Comments | primary_benelux: In poverty's harbour, I drowned.

primary_benelux

In poverty's harbour, I drowned.

Oct 09, 2005 12:38

"I didn't understand your plea to live or the guy's wish to take or give,
However, as backing away, he fell and lay dead amongst the fireworks display...
It's not quite the way to say goodbyes, it's not quite the way to behave,
Secured you a concrete grave beneath a motorway...
Gold scissors cut the ribbon and set them loose,
On the opening day the ( Read more... )

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vapourtrail October 9 2005, 10:03:43 UTC

I saw he Electric Six Friday night - it was a crazy show. The opening band is INSANE!

primary_benelux October 9 2005, 10:10:37 UTC

Heh, that's two shows in a matter of weeks where someone I know gets to see a band shortly before I do! (The first was Prefuse 73 two weeks ago, where slumberjack saw them the day before I worked at their concert.)

Bless Flying Nun ostrakos October 9 2005, 10:27:05 UTC

Kiwipop is the best. I'd be lost without The Clean and The Bats and The Tall Dwarfs.

Re: Bless Flying Nun primary_benelux October 9 2005, 10:35:46 UTC

I seem to like the fringe bands more, it appears -- the stuff on the outer edges of Flying Nun and Xpressway seems just a bit more compelling.

Re: Bless Flying Nun ostrakos October 9 2005, 16:10:23 UTC

check the Tall Dwarfs...kinda psych-folky. You might like The Mad Scene as well, they have a sort of 80s feel to them (and did a great cover of Echo & the Bunnymen's "Pictures On My Wall") that you would probably appreciate...oh, and the Cakekitchen too.

Re: Bless Flying Nun primary_benelux October 10 2005, 04:55:05 UTC

Yeah, those are all on the discs of Kiwipop I have.

names_for_rain October 10 2005, 13:18:02 UTC

I've heard bad things about Clear Channel. They were the organisers for a Hood show in Philadelphia where lots of the band's money got stolend and the band held CC responsible. Do you work for strictly Clear Channel or another org? Whats it like?

primary_benelux October 10 2005, 14:22:31 UTC

I do not work for Clear Channel -- I am affiliated with a small station run by one of the local universities that has a free-form format. Clear Channel is a company bent on global domination (even the station identification promos on the local modern rock station say so!) and owns about 1500 stations across the country, among other things. In comparison, Cumulus (the next largest radio conglomerate in the country -- I was mistaken, one of the volunteers I worked with last night actually works for them) owns 200 stations. Clear Channel has helped put a stranglehold on the quality of radio by playing the same manufactured drivel all across the country. The American music industry is not run by people who care about music, but by businessmen eager to make a profit (and those businessmen also seem to invade/infiltrate oil companies, the government, and more), and Clear Channel epitomises this in spades. They're absolutely horrible and anyone who decides to work for them deserves everything they complain about in their experiences with the