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BIC!!!!!!!
Mar. 22nd, 2006 11:23 pmOMG BIC!
Okay, so I know I promised details, but all you're going to get is *FLAIL* because EEE SO GOOD. WITH THE VOICE AND THEBAND AND THE PRETTY ADN THE THE THE
Okay. *breathes* I can be coherent, honestly. Um.
The Flight of the Conchords was the warm-up act- for non-Kiwis, FIGWIT (Frodo Is Great! WhoIs That? otherwise known as Bret McKenzie; who's also in the Black Seeds, BTW, and have I mentioned the NZ music industry is incredibly incestous?) is one-half (the other half is Jemaine Clements) of this very very funny sort-of-comedy-music-duo-thing. Um. Check out this faq for a possibly slightly better explanation of what they sound like, but dude, they were awesome and I highly reccommend anyone/everyone taking the opportunity to see them again. Tickets will probably be quite cheap especially within NZ.
UM AND THEN BIC. ARIGHT, lessee, I can't do a proper setlist but I remember quite a bit so we'll see.
She opened with Precious Things, which was pretty good- not really much to say, I enjoyed it, mouthed along, sounded great. She played keyboards! I love it when musicians actually play their own music it fills me with a sense of joy. Anyway she followed that up with Something Good, she played acoustic guitar for that and it was actually really really cool- I've always liked Something Good but not loved it, because on the album it's all very studio-produced and not precisely bland but certainly not rough, whereas with the guitar she was playing and the rest of the band it had a lot of edge, it was really fantastic. Thumbs up!
Then Neil Finn came on- she said "I'd like to introduce Neil Finn" and, you know, the crowd started screaming. Have I mentioned the New Zealand music scene is small and incestuous? well it is and the Finn Brothers are like royalty. It's not even funny. Anyway, that was cool, and then she pitched into Birds. Most of the show was from Birds, actually, and it was really lovely, I like it a lot live- it has this very intimate feel and there's so much more detail to a lot of the tracks. So she played Birds and then the backing singers came on- Anika Moa, Shayne Carter (from Dimmer) and Anna Coddington (from Duchess, apparently- no, I haven't heard of them, either.) They did Ruby Nights, which was simply stunning and very, very moving- I really understood it so much better live, I think. You know that bit around about the two minute mark, it's about fortyfive seconds long, with the chords on the piano followed by this quite haunting sound? Well, live the haunting sound was very highpitched and sweet and I realised that it sounded exactly like a koauau (sp? god it's too late for this) which is a type of maori wooded flute- it has this very distinctive, very haunting, very New Zealand sound and it really hit be in the gut. Just amazing. Anyway, it was followed by- I think- If I Had You and It's Over, which were great but I don't really have much to say about them, you know.
Then they played Captured, which was really fantastic- she was playing the electric guitar for this, IIRC, and you could hear it playing really clearly towards the end, this repeated bom bom bom- oh shh, I never claimed to be coherent- which sounded really cool. By this point, because FotC had been so funny, she and Neil were making sardonic remarks abhout, well, how bleak- their word not mine- Birds really is. I mean, surprise, surprise, Birds is still a sad, sad album. :P So she goes to go into That's
Alright, and Neil says: "This one's sort of happy." And Bic looked at him and said: "Well... no, it's not really!"
Um. It was funny. Anyway, they played That's Alright which was really, really lovely live-- and it kind of reminded me of On My Own, you know, Eponine's song. Which it never had done before, so that's odd... and Listen, which is the other "upbeat" one on Birds- Listen is one of my favourites on the album, but I didn't like it quite so much live, realative to the others- possibly because in general I liked the others a lot more live. But anyway, still liked it, and then most of the band left- oh, wait, I totally forgot Blue Blue Heart, which I adored on the album and LOVED live- it was really really really good. Anyway the band left Bic in the middle with her guitar, and she played No Crying No More, which was great, just her and an acoustic guitar. Lovely lovely lovely. Then a guy with a harmonica (actually one of the band members- he played guitar, and harmonica in something else as well- um, maybe Captured?) and Neil (who played piano, obviously; I forget that some of youse probably don't know that) came back on and they did... wait for it... The Be All and End All, which is one of my most absolute favourite Bic songs and they just did it AWESOMELY- it was GREAT with the harmonica, it sounded really neat, and very different from the album version on Beautiful Collision.
