SO WHAT ARE YOU ALL WAITING FOR????

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So...who are the best LIVE band at the moment??

Is it the Arctic Monkeys: 4 young boys pogoing their rock 'n' roll way around casual brand names, just like - well more or less every other bunch of young pups have pogoed around this last 30 years?

Is is Oasis snarling and bullying their way around the stage like a bunch of doped pitbulls??

Is it The Klaxons, thinly disguising their 'another indie pop' blandness with a few high hats and some average sirens?

Or is it a little known epicly mad twinkling band called They Came From the Stars I Saw Them?

I say it's the latter and the reason I say so is because this band, are the best, most musically accomplished and most unpredictable band playing live at the moment...


So, who are 'They came form the stars i saw them' ?

TCTSIST are an everchanging collective of a band who've had more different lineups than your average police station.

Currently staffed by Horton Jupiter (vocals & electronics) Naomi Auerfeld (Clarinet & Saxaphone & Vocals) Sculpture aka Dan Hayhurst (Bass & Vocals) and Giles Narang (Drums) the stars play music which sounds exactly like music made by a tribe of aliens who've discovered the wonderful diversity of pop music should sound.

In brief: Combine the soulful crescendos of acts like Spiritualized, with the neat tightness and physical tougthness of Chic, with the chaos and innovation of musical shamen Sun Ra and you'll be getting somewhere close..

Yes boss, ths stars can play and they can play brilliantly, because underpinning the chaos of the swirling and surging electronics sits a rhythm section who know more about lively and fat backbones than a tank full of electronic eels.

As a result of this ryhthmic solidity, a 'stars' LIVE performance zips in and out of solid funk and disco, through pure bewildering noise, then back into the sort of tight and sharp pop music that has sold out 21 nights for Prince at the drop of a hat.


Like all great live bands though, it's not just about the quality of the music that makes the stars shine, it's about the spectacle and the show and the energy..

What other band comes clad almost purely in white and gold? What other band has the ability to switch between 2007 disco, euphoric surges of electronic noise, unblistering chaos and straight dance ability all at the flick of a finger and in the same set?? What other band promises you the world and then gives you it?

None that I know of..

So, if you have any sense, you want to be getting along to see the stars before you have to watch them form the back of an arena and pay £14 to be able to view their smiling faces in the program..

Do it, and do it now!!

http://www.myspace.com/theycamefromthestarsisawthem

http://www.isawthem.com

Currently listening : What Are We Doing Here? By They Came from the Stars I Saw Them Release date: By 01 July, 2003

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	stephen	i want in on this phenomenon but know not how to do so. Posted by stephen on Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 12:24 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR	Yes... They've just done a video - it'll be the best video of the year. It features amongst other things, Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners flying them to the heavens safety in a helicopter... No shit!! The stars are capable of intergalactic travel and they'll be in Australia one day... The best thing you can do in the meantime is buy some of their records. I'm going to get a stash in and retail them at very reasonable prices.... Watch this space...) Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 12:33 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Madeleine	kevin rowlands! okay will look out for their records. have you seen the book on rock and roll and fashion that has a chapter by kevin rowlands - good stuf - well i liked it - THE LOOK adventures in rock and pop fashion i got it cos i was obsessed with mick and keefs coutouriers from the exile on main street period but the kevin rowlands was an unexpected bonus Posted by Madeleine on Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 13:50 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR	Yes, unfortunately i missed the whole shebang on account of the shoot clashing with my dads op and the tour in London... I don't know the book, but i understand him to be quite a dresser... Getting ahold of the stars records hasn't been easy up to now... Like I say, I'm gonna start a mail order operation to ease this supply situation in a week or so's time and will cut as cheap as possible deals - maybe get them all signed as well for extra value...... Posted by PAUL GIOVANNI 3RD : AKA : PIOUS THE UNPOPULAR on Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 14:05 [Remove] [Reply to this]

Paloma Pirate

amen Posted by Paloma Pirate on Sunday, July 15, 2007 at 14:43 [Remove] [Reply to this]