Last night's gig was an odd one. Dave couldn't sing at all except for some heavily treated backing stuff so Noah took all the lead vocal duties and the whole thing seemed very seat of their pants and off the cuff. Only one song I recognised (#1) and the rest was pretty much a drone synth set. I thought it was fantastic but I could see how folks might be annoyed that they didn't get to hear Peacebone/Fireworks. I knew what was going to happen because I ran into a guy that I know that knows them before they came on and he told me what the story was but I'd say there was a fair bit of headscratching from most of the audience.
Best bit of the night though was when it ended (after 45-50 minutes) and they explained why the set had been the way it was and it was announced that Noah was going to play some Panda Bear stuff on his own. Cue massive cheer.
And the Panda Bear stuff was pretty fantastic, like a lovely unexpected treat. The Animal Collective material broke my mind a little bit and Noah pieced it all back together for me before heading off into the night (and ultimately to Roma II, classy).
So all in all I enjoyed it, not what I was expecting but pretty unique amongst Animal Collective gigs I'd imagine. Still hope they come back soon and blow the roof off the joint though.
Monday, November 5, 2007
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Chores and Derek were mindblowing too, but the end was so sudden! I was really disorientated when they just plucked me out of whatever spell they had me in. The bastards!
Never got into it myself. Thinking about it a bit more reading your post and I am probably feeling gig fatigue as much as anything. It has been quite a week.
Nothing now until Saturday so that I can recover. At least two more mental weeks to come before the year is out though. :-)
Hmm gig fatigue, I dunno. I've been out 8 nights in 13 and just had my mind, and right ear, blown by Deerhunter.
Raging I couldn't go to this, would love to see how some of the Strawberry Jam stuff turned out live.
I reckon the next Euro tour, whenever that is, will include an Irish date to make up for the odd set they played last night. The big upside to Sunday's scrambling is that perhaps Noah will be encouraged to come back and do a proper Panda Bear set.
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