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whorefrost 04.27.2006 04:35 AM

Wolf Eyes Live
 
going to check them out tonight in Edinburgh.. will be my fourth Wolf Eyes live experience... I love these fuckers... I got the Live in a Boat DVD recently which I thought was a bit disappointing, especially compared to the intensity of the last video they posted on Ecstatic Peace and live recordings like the Anthony Braxton jam... hopefully tonight will be awesome... will shoot some footage and edit up a little film for you all!

A Thousand Threads 04.27.2006 04:44 AM

cool
thanks alot

going to see em in mhh.. exactly one week
hell yeah

toxic johnny 04.27.2006 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by whorefrost
will shoot some footage and edit up a little film for you all!

That would be sweet... I'll also look forward to your report because it's been about 2 years since I've experienced the full live Wolf Eyes onslaught... I'm sure that they are still amazing.

Toilet & Bowels 04.27.2006 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by toxic johnny
That would be sweet... I'll also look forward to your report because it's been about 2 years since I've experienced the full live Wolf Eyes onslaught... I'm sure that they are still amazing.


they're playing in london tomorrow night (friday), and taurpis tula will be supporting. taurpis tula in trio format featuring chris corsano. it's at electrowerkz in islington

chutneyfarmer 04.27.2006 06:09 AM

Went to Koln last week to see them play with battles and black dice. it was a fucking amazing show! the creepy slow jams they do live now are deadly. hopefully they'll come back to ireland soon

Onani Nic 04.27.2006 09:15 AM

LESS THAN TWO MONTHS THAN I FINALLY GET TO SEE WOLF EYES!!!

I'm going to see every every show of there Australian tour that is geographically/economically possible.

toxic johnny 04.27.2006 09:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
they're playing in london tomorrow night (friday), and taurpis tula will be supporting. taurpis tula in trio format featuring chris corsano. it's at electrowerkz in islington


Sadly I can't make it... I've tried to block this one out of my mind because I love Taurpis Tula and Chris Corsano so I know that this gig is going to be amazing... the only down side is the venue... I absolutely loathe Electrowerkz, it is without doubt the scummiest... shittiest venue I've ever been to. But I'm sure they'll rise above it.

Iain 04.27.2006 10:12 AM

Yeah, I thought the Live in a Boat dvd was a tad dissapointing too. Alas, I am going to miss them on this tour. Hopefully they might do ATP....here's hoping.

Pax Americana 04.27.2006 01:12 PM

I saw them last year, for free no less. It was pretty insane.

pokkeherrie 04.27.2006 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by chutneyfarmer
Went to Koln last week to see them play with battles and black dice. it was a fucking amazing show! the creepy slow jams they do live now are deadly. hopefully they'll come back to ireland soon


personally i like their wilder sets better than the new style with the slow jams they're doing now... i saw them a couple of weeks ago for the 3rd time, but i enjoyed the other two times more.

whorefrost 04.27.2006 04:37 PM

apparently their new LP is really minimal as well, so i'm curious to see what they will be like... will be leaving shortly... listened to weapons of ass destruction which has got me hyped up nicely...

o o o 04.27.2006 05:07 PM

i saw them two weeks ago for the first time...
there were some parts i really loved (basically when they were standing still behind their machines building this mass of noise; when the saxophone was there, it was great too) and some parts that bore me (basically when they were playing like some sort of death metal band and screaming in microphones... although, i don't know anything about death metal or black metal, so i might say something stupid here... anyway, those parts i did not like)...

they were playing in a theater and everyone was sitting... it was a bit strange at times...

Toilet & Bowels 04.27.2006 06:17 PM

so have they completely dropped the wilder stuff? i'm bringing my friend to see them tomorrow and he's a metal head and will probably not enjoy slow noise jams...

pokkeherrie 04.27.2006 07:50 PM

when i saw them most of their set consisted of one long slow noise jam. after that they played two more "scream into the mic/pump your fist into the air" songs.

i enjoy both, but in my opinion last year the noise jams vs. wild stuff thing was more balanced. this time the last two songs felt a bit as if they were forced into it.

whorefrost 04.27.2006 08:53 PM

ok you sick little fuckers here you go: http://s59.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0...G1QSIQXC9M0IAW 7 minutes, just over 16 megs.... enjoy..

chutneyfarmer 04.28.2006 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by pokkeherrie
personally i like their wilder sets better than the new style with the slow jams they're doing now... i saw them a couple of weeks ago for the 3rd time, but i enjoyed the other two times more.


I saw them last year and they did one shortish droney jam, then a set of the screamy stuff. it was brilliant. This time tho, the sound seemed to suit the slow stuff better. It was cool to see a different sort of set from them this time round

Toilet & Bowels 04.29.2006 06:56 PM

anybody go to the show in london last night, i enjoyed it, but the sound in that venue is beyond dire. during taurpis tula's set the only instrument i could here was the kick drum, the rest was just this murky soup of indistiguishable sounds

RockerNino 04.29.2006 10:23 PM

not a fan. saw them open for SY, way too loud and incoherent.

atsonicpark 04.30.2006 07:05 AM

wolf eyes. yawn.

yellow swans. yum.

whorefrost 05.01.2006 06:57 AM

yellow swans. yawn.

wolf eyes. yum.

Trasher02 05.01.2006 07:05 AM

Wolf eyes. yum
Yellow Swans. yum

HaydenAsche 05.01.2006 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark
wolf eyes. yawn.

yellow swans. yum.


Word.

