Chaos 8

[Black Pearl]

Went out last night to a local bands album launch - not really my type of music but a good friend is the keyboard player so I thought I'd show support.

 

Kind of difficult to describe but imagine punk with a synth.

 

Didn't know what to expect and didn't want to get in the way with a camera so iPhone it was. I will go to another gig as the official photographer and do it properly but you know what - these ain't bad for a mobile phone.

 

 

 

 

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Got a Vimeo Link now:

 

 

They were very - and I mean VERY - loud.

[ChrisLumix]

Someone thinks she's Debbie Harry!

[Black Pearl]

She can't be off by more that a few years, Beki is in or around fifty and looking bloomin' great.

[ChrisLumix]

She can't be off by more that a few years, Beki is in or around fifty and looking bloomin' great.

 

Debbie Harry is around 70

[FUJI]

Do folk really pay to listen to that?

Dont get me wrong, I have a very broad taste in music....( Opera, Folk, Jazz, Rock including Silver Machine, and Debbie Harry ;-) .....but, it strikes me listening to this, and to very young bands at an outdoor event very close to our house recently......

If you have a set of drums, beat them very LOUDLY whilst someone is SHOUTING........you are making music??

Or......or.......am I long, long, past my sell by date?

Great pics though Robin.

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

Do folk really pay to listen to that?

Dont get me wrong, I have a very broad taste in music....( Opera, Folk, Jazz, Rock including Silver Machine, and Debbie Harry ;-) .....but, it strikes me listening to this, and to very young bands at an outdoor event very close to our house recently......

If you have a set of drums, beat them very LOUDLY whilst someone is SHOUTING........you are making music??

Or......or.......am I long, long, past my sell by date?

Great pics though Robin.

FUJI

 

Interesting that you include Hawkwind in that list, Fuji! However, I too can't see the attraction of punk, and I think the Sex Pistols are the most overhyped band in the history of popular music. Classic rock is tuned to my own sell-by date, and I think there's very little relevance in any rock post-Smiths. 

 

You've included opera in your list, which is my main 'blind spot'. I suspect I would enjoy it more if it wasn't for the dreadful 'hit and miss' wobbly singing of its stars, a style only introduced in the early 20th Century I understand (opera must have been at least bearable before that). I do like a certain purity of vocal delivery, a la Emma Kirkby who is a joy to listen to (she sings a lot of early music, 16th Century onwards). Yes, it's definitely the style of singing is why I hate opera.

[FUJI]

Here you go Chris.......

A little OPERA for you ;-)

YEAH!

http://youtu.be/-7TWVM0TAWY

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

Haha - if you were include Sparks' "This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us", Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", Focus's "Hocus Pocus", and The Who's "Tommy" as opera, then I'll go along with that

 

(I can't make a judgement about the above, because as I'm typing, we're nearly 3 minutes in and he's STILL talking!!

 

Oh at long long last, they've started the song).