Re: Announcing LIT3

[Philip Rush <philip_rush@ye...fsnet.co.uk>]

It was like all your Christmas rolled into one.

Cold, empty to start, the BAs doing a sound check as the Guinness  
filled.
First support:  No Such Error.   Young, imaginative;  guitar/ vocals;  
drumsmer with a weirdly minimal kit;  keyboard player with a lot of  
bass.  Abrupt endings, neat guitar work up and down the neck.  Neat  
lyrics.  "Life is strange."
A touch of The Fiery Furnaces?

Second support:  Saturation Point  I know we're supposed to like  
them, three BAs in a spin-off line-up, but I think they're crap.   
Fripp with a migraine.  The kind of noise which is okay in a  
rehearsal studio when you're warming up.  No-one seemed to like it.   
They need  better structure ot the pieces or a vocalist.  That is,  
either stick to being the BAs or sign up third act Suzanne.  She  
played a kind of post-modern punk.  That is, not very punk and a  
nicely expensive guitar, but with punk pretensions and only five  
major chords in the repertoire.  Good.  Sometimes the rhythm went  
awry.  Too many (surely unintentional) seven-beat bars for me.
BAs at last came on at gone eleven.

Bury your love like treasure.  I remember that.  Raise the roof high.  
Tolerance.  All the usual suspects.  Two covers from the April- 
scheduled Harvest tribute album.  I think I was supposed to recognise  
them.  Didn't.
A great new song called Twenty-five kinds of love which worked  
lyrically and musically very well.  "But that's still not enough."
A rather slow - and none the worse for that - Jacket Hangs and a  
technically impeccable ... And Stones;  a Tree full of Starlings  
better than the recording (fuller lyrics?) and after a Severn Beach,  
a big big Breaking in my heart with seven guitarists.
Oh, and I bought a copy of LIT 3.  (Number 1).

There seemed to be copies left at the end.  Stan Giles was selling  
them. I didn't have the courage or the cash to buy any more copies on  
spec.  Sorry.  You probably have his email address.  I do.  Contact  
me then if you want to email him.
I started playing the CD but then I went to bed.  It was 1:42.  But  
then, it always is.
Philip

PS I have used iTunes to burn an album of songs all of which last  
exactly 4 minutes 20 seconds.  Blinder.

On 23 Dec 2006, at 10:01, Neil Stanley wrote:

> So...
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> What was the Bristol gig like?
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> From: stevetreacle@ho...com
> To: blueplanes@st...net
> Subject: RE: [Blueplanes] Announcing LIT3
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:00:35 +0000
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> Abi ...
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> Does that mean you can't make either of the Xmas gigs?
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> Any news on the line-up and set-list?
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> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:49:44 +0000
> From: abi_rock_chick@ya...co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Blueplanes] Announcing LIT3
> To: blueplanes@st...net
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> I would really be happy if someone could grab me a copy....shipping  
> and cd cost and trouble generously paid for before sending if  
> required :)
> HAPPY XMAS EVERYONE!!!!
> Drift on,
> Abi
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