RdTv 05.01.2006 07:34 AM

Black Dice>Yellow Swans>Hair Police>Wolf Eyes>Lightning Bolt

Onani Nic 05.01.2006 08:54 AM

From what i've heard Black Dice were more rad when they sounded like Void.

Wolf Eyes rule
Yellow Swans rule but in a different way
Hair Police don't do it for me.

I get to see Wolf Eyes three times in under two months!!!!!!!!!!!!

I saw Yellow Swans last year and they were amazing. Pick up Psychic Secession, reissued on Load records if you have the chance.

Everyneurotic 05.01.2006 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Onani Nic
From what i've heard Black Dice were more rad when they sounded like Void....


so i'm not the only one who thinks that?

i just got back into wolf eyes, i burned burned mind for a friend how has heard zero noise and heard it again, and remembered it's the first noise album i got into (not counting lightning bolt because lightning bolt are a phenomenon on their own). aaron dilloway solo is fantastic, also.

yellow swans are great, but on their records, like bringing the neon war home. their stuff like their split with gang wizard is crap.

hair police are pretty awesome, i love them, they can do noise in so many different ways, from short and harsh to long and drony. i love them

sonikold 05.01.2006 12:29 PM

i saw the wolf eyes live. that was cool. i was really glad i brought ear plugs. they put on a good show considering how much they acted like they didn't want to be there:

this is a picture:
http://static.flickr.com/5/8527154_6a694c3484.jpg?v=0

they did some burned mind fist-pumpers and some cool jams involving amplified chains in metal pipes and beating the shit out of their gongs. i was bummed my band didn't end up getting to play, but i got in for free anyway...

oh, and it was the first show they played after dilloway's mace accident...

whorefrost 05.01.2006 06:15 PM

as much as i also dig black dice from beaches and canyons onwards, i have to agree their early shit is completely gnarly/hard to beat...

Toilet & Bowels 05.04.2006 04:14 PM

yellow swans are one of the boringest live bands you'll ever see. wolf eyes are one of the best.

compulsive diarrhea, jico 02.20.2007 10:18 AM

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sun city girl 02.20.2007 04:53 PM

wolf eyes will play here in helsinki in april, COOL!!!!!!!!!!111

Glice 02.20.2007 05:05 PM

I feel very old when people talk about Wolf Eyes. I really do not hear what there is to get excited about. I thought their set at ATP was the least interesting (but amusingly so, thanks to the incredibly angry barstaff) thing I saw all weekend. It's not like in my day, I tell you.

jon boy 02.20.2007 05:08 PM

they were great at atp i really liked them. glices comments and the security guards faces where fun also.

atari 2600 02.20.2007 05:31 PM

& who leaked Burned Mind?...oh yeah, that was (old board) me tee hee.

CHOUT 02.21.2007 05:57 AM

Played a show tonight...

Iain 02.21.2007 08:26 AM

Their pre Beaches stuff is basically really noisy hardcore type stuff from what I remember. Maybe it was just a 7" or two they did. Was Cold Hands quite noisy, I think I heard it but I can't remember.

As for Wolf Eyes, it's hard to get super, super excited about them but I like some of the stuff that has a real sense of creeping dread which I doubt they'll play when I see them. I wasn't especially excited by their ATP set, it was quite good. Looking forward to seeing them in a smaller venue in April but not looking forward to having to see Consumer Electronics again. (actually, I'm sort of keen to see if he's as shit as I remember)

whorefrost 02.21.2007 09:05 AM

The Black Dice Troubleman EP is some of the best atonal hardcore I've ever heard. Beaches and Canyons is cool as well but on a completely other vibe. Black Dice have become progressively less interesting to me since then.

Glice 02.21.2007 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Iain
Their pre Beaches stuff is basically really noisy hardcore type stuff from what I remember. Maybe it was just a 7" or two they did. Was Cold Hands quite noisy, I think I heard it but I can't remember.

As for Wolf Eyes, it's hard to get super, super excited about them but I like some of the stuff that has a real sense of creeping dread which I doubt they'll play when I see them. I wasn't especially excited by their ATP set, it was quite good. Looking forward to seeing them in a smaller venue in April but not looking forward to having to see Consumer Electronics again. (actually, I'm sort of keen to see if he's as shit as I remember)


Consumer Electronics seems to pop up quite often as support. I've seen him be utter shite, and seen him be good. As is often the case with noise, it's difficult to know if it's down to my mood or how good the people making the noise are.

Iain 02.21.2007 04:50 PM

True, but I'm finding it hard to imagine a situation or or mood where his stuff wouldn't fuck me off quite a lot. It was the thinnest, most tedious harsh digital noise with his incoherent shouting over the top. It just seemed so...silly, and not in an entertaining way. I know those power electronics dudes aren't supposed to be taken seriously but everything they do is so po-faced and earnest...yeah, yeah it's supposed to be 'transgressive' I know, but it all seems so... shit to me.

Glice 02.21.2007 05:03 PM

I like the way you're arguing with a fictional staunch industrialist puritan in your above post. Personally, rather than follow those 'trangressive' lines, I tend to just ignore most noise. If it happens in front of me, fine, but if it doesn't, also fine. Zen apathy and noise is the title of my new book.

Iain 02.21.2007 06:05 PM

Well, I know you're not the fictional staunch industrialist puritan that I started the imaginary argument with...I just had some things floating around in my mind...the sort of things people say to defend Power Electronics. Something about the whole thing turns me off....totally willing to listen to stuff and judge on a band by band/song by song basis but Consumer Electronics were shit.


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