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Some video of Dead Confederate at TT's the other night. They are on Conan O'Brien in a few minutes...
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You might remember a bit back when we played with these modern-day rock legends...
Semi-Precious Weapons, the "brilliant" and "kunty" kings of the androgynous, glam revival of the aughts. The Village Voice picked them as the “Best Band in New York” - not one of the best, the best. It's hard to explain what they're all about except to say that they're awesome, fun, funny, and intense. Their two music videos below should give you a good sense of where they're at and a trip down to The Middle East this weekend should give you an even better sense...
Saturday 9/13 @ The Middle East UpstairsTeam Shred presents Semi-Precious Weapons, Onebigmess (CD release), Sins Of America, Man On Earth 18+ $10-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-
Here are a few short video clips of the 'Stache Wednesday show. Unfortunately, my camera battery was just about dead, so I couldn't get a full song of Mieka Pauley.
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Here are a few photos from the Digital Bear Studio party. As usual, no flash was used...
The New Collisions:
The Patrick Dunn Band:
Here are some awesome, awesome photos by Kelly Davidson. Lots more great ones here. One of the photos of Matt will be appearing in the next issue of The Noise!
Sophia also took some awesome video of us rocking the place.
Here's "Jean-Paul" to celebrate Bastille Day!
The rest are here.
We had a really fun time opening the show at TT's and I got a bunch of video of the headliners, so here is all the video I could get before my camera died of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin at TT's 7-14-08.
I also took some photographs for the 10 seconds when I wasn't videotaping:
This isn't exactly new, but it's pretty awesome for both its innate greatness and its 80s-style fade video montaging mixed with Blair-Witch-spooked shaky cameras. I love it. I also love the observers mixed in with the band. Oh yeah, awesome song too. That's all.
They are literally my favorite band right now. They are great on record. They are great live. They are great. Check them out at: http://www.deadconfederate.com/
Live review and interview coming soon to http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/user/thesleepwalker
Go seem them if you can. Tour dates:
Jun 4 2008 10:00P Local 506...w/ All the Saints Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jun 5 2008 10:00P The Rocket...w/ All the Saints Asheville, North Carolina
Jun 6 2008 10:00P Barley’s...w/ All the Saints Knoxville, Tennessee
Jun 7 2008 10:00P The Earl...w/ All the Saints Atlanta, Georgia
Jun 14 2008 1:00A Bonnaroo Festival Manchester, Tennessee
Jun 17 2008 10:00P Santa Fe Brewing Co...w/Drive by Truckers Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jun 18 2008 10:00P Orpheum Theatre...w/Drive by Truckers Flagstaff, Arizona
Jun 19 2008 10:00P Rialto Theatre...w/Drive by Truckers Tuscon, Arizona
Jun 20 2008 10:00P Belly Up Tavern...w/Drive by Truckers Solana Beach, California
Jun 21 2008 9:00P Spaceland...w/The Blakes and The Broken West Los Angeles
Jun 23 2008 1:30P Little Radio...Guests on "The Aquarium Drunkard Show" Los Angeles, California
Jun 24 2008 10:00P Empire Room...w/Drive by Truckers Sacramento, California
Jun 25 2008 10:00P Midtown Ballroom...w/Drive by Truckers Bend, Oregon
Jun 26 2008 10:00P Big Easy...w/Drive by Truckers Spokane, Washington
Jun 28 2008 4:15P SoCo Music Experience...Featuring Gnarls Barkley, Blonde Redhead, etc... Denver, Colorado
Jul 2 2008 10:00P First Avenue...w/Drive by Truckers Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jul 3 2008 10:00P High Noon Saloon Madison, Wisconsin
Jul 5 2008 1:00P Rothbury Festival Rothbury, Michigan
Aug 14 2008 11:30P Athens Popfest...Caledonia Lounge Athens, Georgia
I never use the flash during the set, so pardon the not-so-great photos...
Their single, "The Rat"
"Tortured Artist Saint"
Whole Set:
Three of us in the band went to see Sea Wolf on Friday at The Paradise. I really enjoyed the band a lot.
The Jealous Girlfriends also played:
Hello Friends,
If can you only see The Motion Sick once this year (how sad that would be), now is the time:
Come to our wondrous 100th show!!!! We have a ridiculously amazing, amazing lineup! You don't want to miss this. We don't want you to miss this. No one should miss this!!!!
First, Shawn Fogel - http://shawnfogel.com/ - performing with his band that includes world-famous music journalist Michael Azerrad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Azerrad - Our Band Could Be Your Life, Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana, Spin, Rolling Stone, Musician, Details, MTV News). Shawn is also well known for his work in the Zambonis, the hockey-themed band who has peformed at many huge NHL events, and The LeeVees, which features Shawn along with Adam Gardner of Guster.
Next up, your favorites, The Motion Sick, but enough about us...
Following TMS, we've got Boston's Static of the Gods (http://staticofthegods.delverano.com/) described by Skope Magazine: "Layered textures of infectious and mature pop rock with an edge unite to create Boston's hottest rising band ..."
The night will close with New York's Pela (http://www.pelamusic.com/), who sell out every show they play in NYC and are bound to start doing the same in Boston. Pela has had a song featured in the TV show scrubs and have shared stages with The Flaming Lips, Norah Jones, Sleater-Kinney, Mission of Burma, Devendra Banhart, The National, The Decemberists, Gomez, Rainer Maria, and others.
