Thursday, August 13, 2015

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TRIGGERFINGER - "First Taste" - Crossroads Festival - Bonn (D) - 28-10-05 + Extras



Crossroads Festival - Harmonie -  Bonn  (Germany) - 28-10-05   -   UPGRADE  !!
1 - Faders Up
2 - On My Knees
3 - Interview (I)
4 - Camaro (snippets «Faith», G. Michael)
5 - Hunt You Down
6 - Drivin'
7 - Interview (II)
8 - Maybe
9 - Commotion (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
«3 On Stage» Session - Pinkpop Festival - 30-05-10 
10 - Soon
11 - Lil’ Teaser (snippets «Glory Box», Portishead / «Daydream», The Wallace Collection)
12 - Is It
Unplugged Session : «How to play a waste container ?» - Pinkpop Festival - Camping B - 30-05-10 
13 - Inner Peace
14 - First Taste
MAS Museum - Anvers - 06-05-11
15 - Meddley / Let It Ride / All This Dancin´ Around / First Taste
Covers
16 - Sweet  Dreams - Eurythmics - Bibelot - Dordrecht (NL) - 04-12-09
17 - Only Girl In The World - Rihanna (snippets «This is not a love song», PIL) - GI:EL Radio (NL) - 09-03-11
18 - New : Can't Rely On You - Paloma Faith - GI:EL Radio (NL) - 12-03-14
19 - New : Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan - GI:EL Radio (NL) - 11-06-15
20 - Valerie - Amy Winehouse - with Natalia Druyts - De Laatste Week  (B) - 28-12-11
21 -  New : Territorial Pissings - Nirvana - with Tom Barman (DEUS) - De Laatste Week  (B) - 29-12-11
22 -  New :Hush Your Mouth - Bo Diddley - Joly Joker Club - Antwerpen (B) - 14-08-10

Technical info  :
DVD full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 4:3
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 102 mns
Size : 3,58 Go
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included 

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To celebrate the "Soon" coming 10th anniversary of the gig and since it has been rebroadcast in better quality lately, here's an updated version of this Triggerfinger's early years dvd.
I've also decided to start it all over again to fix the obviously corrupt parts of the initial post, back in 2013, that some of you let me know about.  
Actually, even if it is often a bit tedious to re-work something you have already done, it was nonetheless a true delight to get into this again. After years seeing them at so many concerts, I have almost forgotten how awesome they were from the beginning. More, here, are some real gems from the days of the first album I have hardly ever heard live since, "Faders Up", "Drivin'", "Maybe", "Commotion".
The interview is also a good way to check how they have faithfully stuck to their "goals" after all these years playing and touring everywhere.
The authoring of this re-issue reminded me too of a funny bit I had probably missed the first time during the "3 On Stage" session. Between "Lil' Teaser" and "Is It", a young girl obviously is asking something which makes the audience and the band laugh altogether. I guess this is something like "Who's this ?' but I don't speak Dutch. Maybe our Dutch friends could help us out on this ...
I've kept the original post below...
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Four years ago, I stumbled upon an article about Triggerfinger, lavishly described as a talented Queens Of The Stone Age-sounds-like band. The interview was full of loud promises and they soon turned into my next top list power trio to see on stage. I've repeated the move 4 or 5 times since, even going to see them live at home, in Belgium, and I must admit, I've never been disappointed. What's more is they're just adorable guys, always keen on having a chat with people after the show, even after a scarcely filled one, while they're systematically sold out with a snap in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. Fortunately, their popularity is growing, down here too, which is truly deserved. They've got everything, smart look (often tuxedo dressed), rockin' posture, great voice, years of practice on different projects. As a side note, they've just won 4 Belgian Music Awards again, for Best Alternative, Best Band, Best live and Hit Single of the Year !! So, don't miss them if they come round.     

The show we have here is one the earliest I've got. Their first album came out in 2004 and this one is dated 2005. Ruben has still his dark side whiskers and used to play on a double neck guitar, which I've never seen him do since. I've added a few extra footages, mainly covers which they seem quite like to appreciate ... as much as we do ! Hopefully, some more coming in the following weeks ... In the meantime and if you wonder if it's worth downloading, well ... have a "first taste" at this :   



Hope you'll enjoy the show.