Then the rest of the band came on and they did Say After Me, which was good live- it's never been a favourite of mine, for some reason- and apparently Say After Me is going to be the next single, just FYI. Then she played Winning Arrow which was great- I think I've got my order mixed up because I'm sure there was something else after that, but I'm all out of songs. Um. ANYWAY, then it was the theoretical end- it was actually fairly short- and we clapped and clapped and clapped, and THEN. ENCORE!
... So she played SWAY OMFG SWAY, this crazycool version with her and drums and a guy on guitar and another on bass guitar, very staccato and fast and very cool. OMG SWAY. OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, I mean I seriously would think that she was so sick of it. I mean, this is like Bowie playing Space Oddity or Simon and Garfunkel playing The Sound of Silence or Bridge Over Troubled Water or Alanis playing Ironic, I mean, it's just that iconic. socool. THEN they played Get Some Sleep, which was basically just rockin'- I forget how much I like Get Some Sleep, but I do, a lot, it's so much fun. AND FINALLY...
...Drive. Duuuuuuude. I think we were being spoiled XD Anyway, by this time it was just her and an acoustic guitar, alone on the stage- and she was so skinny, in this black dress with big pockets, just standing in front of the mic and singing. And it was very dark, and they slowly backlit her with about five beautiful golden spotlights or something- I don't know the technical details, okay, but it looked like the sun was rising behind her and it was just so beautiful. I mean I really just have no words. *sigh* A PERFECT end.
I am so, so, so glad I went. It was worth it.
And now? to bed. or rather, to find a Bones 1x09 torrent, and THEN bed.
Okay, so I know I promised details, but all you're going to get is *FLAIL* because EEE SO GOOD. WITH THE VOICE AND THEBAND AND THE PRETTY ADN THE THE THE
Okay. *breathes* I can be coherent, honestly. Um.
The Flight of the Conchords was the warm-up act- for non-Kiwis, FIGWIT (Frodo Is Great! WhoIs That? otherwise known as Bret McKenzie; who's also in the Black Seeds, BTW, and have I mentioned the NZ music industry is incredibly incestous?) is one-half (the other half is Jemaine Clements) of this very very funny sort-of-comedy-music-duo-thing. Um. Check out this faq for a possibly slightly better explanation of what they sound like, but dude, they were awesome and I highly reccommend anyone/everyone taking the opportunity to see them again. Tickets will probably be quite cheap especially within NZ.
UM AND THEN BIC. ARIGHT, lessee, I can't do a proper setlist but I remember quite a bit so we'll see.
She opened with Precious Things, which was pretty good- not really much to say, I enjoyed it, mouthed along, sounded great. She played keyboards! I love it when musicians actually play their own music it fills me with a sense of joy. Anyway she followed that up with Something Good, she played acoustic guitar for that and it was actually really really cool- I've always liked Something Good but not loved it, because on the album it's all very studio-produced and not precisely bland but certainly not rough, whereas with the guitar she was playing and the rest of the band it had a lot of edge, it was really fantastic. Thumbs up!
