Yay!
Aww shucks. One of my absolute favourites ever The Rural Alberta Advantage are releasing album #2 in March 2011 and to celebrate that fact they've released a new song called Stamp.
It's a free download right about here
Welcome back guys and gal! Not much seems to have changed from back in day (all of a year ago) but then again that IS just the way I've always loved you (Especially you Amy).
Take a bow, I've missed you.
Showing posts with label Rural alberta advantage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rural alberta advantage. Show all posts
Monday, 27 December 2010
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
My little breakdown of my little trip. Part 3
I need to quicken these posts up, or else I'll be writing these forever.
Ok so it's Saturday morning, and as my other half hasn't really seen Brighton yet, we decide to walk around town, around the lanes and just, you know, see what it's like.
Walking around the lanes we felt they were alive with the sound of music.
They weren't. What was alive/live was Frontier Ruckus playing a street gig at a random spot in front of a kebab shop.
Frontier Ruckus were a familiar name, but like with some people you meet on the street who's face you recognise but can't quite pinpoint where from or why, their music didn't sound too familiar.
This meant I could listen to them with a new sense of open-mindedness. Whilst also eating with a new sense of open-mindedness. My burger from the kebab shop seemed to be filled with crusty snot instead the usual cheese and beef.
That's right. I had no arrogant, pretentious comments on "ooh how that tambourine is so totally mixed to the wrong volume in comparison to that saw."
Yeah, they played the saw! The saw! I urge you to check out the above photo to see how happy the saw player looks to be playing the saw.
Saw + banjo + makeshift drums + harmonica = a very good performance and hey they got a new fan out of me.
On to the actual Great Escape gigs then. Saturday's plan was to stay in one venue to see The Rural Alberta Advantage (again), La Shark and Is Tropical and then mosey on down to the next place to catch Erland and the Carnival and Esben and the Witch. This all went exactly as I had masterminded it. Brilliant.
RAA were yet again amazing. Quickly growing to list high on my favourite live performances ever. For their last song they just waded into the crowd and played it there stood in the midst of everyone.
La Shark hit the stage. If you haven't yet listened to them, then I suggest you do so. If for no other reason, then just to say that you have and you didn't/did like them.
Described as "Late of the Pier-esque quirkyness", these guys definitely looked the part. Their live show was mega energetic, with their flamboyant lead singer often just jumping off stage and dancing with various audience members whilst swigging on some cheap whiskey.
Then the switcheroony. Various audience members jumping on the stage and dancing with the flamboyant singer whilst drinking cheap whiskey.
The last band to play at the Price Albert was Is Tropical. I was really looking forward to these guys and they didn't disappoint. By the time they started playing though, the tiny little room the bands were playing in was roasting hot. Everyone started huddling under the tiny fan at the back of the room. Is Tropical bursted onto the stage with a barrage of pounding beats, thumping basslines and facemasks.
No photos here but just the assurance that Is Tropical are a force to be reckoned with.
The (hopefully) final part of this report will be done soon. My apologies for dragging this on for so long.
Laterz
Ok so it's Saturday morning, and as my other half hasn't really seen Brighton yet, we decide to walk around town, around the lanes and just, you know, see what it's like.
Walking around the lanes we felt they were alive with the sound of music.
They weren't. What was alive/live was Frontier Ruckus playing a street gig at a random spot in front of a kebab shop.
Frontier Ruckus were a familiar name, but like with some people you meet on the street who's face you recognise but can't quite pinpoint where from or why, their music didn't sound too familiar.
This meant I could listen to them with a new sense of open-mindedness. Whilst also eating with a new sense of open-mindedness. My burger from the kebab shop seemed to be filled with crusty snot instead the usual cheese and beef.
That's right. I had no arrogant, pretentious comments on "ooh how that tambourine is so totally mixed to the wrong volume in comparison to that saw."
Yeah, they played the saw! The saw! I urge you to check out the above photo to see how happy the saw player looks to be playing the saw.
Saw + banjo + makeshift drums + harmonica = a very good performance and hey they got a new fan out of me.
On to the actual Great Escape gigs then. Saturday's plan was to stay in one venue to see The Rural Alberta Advantage (again), La Shark and Is Tropical and then mosey on down to the next place to catch Erland and the Carnival and Esben and the Witch. This all went exactly as I had masterminded it. Brilliant.
