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Re: (TV) Wild Flag covers Television



 
 
wow!  nice!  they'll be in austin on the 29th -- hope they'll throw in the
TV.  i've seen them do ATA before, and loved it -- but i'm partial. 
 
 
 


--- On Wed, 10/19/11, Jesse Hochstadt <jesseh58@yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Jesse Hochstadt <jesseh58@yahoo.com>
Subject: (TV) Wild Flag covers Television
To: "TV list" <tv@obbard.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 12:52 AM


I went tonight to see Wild Flag at the Bowery Ballroom - WF, for those who
don't know, consists of Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein, S-K
drummer Janet Weiss, Mary Timony from Helium (whom I'm not really familiar
with), and Rebecca Cole from the Minders (about whom I know nothing). For an
encore they played "two New York songs": See No Evil and Ask the Angels. The
SNE cover was solid if not mindblowing, but it was great fun to hear it, and
the band clearly love the song. But it looked like a lot of the crowd - whose
average age was probably south of 30 - didn't know it. Seemed like it was
almost only us oldsters (I suspect I was in the top 10 oldest people there)
bopping our heads and jumping up and down. One of my friends said there was
much more of a wow reaction to See No Evil at the Bell House show Saturday
night (when I was seeing Richard Thompson). Guess there must be an older
(and/or wiser) crowd in Brooklyn.


The crowd at the Bowery Ballroom reacted
to Ask the Angels (which apparently wasn't played at the Bell House) much as
they did to See No Evil, but I loved it. Carrie doffed her guitar and did her
best rock frontwoman moves. Another friend, when I remarked - positively -
that she's "such a rock star," responded, "yes, but it's guileless," which
seems right to me.



I can find only a bad and fragmentary video (from an
earlier show) of WF doing See No Evil on YouTube, but there are a number of
videos of Ask the Angels. Hopefully video from these most recent shows will
pop up.


Otherwise, it was a very good show, sometimes stratospheric. The
band is exploring an interesting hard rock/psychedelia zone, and
occasionallyenters into jam territory, with mixed results.


- Jesse
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