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Are You A Scissor Sister?

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19:18 / 13.10.04

Seeing them this Sunday (27th October) at the Royal Albert Hall. Anyone else going?

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:21 / 14.10.04

Sadly not. You bastard.

I've been listening to the album a lot again recently, and it really still stands up - I was expecting to be a bit sick of some of it by now, or feel that it had been eclipsed by things released since it came out, but I think it's still going to be in my top 5 albums of the year.

Pity they're not putting 'Mary' out a little later, so it could have a shot at getting Christmas No. 1. Well, really it's a pity they're not putting 'It Can't Come Quickly Enough' out in time to have a go at being Christmas No. 1...

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:39 / 14.10.04

It's not a style I can relate to whatsoever

I feel bad about this, but I kind of have to - many Pink Floyd enthusiasts have this problem with what the Scissor Sisters are doing with Comfortably Numb, id est making it good.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:59 / 14.10.04

I feel bad for not feeling bad that you said that.

17:09 / 14.10.04

I feel bad for not feeling bad about Flyboy's not feeling bad.

18:06 / 14.10.04

Does anyone here know, though, is the spoken pseudo-rap bit at the end of 'Laura' voiced by Babydaddy? If so, tell me quickly, so I can ejaculate and log off.

18:43 / 14.10.04

Won't you just tell Babydaddy
I'm gonna need his love
Why don't he give me his love?

Brigade du jour

10:16 / 16.10.04

Seeing them this Sunday (27th October) at the Royal Albert Hall. Anyone else going?

See you there! Except I should warn you it's Sunday 17th October, just in case that wasn't a typo.

Brigade du jour

22:53 / 17.10.04

Just got back from Royal Albert Hall, that was some gig, I must say!

It was pretty much what I was expecting actually - lots of jumping around and having fun on the stage and in the crowd, all the songs I was expecting to hear.

Jake and Ana really got the crowd in, as they say, the palm of their dinky wee hands. And then crunched us about until we had no option for escape from a squishy demise but to dance like we'd never danced before!

Paddy Boom was particularly good - as a drummer myself I wondered if he'd have little to do as the album sounds to me very synthy. But he rocked like a bus full of ... rocks.

There was lots of inter-song banter right after the very first song which surprised me, and for a moment I wondered if the gig would get bogged down with comedy stylings, but they seemed to get the balance between musicianship and sheer theatrical entertainment exactly right.

Here's a rough set list if anyone's bothered (not exactly the right order, though!).

Laura
Better Luck
Lovers In The Backseat
Comfortably Numb
Tits On The Radio
Mary
The Skins
Filthy/Gorgeous
It Can't Come Quickly Enough
Take Me Out (Franz Ferdinand cover)
Take Your Mama
Music Is The Victim

PS Quick bit of praise for the support act who were called something like Huff & Herb but ... oh, nothing like that probably! But it was a drag queen singer and a guy playing electric piano doing covers of things like Baby One More Time and Space Oddity in a very loud torch song style. They were jolly amusing!

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:50 / 18.10.04

That would be Kiki & Herb, I believe.

Brigade du jour

16:34 / 18.10.04

Thanks for the link Flyboy, hopefully it'll work soon!

They were really funny!

Brigade du jour

16:36 / 18.10.04

Ope, works now. Sorry, me and my soppy computer!

21:11 / 19.10.04

Kiki and Herb was grrrrrreat! Le Tigre were OK. The Sisters were gobsmackingly good!

Of course, we in the sequined-spattered moshpit could only gaze up at the posh folk in their boxes, such as Maggie Gyllenhaal, and think if I just squash that wee nyaff in front of me into the ground, I could touch the hem of Jake's gold lamé keks.

Return to Oz! Too, too much. And what an exuberant finale! Prophets without honour in their own land too.

Brigade du jour

22:03 / 19.10.04

Of course, we in the sequined-spattered moshpit could only gaze up at the posh folk in their boxes

You know Xoc, when I first entered the auditorium, I actually wished we'd been in the moshpit after all. I guess the grass truly is greener on the other side of the velvet balcony.

Ah, next time we'll meet outside and swap tickets eh?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:17 / 20.10.04

I don't feel bad about anything. I feel gooooooood. The bit at the end of Laura is supposedly Ana/Jake and is, according to the CD sleeve:

This'll be the last time, I ever do your hair.
Tired of this shit swear I'm gonna quit, Can't seem to make enough dough, but my cuttin's on a roll.
One face among the many, I never thought you cared.
Seen enough stuff thought I got rough, Now I know it ain't so, I gotta live my own. (repeat)

Still, they insist the chorus is 'Come on, come on', yet it's clearly pronounced 'Simone'. Anyone seen them live/read any interviews where this is explained?

18:00 / 20.10.04

Live, Babydaddy sings it (very sexily). And it sounds like Chamon, or summat.

