[TypicalGirls] timewaster of the month [Pigbag rel.]

Chuck Warner chuck at hyped2death.com
Mon Mar 12 22:34:52 EST 2007


Yeah I should've chimed in about the Nightingales as well. In 
Somerville last Friday Robert was in fine fettle --despite ghastly 
treatment by "grumpy sound-man" (who only showed up at 9:30 and spent 
the entire evening reading a book...), but the band were astonishing. 
"Teen phenom" is no exaggeration for Matt Wood, original Prefect 
guitarist Alan Apperley worked with him brilliantly (Strat [my 
eyesight sucks and my hearing wouldn't let me get any closer so it 
might've been a different Fender] and Lyre guitars make a very cool 
combination sonically), Stephen Lowe channeled my hero JJ Burnel 
perfectly, and Daren Garratt (who drummed with Pram at some point 
[not the Prams]) was just spectacular...

I'm not sure quite how to put it but they played at extreme speed and 
still managed to stay out of each other's ways -a denser, 
Beefheartier early Feelies (with Robert Lloyd) might come close... 
And the older material was if anything tighter than former versions 
of the N'gales were on the records.

Truth-in-advertizing dept: the Rough Trade "mix" of the Prefects' 
"Things in General" and a gussied-up version of the live "Agony 
Column" from their live CD (courtesy of Acute and Caroline True, 
respectively) will both grace Messthetics #103 [Midlands v.1], out 
sometime next month...

peace,

C.


>glad to see the nice words re: nightingales, I'll send
>them along. I saw them last tuesday in NYC and they
>were amazing! I sent out a ton of emails trying to get
>people to go on thursday to the second NYC show, which
>I heard was also great. Can't stop listening to them
>now!
>
>-dan selzer
>http://www.acuterecords.com
>
>--- Lani Smith <LSmith at minlib.net> wrote:
>
>>  Also, saw a great show this weekend: The
>  > Nightingales:


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Chuck Warner
Hyped to Death CDs/Messthetics
P.O. Box 351
Westminster, Massachusetts 01473
http://hyped2death.com


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