James Baker (jlbaker@pipeline.com)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:08:47 -0500
It sounds like the Dublin show was a little more interesting than the one I
attended in NYC a couple of weeks ago. The one I went to was only a notch or
two above being boring.
The music was fine, but the live performance added very little. I was left
thinking I would have been far better off listening to the CD in the comfort
of my own couch.
The amusing thing was the bass player (Bertrand something, I think), who was
the spitting image of Harry Enfield. I had to wonder whether the whole thing
was an elaborate sketch for his next television series.
James
-----Original Message-----
From: gerald molumby <gerald.molumby@aes.ie>
To: 'acid-jazz@ucsd.edu' <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: 06 November 1998 10:49
Subject: Air - Blew me away
>Man, what a show!
>
>Saw Air play here last night @ the Olympia Theatre, Dublin.
>Sean Lennon played support. He's ok if you're into that US idie
>post-grunge sound. Some of his more heavy instrumentals where the band
>got to work it out more were good. His voice is a bit whiney though. He
>played for about an hour.
>
>When he finished and while the crew were setting up, the music over the
>PA was an Air tape of their mix that they did on BBC radio a few months
>back. Nice mix tape! Some Beasties, Bowie, Beatles, Quincy Jones, solo
>Lennon, Gainsbourg, Theme from MASH, Rollerball etc. Gives a good
>indication where there comin from.
>
>So eventaully AIR came on, well actually the band first - all dressed in
>white. The band was 'Moog Cookbook' who were Beck's backing band when he
>toured Odelay last year. Man, they're tight. The line up was Bass,
>Drums, 2 keyboardists (one of whom looked a ringer for Walter Becker
>circa '75!) and AIR both on more keyboards as well as vocoder and
>guitar.
>
>>From what I can remember they played (not in this order) La Femme
>D'argent, Sexy Boy, Kelly touch the Stars (which turned into an electro
>medley of Tommow never Knows and Gary Numan's Cars causing a breakout of
>frenzied breakdancing!) Cassanova 70, Modular and that 2nd last song on
>Moon Safari,name?
>The thing is though, they only played for about 1 hour! But they did
>apologise for the lack of material and hoped to have more tunes the next
>time they tour. They said various bits & piecs between songs but it was
>very difficult to make out what they actually said 'cause of their
>accents plus they spoke thu vocoders.
>
>So an all too short show but still...it blew my mind. Maybe not as blown
>away as I was by 'Faust' last week but then that's another story
>altogether!
>
>RockOn,
>gerry
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