{"id":7039,"date":"2009-10-09T15:30:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2009-10-09T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:30:28","slug":"andrew-bird-st-vincent-cats-cradle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7039","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Bird, St. Vincent @ Cats Cradle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw this guy last night.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/andrew_bird_09_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>It was the second of two sold-out shows. And, for whatever reason, we were probably two of the 10 oldest people there. Everybody else was college or high-school age. This is a change from a lot of shows we've seen (ex. Robyn Hitchcock, Belew, Junior Brown, etc) where we're the youngest b far. What kind of shows do people our age go to see ?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/andrew_bird_09_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>Whistling and playing the same melody on a glockenspiel, while holding a guitar chord. The guy's a genius.<\/p>\n<p>The mic in front of his glockenspiel is in 90% of all the shots I took. I should've moved it out of the way - it was only inches from my face.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/andrew_bird_09_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>He was great, as usual. <\/p>\n<p>And unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1905\">last time<\/a>, we could watch him work his array of samplers and effects - shoeless, no less.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/andrew_bird_09_4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>He had a band with him this time, which made for a bit of a different experience than when he's solo - louder for sure, more focused too.<\/p>\n<p>St. Vincent opened.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stvincent.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>I'd never heard her before, not even of her, actually. St Vincent is the stage name of Annie Clark: the guitar player, singer, songwriter, etc., behind it all. What she, and her band, sounded like was... usually melodic though sometimes brutally harsh and dissonant, loop-based, complex in both layering of parts and in rhythm and structure, dense, with multi-layered (sometimes looped) vocals delivered by a woman who spent a lot of time with a haunted distant look on her face. She was also a really good guitar player. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/stvincent_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=pinfo>Nikon D90, 18-105mm<\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately, I didn't really get into most of it, because the sound where we were standing (right in front of her), was just a huge barrage of noise. That's what I get for standing up front - I don't necessarily blame them. The crowd was more familiar with her stuff, and they seemed to love it.<\/p>\n<p>Curious, I listened to some of her stuff on iTunes, today, and it sounded like a more experimental version of Fiest, or a more melodic Deerhoof. All that dissonance and harshness from the live show is pushed way back in the mix, the parts that jutted-out like rusty knives last night are <i>texture<\/i> in the studio, and the result is shiny and pretty. I <i>like<\/i> it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw this guy last night. Nikon D90, 18-105mm It was the second of two sold-out shows. And, for whatever reason, we were probably two of the 10 oldest people there. Everybody else was college or high-school age. This is a change from a lot of shows we've seen (ex. Robyn Hitchcock, Belew, Junior Brown, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}