Part Time Punks Festival 2009 - Medium Medium + Savage Republic (pt. 2)

Medium Medium
'Part Time Punks' festival
2009-10-11
The Echoplex LA

taper: lammah
equip: Sonic Studios DSM-6/L > Edirol R-09HR
locat: Right in front
mstrg: 48/32 WAV > Adobe Audition 1.5 [compression/limiting on claps/normalization/re-EQ/tracking] > FLAC

Tracks
01 (You Got Me) Dangling On A String 5:35
02 Nadsat Dream 4:03
03 M Train [Pylon, in memory of Randy Bewley] 5:55
04 Serbian Village 6:48
05 Let It Breathe 4:50
06 Mice Or Monsters 6:24
07 Further Than Funk Dream 7:25
08 Hungry, So Angry 6:25
TOTAL        47:27

I taped this group at the very same location last year. If anything, I found them even more enjoyable the second time around! One of the finest UK indie-funk groups to ever grace our shores. They covered Pylon's "M Train", in memory of Randy Bewley their guitarist who passed away last year. I was lucky to have saw them (briefly) at PTP last year and at their penultimate gig at the Independent in SF a couple of days after.

And I was lucky to see the Medium Medium guys play here...unlike the previous year Andy Ryder was all in black instead of his typical all-white garb. Amazingly, since their reformation, they have *only* played Stateside...and not often, only a half-dozen or so times at most.

If I must say so, this is a superb recording, one of the best I've ever done. Spent quite a bit on time in "post", it's worth it.

Included some good pictures from my friend Mark and some not-so-good iPhone blurrage from myself.  As well as a pic by Ned Raggett.

Remember
* Please don't sell or leverage for material gain.  
* MP3 transcodes (not on DIME of course) are permitted, but please include this info file
* Above all, enjoy the music!  Visit http://www.mediummedium.com to see a video of "M-Train"
  as well as to check out the copious samples of live/rare material.  Buy their album!

MEDIUM MEDIUM (pCloud) 

And a very brief video clip not seen previously.  It's only one second long. :-)

Part Time Punks Festival 2009 - Shark Toys + Abe Vigoda + The Intelligence (pt. 1)

The Intelligence

Presenting these in reverse order, as that presentation makes the most sense for these.  At least to me.

The Intelligence
Part Time Punks Festival
2009-10-11
The Echoplex
Los Angeles CA 

taper: bcingyou, using Sony ECM-990F > M-Audio Microtrack II.

01 intro / The Universe

02 Nice Tries

03 Debt & ESP

04 Dating Cops, busted snare, joke

05 Thank You God For Fixing The Tape Machine

06 The World Is A Drag

07 Tuned To Puke

08 Block Of Ice  [Thee Oh Sees]

09 Like Like Like Like Like Like Like

10 Black Hole [The Urinals]

11 The Unessential Cosmic Perspective

12 outro

INTELLIGENCE (bcingyou recording, pCloud)

An assemblage of video clips synced from my friend's Kodak Easyshare, maybe also incorporate footage from my iPhone?

The Intelligence from the 'Part Time Punks' fest at the Echo in LA on October 11th, 2009, featuring Lars Finberg and cohorts. Two brief clips, joined together....including "The World Is A Drag" [0:00], "Like Like Like Like Like Like Like" [1:18], "Black Hole", a Urinals cover [3:14], and their last song, The Unessential Cosmic Perspective [4:34]

DVD d/l of above.

Part Time Punks Mini-Fest SF - 2009

Going in performance (forward) order....this is an archival record of everything that I've turned up for this show.

To date, no footage or recordings appear to exist for GRASS WIDOW / NODZZZ / WEAVE...  There's one track for VIV ALBERTINE, which I'd make up for in LA.

While FOR AGAINST was listed on the flyer, they had to pull out at the last minute due to logistical issues.

While I was up in the mezzanine hearing Viv practicing on her guitar, there's no documentation of her set either.  "Gang Of Four" was indeed just Hugo Burnham DJ'ing as the flyer says, and while we videoed nearly all of Section 25, it's only via the horrible overloaded digicam audio (a Kodak unit)

And even The Raincoats recording got cut off, due to...read on... *sigh*.

Death Sentence: Panda!

2009-10-09
'Part Time Punks' mini-fest
The Mezzanine SF

The first track (or second) "In Love With Witches" was videoed...

The rest of the set was captured, more or less.

[0:00] Fight Or Flight (start cut) [1:50] Lips Of Chaos [4:03] Insects Awaken [9:28] Dessert Parade

DSP - DOWNLOAD (pCloud)

Ladyhawke / Semi-Precious Weapons / Julian Perretta / NPSH - 2009-09-30 - The Fillmore SF

Ladyhawke
2009-09-30
The Fillmore
San Francisco CA

taper:  lammah
gear:  Sonic Studios DSM-6/L mics > Edirol R-09HR
mastering : Adobe Audition 1.5 (clap reduction/bass EQ/normalization) > FLAC(6)

Tracks

01 Perez Hilton intro [1:34]
02 Magic  [5:12]
03 Professional Suicide  [4:28]
04 Dusk Till Dawn  [3:34]
05 Manipulating Woman  [4:12]
06 Another Runaway  [4:07]
07 Love Don't Live Here  [5:04]
08 Danny and Jenny  [4:09]
09 Better Than Sunday  [4:06]
10 Back In The Van  [4:31]
11 Paris Is Burning    [6:09]
--
12 My Delirium [NOT TAPED]

Total: 47:09

 

Note from the future (2023) as the following notes were contemporaneous:  

 

I seem to have been in a very bitchy mood, perhaps in homage / emulation of the compere.   Aside from the headliner, at the time I felt this was one of the worst shows I've attended.