Cheers !

Chac


Monday, July 27, 2015

SLAVES - "Hey ... Wow !!" - BBC1 Radio Big Weekend - 23-05-15 / Glastonbury Festival - 28-06-15 / Bonus : Eurockéennes de Belfort - 05-07-15



SLAVES
BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend - "In New Music We Trust" Stage - Norwich (UK) - 23-05-15
1. White Knuckle Ride
2. Where's Your Car Debbie?
3. Sockets
4. Cheer Up London
5. Feed the Mantaray
6. The Hunter
7. Shutdown (w/ special featuring : Skepta !!)
8. Hey
Glastonbury - Worthy Farm - Pilton (UK) - BBC Introducing Stage - 28-06-15 
9 - Are You Satisfied ?
10 - Ninety Nine
11 - Live Like An Animal
12 - Despair And Traffic
13 - Where's Your Car Debbie ?
14 - Sockets
15 - Wow !!! 7AM
16 - Cheer Up London 
17 - Feed the Mantaray
18 - The Hunter
19 - Hey
BONUS :
Eurockéennes de Belfort (F) - Club Loggia Stage - 05-07-15
20 - Ninety Nine
21 - Live Like An Animal
22 - Sockets
23 - Okay
24 - The Hunter
25 - Sugar Coated Bitter Truth

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 86 mns
Size : 3,97 Go
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included









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It's been a while. A while since the last bloody hell Pixies one, after which I decided to have a break from authoring. Anyway, I haven't really been able to stick my head out of the bag over the last two months, caught between the combined flows of work and festivals (Cosmic Trip, Spiderland, Hellfest, Eurockéennes, BBK and last week's Au Pont Du Rock). The reward was worth the driving and the front-stage standing though ! One of the bands seen there particularly shook me all over and got me back to business : SLAVES !!
I first heard about the band when Blood Red Shoes (always tasteful picks, guys !) chose them as their support band for their common European tour back in late 2014. I grabbed the BRS's gig at "La Gaieté Lyrique" in Paris and gave a quick listen to the Slaves' one, available then. I finally decided not to go for it. A snap decision, no doubt ! I have been trying to compensate for it since. So, here we are, with two short sets (because they play fast !) + bonus of my new favourite young band. 
Really, good to be back in London 77, with this feeling of danger and emergency prowling around but without the original punk 's nihilistic approach. What we have here is a more modern urban version of grime punk made of crazy storms and "something nasty's coming up" lulls, obviously the personal touch of the band. The guitar is rough and straight and sometimes reminds me of this feedback wire-mesh "rain" sound often played by Geordie, of Killing Joke (by the way, on a side note, I just got stunned to hear how-good they still sounded at Hellfest this summer !!). And all this perfectly matches a raging spit and snot voice that I've presumably never heard coming from a throat since ... well, let's dare say ... John Lydon ?!
Their first album is called "Are You Satisfied ?". Sure, we are !! Personally, this has been the most exciting release of 2015 so far and will be hard to beat. The kind of record that makes you pick a different "favourite one" everytime you listen to it !
After their show at "Les Eurockéennes", a quite famous French rock mag wrote : "... and above all, an insane, fantastic, huge set from the British punk pair Slaves : the best live band of the moment, straight out !". This is what you may find here in the "Bonus" section with full versions and bits of the songs played that day, taken right from the speakers.

Enjoy !

Cheers !
 
 Chac 


 

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

PIXIES - "Back To The Future" - VPRO Studios (NL) - 01-10-88 + Hurricane Festival (D) - 21-06-14 + BONUS :  Primavera Sound (ESP) - 30-05-14 & Rock Werchter (B) - 05-07-14



PIXIES
VPRO "Fa. Onrust" TV - Hilversum Studios (NL) - 01-10-988
01 Bone Machine
02 Interview
03 Gigantic
04 River Euphrates
05 Where Is My Mind
06 I've Been Tired

Hurricane Festival - Eichenring (D) - 21-06-14
1 - Debaser
2 - U-Mass
3 - Wave of Mutilation
4 - Crackity Jones
5 - Caribou
6 - Hey
7 - Bagboy
8 - Bone Machine
9 - Monkey Gone to Heaven
10 - Isla de Encanta
11 - Gouge Away
12 - Magdalena 318
13 - Ed Is Dead
14 - Here Comes Your Man
15 - Where Is My Mind?
16 - Greens and Blues
17 - Vamos

BONUS :
Primavera Sound - Barcelona (ESP) - 30-05-14
24 - Where Is My Mind ? + Interview
25 - Magdalena 318
26 - Interview & Gouge Away
Rock Werchter (B) - Werchterpark - 05-07-14
27 - Tame
28 - Vamos
29 - Where Is My Mind ?