06/07/08
Green Light Go Showcase
The Middle East Upstairs
Cambridge, MA
Pela
Static of the Gods
Shawn Fogel
The Motion Sick's 100th Show Celebration!!!!!
18+ $9adv/$10dos
We recommend getting tickets in advance.
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In other TMS news, screenshots from Dance Dance Revolution have come out and 2 out of the 14 feature The Motion Sick's "30 Lives" video!!!
Check it out: http://themotionsickreviews.blogspot.com/2008/05/dancedancerevolution-universe-3-screen.html or http://tinyurl.com/3fgokm
We've also posted a bunch of new live video and photos at: http://www.themotionsick.com/themotionsick/livephotos.html
You can visit our Youtube channel at: http://youtube.com/user/TheMotionSick
Rock on and we hope to see you all soon!!!
&0&0,
The Motion Sick
Hey Kiddies,
So, I went to see The Cure last night in Boston. They played at the Agganis Arena. I'd seen Wilco there a few years back and thought the sound was okay. I'm not gonna give you a song by song review of the show because that would take forever. The show lasted over 3 hours, which in some ways is awesome, but also made the crowd a little restless and tired.
I've always wanted to see The Cure live as I really dig their records. Robert Smith is a good songwriter. I was disappointed that they are only touring as a quartet, and didn't have any keyboards. I missed hearing some of the very cool synth/key parts. Not that I expected Robert Smith to be bouncing around the stage or jumping off of amplifiers, but I also thought the show lacked a certain energy one comes to expect from seeing a live show. The band for the most part, stayed fairly stationary. That kind of bugs me. It wasn't until one of the encores that Smith finally grabbed a microphone and walked from one side of the stage to the other, serenading the peeps in the cheaper seats.
Let me rant a bit about the crowd... They SUCKED the life out of this show... I felt like I was attending an operatic performance of Carmen... The people on the floor stood for most of the performance, but the people in the upper sections sat on their asses. You're at a fucking rock n roll show, if you want to sit down and enjoy the music, put on the CD or watch the Trilogy DVD!!! Concerts are meant for you to get off your fat, lazy ass and do a little dancing, rock out a little, do ANYTHING that makes it look like you give a shit that a band is performing on stage. I just don't get it. When did people stop letting music move them?
All in all, I had a good time at the show. I heard some great old Cure tunes with a few new ones mixed in. I'm very psyched I was able to score a last minute ticket on Craigslist, and grateful to the dude who waited on the street for me to arrive, as I hauled ass to get there before showtime. Thanks dude. I'm very happy that I was able to see a band I have liked and respected for many, many years. Here's the setlist:
Setlist:
plainsong
prayers for rain
alt.end
a night like this
the end of the world
lovesong
sleep when i'm dead
pictures of you
lullaby
the perfect boy
from the edge of the deep green sea
hot hot hot
the only one
the blood
wrong number
the walk
signal to noise
push
inbetween days
just like heaven
primary
us or them
never enough
one hundred years
disintegration
Encore:
the lovecats
freakshow
close to me
why can't i be you?
Encore 2:
play for today
a forest
Encore 3:
boys don't cry
jumping someone else's train
grinding halt
10:15 saturday night
killing an arab
Kelly Davidson, one of the world's most awesomest, bestest photographers and people took some fabtacular photos at our show at TT's on Thursday:
Check them out!
Here is the video of us meeting Kelly for the first time (in Austin at SXSW). Patrick begins the encounter harrassing her and then we realize that we know her by name...
Some more Austin Kelly bits also w/Benjy Kantor from Sonicbids:
We made the journey down to the N-Y-C to play at The Baggot Inn during its closing weekend after an 18-year stint as an awesome place to see original music with a reasonable cover in the West Village (not a lot of places like that left!).
So as not to let down DTL, who has declared us D-List Celebrity Stalkers and challenged us to meming, we also saw Judah Friedlander hanging out outside the club. Judah is probably a really big fan of The Motion Sick, which is why he was there. Meme response at the end of the message...
On the way down, we learned about larvae and fruit punch...but the two are actually unrelated:
Live bits at: http://www.themotionsick.com/themotionsick/livevideo-08-05-09.html
The Meme:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
1. Okay, I am currently at my sister's apartment in the East Village, so I am going to have to look around a little for a book...
2. Opened...
3. Found.
4. Ned knew that she and a young man had begun courting, and he believed her tears must have resulted from something he had said or done. Possibly, the two had been "indiscreet," although he did not think Gertrude capable of so drastic a moral lapse. The more he pressed her for an explanation, the more troubled and adamant she became.
5. I have been tagged by DTL. I am hopeful that even without targeting specific victims, 5 brave souls will volunteer to participate...they will be commemorated here:
1. ????
2. ????
3. ????
4. ????
5. ????
We played on Thursday at TT the Bear's in Boston with a notable and wonderful lineup of glam rock locals (and our heroes) Sidewalk Driver, local fellow indiers Vivian Darkbloom, and the insanely energetic and insanely nice Semi Precious Weapons from NYC. The bands were all great and a fabulous time was had by all who attended.
Camera-wielder Sophia managed to get some juicy images and video of the whole bunch:
Sidewalk Driver
Vivian Darkbloom
Semi Precious Weapons
As always, review eventually coming to: http://www.threeimaginarygirls.com/user/thesleepwalker
Here is a video recording of much of the show (recorded by a friend until the disk space was gone...)
http://strangeglue.com/news/sxsw-2008-live-the-motion-sick/1499
A brief review and some pictures from one of our gigs at SXSW including some awesome photos
