They played 6 songs from Entertainment!, which was as much as I could ask for, as well as “Paralysed”, “What We All Want”, “Why Theory?”, and “To Hell With Poverty”. Few from the new album, the best 2 from Songs of the Free, and 1 from their '90s reunion period. Surprisingly good, especially “Anthrax”, where Andy Gill threw and kicked his guitar across the stage for the feedback.
I am going to have to maim one of your body parts now, Miss Lindsay! I love me some Lyle and I thought Hiatt was rather lackadaisical.
Star Wars concert in San Diego last autumn. I think it was autumn…I don’t see a lot of live music these days. Smaller venues, bars and such, I enjoy a lot, but 1. My social life doesn’t really steer me towards bars anymore and 2. I’m not in an area where that’s common.
Ask me again in July, and I’ll be able to say “Rush, in Vegas” 
Beans Barton and the Bipeds’ 25th anniversary show at Dan Electros in Houston this Saturday.
Awesome!
Being a school teacher, I have endured more ‘band concerts’ than I ever wanted to, with a attentive face plastered on, while I counted ceiling tiles or something.
However, the last real concert I went to was John Denver, in late 1989. I was pregnant with eldest child, who reacted violently to the loud noise. I ended up with coats wrapped around my middle, trying to muffle the sound.
If you haven’t heard them, they have both snippets and full songs available to listen to at their website here http://www.thejoyformidable.com in the music section.
They’re just a trio, but they use a lot of layered guitars to create a rather loud wall of sound. Musically, I’d say they’re melodic hard indie rock with intelligent lyrics and a serious, yet optimistic attitude. A lot of bands will build a song to a climax and ease off or end after it. I can think of 2 songs (2 of the best, in fact) on The Big Roar where they keep building on it with wild abandon. It’s refreshing to hear a band let themselves off the leash a bit.
Live, they put on a terrificly energetic show that is mostly true to their big CD sound. I didn’t get the best look at things, but I believe either the sound guy or the guitarist was punching in extra riffs while playing to build up the sound.
Highly recommended!
Motorpsycho, sometime last summer at the Gloria, Cologne. It was the most intensive (and loudest) concert by a three-piece band I ever attended. And I’m looking forward to see Belle and Sebastian next week (this definitely will be much quieter, but still good, I hope).
Rodrigo Y Gabriela a couple of weeks ago at our local outdoor amphitheatre. Some very physical guitar playing going on there, lots of banging and sawing away, despite the woman limping onstage in crutches. We’d been cheap and bought lawn “seats” way in the back but when we walked in, an attendant offered us dedicated seats about a dozen rows from the stage.
New one is here.