(another) ive just seen melt banana thread!!!!!
 

last night in dublin... truely life affirming gig. anmazing show, amazing sound and amazing friendlieness from them... loved every damn loud, fucking loud, second of it..

the little 10 minute medely of "short songs" ewas hilarious... possibly the loudest thing ive heard live (louder than lightning bolt) and possibly up there with the greatest live gig ive ever seen....

supported by the awesome dublin party weirdo on their final show...

melt banana rule all!! i fear tho, i may have actually finally done some damage to my hearing.. ill know in 48 hours or so....

i'm in love with yako

yes...... soooo sweet and nice.. she was ultra polite and spitting vemon at the same time....

yes, yasuko is amazing; such carisma.

definitely, "life affirming" is the word for their life shows.

i told you the 'short songs' segment rules

They need to come to Toronto right now.

it was classic.. the mosh pit going mental for short bursts and just breaking their shit in laughter every 30 seconds.. funniest thing ive ever seen at a gig...apart from bob mould walking out on stage and getting a full wet bogroll plonked straight on his head!

I thought Party Weirdo were awful in Belfast. The drummer was great but the other two were like inanimate objects on stage and the bassist looked embarassed to even be there, especially on one song where they were all screaming into the mic.

Melt Banana on the other hand were excellent

I saw a band going through the motions this evening. Luckily, there aren't any other bands that have such an amazing live show, so their motions are better than 99% of bands at full tilt.

There's something about seeing a band going through the motions. They're like decent roofers. You don't want a roofer that's gonna start improvising over your guttering. You want a decent job done. A lot of bands could learn a lot from a decent roofer. A lot of everything could learn a lot from a decent roofer, for that matter.

I got that sticker (the logo on top) on my guitar, it's fucking huge.

This is seriously the 4th or 5th "i just saw melt banana thread"... we've all seen tons of the same bands, but this is the only one to really get that kind of response.. amazing.

What a fucking guitarist...

agata is one of the best guitarists on the planet. hes actually sorta underrated too. i think he should be mentioned among the best, but he certainly aint.

Did you get to see Avril? There is something very comforting about people being very good at what they do. As you say.

Hangovers and me are once again forced to spend time together.

agata is unbelievable.

I am curious as to how he doesn't break any strings actually. I think he's tuned right above open g.. I found his tuning somewhere on the web, it's pretty high...

do you like his solo shit? i sure as fuck do. i would have loved to hear something with agata and derek bailey, too bad hes gone. i know they have different styles completley but ive always imagined their guitar styles together would sound great.

agata was stunning.. i mean that noise from one guitar.. i know pedals and shit etc but his technique is truely... erm, stunning... high velocity rampage!!!!

there was a point in the set, about midway where he omitted a frequency, feedback modulated i reckon, that actually hurt my ears, i wa fearful that it did permanent damage but today, 2 days later, they are back to normal....

everyone goes on about the guitarist, vocals, drummer.. and quite justifiably as well but the bassist is also quite an amazing little musician... totally rockin...

shit guys, fucking amazing band.. if they ever appear close to your vicinity.. go see them... stunning!

rika...oh shit, she's barely taller than her bass but she still plays those fast fluid lines that actually support the songs over which agata does his stuff.

when i saw them, i was standing right in front of her, until the fast beat started on "shiled for your eyes..." afterwards i was in a whilrwind of people after which i ended up somewhere else.

Hell yeah, my friend put the sticker on his bass.

He might just put say, an A string where the E string is and tune it down (or up, I'm not too sure of notes).

ha, i was standing just in front of rika, i was in "the mosh" kinda but had to stand my ground.. i ws transfixed by them......... i wasnt budging a motherfucking inch..... until my ear fell out at the last encore.......

they are an aquired taste.. the dublin gig was their last tho....
i love em, real quirky that dog crossed with erase errata tounge in feminist cheek pop...

that's something i couldn't have done when i saw them as i kinda started the slam where i was, i just lost my shit and started jumping and running and smashing myself to others.

you should have seen the security people afterwards, they were uniformed bodyguard style, black suit, black tie, white shirt; afterwards they half of them didn't have ties or shirts, jackets off, or they had their ties completely on the other side.

you see marcos.. i couldnt slam dance.. im a skinny fuck and id get broke in two also im uber concious of my complete lack of balance and rhythm and i was just too stoned to give a fuck.. also if you stand your ground the pretty ladies will stand close to for mosh protection!!!! i also had mints.. they like that too!! trust me.....

the mosh was totally funny tho. one guy , going mad cluted this big fucker really hard in the nuts.. the entire crowd stopped mid song to pick him up . shook hands, made sure he was fine and then literally threw him back into the mosh.....

fucking students!

I liked the bit about two songs in when some girl lost the contents of her bag and the lads all stopped to help her look for her stuff on the ground. I fanally went to the back when the bloke next to me, who was not moshing but air drumming (I know) took umbrage at a bloke who careened into him and obviously didn't give a toss whether it interfered with the air drumming. It only takes one air drummer without a sense of humour to make things all silly and macho. I remember the folks on the Consolidated Play More Music album pointing out this very fact all those years ago.
As for the gig, I concur completely with PaulieB, noting particularly how hot the singer was. I had earplugs in, wuzzie that I am, so all I heard was the wonderful musicianship, not the squalls. But the MBV tomorrow night may be a different story.
Melt Banana are pretty darn good, though.

you see? i may have started forcing myself into others at first, but then i discovered i had more enthusiasm than energy and strenght for the slamming so i had to retire to the sidelines to recuperate...the ladies were there too.

melt banana are a band where the ladies are far more likely to join the moshpit that is normal

melt banana are one of the only true punk bands around. yes... punk.

fucking punk out...

lar good to see you again and enjoy the kevin shields flashbacks!!!!!

there were ladies at the pit that time, but also some crusty punks and other huge dudes so...

actually, melt-ba's show here was packed with girls, it was probably half and half, overall.

saw 'em again last night, my whole body hurts now though. beter than the last show for sure.