Sugarmilk

I saw Sugarmilk on Saturday night at The Happy Frenchman, and wasn't really impressed. The singer's got quite a strong voice in the karaoke fake emotional style, and the band can play OK, but there was something annoying about them. The soundcheck going on too long and being too intrusive was annoying, the shout outs to the crowd were annoying (it's not Vegas), and some of the material was annoying. It's hard to review (or even care about) a covers band really, particularly when they do songs that there's no merit in covering really like Song 2 and Smells Like Teen Spirit. About three songs in things looked UP when they announced a song hilariously called "Every time you come you'll see my face you bitch", and it was actually quite good, but then we got back to the covers again.

When they played My Generation I'm SURE it was introduced as being by The Beatles, is this some clever in joke that we have missed?

Anyway, wouldn't rush to see them again.

2005 :: Comment / reply

Am I still asleep?

Smells like Teen Spirit, and other rock songs, in the lullaby stylee..?


We're listening to The Boys Are Back In Town from an album called Rock Baby... either it's rock songs done in an instrumental lullaby style, or I am dreaming. Someone must have put something in my rusks, as now I'm hearing "She Sells Sanctuary", and "Whole Lotta Rosie" is coming up too...



Can't find a full track list, but coming up on Punk Rock Baby we have:

• Down in the tube station at midnight
  
• Ever fallen in love
  
• Smash it up
  
• London calling
  
• Teenage kicks
  
• Sheena is a punk rocker
  
• Pretty vacant
  
• White riot
  
• No more heroes
  
• Into the valley
  
• Sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll
  
• Sunday girl
  
• Hong Kong garden
  

pauly :: 2002 :: Comment / reply

Nirvana @ Birmingham Hummingbird

Time for another bit of back-blogging... this day in 1991 I was at Birmingham Hummingbird to see Nirvana... I was just inspired to add this by stumbling across NirvanaGuide.com, which has the following details for the gig:

Setlist:
Drain You
Aneurysm
Floyd The Barber
Smells Like Teen Spirit
About A Girl
Polly
Lithium
Sliver
Been A Son
On A Plain
Negative Creep
Endless, Nameless

There are also a couple of bootlegs available of this gig, an audio recording and a video... the one thing I DID remember about the gig was that Shonen Knife and Captain America also played, Captain America had to change their name not long after, to Eugenius.

Wish I'd kept my tour t-shirt, but I gave it away not long after the gig... I just wanted to be seen with it at least once, down the Air Balloon.

pauly :: 1991 :: Comment / reply