RAA were yet again amazing. Quickly growing to list high on my favourite live performances ever. For their last song they just waded into the crowd and played it there stood in the midst of everyone.
La Shark hit the stage. If you haven't yet listened to them, then I suggest you do so. If for no other reason, then just to say that you have and you didn't/did like them.
Described as "Late of the Pier-esque quirkyness", these guys definitely looked the part. Their live show was mega energetic, with their flamboyant lead singer often just jumping off stage and dancing with various audience members whilst swigging on some cheap whiskey.
Then the switcheroony. Various audience members jumping on the stage and dancing with the flamboyant singer whilst drinking cheap whiskey.
The last band to play at the Price Albert was Is Tropical. I was really looking forward to these guys and they didn't disappoint. By the time they started playing though, the tiny little room the bands were playing in was roasting hot. Everyone started huddling under the tiny fan at the back of the room. Is Tropical bursted onto the stage with a barrage of pounding beats, thumping basslines and facemasks.
No photos here but just the assurance that Is Tropical are a force to be reckoned with.
The (hopefully) final part of this report will be done soon. My apologies for dragging this on for so long.
Laterz
Monday, 24 May 2010
My little breakdown of my little trip. Part 1
Hello! This is me making my spectacular return to blog-writing after over 1 whole week!
Oh I do envy you few lucky readers who shall witness the resurrection of AndygoesdowntoChinatown. It shall be grand, it shall be amazing, it shall just basically be me doing more of the same as I used to do before this hiatus, ie. write about interesting bands in an uninteresting kind of way.
So where to start the renaissance? Me thinks a breakdown of my Great Escape experience could be the appropriate way. Me tooks a few pictures while I was there, but had some technical difficulties with memory cards and computers and shit. Thankfully I've got a warm and loving flatmate (K) who generously allowed me to use his computer system to make things workygood.
I'ma gonna have to write this in parts as to not flood everyones brains with too many words in one go. So here goes part I.
Aight so we landed at Gatwick airport on a lovely (warm?) Thursday night. Whilst we were busy landing and getting our bags, the Great Escape had already started and was probably already going full steam ahead. Of course we missed the entire first day of the festival as flights were roughly a thousand pounds dearer if one were to fly on any other day of the year than that specific Thursday. Of well, my biggest loss was perhaps Surfer Blood. They are however playing at Flow Festival so shit ain't all bad.
I'm not going into other details about the trip other than the musiqué, so no talks of how cool the family seeing stuff was. (It was.)
So it's Friday and me and the missus are itching to see some bands. After rigorous scheduling I decided (not her) what to see. So the plan was: 19.45 Best Coast and 23.00 Wild Beasts. Not much of a plan, but everything inbetween would just play out on its own.
So 19.45 on the Palace Pier in Horatio's (chavvy says my old man) it was time for Best Coast. Good. Ace. Brilliant. Front row? Most def. This is what it looked like from a lens that was relatively close to my actual eyes.
Best Coast have an great sound on their recordings which also shone through their live performance. This was a great way to start the weekend. One thing I had to note was that they are an odd looking bunch though. Lead guitarist was definitely looking more J-thrash. Also we noted a certain Darwin Deez watching the same gig right behind us. It's no lie, the guy must be about 3 metres tall. Darwin was set to play his own gig right after Best Coast at a different venue (Digital). The missus wanted to see him, and I felt like I had no say in the matter, even though the awesome Warpaint were supposed to take the stage right after Best Coast, right in Horatio's. So we left for Digital.
Rookie mistake.
The queue was a proper f**k off queue resulting in us not actually getting in to see Darwin. And also in us not seeing Warpaint either.
Not to fret. Let's go somewhere else then. "Ooh, the Morning Benders are playing at Hector's House soon, how about we go there?"
We went there.
One thing about the Great Escape that annoyed me was the delegate ticket system. If you pay extra you get a delegate pass, which acts as a VIP "skip the queue" ticket. As the delegates got entrance priority, we ended up feeling stranded. At Hectors House the delegate's queue was about 20 people strong. Us two were the only people in the "normal people" queue. Because of the popularity of most places they had a 1-out 1-in policy. By all logic we should have never got in, but thankfully the bouncers were nice guys and took us in. Much appreciated. Got to see most of the Rural Alberta Advantage's (who were playing before Morning Benders) set which was an added bonus!
