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What is it with New York then? Think most of us have now seen the Order's Hammerstein gig and the (almost total) lack of 'audience participation' at said venue.
Was just checking Kraftwerk's Technopop board to see if any more gigs had been announced and found a similar review of Kraftwerk's Hammerstein gig from last year.
What is it with Noo Yoikers then?! Are they really too cool to dance?!
Funny, but I always picture New Yorkers in chinos and pastel Ralph Lauren. Which ain't cool at all. 
Al Jarvis wrote: What is it with New York then? Think most of us have now seen the Order's Hammerstein gig and the (almost total) lack of 'audience participation' at said venue.
Was just checking Kraftwerk's Technopop board to see if any more gigs had been announced and found a similar review of Kraftwerk's Hammerstein gig from last year.
What is it with Noo Yoikers then?! Are they really too cool to dance?!
Funny, but I always picture New Yorkers in chinos and pastel Ralph Lauren. Which ain't cool at all.
It's true.
When i lived in New York, we'd go out to clubs where people were on pills, they would sit on the corner of the dance floor in a semi circle having a chat- the WHOLE night long!
It could be some stupid rules & regulations thing,to avoid a crush or some other kind of accident.
Bonzette wrote:
Al Jarvis wrote: What is it with New York then? Think most of us have now seen the Order's Hammerstein gig and the (almost total) lack of 'audience participation' at said venue.
Was just checking Kraftwerk's Technopop board to see if any more gigs had been announced and found a similar review of Kraftwerk's Hammerstein gig from last year.
What is it with Noo Yoikers then?! Are they really too cool to dance?!
Funny, but I always picture New Yorkers in chinos and pastel Ralph Lauren. Which ain't cool at all.
It's true.
When i lived in New York, we'd go out to clubs where people were on pills, they would sit on the corner of the dance floor in a semi circle having a chat- the WHOLE night long!
I've been known to do that.....but not ALL night, and I am a big fat sack of potatoes :D In my case tho, it's more to do with thinking most dance music's a pile of shite ;)
I was at said gig. there was a lot of dancing. it wasn't stupid pogo/mosh pits where people get hurt but there was tons of dancing
that said... there were a lot of "indie kids" at the show and indie kids don't dance. Those fuckers got pushed by those of us having a good time
Barney Army wrote: blame Rudolf Giuliani
Er....he has a lasting legacy does he? He hasn't been mayor since 2001....
Steve Lea wrote:
Barney Army wrote: blame Rudolf Giuliani
Er....he has a lasting legacy does he? He hasn't been mayor since 2001....
Is that my gorgeous gal i do see, young Steve?
Good trip to NY last week then!
ChrissMari wrote: I was at said gig. there was a lot of dancing. it wasn't stupid pogo/mosh pits where people get hurt but there was tons of dancing
not around where al, JG, gary and i (and a few others) were standing! i do believe al even got an earful for having the audacity to move around, if i remember correctly.
AgentWood wrote:
ChrissMari wrote: I was at said gig. there was a lot of dancing. it wasn't stupid pogo/mosh pits where people get hurt but there was tons of dancing
not around where al, JG, gary and i (and a few others) were standing! i do believe al even got an earful for having the audacity to move around, if i remember correctly.
I'm quite impressed: Al's quite an imposing figure (especially if you don't know him), and I wouldn't "give him an earful". Especially if he was moving around....
Steve Lea wrote:
Barney Army wrote: blame Rudolf Giuliani
Er....he has a lasting legacy does he? He hasn't been mayor since 2001....
he does though doesnt he? I thought he famously cleaned up new York
Bonzette wrote:
Steve Lea wrote:
Barney Army wrote: blame Rudolf Giuliani
Er....he has a lasting legacy does he? He hasn't been mayor since 2001....
Is that my gorgeous gal i do see, young Steve?
Good trip to NY last week then!
You didnt think you were going to see me in the photo did you?!
It was a blast! I can say that now without fear of arrest..
Steve Lea wrote:
Bonzette wrote:
Steve Lea wrote:
Barney Army wrote: blame Rudolf Giuliani
Er....he has a lasting legacy does he? He hasn't been mayor since 2001....
Is that my gorgeous gal i do see, young Steve?
Good trip to NY last week then!
You didnt think you were going to see me in the photo did you?!
It was a blast! I can say that now without fear of arrest..
Go dancing?????
