Well, my schedule of musical consumption is filling out quite nicely, despite the fact that I missed the Matadors last weekend.. if I’d known they were playing I definitely would have capitalized on my free ride home opportunity. Pah! BUT. So far we’ve got:
Sat, Jan 24: The Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band with Choir or whichever name they use this time, playing at The Underground in Hamilton, for $8.50, and probably some openers of some sort. They are made up of members of Godspeed You Black Emperor and play kinda minimal post-rock/space rock, or whatever you want to call it, of a variety more melodic than the standard GYBE.
Sat, Feb 07: The Notwist playing with Themselves at Lee’s Palace in Toronto for $18 bucks including Ticketbastard fees. Notwist are of course awesome, and put out one of my favourite albums from last year, and are coming all the way from Germany, so that’s fricking awesome. Themselves are whacked out atmospheric hip hop… or something.
Fri, Feb 27: Max Graham live at Sole Nightclub in Hamilton, for an unknown amount of currency. Some DJ magazine ranked him 23rd best DJ in the world in some recent year or other, and he plays some awesome stuff. Haven’t seen much good DJing in Htown yet.
Sat, Mar 20: Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, Bonobo, Blockhead and Sixtoo at Kool Haus in the T dot. $24, but I’m willing to fork over the cash for my man Tobin. It is a DJ set.. I don’t know if that’s what Tobin usually does, or not, but I imagine it will be pretty kickass, plus Kid Koala is wicked, I’ve heard good things about Bonobo, I’ve just listened to some Blockhead and been rather impressed, and even if Sixtoo sucks, it’s still all good..
After all this it might be nice to see an actual proper rock band again sometime.. quite possibly some other fine opportunities will open up. I was going to be wandering around downtown right now picking up tickets to Notwist and Amon Tobin, but Ronnie demanded that I play Vice City on his computer instead, and said he’d just use his credit card for the transactions. Laziness once more prevails!
In other news, back in my home town of London, it’s been snowing a whole hell of a lot. Here’s some pictures my dad took of our backyard:
Oh yeah, and each English class I attend seems more and more pointless. I could have been sleeping, or something even crazier… doing homework or something! Well at least there’re no more classes to get in my way until Monday.
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