RRA were amazing. So good in fact that we saw them again the next day.
Next up were the Morning Benders. "No wait! who are these two pretenders?"
"Oh, Morning Benders cancelled and replaced by London electro-pop duo The Bang Bang Club."
BBC start up their set by pressing play on the laptop and fair enough they do have a good sound to them. And holymoly if this duo wasn't the best looking duo of men to ever grace any stage. If I'd have been wearing women's knickers, I'd have thrown them on that stage. Alas. T'was not to be.
All was good until the Justin Bieber-esque "fist pounding my heart, to say how much I love you" and "arms reaching out to grab thin air, to say how much I love you" actions kicked in. Hmm, they made me giggle. So did the last song they played: 'Chemistry'.
In the words of Morissey:
"Stop me, oh stop me if you think you've heard this one before"
Yeah well this was part I of I don't know how many. Thanks for reading. Great to be back
xoxoxo
Oh I do envy you few lucky readers who shall witness the resurrection of AndygoesdowntoChinatown. It shall be grand, it shall be amazing, it shall just basically be me doing more of the same as I used to do before this hiatus, ie. write about interesting bands in an uninteresting kind of way.
So where to start the renaissance? Me thinks a breakdown of my Great Escape experience could be the appropriate way. Me tooks a few pictures while I was there, but had some technical difficulties with memory cards and computers and shit. Thankfully I've got a warm and loving flatmate (K) who generously allowed me to use his computer system to make things workygood.
I'ma gonna have to write this in parts as to not flood everyones brains with too many words in one go. So here goes part I.
Aight so we landed at Gatwick airport on a lovely (warm?) Thursday night. Whilst we were busy landing and getting our bags, the Great Escape had already started and was probably already going full steam ahead. Of course we missed the entire first day of the festival as flights were roughly a thousand pounds dearer if one were to fly on any other day of the year than that specific Thursday. Of well, my biggest loss was perhaps Surfer Blood. They are however playing at Flow Festival so shit ain't all bad.
I'm not going into other details about the trip other than the musiqué, so no talks of how cool the family seeing stuff was. (It was.)
So it's Friday and me and the missus are itching to see some bands. After rigorous scheduling I decided (not her) what to see. So the plan was: 19.45 Best Coast and 23.00 Wild Beasts. Not much of a plan, but everything inbetween would just play out on its own.
So 19.45 on the Palace Pier in Horatio's (chavvy says my old man) it was time for Best Coast. Good. Ace. Brilliant. Front row? Most def. This is what it looked like from a lens that was relatively close to my actual eyes.
Best Coast have an great sound on their recordings which also shone through their live performance. This was a great way to start the weekend. One thing I had to note was that they are an odd looking bunch though. Lead guitarist was definitely looking more J-thrash. Also we noted a certain Darwin Deez watching the same gig right behind us. It's no lie, the guy must be about 3 metres tall. Darwin was set to play his own gig right after Best Coast at a different venue (Digital). The missus wanted to see him, and I felt like I had no say in the matter, even though the awesome Warpaint were supposed to take the stage right after Best Coast, right in Horatio's. So we left for Digital.
Rookie mistake.
The queue was a proper f**k off queue resulting in us not actually getting in to see Darwin. And also in us not seeing Warpaint either.
Not to fret. Let's go somewhere else then. "Ooh, the Morning Benders are playing at Hector's House soon, how about we go there?"
We went there.
One thing about the Great Escape that annoyed me was the delegate ticket system. If you pay extra you get a delegate pass, which acts as a VIP "skip the queue" ticket. As the delegates got entrance priority, we ended up feeling stranded. At Hectors House the delegate's queue was about 20 people strong. Us two were the only people in the "normal people" queue. Because of the popularity of most places they had a 1-out 1-in policy. By all logic we should have never got in, but thankfully the bouncers were nice guys and took us in. Much appreciated. Got to see most of the Rural Alberta Advantage's (who were playing before Morning Benders) set which was an added bonus!
RRA were amazing. So good in fact that we saw them again the next day.
Next up were the Morning Benders. "No wait! who are these two pretenders?"
"Oh, Morning Benders cancelled and replaced by London electro-pop duo The Bang Bang Club."