Actually, thought you were the person behind little angel! 
(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:
AgentWood wrote:
ChrissMari wrote: I was at said gig. there was a lot of dancing. it wasn't stupid pogo/mosh pits where people get hurt but there was tons of dancing
not around where al, JG, gary and i (and a few others) were standing! i do believe al even got an earful for having the audacity to move around, if i remember correctly.
I'm quite impressed: Al's quite an imposing figure (especially if you don't know him), and I wouldn't "give him an earful". Especially if he was moving around....
All true though. There was a few of us in a little confab and someone reached through the crowd to [ahem] tell me off.
Strange.
Bonzette wrote:
Go dancing?????
Actually, thought you were the person behind little angel!
You asking????!
Everything's gone green?! Nah, that's probably how I look and feel first day back at work though..
Besides I hold a torch for someone else, thought you knew??
Steve Lea wrote:
Bonzette wrote:
Go dancing?????
Actually, thought you were the person behind little angel!
You asking????!
Everything's gone green?! Nah, that's probably how I look and feel first day back at work though.. Besides I hold a torch for someone else, thought you knew??
There's a nool chatroom, yer know
SISTER SHED wrote:
Steve Lea wrote:
Bonzette wrote:
Go dancing?????
Actually, thought you were the person behind little angel!
You asking????!
Everything's gone green?! Nah, that's probably how I look and feel first day back at work though.. Besides I hold a torch for someone else, thought you knew??
There's a nool chatroom, yer know
I don't do SHED 2 SHED............oh, sorry is the chatroom something seperate?
Steve Lea wrote:
Bonzette wrote:
Go dancing?????
Actually, thought you were the person behind little angel!
You asking????!
Everything's gone green?! Nah, that's probably how I look and feel first day back at work though.. Besides I hold a torch for someone else, thought you knew??
how is she anyway?
Never understood this relcutance of NY crowds to get into the music. The Taras Shevchenko video is the same, and they've commented on stage before about it - 83 and 86 on stage, and in an interview after the 81 dates.
Al Jarvis wrote:
(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:
AgentWood wrote:
ChrissMari wrote: I was at said gig. there was a lot of dancing. it wasn't stupid pogo/mosh pits where people get hurt but there was tons of dancing
not around where al, JG, gary and i (and a few others) were standing! i do believe al even got an earful for having the audacity to move around, if i remember correctly.
I'm quite impressed: Al's quite an imposing figure (especially if you don't know him), and I wouldn't "give him an earful". Especially if he was moving around....
All true though. There was a few of us in a little confab and someone reached through the crowd to [ahem] tell me off.
Strange.
So what did you do? I hope you told them where to go. Or chinned 'em!
SISTER SHED wrote: There's a nool chatroom, yer know
Thanks for the reminder Sis1....
When my daily post count average gets up from its current 3 to your 10 I'll make a point of staying in there!
nyc_boy
Steve Lea wrote:
SISTER SHED wrote: There's a nool chatroom, yer know
Thanks for the reminder Sis1....
When my daily post count average gets up from its current 3 to your 10 I'll make a point of staying in there!
nyc_boy
sis isn't in there anyway.
NOOLigan wrote:
Steve Lea wrote: [Besides I hold a torch for someone else, thought you knew??
how is she anyway?
Off T:Who we talking about?! On T: There's at least one guy in the crowdshots on TS having a good time!
Steve Lea wrote:
NOOLigan wrote:
Steve Lea wrote: [Besides I hold a torch for someone else, thought you knew??
how is she anyway?
Off T:Who we talking about?! On T: There's at least one guy in the crowdshots on TS having a good time!
just taking a punt about the torch thing. :D
SISTER SHED wrote:
Steve Lea wrote:
nyc_boy
Always thought it was that swajkoz git instead
OOPS!
Well you're known to call people worse things than 'git'..
Got off lightly
NOOLigan wrote:
just taking a punt about the torch thing. :D
OT: You go punting with a pole, not a fishing rod
Were the San Francisco crowds in 81 any better than New York's?? Guess it was still relatively early days for people getting into Movement...
Well, I was on the side where Andy & Rebecca were actually dancing.. and it was a good way to make sure my knee would hurt.
But moshing & other lethal dances?
I might experience that once, if I do the trip to England..
