Last night I made my way over to Houston to see CJ Boyd who is on a never ending tour that’s been going strong for 10 years now.

First up was Teasesrama from Houston. Female double bass player who did a bit of growling and a guitar player:


CJ Boyd was next starting with his standup bass. Once he got this looping thing started, he switched to guitar and started layering in drone......it was beautiful!


Last but not least was John Kennedy aka Cyclops Joint. It had been 25+ years since I last witnessed a proper Cyclops Joint show and it was worth the drive over. Working from a laptop and some sort of touch pad with color squares all over it, John whipped up a rhythmic vibe that sounded to me as if it was working within the confines of Terry Riley’s - In C.

I'm back home after a show by the Ex.
It was awesome!

Radiohead, last summer.

I saw The Coolies and The Renderers in London on Saturday night, The Renderers were very good and I spoke briefly to Maryrose Crook after the show and she was super nice. The Coolies I wasn't that familiar with, put simply they were phenomenal.

Lonnie Holley´s gig I saw last night was just amazing. never heard of him before and therefore it was even more of a pleasant surprise. goosebumps. oh boy and 2 musicians he is playing with right now were tight as fuck. amazing.

I can confirm. It was jaw-dropping.

Chie Mukai. Puzzling OG improv lady, no idea what her intentions are but would deffo see her again.

Sun Ra Arkestra. It was absolutely amazing. Marshall Allen is almost 95 and he still plays the sax with so much gusto. Each member of the Arkestra got their moment to shine. That wasn't a gig, it was an experience.

I'd kill to see her!

I recently saw Acid Mother Temple with openers Yamantaka/Sonic Titan. Best show I've seen in a long time. Kawabata is a monster:eek:

I'd been waiting about 15 years to see her play, and now i feel none the wiser for having done so, and i that is exactly perfect, the mystery has not been revealed.

Tonight i saw Glands of External Secretion and Twig Harper + Bill Nace duo, both were fucking fantastic and in totally different ways.

She’s done some gigs with Haino, “ massive heterodyning murk”

Yeah they were incredible at Colour Out of Space over the weekend. I only went on the Saturday though, so missed Chie Mukai unfortunately.

There were so many weird and amazing performances on the Saturday, but highlights for me were Twig Harper/Bill Nace, Beyt Al Tapes, Af Ursin and The Elks.

The Af Ursin set was really spaced out, he was creating layers of ringing drone textures by scraping these large sheets of hanging metal.

Beyt Al Tapes was a particularly mad performance. He was playing high frequency synth pulses whilst simultaneously riding an exercise bike full pelt for 30 minutes, with the sounds getting progressively more intense as he was getting more burned out, to the point where he was practically collapsing after his set finished.

Bill Nace is playing with samara lubelski tonight at iklektik

I saw the af ursin dude playing a couple of months ago in the duo Ilta Hamara with Bart de Paepe who runs Sloow Tapes, their recorded stuff is great but the show was fairly dull, just mucking around on synths for what seemed like a very oong time, the recorded stuff has more variety and doesn't last for too long either

I had listened to an album of his beforehand that Ultra Eczema put out a couple of years ago, basically a free jazz record, which sounded very different to his set at COoS and I was expecting something along those lines. Since listening to more of his output over the last few days, his minimal drone stuff more resembled that set, but yeah his albums do sound really varied.

I went to the Bill Nace and Samara Lubelski show last night and it was really great, even if it was very short.

My wife, daughters and friends had tix to Blue October playing in Beaumont last night. Someone couldn’t make it so I went. Our oldest daughter (now 27) was listening to Blue October 10+ years ago when she was in High School, so I was somewhat familiar with their sound.

The Cure - Plainsong played in its entirety and with a minute or so left, Blue October’s keyboardist started matching keyboard sounds as the bass player joined starting the show. That sounded really cool and they had one really good song, but the majority of it was KILLERS (and I don’t mean Iron Maiden) sounding.

Some dude/group named -MONA- opened (from Nashville).

Overall, not my cup of tea.

 

sick of it all
two weeks ago...nice concert...now in my 40's its fun to see kids in crowdsurfing
while i was enjoying the music with my beer lol.

Crawl, 2 string " bass" big drum kit, electronics, lights, fog machine and unusual stage art presence. LOUD. enjoyed it!

https://www.facebook.com/CrawlBlindl...9407618130020/

Courtney Barnett. That wasn't a concert, that was a nuclear reactor blowing away the venue, the city, the continent. It was like watching Nirvana at their absolute prime, but with a frontperson intoxicated on words instead of lethal drugs. (Well, CB's words are fucking lethal, though). And she blew a kiss at me for giving her flowers (right after "Avant Gardener", of course!).

Cool. Wife got us tickets to see her next month. Haven't followed her much but definitely looking forward to it. Also, going to see Bill Callahan in July. Will report back from both shows on this thread.