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 99 mns
Size : 3,50 Go
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included











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NEW LINKS !!  All the dead links have now been restored ! Enjoy !
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Something strange happened. I'm listening to the Pixies again. Digging in my antique attic shoebox of late 80s cassettes. I must confess I've forgotten both of them, Pixies and reels together. Maybe partly because I always felt a bit confused by the band, getting in turn thrilled and in love with some songs and then puzzled by others. Or was it because of the relatively short career of the band that didn't really give me time to get into it ? Many lame reasons I guess. You can be proud Mr Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, your 2004 joke (cf interview / Primavera Sound) hit the mark.
Of course, Kim, the real tinkerbell pixie of the band has recently ditched the whole thing and even if she's "irreplaceable" (quoting the band's words), Paz Lenchantin (God ! What a sweet name !) has gently fitted in and is definitely not out of tune or the odd woman out. She seems to be very nice and the right person for the job. I would say she even brings a sort of light touch of ballerina grace I would never have thought the Pixies would be associated with one day.
The question remains : What for ? Fun or money ? - The band has never cheated on the fact that money, and its subsequent comfortable touring conditions, did play a part in the reunion. But the Pixies played over 120 gigs last year and have just announced an American tour and new songs in the making. Looking back at the sad and bitter 1993 split, I guess they couldn't have done and won't do all this without a spark of rekindled fun.
The release of "Indy Cindy", their first album within 23 years (!), didn't help freshen up the band to some well-informed reviewers, though. The "one too many" syndrome has often been mentioned. Well, ... to each his own. "Indy Cindy" is definitely no revolution but sounds Pixies for sure (been hooked on "Magdelena" for a while now ! :-))
Anyway, I hesitated for long on what to put on this one. Much old stuff has already been officially and gradually released over their long off-studio pause. I finally picked the VPRO studio show in its original TV format (no youtube) for the classic non-official vintage material. But I also wanted to show what the Pixies are like today, particularly here with the concert they gave last summer at the Hurricane festival where they played in the golden light of a nice setting sun (the only one I got so ! the band often hitting the main stage in the night as a headliner now !). 17 songs in one hour. Mr Black is still so talkative between songs !!
As bonus, I've included 3 songs and short interview from the Primavera Sound which was shown on TV as part of a whole about the festival. The interview is conducted by the Belgian singer-actress Helena Noguerra (also singer-actress Lio's sister) who's wondering at the end of the conversation if, impressed enough, she hasn't turned too much red. Funny. I also kept the short interspaced insight of the festival at the end of "Where Is My Mind ?" with Boogers, a one-man band walking around the festival and covering the song. Nice but he's better on his "yellow" indie here ! ;-) Nice taking-off at 2:07 !
Also in the pack, 3 songs from Werchter 2014 (wicked version of "Tame" ! See below !) I haven't seen on any other tracker.

Hope you'll enjoy ! This one was pretty rough to make, with many technical glitches and hitches I still really can't track back the origin. I think I need a break from authoring ! :-)

Cheers !

Chac

 

 

Monday, February 23, 2015

WHITE LUNG - "Blown Amps" - Saint Vitus Bar - Brooklyn - 25-06-14 + KEXP Session - Seattle - 04-12-14



WHITE LUNG - St Vitus Bar - Brooklyn (USA) - 25-06-14
1 - Drown With the Monster
2 -  Face Down
3 - Sycophant
4 - Bag
5 - Bad Way
6 - Wrong Star
7 - Thick Lip
8 - Blow It South
9 - Snake Jaw
10 - Just for You
11 - I Believe You
12 - Down It Goes
13 - Take the Mirror
 KEXP session - Seattle - 04-12-14
 14 - Wrong Star
15 - Snake Jaw + Interview
16 - Down It Goes
17 - Blow It South
 Bonus :
 18 - I Believe You - Space 15 Twenty - Los Angeles - 21-08-14

