain on Cobain author Nick Soulsby. What the hell, they're not from around here anyway. Conversation is on top of all the album tracks except a little scrap of "Dog Fight" (!?). Everything's over right on cue as of 01:28:00. — Now you're over from… JAPAN??? Naoko is right on her game but not getting much real help to create interest in SK itself. Atsuko gets in a couple of remarks. Risa speaks! And survives. — So, who in particular would you be talking about here, Deep Purple? Led Zeppelin? — (Naoko) Yeah, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Black Sabbath… Judas Priest… — Do you *all* like '70s rock? {suggestion of mild disbelief} – (Atsuko) I like 70's rock. I like KISS, too… – Are you {young what's-your-name, Risa} the same? Do you like '70s rock? – (Risa) Yes. I like Led Zep-a-leen. – (Naoko) Actually, her father loves Led Zeppelin. She is very young. – (Risa) (Laughs) Well… excuse me for sayin'! And I'm old enough to rent a car! Actually, Risa and her sis are on record as listening hard to System of a Down. Imagine if Risa has some, or a lot, of that on her iPhone. There are some very long drives ahead on this tour. Local radio is never what you want, and who knows if the van has satellite? If Naoko's metal inspiration starts skewing toward 90's alt thrash, I'm going to be a little suspicious that Toxicity was on auto-repeat.
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Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Apr 19, 2016 21:07:46 GMT -5
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Post by lazybone712 on Apr 19, 2016 21:18:42 GMT -5
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 20, 2016 1:38:23 GMT -5
That is really a quality entry on Cornwall, just like being there. Good old Naoko. But best of all, from Salisbury the day before, SHE MADE THE SPINAL TAP JOKE!!! That is so rock of her. It was rather smaller than I imagined, like Spinal Tap. I remembered the Belgian Pissing Boy was smaller than I imagined, too. Every vacation will have its minor setbacks and disappointments. That's no reason to give a poor Belgian kid a complex for life.
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Post by thegl0r on Apr 20, 2016 14:42:05 GMT -5
Sorry I'm being a bit slack with pics, but the computer isn't cooperating much. Will try again later. But here's something from Birmingham O2 to be going on with... upload a picturescreen capture softwarephoto hosting sitesAt this gig, Risa was rather poorly lit most of the time and there was often a slight haze from the smoke machine hanging over her. I haven't checked yet, but so far I think my best hopes for decent pics of her are going to be from the Ruby Lounge gig.
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 20, 2016 20:05:47 GMT -5
Sorry I'm being a bit slack with pics, but the computer isn't cooperating much. Will try again later. But here's something from Birmingham O2 to be going on with... Naoko head study is a nice take! And not something you're going to see from the marketing & promotion machinery, ever.
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 20, 2016 23:20:57 GMT -5
Falmouth Dock City
Shonen Knife at Princess Pavilion, Falmouth, South Cornwall, England, UK, the World Naoko tweeted this review. Sending it back for rewrite with the problem bits called out in red. Smug little git what wrote itREVIEW: Falmouth Rock City welcomes Shonen KnifeBy WOCornwall for West Briton.co.uk | Posted: April 20, 2016 Review by Lee TrewhelaPictures by Brian Robinson westbriton.co.uk/REVIEW-Falmouth-Rock-City-welcomes-Shonen-Knife/story-29145017-detail/story.html FALMOUTH Rock City! The Cornish harbour town has been called many things over the years, but this was a first. [It'll never happen again.]But then Shonen Knife aren't your average band – an all-female group formed in 1981 when that was still a shockingly new phenomenon. The fact they're from Osaka in Japan only added to the novelty factor.However, original member Naoko Yamano and her ever-revolving litany [English please] of bandmates are anything but a novelty. Their bubblegum pop mix of Ramones and Buzzcocks speed and bounce has balls. So much so that the grunge generation took them to their hearts and in the early '90s Shonen Knife were in danger of becoming international stars. [Objection: you can't say this of foreigners sharing a stage with our own Lost Dawn, it won't do.]Having just released their 19th – yes, 19th – album, Adventure, the trio were back on British shores and arrived in Falmouth Rock City to a crowd made up of those who remembered them first time round, [your humble scribe not included] Falmouth's students and musicians, and a line of schoolgirls front of stage.This was the first gig for many of them and I can't think of better role models to launch your love of live music – a bunch of women, cranking it out without the boorishness you'd expect from male bands, while obviously loving every minute of playing to an appreciative audience.It was all heavy metal devil horns, duelling guitar choreography and monitor jumping, but Shonen Knife do it all with such joie de vivre, [please no foreign terms] that any semblance of male cock-rock cliché was knocked out [sir, this is a family-oriented news organ] of the Pavilion.With their matching Shonen Knife pendants, held aloft at start and finish, twinkling silver costumes and never-ending smiles, they were like some crazed Manga version of punk. [please, no foreign terms] That would be sing-along punk if you could actually sing along. [s.b. "if I could actually sing along"] The most discernible lyrics [believe interpretable by pinhead is meant] appeared to be in awe of food (Wasabi, Green Tangerine, Banana Chips) and animals (Bear Up Bison, Capybara – that was a particularly catchy one – and Giant Kitty).As the whole audience [but one] fell in love with Risa, whose smile was as contagious as her drumming, [if her drumming were actually contagious, there would be many more excellent drummers] it soon became clear that a full Shonen Knife headline set was a bit of a joyous war of attrition. [oxymoron or just moron?]
A fter 50 minutes of this incessant yet infectious bludgeoning, [believe rocking is meant] my smile became slightly forced [believe this always true of reviewer] but Shonen Knife remain a charming and unique experience.Special mention should go to Falmouth's own Lost Dawn, who opened alongside Planet Jazz. They take a step up with each live performance; their bluesy psychedelia morphs into something different with every gig though they have an infuriating way of playing new songs just as we're getting used to the old set. But that's progress. [Perhaps London thinks so. You can't sell that day-old flounder here.] They're as tight a trio as you will ever see and – it bears repeating – Stanley Duke is a born frontman and guitarist, [and nephew] an indie Prince dipped in peroxide.〜OWARI〜 I hope you understand what a favor I've done you, including the remarks about Lost Dawn and Planet Jazz. They'll change things just as you're getting used to them, but mark my words, these lads are comers. I could spend the rest of the evening ripping this to tiny bits, but there's just one correction to make explicitly. "Pendants" for "pennants" is a typographical slip. No one in Falmouth can possibly not know the word for a pennant. The actual error is mistaking the attractively colorized Adventure wearables for pennants at all. It's still difficult to explain, how the reviewer could fail to recognize what is so plainly a tea-towel. Blame the lighting.
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Post by tangerinesun on Apr 21, 2016 3:31:21 GMT -5
Atsuko's blog is updated through 16 April, Birmingham at O2. It's not that big a deal. shonenknife.net/blog/The trusty tour van lacks sleeping berths, TV, and bar
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Post by thegl0r on Apr 21, 2016 17:54:33 GMT -5
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