Annie @ Club Lambi, 22/03/06
Time to hit up Toys R Us! Actually, this is a beautiful article that restores one's faith in mankind. XD
With that out of the way:
One of the more ghetto setlists I've begged off a band
Always Too Late | The Wedding | The Greatest Hit | Chewing Gum | Crush | Come Together | Heartbeat ||| Kiss Me | Me Plus One
Several songs I haven't heard, which is nice. Jae, I guess she's playing "Me Plus One" now after all. XD The next single is supposedly "Crush", which is actually the most indie rock-sounding - though it's hard to say as her backing band consisted of 1 x guitar/drums and 1 x twiddlyknobs, so arrangements were fairly different from on record. "Crush" had a storm of guitar fuzz, and because Annie's voice is on the wispy side I immediately felt like I was listening to shoegaze although it wasn't really.
"Always Too Late" / "The Wedding" <-- never occurred to me but these songs are quite ominous really
"Come Together" <-- total house-is-a-feeling vibe
"Heartbeat" <-- like what they did to it, lovely plangent pentatonic synth bell cascade
"Kiss Me" <-- I wish this were going to be released next!
"Me Plus One" <-- "This song is about a beautiful girl with long red hair who was in a band during the nineties" <-- ???
More of Ced's photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
If it looks like the stage was six inches high and we were standing three feet away, that's because it was and we were. It was like the sort of stage where skits are performed at elementary schoolkids' birthday parties. ^^; There were 100 people in the audience at best (did the rest of Montreal really turn out for the Arctic Monkeys instead? That sifts the sheep from the goats), but at least most of them acted like they wanted to be there. Amusingly Ced and I were standing between two groups of boys: 3 x somewhat amused Francophone hipsters who talked to each other a lot and danced indieishly, and 2 x possibly gay Latino(?) boys who obviously LOVED ANNIE ZOMG A+++ and got down like they just did not care. There were other oddities. It wasn't a date night, boys came in groups of boys and girls came in groups of girls and stayed in same-gender clumps, and for several hours no one lit up a cigarette.
The opening act only started at 10PM despite the ticket saying 9PM (we finished our paellas and crème brûlées hurriedly at the Spanish Club down the block), but both sets were so short we were out of there by a quarter past midnight. ^^; I thought some of their songs were sort of boring, in a "...Or I could be home listening to Bis right now" way, but there were an equal number that I quite liked. That is, I guess they reminded me a bit of Bis-but-more-twee (lots of melodica and cowbell and tambourine and handclaps and such), and the rest stands or falls according to the merit of the songs themselves. XD
With that out of the way:
One of the more ghetto setlists I've begged off a band
Always Too Late | The Wedding | The Greatest Hit | Chewing Gum | Crush | Come Together | Heartbeat ||| Kiss Me | Me Plus One
Several songs I haven't heard, which is nice. Jae, I guess she's playing "Me Plus One" now after all. XD The next single is supposedly "Crush", which is actually the most indie rock-sounding - though it's hard to say as her backing band consisted of 1 x guitar/drums and 1 x twiddlyknobs, so arrangements were fairly different from on record. "Crush" had a storm of guitar fuzz, and because Annie's voice is on the wispy side I immediately felt like I was listening to shoegaze although it wasn't really.
"Always Too Late" / "The Wedding" <-- never occurred to me but these songs are quite ominous really
"Come Together" <-- total house-is-a-feeling vibe
"Heartbeat" <-- like what they did to it, lovely plangent pentatonic synth bell cascade
"Kiss Me" <-- I wish this were going to be released next!
"Me Plus One" <-- "This song is about a beautiful girl with long red hair who was in a band during the nineties" <-- ???
More of Ced's photos: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
If it looks like the stage was six inches high and we were standing three feet away, that's because it was and we were. It was like the sort of stage where skits are performed at elementary schoolkids' birthday parties. ^^; There were 100 people in the audience at best (did the rest of Montreal really turn out for the Arctic Monkeys instead? That sifts the sheep from the goats), but at least most of them acted like they wanted to be there. Amusingly Ced and I were standing between two groups of boys: 3 x somewhat amused Francophone hipsters who talked to each other a lot and danced indieishly, and 2 x possibly gay Latino(?) boys who obviously LOVED ANNIE ZOMG A+++ and got down like they just did not care. There were other oddities. It wasn't a date night, boys came in groups of boys and girls came in groups of girls and stayed in same-gender clumps, and for several hours no one lit up a cigarette.
The opening act only started at 10PM despite the ticket saying 9PM (we finished our paellas and crème brûlées hurriedly at the Spanish Club down the block), but both sets were so short we were out of there by a quarter past midnight. ^^; I thought some of their songs were sort of boring, in a "...Or I could be home listening to Bis right now" way, but there were an equal number that I quite liked. That is, I guess they reminded me a bit of Bis-but-more-twee (lots of melodica and cowbell and tambourine and handclaps and such), and the rest stands or falls according to the merit of the songs themselves. XD