Regrettable Juvenilia

18:46 / 20.10.04

Lady: isn't it actually something like "scha-moan", as in the way Michael Jackson says "come on"? (I'm sure I've had this conversation before somewhere.)

Anyway, I've seen Ana appearing to sing that bit at the end of 'Laura' but could never quite believe her voice could get that deep - maybe it can...

12:11 / 02.12.04

I expect most musicians spend their whole career trying to write a track like 'Laura'.

Regrettable Juvenilia

17:41 / 02.12.04

Band of the year? I think so. They PWNed 2004.

I can't believe it's two whole years since I first heard 'Comfortably Numb'.

22:30 / 02.12.04

I am thrilled to discover they are coming to Australia! On a bill with Jacques Lucont! Ooh!

11:33 / 04.12.04

Got their DVD yesterday: a sparkling confection of singles videos, live footage (much of it shot in Brighton) and an excellent Julien Temple-directed documentary (with shots of Babydaddy's naked, verrry hairy torso - mmmmm...).

Get it, get it.

Brigade du jour

19:06 / 04.12.04

Saw the new and very sexy video for Filthy/Gorgeous last night or night before.

It doth rock, but it's never going to get shown before 9pm! 'Ooh, men kissing men, we can't have that!'

And it made me fall in love with Ana Matronic, just a little bit.

01:24 / 05.12.04

Seeing Ana Matronic live made me fall in love with Ana Matronic. A lot.

Brigade du jour

21:46 / 05.12.04

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah

12:34 / 07.12.04

A rather sweet RealAudio piece here: an NPR producer who went to kindergarten with BabyDaddy tracks him down to talk about re-invention, the loneliness of small-town American life for those on the margins, and the frustrations of trying, in a group that is so much about image, concept, and aesthetic, to get people to take the music seriously. It's a nice piece, and oddly touching.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

20:30 / 07.12.04

Well, some scummy record company have rereleased Babydaddy's pre-SS band album. Anyone heard that?

And the DVD was top of my letter to Santa.

Not having seen them perform live yet I'm not sure as to what Ana's singing voice is actually like Fly, although the Comfortably Numb vid shows her singing it's obviously just Jake's voice and her voice is treated for her song on the album, so I saw it as her voice being naturally designed for doing backing vocals to Jake's falsetto. In fact, I see them as like Jimmy Sommerville and whoever the woman was in the Communards. When will they cover 'Don't Leave me This Way'?

Brigade du jour

20:41 / 07.12.04

Well Our Lady, when I saw SS recently it looked to me like Ana was basically the Mistress of Ceremonies, with Jake very much the lead singer. Her performance was more about the banter although she was a more than capable backing singer.

In fact, if she hadn't possessed the stage so assuredly I'd be inclined to forgive you for implying that she was some sort of Bez.

12:33 / 13.12.04

Edinburgh, Dublin and Belfast all sold out for this year....

how many singers are there? i love the voice of the person who sings 'mary'.

18:38 / 13.12.04

One male singer (Jake Shears) who sings almost everything, one female (Ana Matronic) and occasional backing from, I suspect, Babydaddy.

18:57 / 13.12.04

Well Our Lady, when I saw SS recently it looked to me like Ana was basically the Mistress of Ceremonies, with Jake very much the lead singer. Her performance was more about the banter although she was a more than capable backing singer.

Live, Ana Matronic very much holds the whole thing together. She adds most of the performance element. In the DVD's documentary, the others describe her as the band's connection with the audience.

[crowing] They're playing Edinburgh's Hogmanay Party (along with Blondie and, erm, Aberfeldy); we've got tickets for the enclosure, and will be seeing them with Loomis and Ariadne. Yay! [/crowing]

Brigade du jour

20:38 / 13.12.04

Ganesh, you're such a crower.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

10:44 / 14.12.04

Are you coming to the Barbemeet next Sunday 'Nesh? Can you bring the tickets so I can, er, admire them? < slips a brick in a sock >

22:45 / 14.12.04

I will very probably be at this Sunday's Barbemeet. I won't bring the tickets, but I will bring my burgeoning facial hair, which is a couple of weeks off Babydaddy standard. I just need to get the hat now. And the boa. And the sparkly lights.

I'm told enclosure tickets are going for £300 plus. I already have the smugness.

22:45 / 23.12.04

Bitch.

Regrettable Juvenilia

20:12 / 25.12.04

Quick, while you still can, check out this live version of new song 'Magnifique' available at Fluxblog. It features an amazing introduction - almost an incantation really, now there's REAL magic in music, fuck sigils to Astaroth - from Ana Matronic, and an equally amazing "meet the band" bit in the middle.

"2004 is the year of the Bear: Babydaddy!"

Really pleased to see that the 'Filthy/Gorgeous' video (directed by the guy who made Hedwig, John Cameron Mitchell, I believe) is full on queer disco crazy hedonistic excess. I'm starting to think this band have had a very clever plan all along...

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