CHEMTRAILS
Studio 9294 - London - 06-02-19
1 - Watch Evil Grow
2 - Headless Pin Up Girl
3 - Ghosts of My Dead Cats
4 - Vultures
5 - Deranged
6 - I’ll Never Be
7 - Aeons
IDLES
Studio 9294 - London - 07-02-19
1 - Heel/Heal
2 - Queens
3 - Faith in the City
4 - 1049
Gotho
5 -
Television
6 - Great
7 - Danny
Nedelko
8 -
Rottweiler
QUEEN ZEE
Studio 9294 - London - 07-02-19
1 - Victim
Age
2 - Lucy
Fur
3 - Loner
(cut)
BONUS :
Hop Pop Pop
Festival - Orleans - 14-09-18
4 - Hunger
Pains (cut out) & Porno
5 - Gay Bar
(Electric Six cover)
Technical info :
DVD Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 85 mns
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 85 mns
Size : 3, 96 Go
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included
Hi folks ! It's been a while ! But back at last ... almost in the same circumstances as those of the last post ... a year ago !! As I've already said, my editing stuff has become erratic as I'm first not a professional editor and it really takes time and fu***** goddamned impenetrable glitches to get over to reach the idea in mind ! And second, I now rather spend my free time on the spot in a moshpit than being glued in front of a screen. But, well ... obviously, I got caught again !
Getting my
hands back into that mess is always a bit of catch-22 situation. I have a long
list of underground projects, picking one out is always frustrating, feeling
sorry for those being left behind. What's going around at the moment often
makes the difference. And this time, I foolishly decided to make my nights
shorter again getting inspired by the highly appreciated Seattle-based KEXP broadcaster
that decided to relocate its 4th International Clash Day to London for
four days of live performances, paying tribute to the gang and to the fortieth anniversary
of their iconic "London Calling" album. It was a real treat to watch all
these bands live, brought home to you after your daily toil (huge thanks for
this KEXP !). As I mentioned above, opportunity makes a thief and so, I decided to
keep a souvenir of the event !
Every year,
everyone's got their favourite personal pop song. You don't really know
why you're so fond of it, it doesn't even sound appropriate to what you're used
to listening to but right here, right now, it just clicks ! Back in 2017, I oddly got hooked by this one.
Couldn't take it out of my head for weeks. My 2018 pop fav sounds more familiar to me
and it was performed by the first band you have here : Chemtrails.
My first
encounter with the band took shape once more thanks to our beloved local neighbours
! Everyone knows that Belgium
is heaven on earth for festival-goers ! I try to pay visit to the country every
year and 2018 was no exception to the rule. I'd planned a kind of a 10-day
Belgian Rock Summer Tour during which I bounced back and forth from five
different events. The one where I first met Chemtrails is definitely one of a
kind ! A tiny home-brewed festival called "La Truite Magique", lost
in the Ardennes woods with some stages finely
nestled in trees, bordering a crystal green brook. An enchanting scenery
"crowded" by a thousand, to the most ! I still just can't figure out
how the hell the band ended up in this lovely remote place ?? For their unique
date out of Britain
!! Anyway, it was a blast to be there, freshly listening to a band I'd discovered
only a few weeks before. (...) I was lucky, they played my three personal n°1
songs from them, still with this rough poppy lo-fi garage sound, half way
between The Wannadies, Supergrass, The La's guitar and The B52s (well at least, these are the ones
who are coming up right now !).
The second
band featured here was probably the most expected of this 4-day celebration.
Probably too the closest to the legendary Clash, both in terms of music and social
content. Nothing's poppy here. Idles are bare, Idles are pounding, Idles are
your nails screeching on the chalkboard. They're the roughest Clash but still,
out of this cold raw roar and just like their glorious predecessors, rises a
steady human rights message. Joe Talbot, the singer, never fails to call it
back. The guy has already been through his lot of hardship which has eventually
turned him into someone preaching solidarity and brotherhood while some others, under
the same circumstances, would have sunk into withdrawal and bitterness. I
already noticed this cold warmth when I first saw them, back in April 2017, in Bourges. A then blond Joe made every effort
to make himself well understood, commenting the songs, putting them into
perspective and making sure the message is well delivered ... by speaking
French most of the time ! I also remember another thing he was quite used to be
doing at the time obviously, spitting in the air and gulping down back the gob before
it hit the ground ! Shivers in the audience ! :-)
The third
set is unfortunately incomplete. Something went wrong in the capture, the sound
goes off after ten minutes or so and the video is sadly no longer available. That's a
shame cause the guys were on fire and the band we have here is surely as wild
as Idles, but in a more "glam" way. Their first album came out that
same night at midnight and they truly delivered an electrifying show to be up to
the event. I've already talked highly of Queen Zee here (in the "video of the week" section above), seen for the first time at this same special night in
Bourges, but one year later than the Idles' one. To fill up the disc to the
brim, I added some personal footage of my second encounter with the band, in
September 2018, in
Orleans, at the Hop Pop Hop festival, where
this time Zena fronted the stage in a kind of ... wedding dress !
Enjoy !
Cheers !
