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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... 65bb84d036Thursday, June 07, 2007
ultra payloaded
Current mood: contemplative
midnight thursday. It's been a long few days but tomorrow i rest. i just got back from jumping up and down at a Satellite Party gig. it was good to mr perry farrell and cohorts play some good groove for the a uk crowd the first time in a few years. some cool tunes in the form of "kinky", "wish upon a dog star", "hard life easy" and some more... there were a couple of jane's addiction songs in the set in the form of "stop" and "mountain song". man, i love those two songs from long ago. i'm getting into the new ones. perry had a few chats to the crowd during inbetween bits. there was a brief rapport how he wouldn't put his penis in one male audience members mouth. not that he had a problem with that but the audience member was ugly and he had stopped doing ugly one-nighters ;-) nuno battencourt's guitar playing was well on form - and the sounds he got from a cheap 2nd hand "nuno battencourt replica" guitar was pretty amazing. hmm, yes, therein lies a bit of story.
chief phoned me up tonight to tell me how all the satellite party roadies piled on into his music shop today. it seems that a whole load of satellite party's musical instruments and equipment had disappeared somewhere between New York and the UK. so the roadies they had to get nuno a washburn guitar (which he needs to play), by complete fluke, chief had just taken a cheap copy one into stock as the result of a part-exchange earlier today. so anyway, satellite party took to the stage with what looked like a mix and match practice drum kit; a tiny borrowed back line and single instruments (no swapping guitars for every song for this band). the end result? they stripped down and did very well.
as for the bands on the bill, well velvet revolver were competently cool and played to fairly fanatical crowd. the rock'n'roll foundations of their music got people dancing around all over the place. that might have been the case for satellite party as well, but i didn't see the crowd much as i was jumping up and down at the front...there was a band that opened up the night but i didn't catch them...