65daysofstatic, The Cure, Cut Copy
posted May 13, 06:29 PM by Rick WebbFile under: Reunions ,
I didn’t tourist for it, but I saw three pretty awesome bands last night. First, I headed over to the Agganis Arena at Boston University, my Alma Mater. I hadn’t been there before, so I decided it was time. The show was The Cure, an old fave of mine, and 65daysofstatic, a new one, that I hadn’t had the chance to see live yet.
The show was a reschedule so I was lucky enough to get good seats at the last minute. And man, was it worth it. 65daysofstatic are in the Mogwai mold, and they totally delivered. Loud, awesome post rock that I love love love.
I approached the Cure with some trepidation. I’ve loved them since I was a kid, but man I have no idea of a single song of theirs since Wish, which I still conisder to be late period cure and it’s, um, 16 years old (I have this problem with REM as well – I still think of Green as a new album).
But man, did they deliver. Out of the first ten songs, 5 of them were from Disintegration. The amazingly opened with “Plainsong” and “Prayers for Rain” back to back. They played a few new songs, which were decent, but in the 100 minutes I saw them they also played “The Blood,” “Hot Hot Hot,” “A Night Like This”, “Pictures of You,” “Lullabye,” “Lovesong” and “The Edge of the Deep Green Sea.” Wait they may have also played “The Same Deep Water As You.” In any case, it was awesome.
Then I left early (That HURT) to go see Cut Copy next door at the Paradise. AWESOME. The kids of Boston dance again at shows, did you know that? This is like the fourth show I’ve seen recently in town where the entire place was hoppin. They don’t stand around with their arms folded anymore. Yay Boston. You loosened up. Or the kids did. Or something.
I also think it’s interesting this whole new school of merging rock and dance. Cut Copy, MGMT, and Hot Chip are the leaders of it. All of them are basically a dance band with guitars. I mean there was the whole dance punk thing a while back – The Rapture and !!! – and LCD Soundsystem’s been blazing that trail too, but I LOVE IT. I love it. I’ve been around a long time, and I’ve been constantly frustrated with the separation between dance – which has been totally limited in the techno realm – and rock – which most people think you can’t dance to.
So this whole new thing, these last few years, I love it. Yay dance rock! Yay dancing Bostonians! Yay 30 year old goth bands that still play half of Disintegration 20 years later! What an awesome night out of rock.
Also, I caught Shearwater last friday and Clinic. Shearwater were awesome. Then my friend Lele told me that the amazing Jetpack McLeod Interviewed Shearwater at our McLeod Residence recently. Awesome! Also caught some of Clinic, who I’d heard a little bit of, but they didn’t really do it for me.
British Sea Power tonight. Cut Copy in New York again tomorrow. Bought tickets to Bon Iver, Beth Orton and Phosphorescent today. Gotta figure out where I’m gonna see Nick Cave on this tour.
It is the season of the rock.
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