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 Andy J Ryan Marky Ramone’s Blitzkreig, Manning Bar – 9 April, 2009 Marky Ramone tours the timeless tunes of the utterly influential band he spent 15 years viewing from the drum stool. The last surviving member of the definitive line up of The Ramones, drummer Mark Bell, has assembled ‘Marky Ramone’s Blitzkreig’ to revisit a classic set of the songs by the band. A lone punter tried to rouse a ‘Hey Ho, Lets Go!’ chant to lure the band on stage, yet they walked out in their own good time to a warm response. Things started well enough with a rattling ‘Rockaway Beach’ but by the third song a rather chipper ‘Do You Want to Dance’ was abruptly stopped in its tracks as Marky objected to the ‘singer’ – who I might add, sported stringy dyed dreadlocks, ludicrously tight bondage trousers that looked like they were made out of gaffa-tape, studded wrist bands and a jacket that looked more treated PVC than leather - copped what was about the third cup of audience-thrown beer of the night. In what proved to be the most words he spoke all night, Marky got up and took the mic and invited the ‘little pussy’ who threw the beer to come onstage so he could ‘fix him up’. After a further memorandum from the drumming one not to throw any more beer and to keep it instead in our hands, the song continued, but the whole good vibe of the night was lost. Particularly when the band’s guitarist proceeded to spit huge gobbies into the crowd for the rest of the evening, which was a touch hypocritical, I thought. When they really lost me however though was during the song ‘Posion Heart’ when ‘Michael’ the singer spent the song emotively clasping his fist and plaintively staring at the ceiling like he was a Eurovision contestant. For me, the antics of the singer – which even descended into David Lee Roth air kicks, skank jumping, heart grabbing, chest thumping and audience high fiving – provided an utterly unwarranted visual aspect to songs which are strong enough to stand on their own. While Marky was meant to be the reason for our attendance, he barely did more than bemusedly provide the back beat. In all the press leading up to the tour Bell drove the point home that the whole point of the band was playing ‘the songs’. So we got to hear ‘Beat on the Brat, Rock’n’ Roll High School, I Just Wanna Sniff Some Glue, 53rd & 3rd, Sheena is a Punk Rocker, a cover of the Heartbreakers ‘Chinese Rock’, and even a version of ‘Wonderful World’ and a rousing finale of ‘Blitzkreig Bop’, and yes, as ‘songs’ they are inarguably great. But in 2009, some 30 years down the track, is there really any way to properly do them justice without the use of an ouija board with its own inbuilt PA system? Sadly ‘Marky Ramone’s Blitzkreig’ showed how badly whatever you could broadly label as ‘punk' has been diluted over the past three decades. While the drumming was tip-top the rest of the band made it more about themselves trying to act appropriately ‘punk’ than doing justice to ‘the songs’. The Ramones, more than anyone in the long and illustrious history of music, were about simplicity, doing a lot with a little. Even though it wasn’t my cup of tea, it was probably the night of one girls life, the barely legal lass spending the whole show clasping a Ramones record cover to her chest and excitedly yelping along every word. So even if just that one girl goes home and picks up a guitar, or starts banging out a beat with her newly acquired drumstick, then touring ‘the songs’ of the Ramones has done its job. Their indelible influence on the music world was that all you needed was three chords and something to say to be punk, not wacky dyed hair and tatts. Marky Ramones Blitzkrieg Apr 25, 2023
 Benny Manny If you're planning a <a href='https://ezgotravel.id'>Bali tour</a>, make sure to catch a concert by Elisium! Their energetic and captivating performances are sure to leave you wanting more, and experiencing their music in the beautiful setting of Bali is truly unforgettable. Don't miss out on the opportunity to see this amazing band live during your travels. Elisium Apr 25, 2023