Then Neil Finn came on- she said "I'd like to introduce Neil Finn" and, you know, the crowd started screaming. Have I mentioned the New Zealand music scene is small and incestuous? well it is and the Finn Brothers are like royalty. It's not even funny. Anyway, that was cool, and then she pitched into Birds. Most of the show was from Birds, actually, and it was really lovely, I like it a lot live- it has this very intimate feel and there's so much more detail to a lot of the tracks. So she played Birds and then the backing singers came on- Anika Moa, Shayne Carter (from Dimmer) and Anna Coddington (from Duchess, apparently- no, I haven't heard of them, either.) They did Ruby Nights, which was simply stunning and very, very moving- I really understood it so much better live, I think. You know that bit around about the two minute mark, it's about fortyfive seconds long, with the chords on the piano followed by this quite haunting sound? Well, live the haunting sound was very highpitched and sweet and I realised that it sounded exactly like a koauau (sp? god it's too late for this) which is a type of maori wooded flute- it has this very distinctive, very haunting, very New Zealand sound and it really hit be in the gut. Just amazing. Anyway, it was followed by- I think- If I Had You and It's Over, which were great but I don't really have much to say about them, you know.
Then they played Captured, which was really fantastic- she was playing the electric guitar for this, IIRC, and you could hear it playing really clearly towards the end, this repeated bom bom bom- oh shh, I never claimed to be coherent- which sounded really cool. By this point, because FotC had been so funny, she and Neil were making sardonic remarks abhout, well, how bleak- their word not mine- Birds really is. I mean, surprise, surprise, Birds is still a sad, sad album. :P So she goes to go into That's
Alright, and Neil says: "This one's sort of happy." And Bic looked at him and said: "Well... no, it's not really!"
Um. It was funny. Anyway, they played That's Alright which was really, really lovely live-- and it kind of reminded me of On My Own, you know, Eponine's song. Which it never had done before, so that's odd... and Listen, which is the other "upbeat" one on Birds- Listen is one of my favourites on the album, but I didn't like it quite so much live, realative to the others- possibly because in general I liked the others a lot more live. But anyway, still liked it, and then most of the band left- oh, wait, I totally forgot Blue Blue Heart, which I adored on the album and LOVED live- it was really really really good. Anyway the band left Bic in the middle with her guitar, and she played No Crying No More, which was great, just her and an acoustic guitar. Lovely lovely lovely. Then a guy with a harmonica (actually one of the band members- he played guitar, and harmonica in something else as well- um, maybe Captured?) and Neil (who played piano, obviously; I forget that some of youse probably don't know that) came back on and they did... wait for it... The Be All and End All, which is one of my most absolute favourite Bic songs and they just did it AWESOMELY- it was GREAT with the harmonica, it sounded really neat, and very different from the album version on Beautiful Collision.
Then the rest of the band came on and they did Say After Me, which was good live- it's never been a favourite of mine, for some reason- and apparently Say After Me is going to be the next single, just FYI. Then she played Winning Arrow which was great- I think I've got my order mixed up because I'm sure there was something else after that, but I'm all out of songs. Um. ANYWAY, then it was the theoretical end- it was actually fairly short- and we clapped and clapped and clapped, and THEN. ENCORE!
... So she played SWAY OMFG SWAY, this crazycool version with her and drums and a guy on guitar and another on bass guitar, very staccato and fast and very cool. OMG SWAY. OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, I mean I seriously would think that she was so sick of it. I mean, this is like Bowie playing Space Oddity or Simon and Garfunkel playing The Sound of Silence or Bridge Over Troubled Water or Alanis playing Ironic, I mean, it's just that iconic. socool. THEN they played Get Some Sleep, which was basically just rockin'- I forget how much I like Get Some Sleep, but I do, a lot, it's so much fun. AND FINALLY...
...Drive. Duuuuuuude. I think we were being spoiled XD Anyway, by this time it was just her and an acoustic guitar, alone on the stage- and she was so skinny, in this black dress with big pockets, just standing in front of the mic and singing. And it was very dark, and they slowly backlit her with about five beautiful golden spotlights or something- I don't know the technical details, okay, but it looked like the sun was rising behind her and it was just so beautiful. I mean I really just have no words. *sigh* A PERFECT end.
I am so, so, so glad I went. It was worth it.
And now? to bed. or rather, to find a Bones 1x09 torrent, and THEN bed.
