Part three of our ongoing series of not understanding much of anything while consuming alcohol and looking at acts under the Forecastle Festival banner. What kind of world is this? M Dodds and I continue into the night. We're trying to mulch sense of it for you, as a pure and simple service. Simple is the main term here. If you feel the need to catch up: Part one is here. Part two is here.
Benjamin Booker
MD: “It’s a dude. With a blue jean shirt on, and an acoustic
guitar… ‘Benjamin Booker is a young New Orleans based singer/songwriter,
influenced by The Gun Club, Blind Willie Johnson, and T-Rex. He is currently
signed to ATO records’ That’s it. No songs, no tweets… based on that, I’m
already saying yes.”
[We begin playing the video accompanying the description]
MD: “Alright, I’m gonna say yeah… and I feel like any time
of day would be alright for this.”
BM: “I think eating Hardees is making me gain weight.”
MD: “It’s not making you lose weight. The [expletive
deleted] bag says ‘Eat Like You Mean It.” Hardees is not playing around with
their advertising….. alright look, the bottom line with Benjamin Booker is that
that guy kind of rules. I would definitely go see that guy.”
Young and Sick
MD: “I’m gonna get more to drink. What are we on now? Young
and Sick.”
BM: [Reading from the description] “’Young and Sick is a Los
Angeles based music and art project… ‘”
MD: “I’ve got a soft spot for music and art projects.”
BM: “’They’ve created art for a variety of well known
entertainers, including Andy Dick...’”
MD: “Andy Dick. That paradigm of human morality.”
[We begin playing the accompanying video]
MD: “As a person who draws things with a black marker on
white paper, it [would be] hard for me to hate this.”
BM: “Perhaps they’ll
have some art as part of their show.”
MD: “Good luck man, I’m sure Smirnov Vodka or whatever is
gonna have first call on that….but let’s see, Young and Sick, I’m not gonna say
don’t not go see those guys, I thought this was alright. I would definitely
stand around and watch this band, I think.”
BM: “Alright, Young and Sick goes in the ‘Good’ pile.”
MD: “It goes in the ‘Stand Around and Watch Pile’.”
BM: “‘Stand Around and Watch Pile,’ I got it.”
The Districts
MD: “We get to scroll up [the list of bands on the screen]"
BM: “Maybe the font’ll get bigger.”
MD: “Nope.”
MD: “Alright, we’ve gotta blaze through some of these. We’ve
got a long ass way to go. Jesus Christ! How many bands are playing at this
thing?”
BM: “We’re only an hour and 53 minutes into this.”
MD: “Only.”
Hurray For The Riff Raff
MD: “You think it’s just her playing the guitar and
singing?”
BM: “It’s very Lilith Fair.”
MD: “Lil-lith fair?”
[The rest of this review consisted of Brian laughing at me
trying to pronounce the word “Lilith”. In my defense, if this can be said to be
that, I had at this point probably drunk a rather distinguished amount of booze.]
Foy Vance
MD: “Foy Vance! I’m not against that name. That doesn’t make
any sense at all. Ahhhh… he’s got that silly mustache. What? [Reading from the
description] ‘Foy Vance was born in the North Ireland town of Bangor, but his
love of traditional music was born in the southern states of America.’ For
whose traditional music? He’s got a
video…,”
[We start playing the video associated with Foy Vance]
MD: “Holy shit, that’s a bummer. Sorry Foy Vance. Good
effort on growing the mustache. “
Willie Watson
MD: [Reading incredulously from his description] “’… in the
exploding world of acoustic music?!’” I feel like that… exploding!? What, in
bedrooms everywhere? At goddamn Bearno’s Pizzas all over town it’s exploding?
Alright look, there’s too many bands… “
Hayes Carll
MD: “Hayes Carll. With two l’s. What does this mean? [From
the bio] ‘Wildly literate?’”
[There follows a discussion wherein I recall reading Mutiny
on the Bounty for a high school history class, Brian recommends a book called
Dark Frigate, and I recommend that you stay home and read books based on
nautical history instead of watching a good many of these “assholes with
mustaches.” The laptop’s battery almost dies and we have to move to another
room where I can plug it in despite it being “dead and defiled”. I then for
some reason put on the R.E.M. record “Life’s Rich Pageant”.]
Chrome Sparks
MD: “I don’t hate this. I don’t know that I want to see it
live. I would maybe listen to it in my car, or when having sex? You have to put
in parentheses ‘makes thrusting motion with pelvis’.”
Waxahatchee
[Listening to a track]
MD: “It’s always weird when people say something is lo-fi,
when what they mean is that there are very few instruments, or that it’s just
not over produced. I don’t dislike this though. But I have been drinking for
like the last 4 hours. Let’s listen to another one.”
[We listen to another one]
MD: “This isn’t really lo-fi sounding.”
BM: “Not to me. One thing I can’t do is pronounce the name
of her new album.”
MD: “I feel like I’m on the verge of knowing how to
pronounce it.”
BM: “She’s more wildly literate than Hayes Carll.”
MD: “’Wildly Literate.’ What kind of asshole… alright, I’m
saying with Waxahatchee, I don’t know why it’s called that, but… [It
confusingly transitions to the next band here, but I think we were generally in
favor of Waxahatchee. Unfortunately it now appears that perhaps they’re not
playing.]
Boy and Bear
MD: “Boy and… oh it says Bear. I thought it said Pear… ohhh
these guys ... you know like I was saying it’s cool when bands don’t take their
publicity photo too seriously… but then sometimes you see a band photo where
all the guys are white guys where they all kind of have the same chin, except
for maybe the bald guy over there, who’s got slightly more stubble than the
rest of them…”
BM: “Is that Greg Ward?”
MD: “Man, he is a guy that as far as I know has often had a
shaved head, but is so goddamn nice that I can’t bring him into, I just can’t even involve him
in…”
BM” “I’m not criticizing him… he just looks, that guy
reminds me of him...”
MD: “If he had different eyeballs. He ain’t got no Gregory
Ward eyeballs.”
BM: “This, this here though…”
MD: “I’m not even gonna listen to this”
BM: “I wanna hear it… ‘Milk and Sticks!’”
MD: “Milk and Sticks we do have to listen to.”
BM: “They played at South By Southwest”
MD: “Oh DID they? They played at ‘South-by?’”
[The track plays, we discuss cell phone contracts, and how
our spouses know what they’re doing with them but we very much do not]
BM: “It says they recorded it at ‘the spiritual home of
AC/DC’.”
MD: “Why? Why would you even say that? Why is that even a
thing that you would say?”
To be continued....
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