 Andy J Ryan Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Annandale Hotel, 25 March, 2009 With a musical pedigree stretching back to the seventies with the Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock is as prolific as he is perplexing. The man, I must point out, is a complete nutter, being the very definition of an eccentric Englishman. He could probably come back in a couple of months and just reread the transcript of his pre-song banter and have a hit show at the Sydney Comedy Festival. But luckily for all of us he played a fair few glorious tunes as well. Robyn Hitchcock and his backing band The Venus 3 are a combination that provide a mix of music that almost shouldn’t work. Hitchcock with his lucid-limey folk backed by a pair of guitar-pop classicists in R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and frontman of the Young Fresh Fellows Scott McCaughey all backed up by Ministry’s drummer Bill Rieflin, who provided ample clout up back for the numerous “great rock” excursions of the evening. The end result an alluring “show of amplified beat music” that was an utterly engaging mix of melodic jangle accompanying songs and soliloquies that were nothing short of surreal. We were eased into proceedings with a loosener as Hitchcock “unpacked his voice” before a ponderous version of “I Often Dream of Trains”. The next romping number was self-reviewed by Hitchcock with an enthusiastic “Man, that rocks ass!”. Hitchcock reveals himself to be a particularly literate cultural connoisseur and is entirely in tune with the depth and effect of his musical legacy. A simple comment about the vintage of an upcoming song turned into an unrestrained ramble beginning with tying songs to particular times and ending with being placed in stasis so your family can come up and tap on the glass at any time. Conversely, he introduced the aptly titled – well a couple of days early perhaps – ‘Saturday Groovers’ from his latest album with ‘You wont remember this one, cause its new’. Some seriousness shone through in ‘N.Y’ Doll ‘ an ode to the late New York Dolls bass player Arthur Kane but we were soon thanked for “enjoying all these lights and keeping on reading” before being treated to a mournful version of ‘Queen Elvis’. The night was seemingly enjoyed equally be those in front of and on the stage, as suggested by the final quip of “We’ve enjoyed this far more than men in our condition should” before it was ‘Goodnight Oslo’ and good night the Annandale. Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 Apr 25, 2023
 Andy J Ryan Mogwai, Enmore Theatre, 4 March, 2009 Just when you thought you had made it through the summer music season with your hearing intact, Mogwai returns. The Hawk is Howling is the latest studio album from Glasgow’s post-rock heroes Mogwai and courtesy of the good people at the Golden Plains Festival they make their fourth visit Down Under. A large portion of the Enmore crowd were well and truly believers. Mogwai are the Pringles of live music – you just can’t stop at seeing them once. Mogwai is an aural and physical assault on your senses done strictly with the weapon of pure music. You don’t have the normal reprieves or distractions. There are no tunes to hum, lyrics to sing along with, fancy haircuts to swoon over, banter to chuckle at or skinny-jeaned gyrations to sigh over – you are just enveloped by the wondrous noise created by five unassuming Glaswegians, a shitload of speakers and retina searing illumination. To try and describe them to the uninitiated is an almost fruitless task – there’s no possible way to convey the force of the band with mere words. You could start by loosely describing their songs as a perilous and fractious mix of ‘light’ and ‘dark’. Maybe you could try and encapsulate their dynamic use of ‘loud’ and ‘soft’ – well for the moments where the ‘soft’ could be properly experienced, which isn’t very often as people seem to think that any quiet part is an invitation to holler like they are at a mid-western American rodeo – but nothing could ever express or describe moments like the brute blast of music in the song ‘Like Herod’ that is so potent it caused the capacity crowd to