Wednesday, 31 October 2007

LIVE REVIEW :: AGASKODO TELIVEREK : THEY CAME FROM THE STARS, I SAW THEM : BOBBY CONN


Current mood: GLOOPY...
Category: GLOOPY... Music



Yeah, the weeks fly like pigs, the post is back, the money is returning and how do I not spend it??

Going to gigs doesn't help.

Of course in the long run, it'll be a source lounge of warmth..

Yes boss, in 30 years time, I'll be sat back in my more than familiar armchair in the Giovanna Ranch in the high Dolomites. Visible out the back will be the snow covered lawn, leading to the woods, the woodpile and my sound cave. The cats will be in my face and the chickens in their hutch

clucking.

So, tell me about the stars gig at Corsica Studios in October of 2007? Wasn't that the first one you did as the Unofficial Minister of Information??? Would it be true to say that was when Paul Giovanni started to fade as your main written voice???

The enthusiastically beautiful journohack will cross her legs, notice my full attention, but misread it..

I'll ponder....Mmmm, Corsica Studios, don't quite?? who with?? mmmm..Errr

I guess I might remember it for being the first time I helped pack
the stars gear away, or because of Bobby Conns purple tracksuit, or because I was tired and barely said a jayword all night.

Or perhaps the rather remarkable vocals from Agaskodo Teliverek will live on.

Initially, I wasn't sure on the band. I liked the tight shorts and the colours. The music was athletic, but not immediately impressive. It was worked - too much so. But with time those vocals were proper clever. By the end I was sitting up and starring...

Starswise
it was as average a perfomance as I've seen: Not massive, not small, but somewhere in the middle - which is remarkable because very rarely do this band play average or unremarkable.

Headlining was
Bobby Conn.

Prior to showtime, I had no idea who Mr Conn was. I imagined a kind of singer songwriter with a touch of the blues. Some middle aged near legend with a cult following that had remained the same size from begining and would always remain so - the kind of talent that sits in a groove and stays there to be loved by the hardcores and largely unknowns aside..

I certainly wasn't expecting a kind of glam pomp thing, but I'm afraid the surprise didn't help me like Mr Conn that much.

Nope, the performance didn't grab me. It was competant, but the songs didn't stand up and out. Mr Conn was much like The Killers. A lot of pomp, but insufficient BIGTIME tunage to back it up. I was waiting for the hooks that would demand I stood on the sofa with my hands in the air, the sounds that made me forget my tiredness...

But no, not quite..



Currently listening :
Theology
By Sinead O’Connor
Release date: By 26 June, 2007

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THIS WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS..


Current mood: WARMER WARMER...
Category: WARMER WARMER... Music



full very full...

But blogs have once again been few and far between excepting cheap vids of the ancestors and strategic mind calculations..

This is why I don't tend to get on with professionals and why my careers are stop start..

Moods and whims...

So when are you going to start writing proper again Giovanni??

Soon...?


Meanwhile here's



Currently listening :
Automatic Door
By Anton Barbeau
Release date: By 16 October, 2007

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Clinker

toooooooon! I've got a brilliant live version of this from one of the festivals where the singer goes mad at the end.

Posted by Clinker on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 13:07
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

I'd like to see or hear this. I've still not seen them LIVE. I'll have to catch their next tour...

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 19:37
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Clinker

I'll find it and work out a way. Its awesome

Posted by Clinker on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 22:58
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

Yeah...

Quality through and through...

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 23:29
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madeleine

love this song thanks for posting the clip

Posted by madeleine on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 14:54
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

It's a blinder and one of my resurrection moments...)

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 19:37
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simon

Was that you I spied at the Anton Barbeau gig last night at the 12 bar? He was a lot of fun and a review will be written when I have the time, even though I was really there for my old mate Pat Fish;)

Posted by simon on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 19:32
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

BLIMEY O'REILLY!!! It was and I'm just polishing off my review now..

I didn't see you. Were you in disguise???

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 19:36
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simon

No Disguise I was just skulking in the shadows on the far side of the room nursing a Corona or two, and talking with the nice promoter chappie from Complete Control whose name I forget, oh and the record company bod who signed such bands as Spacemen 3 and Perfect Disaster back in the day! That and all the ex members of the Jazz Butcher who were there;)

Posted by simon on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 20:07
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

Esteemed company indeed!!

I missed most of the main set, but caught and enjoyed the end few tracks. Enjoyed Mr Barbeau. There's my review in a line, which makes me wonder why I just spent 3 hours flamming it out...

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 20:22
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ANCESTORS PT 2 - PAUL GIOVANNI 2ND


Current mood: RIGHTEOUS..
Category: RIGHTEOUS.. Music






Currently listening :
Pope John Paul II Celebrates Solemn High Mass in St. Peters
By Ferruccio Furlanetto
Release date: By 13 January, 2004

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Paloma First Lady of Infinity & Queen of Hearts

you weird motherfucker. i'm cancelling my reservations at fort giovanni if this is what we have to look forward to.

Posted by Paloma First Lady of Infinity & Queen of Hearts on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 16:48
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Steve | Version Sound

HAHAHAHA best comment ever. 2 kudos - on the comment.

Posted by Steve | Version Sound on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 17:05
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

If you stay at Fort Giovanni you are obliged to attend the twice daily church services.

I am also preparred to take confessions

The rest of the time will be round the clock sinning. Last night I was trying to perfect my Prince knee slides. I have burnt holes in the knees of my trousers...

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 17:44
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Doctor Yak

Confessions? Uhm, okay... I've listedned to mucy more Depeche Mode than any living person should.
That aside... you, doctor, are a nutter.

Posted by Doctor Yak on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 04:43
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

Yesterday, I was watching Dave Gahan playing a solo festival gig.

He has a proper mincing walk does Dave Gahan.

He also had a bare chest..

I think he was trying to be Iggy Pop..

WOOF!!

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 12:08
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

PS: Bless you my child..

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 12:08
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Purveyor of Nothing

I like the pope ,the pope smokes dope (or so the t-shirt says)

Posted by Purveyor of Nothing on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 17:57
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

But does he???

I never saw him with a joint...

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 18:08
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MüllerCoddle

Erm.......yeah!!! Lechaim!!!!!!

Posted by MüllerCoddle on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 19:18
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

Excuse me???
Lechaim???
Are you talking foreign????

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 19:21
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Hijackalope

i spent many years in catholic school (for a crime that i didn't commit)
i used to steal bibles and festoon the good pope with a swastika on the forehead and a fu man chu too.......ala Chuck Manson....

they kicked me out shorty after

Posted by Hijackalope on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 00:26
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Steve | Version Sound

All I have to show for my 4 years in Catholic HS is this lousy triple beam I stole from the chem lab. Pretty sweet. Oh yeah and a diploma.

Posted by Steve | Version Sound on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 17:38
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

You're a menace to society...!

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 12:05
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Big Mamma's Door

The whole Irish nation was beside itself when this man visited in '79!! I had to don my best hat and coat (All the way from Amerikay!) at 02.30 to shuffle into the family vauxhall and drive to a destination so that I would be one of the devoted lining the avenue of St Patricks College!!! After about 8 hours I glanced the top of his Mitre, while he drove past in his dinkie car! You are blessed Mr G

BM x

Posted by Big Mamma's Door on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 12:01
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: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :

Hail Mary!

Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 12:05
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