“I’m just skin and bones”

As I’m typing this, Foo Fighters is performing ‘Skin and Bones’ on Facebook. Yes, they’re performing a live show on Facebook (powered by Livestream apparently). Say it with me now “Fuck yeah innernetz!”. Who needs  television now that you have live streaming of concerts and whatnot on the internet. This is my second live show online after Dead Weather’s show, I must say when it comes to that sort of thing, I’m not missing the superslow internet speed in Malaysia.

(performing ‘Word For Word’ now)

Anyway, there’s a different sense of intimacy that fans can gain from live streams like these. For one, it feels like a jam session, since a) the band is in their own studio, b) there’s no setlist, c) with facebook’s status updates thingamajik, fans can update their statuses and the Foos can actually read them, giving fans the ability to ‘communicate’ directly with the band, d) it’s free and like concert DVDs, you get to see the band up close (and of course maybe check out guitar chords and whatnot)

Right now, I’m just loving the banters that the boys are having, discussing which song to play next while looking at the request lists (from the facebook status updates).

(performing ‘Generator’ now)

I guess I better go back to the show, since I don’t know when I’ll actually get to catch Foo Fighters live, for real.

Love, love will tear us apart, again.

I’ll go straight to the point for this entry. I was at the Manchester leg of Bad Lieutenant’s gig and saw them performing songs by New Order and JOY DIVISION.

Not entirely surprising? Maybe. Since Bad Lieutenant is after all made up of what’s left of both bands. Even before heading down to the venue, I had a discussion with the roomie about the possibilities of the band performing anything New Order or Joy Division. We both came to the conclusion that anything by the former might be entirely possible, but latter… a bit on the ‘difficult-to-believe’ side.

Then towards the end of their set, Bad Lieutenant performed New Order’s ‘Crystal’, Electronic’s ‘Tighten Up’, and Sumner’s collaboration tune with Chemical Brothers ‘Out of Control’ which was effortlessly merged with another New Order classic track ‘Temptation.’

Was this sweet enough for fans? Almost, as most of the late 30s/early 40s crowd at The Ritz were asking for more. For encore, Sumner stepped up on stage with Cunningham and Evans to perform a short acoustic version of ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ and after the track ended, Sumner picked up his guitar and said “This next track is not going to be a folk song, but a punk one” and started playing ‘Transmission‘. All hells break loose at this point and just when you think it can’t get any better, they ended the night with ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’.

As a fan, I was, and still am, totally over the moon. That was after all the closest chance I’ll ever get to see either Joy Division or New Order live. Hooky’s presence was sorely missed, but I guess, somewhere out there,  he’s not going to be too happy with Sumner’s decision of playing classic tunes from his former bands… hmmmm…

Pop Shuvit’s ‘Oh Sizuka’

*cleans off dust bunnies around this blog*
I must say, out of many Pop Shuvit songs, this one sticks in my head the most and whadayaknow, they finally made a video clip of it! Loving the whole 80s vibe to the clip and the fact that the band doesn’t appear until the end.