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Originally Posted by Moshe
Just got this info in an e-mail from Carlos Giffoni:
A quick Reminder:
May 7 at The Hook in Brooklyn Tarantulla Hill benefit with:
Lightning Bolt
Nautical Almanac
Double Leopards
Kites
+ No fun Djs
starts at 7pm
no more advance tickets are on sale but there will be plenty at the
door for those showing up early.
Also, good news the No Fun Dvd (2004-2005 fests) to be released on
Load Records is finally finished and will soon be on the way to the
pressing plant. release date and teaser web-videos will be availible
shortly.
C.
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A little mini-review thing because I forgot to post a review after going to the show mentioned above the DVD announcement...
I went to that Tarantula Hill Benefit Show and it was really really weird. First of all, it was pretty packed, not No Fun Fest Packed, but I would say there were at least 200 people there. That must have been great for Nautical Almanac and the Tarantula Hill crew considering it was a benefit and hopefully they got most if not all the proceeds.
Not so good for Nautical Almanac was that the majority of those people were younger kids probably (16 year olds through College Students)
only there to see Lightning Bolt and Nautical Almanac actually got heckled
at their own benefit show!!!
Like, seriously what the fuck? They actually played a great set... but the crowd was not into it all. It was funny like all these kids would crowd to the front before Kites and Double Leopards played and after like 5 minutes would just leave. Same thing during Nautical's set. Imbetween sets I heard a couple people saying stuff like "I like kept on waiting for the
song to start..." Which made me and my girlfriend look at each other and crack up. It was half-good for us cause we got to stand front-row and center, but it kind of dampened the vibe, and when the Lightning Bolt fans actually got vocal when Nautical Almanac played it was just a fucking shame. Some guys to my left were giggling like something was funny (I guess nautical almanac look kind of funny when playing, but they use a lot of contact mics which require movement and it meshes with their noise-hippy image.)
This one kid was shouting stuff like "Stop acting!!!" and "Play you're instruments!!!" He looked like a music a student. Strange, I guess Lightning Bolt attracts closed-minded people who like them because of their technical abilities, or something? I thought people who liked Lightning Bolt would be pretty open-minded, but I guess because they have a Tech thing they attract that kind of element.
The majority of the crowd obviously didn't know that they were at a benifit for Nautical Almanac... that their money was going to them... and that the show was supposed to be a show of support for the rebuilding of Tarantula Hill. During this heckling Nautical Almanac looked visibly peeved to awkward/uncomfortable to a bit pissed off. They were really on though, played great stuff with limited equipment (Including a couple songs w/ drums, Twig on two string bass, and Carly on Violin), but I think they didn't play as long as they could have because the crowd was giving them shit. Carly announced they'd play their last song and people cheered... such bullshit. The only other person I saw toward the front of the stage having a blast other than me and my girlfriend was Kites who was grooving along.
Really odd.
Then Lightning Bolt played and were fucking intense awesome as usual. I just now have a bad image of their fans. Hell, at least Nautical Almanac got money from a shit load of people if not the love.
Oh, and does anyone know how different that NO FUN FEST 2004 gonna be than the limited release one I bought at the 2005 Fest? The limited one was pretty cool... and thanks to Chris Habib for putting it together but I hope the "official" release is a bit more comprehensive.