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July 4 Alex theatre Birmingham uk.
Not a well know venue for bands of any kind, The next show there was 'Postman Pat where's Jess?'. Anyway, it was a strange night all round - sitting down, no smoking, no drinks allowed in except handy 1 glass bottles of red wine?. Although the show was billed as Yoshimi versus the pink robots, they did only 4 new songs as far as i could tell. This goes back to an incident involving Husker Du and a dissapointed Wayne Coyne. The whole show weaved about like a happy drunk. It was a spectacle, nonstop film and video footage shown on a large screen behind the band, all more or less synced with the tunes - even the Teletubies made an appearance. The band were joined by 'Frog bear' and 'Dog bear' two fellows in full costume who's job it was to throw various items at the band as they played: Large glitter filled ballons and what looked like fake snow. There only other contribution was to play drums and bass respectively on a cover of Kylie's 'can't get you out of my head' which sounded like Slint doing the flaming lips doing kylie? as he put it 'you know songs that are sad but have a really annoying disco beat, well we have made this sadder and even more annyoying'. There was also a camera fixed to Mr Coyne's microphone which gave you some interesting views of his blood covered face, and nasal hair, nice. Other highligts: Portable strobe lighting worn around the neck and excellent hand puppet skills. A bloody good night. |
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