Although I admit that when I go see them, I want to see them play, not dance around (anyways, I don't dance unless drunk ) but if like Al I had seen 500+ shows maybe I would care more about the gig itself than the musicians ;)
Nothing as weird as the crowd in Tokyo for the Doves last November. There was no movement whatsoever and they literally WHISPERED between songs. Back home the crowd'd be launching pint pots full of piss at each other before the band even came on!
the most sedate crowd i've ever witnessed was at a spiritualized concert at shepherd's bush empire in '95. the security had to keep the crowd from sitting down.
AgentWood wrote: the most sedate crowd i've ever witnessed was at a spiritualized concert at shepherd's bush empire in '95. the security had to keep the crowd from sitting down.
Not sedate, just generally too stoned to stand up. I stopped going to Spiritualized gigs when they got too popular and there wasn't enough room for everyone to sit down. Best live band in the universe circa 1992-1995.
AgentWood wrote: the most sedate crowd i've ever witnessed was at a spiritualized concert at shepherd's bush empire in '95. the security had to keep the crowd from sitting down.
They used to sit down at James concerts 'an all.
JAMES-Best live band in the universe! Not too much of a fan of that student song "Sit Down" mind.Bored shitless of it.Its James's Blue Monday.
(The Good Doctor) Martin Fradley wrote:
AgentWood wrote: the most sedate crowd i've ever witnessed was at a spiritualized concert at shepherd's bush empire in '95. the security had to keep the crowd from sitting down.
Not sedate, just generally too stoned to stand up. I stopped going to Spiritualized gigs when they got too popular and there wasn't enough room for everyone to sit down. Best live band in the universe circa 1992-1995.
so that explains it. too bad i was left out of all the fun, then.
i can't remember who the opening band was, but the bassist just stopped playing and wandered offstage in the middle of a song. he had to be guided back on and set back in place.
ahh..'Sit Down' in nightclubs, those were the days.
They should have renamed it 'cover your arse in shit' though :\ohwell:
I can't dance, so I only dance when I'm drunk. Making a fool out of my self.... :(
Never been to NYC, so can't comment that.
And it's not just at NO gigs, either!
The indie sort, they don't like to muss up their clothing. There's some sort of points system for who can be the most statuesque by the end of the night. Must be no fun to be them. 
Then at regular clubs, the girls don't dance because they are too busy checking out the guys who aren't dancing and both pairs of them are waiting for the other one to order the coolest drink or something.
Not all of NY is like that, but there's enough of a precedent to make one feel like a freed ape running around a school of timid children at the zoo when you are up for a good bodyshake.
There's clubs/people here in Houston that run the same.
I think places oughta stop watering their drinks down. It's proven the drunker you are, the higher the probability of you making a fantastic dancing jerk of yourself. Not that I, uh, you know, have done extensive research or anything on the subject. :shy:
PHD wrote:
AgentWood wrote: the most sedate crowd i've ever witnessed was at a spiritualized concert at shepherd's bush empire in '95. the security had to keep the crowd from sitting down.
They used to sit down at James concerts 'an all.
And at King Kurt they knelt down and then kicked shit out of each other.
James Thomas wrote: And at King Kurt they knelt down and then kicked shit out of each other.
Ah, a rite of passage that every 15 year old boy had to go through in the 80's.
AgentWood wrote:
ChrissMari wrote: I was at said gig. there was a lot of dancing. it wasn't stupid pogo/mosh pits where people get hurt but there was tons of dancing
not around where al, JG, gary and i (and a few others) were standing! i do believe al even got an earful for having the audacity to move around, if i remember correctly.
mind you I was right up front and then got ill and went in the back... back was dancing machines
SISTER SHED wrote:
Steve Lea wrote:
nyc_boy
Always thought it was that swajkoz git instead
OOPS!
you know it ain't the proper way to spell it.
. A git? I like to think of meself as well behaved, mature gentlemen.
.
I was at this show, and to what i see a great amount of people were dancing. Or maybe i was too busy dancing to have noticed.The ones that wouldn't were probably just too old to dance.
SISTER SHED wrote:
Steve Lea wrote:
Bonzette wrote:
Go dancing?????
Actually, thought you were the person behind little angel!
You asking????!
Everything's gone green?! Nah, that's probably how I look and feel first day back at work though.. Besides I hold a torch for someone else, thought you knew??
There's a nool chatroom, yer know
Maya's new avatar surely a contender with Ben's for best of NOOL?
