Foreskin of Christ
Sep. 14th, 2004 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zotzThe Wikipedia's featured article of the day describes the foreskin(s) of Christ, revered as relics in churches until surprisingly recently. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gingiber and everild should probably note the St Catherine reference under the "Holy Prepuce" link, although everild almost certainly knows about that connection already.
Last night I went out to see three bands in Teviot.gingber and anonymous_seth got in touch and suggested it as they'd heard something by one of them. Being in a Stunted Union, they had to be signed in by a life member when we got there, and strangely they then didn't charge us, although we'd been told that they would. Oh well.
The place was full of freshers, all born around the time we'd started Uni and looking remarkably Eighties. They'd have fitten in in my freshers' week, actually. The bands were . . . good overall. It was an Island records package, so Lara found some promo CDs, one of which I'm listening to now. The first, Dogs, sounded oddly familiar for a while, and then I realised that they sounded quite like The Replacements, which is no bad thing in my book. Worth seeing, especially for nowt. The second was Cherryfalls, who were competent but not remarkable. They probably appeal to fans of Keane and Coldplay, and will go far. The third, which L&S were familiar with, was Chikinki.
Now, they were slightly odd. the singer reminded me a bit of the singer from some other more famous band, but I can't remember who. He was a bit gawky, and had an odd retro feel. I think in another context he'd have quite annoyed me, but he fitted in well as he was. The band had an odd range of kit - one guitarist (Fender Jag, except for a song at the end where he dug out something very odd that looked like a crossbreed between an SG and a Firebird. In metallic purple. Nevla needs one, clearly), two keyboard players with a pile of eighties analogue synths and a drummer with half an acoustic and half a pad kit. It all worked very well, actually. They sounded big and bold, and not quite like anything I've heard. All the old synths gave them quite a retro sound, but I'm fairly sure nobody I've ever heard was doing anything like that at the time. Interesting.
gingiber and everild should probably note the St Catherine reference under the "Holy Prepuce" link, although everild almost certainly knows about that connection already.Last night I went out to see three bands in Teviot.
gingber and anonymous_seth got in touch and suggested it as they'd heard something by one of them. Being in a Stunted Union, they had to be signed in by a life member when we got there, and strangely they then didn't charge us, although we'd been told that they would. Oh well.The place was full of freshers, all born around the time we'd started Uni and looking remarkably Eighties. They'd have fitten in in my freshers' week, actually. The bands were . . . good overall. It was an Island records package, so Lara found some promo CDs, one of which I'm listening to now. The first, Dogs, sounded oddly familiar for a while, and then I realised that they sounded quite like The Replacements, which is no bad thing in my book. Worth seeing, especially for nowt. The second was Cherryfalls, who were competent but not remarkable. They probably appeal to fans of Keane and Coldplay, and will go far. The third, which L&S were familiar with, was Chikinki.
Now, they were slightly odd. the singer reminded me a bit of the singer from some other more famous band, but I can't remember who. He was a bit gawky, and had an odd retro feel. I think in another context he'd have quite annoyed me, but he fitted in well as he was. The band had an odd range of kit - one guitarist (Fender Jag, except for a song at the end where he dug out something very odd that looked like a crossbreed between an SG and a Firebird. In metallic purple. Nevla needs one, clearly), two keyboard players with a pile of eighties analogue synths and a drummer with half an acoustic and half a pad kit. It all worked very well, actually. They sounded big and bold, and not quite like anything I've heard. All the old synths gave them quite a retro sound, but I'm fairly sure nobody I've ever heard was doing anything like that at the time. Interesting.