 

NPSH do sound like Black Kids, but actually like them upon re-listening...even if you can hear my friend Tom say at the end "that was really bad".   And the other groups were good to listen to  as well...Semi Precious Weapons' approach would get echoed in LA groups like Starcrawler.

Here's my recording of Ladyhawke at the half-full or thereabouts Fillmore.
 

The denziens of my hometown apparently weren't that keen on attending a
show with the imprinteur of Mario Armando Lavandeira [popularly known
as 'Perez Hilton'].  Oddly enough, nothing much in the way of what makes
the Fillmore annoying seemed to rear its ugly head that night...though
the opening acts...ugh, NPSH [which stands for Natalie Portman's Shaved
Head] sounded like a crap Black Kids...Julian Perretta was OK, nothing
to write home about, and Semi-Precious Weapons...majorly sucked, in a
semi-entertaining way...musically, they were absolute tripe, and their
frontman looked like a blonde-haired Syndrome from the Incredibles.
That's as bad as it's supposed to sound.  He did a wardrobe change mid-song...
(writhing on the floor while changing) sand seemed damn proud of the fact.  
Oh boy.

If you're going to call the audience "cunts", even endearingly, mean it, man.    

...though they did have this song called "Put A Diamond In It and Bite 

Down" has a massive bass groove going on, after which, the frontman 

busts out with this gem:

"I'd like to discuss these people sitting in the balcony.   Just because
you're in the balcony doesn't mean you should sit.  I know rock n' roll
has been dead for a very long time, but when it was alive, people stood
up for rock n' roll.  You were never get laid sitting down.  YOU WILL
NEVER GET LAID SITTING DOWN."

[In an interview I read, he claims to have never been laid on account of
being in a rock band.  I believe him.]

Anyway, enough of them.  Seeing Pip Brown in the flesh was entirely
worth it.  She seemed unusually talkative, and really appreciated the
crowd...who was vocal enough...this is not for you if you don't mind a
little potatoes with your meat...but actually, this is one of the best
sounding recordings I've done to date.  I think the only complain was
not enough keyboards on 'Paris Is Burning'.  We'll live.  Perez was
right when he said this was an album of hits...

At the end of Ladyhawke's encore track Semi-Precious Weapons came back
out again and made fools of themselves.  Sadly, my batteries had run out
by then, so no "No Delirium" for you [ed note...it was documented, see below]

Usual crap iPhone photos added along for the ride.  I do have recordings
for all the opening acts, but I wouldn't bother if I were you.

REMEMBER

* Don't leverage for material gain.  Don't sell what you can't own.
* I'm ok with MP3 transcodes (not on DIME itself of course) but please 

  retain this info file or a pointer back to the seed URL
* Enjoy!

As last song "My Delirum" was not taped, we'll rely on gaae2000's video for it.

  My Delirium

 

She filmed four other tracks.

Magic

Dusk Til Dawn

Back Of The Van

Paris Is Burning

 

LADYHAWKE (pCloud)

Carta, Shuteye Unison, Form & Fate - 2009-08-26 - Bottom Of The Hill SF

Carta with Shuteye Unison + Form and Fate

2009-08-26

Bottom Of The Hill

San Francisco CA

 

This is a soundboard recording done with permission of the band/venue.

 

Carta setlist

 

00 soundchecking, including "Murder" by New Order [4:17]

01 Sidereal  [5:16]

02 Prettier At Night  [4:55]

03 Sexton  [4:36]

04 Hills  [3:50]

05 Descention + Clerk [13:33]

06 Hourglass  [5:13]

07 The Last Name Of Your First Love  [10:44]

08 Larva  [5:27]

Total 57:51

 

Clerk is on the setlist but I believed they played an extra-long version of Descention instead but both songs tend to blend into each other anyway...

 

CARTAKE

Soundcheck footage snippet of Carta...

Shuteye Unison live

 

Shuteye Unison set - also a soundboard recording

00 soundchecking  [3:26]

01 Century M  [7:42]

02 Tomorrow's Five Horizons  [3:49]

03 Better Hallway Vision

04 Slow Ravens

05 Traffic Hymn

06 War Feathers

Total 34:10

SHUTEYES DOWNLOAD

 

Self-titled available on iTunes

Our Future Selves album on Bandcamp

 

Form & Fate in performance

Form and Fate is an audience recording done with Sonic Studios DSM-6 > Edirol R-09HR.

 

00 soundchecking  [2:12]

01 Welcome To Your New Home Beneath The Earth (The Marseille Handshake)  [4:27]

02 When The Streets Caught Fire and We All walked Throgh The Flames  [5:31]

03 Mare Incognitum  [4:10]

04 Sons Of Jupiter  [7:41]

05 Escape Velocity  [6:38]

 

Total 30:30

FORM AND DOWNLOAD

 

All of these were previewing their 2011 release Sol Invictus, which is available on YouTube Music.