Napalm Deaf - Merzbow (wow) live...
 

Yeah so last night I saw Merzbow live, it was fucking incredible, though a really physically exausting experience. But the man himself was on top form, and I managed to pick up an exclusive free Merzbow CD and bought a ltd. edition picture disc of his. Unfortunately, my freind cancelled on me so I was on my own, but I drank myself beyond caring, and its not like I wanted him to see me cry - ha! One old punk dude with G.G. Allin written on the back of his jacket picked up on my SY t-shirt, and then proceeded to invite me to sleep with his wife and piss and defocate on his grave. This was just one of the assorted bunch of freaks that was the crowd, they were all very nice though. I really reccomend you see Merzbow live if you havn't, theres really nothing quite like it...

excellent. fuck melodies when youve got textures like that!

Absolutely man, absolutely.

haha I kept waiting for napalm death to be mentioned, and then I re-read the thread title.

But yeah, merzbow rules. I've survived the merzbox. It's alright.

rad

Saw him on Friday. I wanted to sleep. Very soothing. Very loud, but very soothing.

I think T&B went to see Merz in London, would be interested to see what he made of it.

last time i saw him it was so dense and loud it almost made me sleep.

i saw that punk gg allin dude too.

anywayz, yeah, it was exactly as excellent as i hoped it would be, but in ways i hadn't anticipated, there was one bloke standing next to me dancing away, whilst it wasn't funky enough for me to want to dance i could understand that guy's urge because i found that the gradual effect of music was quite joyful, and peaceful in it's intent (in comparison to sutcliffe jugend (supporting) who were your typical 80s antagonistic noise stuff, enjoyable but not amazing or anything)

anyway, i saw a young chap running around in a red sonic nurse shirt... i presume that was you TINH?

Two other things, the crowd was a lot older than i'd expected and larger than i'd expected, filled with aging goths & industrialoids. And also i met a girl, where better a place to meet a girl than at a merzbow show?

hahaha, adam, yesterday i told a dude about you listening to the whole merzbox in two weeks.

yeah, can't wait to see masami live. i saw another japanese phenomenon that's basically my favorite live band or at least in my top three.

Dense, that's the perfect word. Like a big doughy cake of sound.

or some nougat.

Haha. Yeah, I listened to it in 2 weekeneds. Two Sat-Sun marathons.

That was, indeed, me. You should have worn an SY t shirt cos I thought you were there. You met a girl? Who'd you go for, an ageing punk, a peirced cyber-goth or a chick who looked like a labotamy patient (only kidding). I still need to listen to my free CD, you also got free entry to Slimelight with your Merzbow ticket, wish I'd taken advantage of that. Glad you had a good time dude.

Yes. Precisely right again. Because then those little hard bits of nuts would represent the little widdly bits of noise over the nougat-noise.

essentially thats correct. i only mentioned that because some bastard child of satan wiped his nougat layden hands on my coat on the bus the other day. perhaps i should not have been listening to merzbow too loud.

a korean chick who had a piece of cloth tied round her head that looked like the crown of thorns

Oh, oh my.

she's not a goth though, let's just get that straight

ha ha!

how much does the merzbox cost???

Interesting. That reminds me that when I saw him a few years ago there were some people dancing as well and I had a similar feeling towards them. It's not exactly dance music, but the sounds were so overwhelming and omnipresent that it inspired some sort of hard to define energy. I remember thinking at one point that I could vaguely recognise beats somewhere deep within the thick layers of sounds and then wondering whether they were actually there or if I was just hearing them in my head only. I didn't dance (of course) but I remember standing with my eyes closed for a few minutes on end.

Even though I have never had the honour of seeing Merzbow live, I am not surprised that some people would dance at one of his gigs, as I do it very often myself when I put some of his records on. There's certain stuff that he plays that has fluctuations on it which either make me feel like I'm listening to some rainbow-like house or make me end up quietly headbanging while sat down.


This is not true of his more chaotic and abrasive stuff, which requires instead being able to stand up during an earthquake.

He's a drummer, no? The first record of his I heard was Door is open at 8AM, which was apparently based on jazz drum samples. I didn't dance to him, but there were a few people bobbing. Surprising I didn't dance really, it was a pretty epic throb.

I did this, it was really quite incredible if you did it for like 5 minutes at a time, you really kind of lost yourself after a while. This is going to sound highly pretentious (but hell, I do it so well) but it was a really kind of soul-cleansing experience, something to the same effect as a cold glass of water or breath of country wind - but on a much more intense scale!

Merzbow was at ULU. Is anyone planning to see Melt Banana at ULU, they're playing two gigs over the coming monthes. I may be hidiously mistaken but aren't they opening for Grandpa Lou at some of his shows, if they are at his London date I won't bother with ULU...

who is grandpa lou?

i shall be going to see both melt banana shows.

[quote=Toilet & Bowels]who is grandpa lou?
[quote]

Lou Reed!

Excellent, wear an SY t shirt to melt banana next time!