Re: (TV) Wild Flag covers Television

[<ssimpson@nyc.rr.com>]

their Thursday night show is sold out.

bummed this one slipped through.  Oh well.

Scott
---- Andy <andy@notaworry.net> wrote: 
> I was at the show as well....right near the front on the right side...and
> there were 2 other guys (along with me, of course) near me who recognized
> the Television cover as soon as the band started it. We enjoyed it
> immensely....the rest of the crowd around us was respectful and a bit
> bemused at our reactions!!
> 
> A fantastic show btw....this band is terrific and highly
> recommended.....andy in nyc
> 
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Jesse Hochstadt <jesseh58@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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