For this gloomy, cold, fall day this video I found on You Tube pretty much says it all. Having watched Seagulls do this at the beach, I wish I had filmed them too.
Category Archive: Music
Oct
28
How the sausages are made-The Edge shows us his guitars
The Edge Shows us his guitars Bono once said that watching U2 make music was like watching the sausages being made, you would be happier not knowing what went into it. Of course, those of us who are compulsive U2 fans want to see the chicken bones and the baby toenails that go into the …
Oct
24
My Brightest Diamond to Play Ladies Literary Club Nov 5th
My Brightest Diamond to Play Ladies Literary Club If this rooftop video doesn’t sell you, I don’t know what will. Ypsilanti native Shara Worden and her string quartet will rock the beautifully renovated Ladies Lit Club in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan on Nov 5th.
Oct
10
Fleet Foxes-Live at the Ladies Literary Club 10-09-2008
Fleet Foxes Live at the Ladies Literary Club Laura and I visited the Ladies Literary club of Calvin College to see what Pitchfork has called the baroque folk rock band Fleet Foxes. The five piece played a succinct but moving one hour set in downtown Grand Rapids Michigan. The venue is a beautiful Victorian building …
Oct
06
Sigur Ros Live Detroit Sep23rd
Sigur Ros Live at the Detroit Fillmore Theatre I’ve been fortunate to see Sigur Ros live three times now. Each time was a little different. This go round, Sigur Ros performed as a four piece, which they have not done the other two times I saw them. Amina their string quartet companions and collaborators stayed …
Oct
01
Broken Social Scene from Juan’s Basement
Broken Social Scene Jams Churches under the Stairs Brian Eno in the Lanois film, Here is What is, talked about where music came from. He said that most people assume that great music, or art comes out of thin air when as Bono always puts it, when God walks through the room. Eno said most …
Sep
25
Icelandic Wrestling-Glima
Glima-Icelandic Wrestling Hmm-I thought I’d seen everything. Icelandic wrestling called Glima looks like a way to give yourself a wedgie. I already knew the band Sigur Ros was not to be taken that seriously. When I saw this video link through from the Sigur Ros Tour blog, I thought, in the words of Captain Malcolm …
Sep
25
Icelandic Band Sigur Ros on Folding Brompton Bikes
Folding bikes are really handy. I can imagine the boredom and sedentary waiting around for the show to start would probably make me a bit crazy. A pair of running shoes would most likely be my refuge of choice because it’s portable. But a folding bike would be ideal. Brompton is making a few different …
Jul
10
Wolf Parade Live Review Pontiac Crofoot Ballroom Pontiac Michigan
Live Wolf Parade Crofoot Ballroom, Pontiac Michigan July 7th 2008 Check out the encore video of I’ll Believe in Anything!!! Nice shorts Spencer, look out Ian Mackaye I saw Wolf Parade live back in 2006. Wolf Parade played the the now Defunct Kraftbrau brewery. It was a fantastic show, probably one of the best shows …
Jun
09
Live Shows, The New Pornographers, Okkervil River, The National
We’ve been fortunate to have a series of good live shows come through the Detroit area in the suburb of Pontiac over the last few months. My parents still live in Clarkston, so we manage to coordinate a visit and seeing a show in the same weekend. I’d been waiting to take both kids to …