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 52 mns
Size : 3,61 Go
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

http://textsnip.com/ya3g12




In a punk mood today. Back to ... ? Straight ahead, for once ! Here's the fast and boisterous "White Lung", from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I think my first memory of the band gets back to a couple of weeks before a concert of Duchess Says, another Canadian band, who played round here a while ago. I was already fan of Duchess (maybe one day on this blog ... !) and its nice and crazy singer, Annie-Claude. While documenting a few weeks before the show, I came to that poster from a past tour they teamed up with their White Lung fellows. I ventured on and went  into it straight away. The howling "know my right" voice of Mish, the intricate dripping and jolting sound of Kenneth's guitar, the fast headlong punk pace of Anne-Marie's drumming. Danger and urgency were back and it felt good !
The band has recently signed to Domino Records, which gives them, though still independent, a wider exposure. All credit however first goes to their latest album, "Deep Fantasy", a 10-track-22-minute ball of fire which, over the weeks, has stealthily reached the honours of the ritual "50 albums of the year", ranking # 32 for "Pitchfork", # 6 for "Stereogum",  # 3 for "Rolling Stones" and even n° 1 favourite album of 2014 for "Brooklyn Vegan" ! More, the sophisticated mad-twisting play of Kenneth has at last deservedly come to reviewers ' ears and consideration, ranking 14th in the best guitar player of the year chart of "GuitarPlanet" mag. But maybe, what strikes first and most, listening to White Lung, is Mish Way's voice. It's not flawless and some may not like it but it totally fits the music played here with loud and clear "don't mess with me-fuck off" spit and snarl. Mish knows her stuff, wears the pants and has her own views on life, certainly fuelled by journalism studies, active blogging, columnist work in "Self Titled " magazine and in "Ask Mish" for Vice website, where she even sometimes turns into a kind of sex advisor (!). Of course, feminism can be heard here but is never exclusive. The band has also often been associated to the riot grrrl movement. However, Mish, Anne-Marie, Hether and Kenneth don't seem to give a sh... to tight bloody tags. They make their own way. Make them your own !

Enjoy !

Cheers !

Chac



Sunday, December 28, 2014

WALLACE VANBORN - "Noonstone Gift" - Pukkelpop Festival - Kiewit, Hasselt (B) - 14-08-14 + BONUS



WALLACE VANBORN  
Pukkelpop Festival - Kiewit - Hasselt (B) - 14-08-14
1 - Revealers
2 - Atom Juggler
3 - Cougars
4 - Genius Inside the Bear
5 - We Are What We Hide
6 - Welcome To The Wastelands
7 - Found in L.A.
8 - Supply And The Damned
9 - Cowboy Panda's Revenge
De Kreun - Kortrijk (B) - 20-03-13
10 - Marching Sideways
11 - Cowboy Panda's Revenge
12 - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Iggy & The Stooges cover)
with Blood Red Shoes - 29-11-12
13 - Colours Fade (with Blood Red Shoes)
Villa_Vanthilt - Ypres (B) - 23-08-12
14 - We Are What We Hide
15 - Lion's Manual
L'Alhambra - Paris - 11-04-2012
16 - White River
Le Trabendo - Paris - 07-12-10
17 - Rite Hands

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot & Audience shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 87 mns
Size : 4,01 Go
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included


