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New Year's Eve with the Strokes

Ethan Hawke

14:55 / 21.11.01

I just got tickets to see the Strokes and Guided by Voices play on News Year's eve at the Appollo Theater (!) in Harlem! Woohoo! The kicker is that David Cross of MR. Show fame, one of the funniest men alive, is hosting the evening and doing 45 minutes of standup beforehand. New Yorkers, make your plans now!

Ierne

15:50 / 21.11.01

Cheers Todd! The Apollo is a kickass venue. Haven't been up there in a while.

Hmmm...not sure what I'm doin' yet. it will involve champagne, peeps, more champagne, tunes, and more champagne.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

17:00 / 21.11.01

o! my! god! GBV! David Cross! Yes!

(and the Strokes will be there too, which certainly doesn't suck. If they try to pull some crap like GBV playing for any less than 2 hours, that may incite some rioting, though..)

Thank you so much for letting me know about this Todd, I have to wait til tomorrow to order tix, cos I don't have the 'presale code' or some shit. I'm going for the Dec 30th show, I want to be with my friends on actual New Years eve...

[ 21-11-2001: Message edited by: Flux = Hip Priest ]

otherjerry & the unworkable siblings

18:57 / 21.11.01

umm. hi everyone. i've never posted before and none of you know me, but um...
i wanted to ask how you scored the tickets, bro, and if maybe perchance you could hook us up with the password or some such business. i'll buy you a beer at the show.
therjerry@hotmail.com">otherjerry@hotmail.com

Ethan Hawke

00:02 / 22.11.01

Check the strokes' website. MY girlfriend got the tickets, and that's where she says she found the password for the presale. Good luck.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

17:31 / 23.11.01

Okay, I'm going to the Dec 30th show... Todd, are you going to the 30th or the 31st?

Jack The Bodiless

11:01 / 25.11.01

I won't be there. Because I live in England. And because the Strokes are utterly derivative shit.

Seth

11:31 / 25.11.01

I'm finding it increasing hard to find new music that isn't derivative. It's much less of an issue for me than it used to be.

Jack The Bodiless

12:06 / 25.11.01

It's the 'utterly' part that pisses me off. That single (forget the name as I honestly didn't give a fuck) sounded exactly like a poor retread of old Elvis Costello material. I'd probably be a lot less critical if everyone wasn't rabbiting on about how wonderful the useless fuckers are.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

13:44 / 25.11.01

the part that 'utterly pisses me off' is that the Strokes will be headlining, which is truly unfair, because they literally have about 13 songs, and GBV has about 2000, and they will eat into GBV's set time for sure. Any GBV show less than 2 hours just feels wrong and dirty - if they don't play at least 45 songs, it feels wrong.

GBV is very derivative too, but genius where The Strokes are simply okay.

It's all full circle though: I saw The Strokes open up for GBV back in January when no one knew who they were, now GBV is opening for them almost exactly one year later...

Seth

16:04 / 25.11.01

I'm sorry. But the "it's just so unfair" point is pretty silly. GBV are great, but "fair" and "record industry" are mutally exclusive. If GBV wanted to have space to be themselves and have a full set, they wouldn't be playing the gig. On the other side, it's nice to see the Strokes give props and support slots to a band who've helped them on the way up: you see far too many wankers who turn their backs on everyone who helped them get succesful.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

17:13 / 25.11.01

Actually, the schedule of the event hasn't been made public yet, so they could still do it in a fair way:

ie:

David Cross- 45 minutes
GBV- 2-3 hours
The Strokes - 1 hour

The Strokes would still headline, but GBV would get their appropriate set time.

Pin

17:16 / 25.11.01

Do Strokes sets really take an hour? The album's about half an hour long, and they only have one new song after that, don't they? The prospect of half a set of banter is a bit... crap, really.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

18:01 / 25.11.01

I think some folks are great with the banter -- last weekend, I saw the New Pornographers, and they were absolutely hilarious with their between song banter.

Grant Lee Phillips is a funny and charismatic enough of a guy that I would actually pay double the price of what he normally pays for to see him perform a show of banter and humorous anecdotes.

mondo a-go-go

08:23 / 26.11.01

kenickie were always best at banter.

Seth

15:43 / 26.11.01

Fish could talk the hind legs off a donkey. The man should do stand up. Plus he's frighteningly intelligent.

Jack The Bodiless

16:12 / 26.11.01

Jello Biafra. This man I would pay to see do spoken word. And would have done if my useless mate Edd had told me he was doing it in London a few weeks ago.

ceridwen

22:01 / 26.11.01

i saw the strokes here in austin- fairly banterless. i was a bit disapointed, cause they played every song straight off the album, no fun playing around stuff, and they seemed realy tired. but the guy next to me was dancing up a storm, he made me feel good.

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