BBC start up their set by pressing play on the laptop and fair enough they do have a good sound to them. And holymoly if this duo wasn't the best looking duo of men to ever grace any stage. If I'd have been wearing women's knickers, I'd have thrown them on that stage. Alas. T'was not to be.
All was good until the Justin Bieber-esque "fist pounding my heart, to say how much I love you" and "arms reaching out to grab thin air, to say how much I love you" actions kicked in. Hmm, they made me giggle. So did the last song they played: 'Chemistry'.
In the words of Morissey:
"Stop me, oh stop me if you think you've heard this one before"
Yeah well this was part I of I don't know how many. Thanks for reading. Great to be back
xoxoxo
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Woe is you and me
Aaah pooey poo.
It's back to uni tomorrow. Feeling lazy. Want to stay home.
Trying my best to learn the what the hell proanthocyanidins are and why I need to write 20 pages on them. Damndamndamn.
Oh well I've got the perfect soundtrack "for the learning process"
I'll trademark it as:
'The-T-bone-not-knowin-very-much-about-garage-rock-but-still-very-much-liking-it-and-hoping-it'll-inspire-me-to-sort-out-my-bachelors-thesis' soundtrack.
Whilst trawling the endless depths of t'internet. I stumbled across these young fellas from Austin, Texas. Y'all can call them 'The Strange Boys'
On their Myspace they've only got one track called Be Brave. Decent.
BUT check out spotify for the whole debut record 'The Strange Boys and Girls club'
It's good. Here's the video for Woe is you and me.
This made me go back to all my old faves.
Aaah yes Cage the Elephant - s/t album was my pick of the year for 2008.
This is THE song. Click on this for instant love.
There was a point where I just used to borrow heaps and heaps of cd's from the library and ended up getting fined because I just found it impossible to return Black Lips - Let it Bloom. (Little did I realise I could just extend the loan)
Going a bit less Garage-rock I really really like the Alberta Cross album Broken side of time, especially 'Song Three Blues'. A Bit like I like early Kings of Leon. You know before they went all 'Sex on Fire' on me. Play me 'Talihina Sky' and I'll make you my lovepet.
On the subject of Alberta I'm also loving 'Rural Alberta Advantage' aah <3<3
Tell you what. Anyone play me these as well and i'll still make you my lovepet.
I can tell you what I do know about Proanthocyanidins so far. Get loads of them in ya and you'll possibly live forever. I'm guessing that all Christopher Lambert used to eat on the Scottish highlands were berries and all he drank was green tea with lemon.
Toodles for now.
It's back to uni tomorrow. Feeling lazy. Want to stay home.
Trying my best to learn the what the hell proanthocyanidins are and why I need to write 20 pages on them. Damndamndamn.
Oh well I've got the perfect soundtrack "for the learning process"
I'll trademark it as:
'The-T-bone-not-knowin-very-much-about-garage-rock-but-still-very-much-liking-it-and-hoping-it'll-inspire-me-to-sort-out-my-bachelors-thesis' soundtrack.
Whilst trawling the endless depths of t'internet. I stumbled across these young fellas from Austin, Texas. Y'all can call them 'The Strange Boys'
On their Myspace they've only got one track called Be Brave. Decent.
BUT check out spotify for the whole debut record 'The Strange Boys and Girls club'
It's good. Here's the video for Woe is you and me.
This made me go back to all my old faves.
Aaah yes Cage the Elephant - s/t album was my pick of the year for 2008.
This is THE song. Click on this for instant love.
There was a point where I just used to borrow heaps and heaps of cd's from the library and ended up getting fined because I just found it impossible to return Black Lips - Let it Bloom. (Little did I realise I could just extend the loan)
Going a bit less Garage-rock I really really like the Alberta Cross album Broken side of time, especially 'Song Three Blues'. A Bit like I like early Kings of Leon. You know before they went all 'Sex on Fire' on me. Play me 'Talihina Sky' and I'll make you my lovepet.
On the subject of Alberta I'm also loving 'Rural Alberta Advantage' aah <3<3
Tell you what. Anyone play me these as well and i'll still make you my lovepet.
I can tell you what I do know about Proanthocyanidins so far. Get loads of them in ya and you'll possibly live forever. I'm guessing that all Christopher Lambert used to eat on the Scottish highlands were berries and all he drank was green tea with lemon.
Toodles for now.
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