http://textsnip.com/ehp0yv




Just before coming to "Je me perds", their last song of their Pukkelpop 2012 set, Laura-Mary from Blood Red Shoes is letting out a rousing and loud "This is for Wallace Vanborn, the best band, in Belgium" (you can hear it here on the video extract of the show at the BRS section). The two bands obviously hit it off during their common tour. That's obvious in this dvd when Ian Clement is invited to play a noisy "Colours Fade" with the band, starting with a funny "take over" joke from Steven.
Anyway, I don't know if Wallace Vanborn is the best band in Belgium but what I'm pretty sure about is the highly talented rock scene of the country : Arno, Deus, Triggerfinger, Wallace Vanborn, K’s Choice, Millionaire, Soulwax, 2 Many DJs, Goose, Drive Like Maria, The Black Box Revelation, Psycho 44, The Van Jets, BRNS, Puggy, The Experimental Tropic Blues Band, Vive La Fête, Steak n°8, Creature With The Atom Brain, ... The list seems endless and you are hardly disappointed pricking up your ears at them. So many interesting bands in so different styles.
This is precisely while scouring the intense and lively summer festival scene of the country I first met Wallace Vanborn. It was back in 2012, Pukkelpop again, at the famous "Wablief ?!" tent, where you can enjoy the gifted local bands. 2 years later, they opened the festival, hitting the main stage, which is truly deserved. As often experienced, and even if an early rising always means a deep self-sacrifice in festivals (!), bands scheduled first in the day are often not to be missed. This is once more the case here. The audience is predictably scarce at noon (see before !) but it grew all along the set and the threesome delivered a powerful stoner performance. On a side note, they opened the show with a new song (see the video below) that was to feature on their forthcoming new album, "The Orb We Absorb",  due in October, and which was recorded right in the middle of the stoner nebula : at the infamous "Rancho De La Luna" (Queens Of The Stone Age, Eagles Of Death Metal, Foo Fighters, PJ Harvey ..) under the lead of a no less notorious producer  : Chris Goss (Masters Of Reality).
As often, I've added a few extras from other shows, including the Blood Red Shoes piece and the inescapable cover of Iggy's "I Wanna Be Your Dog".
I couldn't get my hands on a decent live version of "Rover" from the first album, but if you still don't know this great number, you can have a quick first listen to it in the menus ! Don't miss the band when they come to town !

Enjoy !

Cheers !

Chac




Friday, December 26, 2014

LE BUTCHERETTES - "Fang" - Live - Various venues - 2009-2014



LE BUTCHERETTES
Fiesta de la Música - Guadalajara (MX) - 28-03-09
1 - Honey Honey + I'm Getting Sick Of You (cut in)
2 - ?
3 - ? + Dress Off (end)
4 - I'm Queen (+ after show autograph session)
Indie-O Music Awards with Juan - Mexico - 23-06-09
5 - I'm Queen (extended version - crazy ending)
6 - ?
Sonar Festival - Barcelona (ES) - 17-06-10
7 - Bang !
8 - Drip Drip + Dress Off
9 - Mr Tolstoï
Bar Pink - San Diego (USA) - 04-09-11
10 - The Devil Lived
11 - New York
12 - Bang !
13 - Six More
The Echo - Los Angeles  (USA) - 03-11-11
14 - The Devil Lived
15 - New York
SesioneS con Alejandro Franco - Mexico - 2012 (?)
16 - Henry Don't Got Love
17 - Bang !
18 - The Actress That Ate Rousseau
MTV Iggy - Dominion - New-York - 2013 (?)
19 - I'm Getting Sick Of You
20 - All You See In Me Is Death
21 - Henry Don't Got Love
Rifflandia Festival - RAP Mainstage Victoria BC (CA) - 13-09-14
22 - Boulders Love Over Layers Of Rock
23 - Your Weakness Gives Me Life
Last Call with Carson Daly - New-York - 06-11-14
24 - The Leibniz Language
25 - Demon Stuck In Your Eye

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot & Audience shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 82 mns
Size : 3,80 Go
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included


