Let’s face it, tinnitus is just another encouraging sign that you’ve really enjoyed your life (other positive signs are bad teeth and a negative bank balance) instead of having spent it swathed in bubble wrap and surrounded by health and safety officials. In fact, if I’m going to be honest, it seems that people these days are spending far too much time fussing over whether their earplugs are sitting at the right angle, and checking decibel levels at gigs, before adjusting themselves to a suitably quiet distance from the speakers.
Japandroids’ critically fawned over “Post Nothing” is the complete antithesis of this, which is partly why I placed them at #16 in my inevitable “Albums of 2009” list. Made their year, I heard. Thank the lords, then, that similarly adored Liverpool tastemakers Evol & Meshuggy have lured Japandroids over from their native Canada to recklessly abuse the cochleae* of Liverpool’s music lovers this Saturday.
You can buy tickets here, or, for those of you with little money, no conscience, or who simple enjoy free stuff, we are giving away a ticket for the gig at Korova. All you need to do to win is follow us on our brand new twitter and re-tweet the few words we put down about Japandroids. We’ll then pick a random winner and get in touch with you. *We should probably point out in the interests of the naive that going to this gig is not going to damage your ability to hear noises with your ears.
Japandroids fans will also be pleased to hear that the band are going to be hitting the studio in the short gaps on their current tour and releasing a slew of unreleased Japandroids songs on 7”. The first in this series is “Art Czars”, which you can hear above and buy here.
I’m liking what this poster’s telling me a lot; Joker, Fake Blood, Caspa, Rusko, Aeroplane and Simian Mobile Disco all compressed into one immense night. I’ve already ploughed through a thesaurus of superlatives to try and articulate just how great this line up is in a previous post, but now Simian Mobile Disco have been announced as the headliners. That said, I saw SMD on Saturday at the Warehouse Project and was left, not for the first time by an SMD live set, a little disappointed. I think it’s necessary to emphasise the “live set” part of their sentence though; I really believe that, although they sound great on record, the music just doesn’t translate well to a live setting. On the other hand, Simian Mobile Disco DJ Set?!! Now that is something that is half tempting me to whack out my superlative thesaurus.
You know, after years of spending my time using music as an excuse not to do anything else, you might think that I’d have got this whole “keeping up with music” business down to an art. Apparently not; despite being battered by F ederico Franchi’s “Cream” pretty much every weekend, I was always far too unreceptive at the time that it was played to take too much notice of it. I heard Erol Alkan drop it at Camp Bestival, and decided that I had to add this track to my collection. Finally, after a month scouring erolalkan.com, I found out that it was “Cream”, and have been spinning it ever since. The most embarrassing thing is that it was on “The Annual 2008” which has been knocking about in my room for years. And, you know what? It sounds better sober.
Whilst on the rare subject of huge club tunes, it is worth mentioning Sidney Samson’s “Riverside”. I had initially assumed this was a homage to Liverpool, but this hypothesis was destroyed by the discovery that Sidney is from Scandinavia. Anyway, “Riverside” has become one of those inescapable songs and, to be frank, aren’t we all just getting a little sick of it? Thanks to Torro Torro, then, for this huge reinvention.
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