more noise please
Last night after the wedding party I experienced the a-frames at the alibi room downstairs. I’ve been trying to catch a live show since I heard their first CD several years ago but for one reason or another it’s never worked until last night. Excited was I. I got a next-to-front row spot prepared to rock and was not disappointed.
Since what’s-his-name coined ‘wall of sound’ in the 1960s, I spent a few minutes trying to come up with another, better phrase for the a-frames sound… industrial art noise; post-retro-modern; broccoli brick sound; steel-n-concrete sound; firehose of nails; wall of noise; para-rock; fuzzy bunny sound etc.
Today I spent all day in bed nursing a migrane which generates a better phrase: migrane music. The a-frames gave me a fucking migrane plus I’m half-deaf to boot. How good is that?!
They just played one set but it was loud, hard and fine. I recognized about half a dozen songs from the first CD, including ’surveillance’ played by request and way heavier than the recorded version. Making the ambiance weird was a video of backyard songbirds projected on the side wall. Them birds be jerky…which may have influenced a dance step or two.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Yes, the A-Frames were loud. My ears were ringing like church bells on the way out and were still tinkling pretty strong the next day. The Maritime Lager probably had much to do with my headache, but I really think there is such a thing as a noise hangover. The thing with these rockers is they’re all half deaf and want to take the rest of us with ‘em. Rawk!