physically recoil as one. The sounds created can transport you through many shades of mood ranging from meditative contemplation to a gripping, jolting intensity of feeling, bordering on alarm, sometimes even within the one song. ‘Cody’, one of the rare Mogwai songs with lyrics, could even be described as romantic and caused many a lingering gaze and interlocked hands among the evening’s attached attendees. The crowd’s rabid reaction after their final song ensured a return and the last (non) word of the night was the majestically sprawling ‘Mogwai Fear Satan’. After a two hour brilliant barrage, the end still came far too soon. Mogwai Apr 25, 2023
 Andy J Ryan The penultimate night of the season saw members of the Mistletone music stable lay some Summer Tones on Sydney. Mark Barrage opened the night and shuffled his was amiably between his two noise-making gadgets making a cheery go of his chipper jerky electro-hip-pop. Lawrence Arabia try to fool you with their earnest lankiness, jeans & Ts, tousled hair and affable front. They even slide in some particularly confectionate four-part ooh ooh ooohing and aah aah aaahing and harmonies galore. But they aren’t really all that sweet, fey and innocent, they’ve like y’know, scored. And a fair few times at that I’d say. Head singer-songwriter James Milne certainly isn’t one of those melancholically wistful, longing observers of life and love, he’s been right in the thick of it and isn’t shy to sing about it. Whether the chanting chorus of ‘Making love, making love, making love’ or the cheeky honesty of Beautiful Young Crew’s “We love each other, we hate each other we’re afraid of each other, because we want to screw each other” it was all a bit saucy really, and brilliantly entertaining. High Places were a sharp looking boy & girl coupling that conjured sounds from an overly-strained desk brimming with electronic trinkets. There was a prominent cruisy steel drum sound that reminded of a Sunday market and a bounding beat banged out on electric drum pads that kept things bouncing along. Beaches shimmied in with their four guitars and five fringes and just set the factory floor alight with their big sludgey riffs and strings afire. Just ace and also a perfect introduction to the experience that is seeing Dan Deacon. You don’t just passively observe a Dan Deacon show, you are right thick in the middle of it. Taking the traditional focus away from the stage, Deacon rolls out his music making gear into the middle of the floor and has the audience surround him. His console resembles a ‘red light special’ trolley, but instead of the red light proffering short-lasting bargains is topped with a strobing, glowing skull of awesomeness that flashes out in time with the crazy beats. We are ordered to blindly bounce about the room with our arms out, pass on our positivity through the heads of nearby strangers and even form a tunnel through which the whole crowd and Deacon himself would dance until it extended right through the venue and up out to Oxford Street. Dan Deacon / Beaches / High Places / Lawrence Arabia / Mark Barrage Apr 25, 2023
 Deadhead Dan My first time at the Greek Berkeley Phish Apr 24, 2023
 Tmg Lost DAVID ALAN MILLER, CONDUCTOR Blue Electra Michael Daugherty (1954-) ANNE AKIKO MEYERS, VIOLIN 1. Courage (1928) II. Paris (1932) III. From an Airplane (1921) IV. Last Flight (1937) Symphony No. 9 "Choral" Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) 1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso II. Molto vivace III. Adagio molto e cantabile IV. Presto -"O Freunde nicht diese Tone" ----- .......ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL DAVID ALAN MILLER Heinrich Medicus Music Director The Albany Symphony Orchestras string sections use revolving seating. Players behind the stationary chairs change seats systematically and are listed alphabetically. VIOLIN Jill Levy CONCERTMASTER LIFETIME CHAIR, GOLDBERG CHARITABLE TRUST Eiko Kano ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Elizabeth Silver Jamecyn Morey Paula Oakes Funda Cizmecioglu PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Mitsuko Suzuki ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN Barbara Lapidus ENDOWED BY MARISA AND ALLAN EISEMANN Gabriela Rengel Brigitte Brodwin Ouisa Fohrhaltz Heather Frank-Olsen Emily Frederick Rowan Harvey Margret E. Hickey Christine Kim Sooyeon Kim Aleksandra Labinska Kae Nakano Yinbin Qian Harriet Dearden Welther VIOLA Noriko Futagami PRINCIPAL ENDOWED IN PERPETUITY BY THE ESTATE OF ALLAN F. NICKERSON Sharon Bielik ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Daniel Brye Carla Bellosa Ting-Ying Chang-Chien Anna Griffis Hannah Levinson CELLO Susan Ruzow Debronsky PRINCIPAL SPONSORED BY AL DE SALVO & SUSAN THOMPSON Erica Pickhardt ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Kevin Bellosa Marie-Therese Dugre Catherine Hackert Hikaru Tamaki DOUBLE BASS Bradley Aikman PRINCIPAL Philip R. Helm ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Michael Fittipaldi Luke Baker James Caiello FLUTE Ji Weon Ryu PRINCIPAL Mathew Ross OBOE I Karen Hosmer PRINCIPAL Grace Shryock ENGLISH HORN VACANT CLARINET Weixiong Wang PRINCIPAL - IN MEMORY OF F.S. DEBEER JR. -ELSA DEBEER IN MEMORY OF JUSTINE R.B. PERRY -DAVID A. PERRY Bixby Kennedy BASSOON William Hestand PRINCIPAL ENDOWED IN PERPETUITY BYTHE ESTATE OF RICHARD SALISBURY VACANT HORN William J. Hughes PRINCIPAL Joseph Demko i Alan Parshley Victor Sungarian TRUMPET Eric M. Berlin PRINCIPAL Eric J. Latini TROMBONE Greg Spiridopoulos PRINCIPAL Kama Millen BASS TROMBONE Charles Morris TUBA Derek Fenstermacher PRINCIPAL TIMPANI Kuljit Rehncy PRINCIPAL PERCUSSION Richard Albagli PRINCIPAL Mark Foster HARP Lynette Wardle PRINCIPAL PERSONNEL MANAGER JJ Johnson UNION STEWARD Greg Spiridopoulos Albany Symphony Orchestra / ALBANY PRO MUSICA Apr 24, 2023
 Rhfactor7 Jimmy Buffett opened up solo before Coral Reefer Band. Been a fan ever since Great Memories. Loggins & Messina Apr 24, 2023
 Brumuso Review by Dane Barker: https://bit.ly/2FMTQjb TornEnds / Get // Rek'd / Old Wharf / DXWNSIDES Apr 24, 2023
 Mary Claire Cancelled so i ain’t seen shit Morgan Wallen / HARDY / Bailey Zimmerman / Ernest Apr 24, 2023
 Jeffrey Willis Great show. Loved “You don’t know me “ rendition with super fun audience involvement Ben Folds / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Apr 24, 2023
 Thomas Vacchino This was moved to the MGM Music Hall at Fenway. I was there Skinny Puppy / Lead Into Gold Apr 24, 2023
 Chaospanda @jessica maki … got it with the buying a ticket. But then just unclick the supports since we all saw them live! Or just use the listing for just the live stream! Thank you so much. All Time Low / Set It Off / Lauran Hibberd / Games We Play Apr 24, 2023
 Idm1 Stunning venue outdoor built into the cliff face Suzanne vega Apr 24, 2023
 Roadgraphs This show was right after her drug bust. The video I posted is her talking about it. Fiona Apple Apr 24, 2023
 K🌜 The bands that played and title are NOT WRONG, please stop All Time Low / Set It Off / Lauran Hibberd / Games We Play Apr 23, 2023
 Jenn I’ve created a new archive for those who went to the concert in person just to save the amount of spam emails we get. All Time Low / Set It Off / Lauran Hibberd / Games We Play Apr 23, 2023
 Maddie Wills THERE IS A SEPARATE LISTING FOR THE LIVESTREAM pls stop changing this one All Time Low / Set It Off / Lauran Hibberd / Games We Play Apr 23, 2023
 Powerschlumpfi @ Jessica can you stop? how many times will you keep editing this archive entry?? people have told you multiple times now that you can either add the actual live stream entry or tick off the support bands instead of removing them and ruining everyone else’s stats. i have been at that show and i have seen all the supports so i want them listed as such, as does everyone else. All Time Low / Set It Off / Lauran Hibberd / Games We Play Apr 23, 2023
 Rhian i’m literally going to lose my mind at the amount of stupid update emails i’m getting about this concert. this is the post for the IN PERSON concert which was called ONE NIGHT ONLY and included ALL THE SUPPORT ACTS LISTED. if you watched the livestream, GO TO THE OTHER LISTING FOR THAT AND STOP UPDATING THIS ONE All Time Low / Set It Off / Lauran Hibberd / Games We Play Apr 23, 2023