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Blood always tells.
When you open for such tutelary figures as Queens Of The Stone Age, Jello Biafra, The Melvins, Iggy Pop, The Flaming Lips, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Dead Weather, ... ;
When you have Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill) as a personal hero and are first spotted by Omar Rodriguez Lopez (At The Drive In / Mars Volta) during a dark power-cut set in Guadalajara ;
When you team up with this same Omar Rodriguez Lopez to play in a band called Bosnian Rainbows and got into another side-project with John Frusciante (RHCP) called Kimono Kult ... ;
When you have Henry Rollins and Shirley Manson featuring on your last album ...;
let be honest, you just can't be on the wrong track ! 
Teri Gender Bender is not and her band, "Le Butcherette" is no exception to the rule either. First formed at an early age in Guadalajara, the band has constantly been fuelled by Teri's rage, especially against women discrimination and male chauvinism in Mexico. At that time, back in 2009, her performances often included pig's head, broom, bloody butcher's apron (still today's outfit) to denounce "the piece of meat" image women were often associated to and she had been confronted to too often in her country. Without being exclusive, her feminist cause first rallied her friend and gorgeous drummer Auryn Jolene for crazy and high-energy sets, where they were often just considered as"clowns" and received petty coins, thrown at them by the male audience. To find decent footage from this era is quite hard and the material is usually shaky and rough. Though, I decided to keep a couple of them here just to feel the wild energy spurting out their shows. Teri was just over 20 in those days !  
The band has gone through many line-ups since, especially when Teri decided to migrate to LA to give the band the opportunity to be appreciated for what it's worth. Omar Rodrigez Lopez helped a lot, becoming their producer and bass player. Teri is now joined on stage by Lia Braswell on drums and Chris Common on bass. The lunatic intensity is still raging but more, Teri's voice has grown bigger in her variety and mastery. You can't miss it out on her last release, "Cry Is For The Flies", one of the greatest albums of 2014, no doubt !!
True, one can't help thinking of a new PJ Harvey, but while Polly has this rage boiling underneath, Teri just lets it go all the way, making her shows looking more like an unleashed set of Iggy Pop, who himself is a fan !
I've tried to find watchable live bits, for lack of a complete show (if anyone has one, let me know ...), mostly pro or semi-pro shot but as I've already said, I've sometimes kept some rougher material just to live the electrifying atmosphere as one can experience, in the moshpit, at Teri's feet ...

Enjoy,

Cheers !

Chac   



Thursday, October 23, 2014

TY SEGALL BAND - "Underwear 14" - Villette Sonique Festival - Paris - 06-06-14 + Extras : La Sirène - La Rochelle (F) - 19-10-14



TY SEGALL BAND
Villette Sonique Festival - Paris - 06-06-14 
1 - Wave Goodbye
2 - You're The Doctor
3 - I Bought My Eyes
4 - Slaughterhouse
5 - Thank God for Sinners
6 - Oh Mary
7 - Imaginary Person
8 - Tall Man, Skinny Lady
9 - The Faker
10 - Feel
11 - The Crawler
12 - Finger
13 - The Hill
14 - Skin
15 - Caesar
16 - Tell Me What's Inside Your Heart
17 - Encore : You Gonna Get It (Coachwhips cover)
18 - Motorhead (Motorhead cover)
19 - Girlfriend
BONUS : La Sirène - La Rochelle (F) - 19-10-14
20 - Tall Man, Skinny Lady
21 - Feel 
22 - The Faker
23 - The Clock
24 - The Singer
25 - Slaughterhouse
26 - I Bought My Eyes  

Technical info  :
DVD Full Pro-shot & Audience shot
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 82 mns
Size : 3,82 Go
Menu & Chapters - Artwork included

http://textsnip.com/0pioew




New links available above (part 16 was presumably down - thanx squarelf for letting me know !)

October was the month of my first Ty Segall gig. A long awaited date and a red-letter night no doubt. More, buy one, get two : the young Californian gifted man was sharing the stage with the thunderous Triggerfinger ! That was quite a thrilling deal !! You can't get enough of the Belgian power trio and even it was my third encounter with the shooters within 3 months, they still ranked first that night on my wishing list. I felt a bit muzzy and hazy about Ty Segall, being lost in his prolific album & EP releases and his fecund multifaceted incarnations. Even if I kept up with the man, I didn't really know where to start from and I had eventually turned lazy on his production. I was wrong ! What we attended that night was a real electric blitzkrieg pouring down hard on us !! In the middle of this fuzz-glam-garage-punk storm, the great synthesizer wizzard, Ty Segall in his dungaree, shouting, wriggling and trying to tame his wild uncontrollable guitar. Really impressive !! Definitely one of the most electric blast with such a variety I've seen this year.
I've included some parts of that gig as extras on the dvd below but the big chunk is made of the special psyche-garage night that was held at "La Villette Sonique Festival" in the early days of june in Paris. That night, Ty Segall Band were  playing along with The Coachwhips and Man Or Astro-Man. With such a line-up and as it is clear and obvious all the way on this dvd : the music is loud, the atmosphere is sweaty and the shoes of the man standing next to you are flying high in the moshpit !

Enjoy !

Cheers !

Chac