Old friends, glory old days

Thx to all you lovely people for a great night! Was nice seeing you again, hope that we can rejoin soon.

Hugs,
Bernie

Bloc Party go rave

Bloc Party go back to the 90ies and recorded this bewildering song: Flux.



I love the video. Nice trash : ) It's so good to see that Bloc Party take another route than all those young British rockers. Keep going off track!

These boys are: Tocotronic

Tuesday this week a friend and me went to see Tocotronic down in Posthof, Linz. Earlier this year i declared their new album 'Kapitulation' as probably 2007ths best release so far. It still is, leaving announced sensations as Radioheads 'In Rainbows' far behind. (By the way: Anyone ever heard someone talking about the new Radiohead album? And by saying so I don't mean this oh so revolutionary way of distribution. See?)

Anyway, the concert was enlightening. Last time I saw Tocotronic in Linz was 5 years ago, same venue. How different two gigs of one and the same band can be. 2002: The concert hall packed with people. 2007: Hum, let's say it was half full. Ok, 2/3rd full. Which is still embarassing for Linzer indie-lovers. 2002: A lame concert, with a support act playing Tocotronic against the wall. 2007: Tocotronic at it's peak.

First of all to mention: Accepting Rick McPhail as a 4th band member gave the sound of Tocotronic a major boost. Highly complex walls of sound bursting out over the crowd are a result of this, producing memories of late 80ies/early 90ies shoegazers My Bloody Valentine or Ride. Additionally i am of the opinion that McPhails guitar gave the songs more precision. Some might say this kind of took away Tocotronics 'rebellious' attitude. I say they were never more rebellious than now.

Second, Tocotronic are proponents of something i call 'Neue Ernsthaftigkeit' ('new graveness'?). And I don't speak ironically. End to 'Spaßkultur', end to Sportfreunde Stiller! Example? Listen to the song 'Explosion': 'Everything is yours/a world made of paper/everything explodes/no will triumphates'.

Third, bassist Jan Müller was loaded like a howitzer.

Vienna²

A nice week is over, i spent more than half of it in Vienna. And Vienna was, as always heaps fun, especially as i was there for two nice events: One the promotion of sister Karin to a Doctor of the Law!

The other the birthday of my yearlong friend Dominik (sorry, no pics for that event. All censored).

Fia? Sweden hash it?? Any explanation???

Weirs band names, pt. II

A place to bury strangers

Come from: Brooklyn, NYC.

Named themselves: The name of the band is linked to both the Gospel of Matthew and the writings of British occultist Aleister Crowley.

Sound: A mix of The Jesus and Mary Chain, My bloody Valentine, Joy Division. Kneel down and pray!

Latest album: self titled

They are: This year's biggest surprise. Some say: You haven't heard anything like this before. Pitchfork media says: hott! I say: Hott AND spicy!

Web: www.aplacetoburystrangers.com

A place to bury strangers - Missing you

Party, party!

Had two days off last week so that my weekend lasted 4 days long! Yay, and i had party for three days in a row. But old man i am, i'm rather exhausted now. Even went to Mensafest, which turned out to be a good choice, surprisingly.













Oh how much i love LUI ; )

I am so happy to be not neurotic.

Indie hairstyle

Here's a nice site on indie-kids and their hairstyle. Pretty funny.

http://www.catbirdseat.org/catbirdseat/indiehair.html