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Saturday, Nov. 05, 2005 | 12:56

broadcast at the abbey pub

the opener was the like young. they're a local chicago duo, consisting of a male singer/guitarist and a female singing drummer. i like the idea of a female singing drummer, and she wore pink which helped. i liked her hair. unfortunately, she was pretty uncreative on the kit, and her partner was just plain annoying. most drum/guitar duos are noisy and abrasive, but these two seemed to have a sense of melody. that's cool and all, but it doesn't make the music any more interesting. someone liked it, i'm sure, but clearly they were the local opener for a u.s. tour of british bands. i wonder what warp knew about them beforehand.

following them was gravenhurst. i'd read a review of the new gravenhurst album and decided it sounded cool. their sound on stage was very much like 90's shoegaze, a style i like very much. the talking broadcast fans were annoying, but at least gravenhurst was compelling and good. from the opening song i new i wanted the album. i was thinking if i had enough i'd get it and the green & orange shirt they had for sale (it would turn out they were both $15, so i couldn't do that). before they even finished baby and i had both said we wanted the album. i ended up getting it, and she got an ep that had another of the set's standout tracks on it--the one she liked the most.

then broadcast. what can i say? my concept of what broadcast sounds like turned out to be very different from how they actually sound, which was very disappointing. baby said they sound different on album than they do on stage, and in fact their live show bored me to tears (literally i was yawning and my eyes would water). it sounded like the same electronic dance rock that's already swept through this country, and i'm sure i've heard it done better. the singer's voice isn't as good live, and the electronics seemed more abrasive than cool. overall it was a disappointing set. we cut out before the encore.

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