Saw Angels of Light on Tuesday night in Dallas - amazing! Michael played alot of material from the new album. The opening act was another great band - Akron/Family. They also backed up Michael for the Angels set. Their album is on Young God Records - I highly recommend it!
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i saw this tour and agree that AOL was fantastic. akron/family had its occasional great moments but (to me) was otherwise insufferable. very prog rock, not necessarily a thing for a lot of us ol' goths.
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I saw Angels of Light the week before, here in Los Angeles. Fantastic show. I was never a big fan of Akron Family, but they did a good job with M Gira. I think I prefer Michael solo. Very powerful.
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Unsu...
if i didn't have to actually look at akron family for much of the set they played i might've enjoyed it a bit more...
when i saw them in nyc weeks ago at tonic i just couldn't get past the look they were trying to portray... in the end, especially taking into consideration all of their friends who came out to see them, i felt like i was surriounded by jerry garcia / phish fans.
perhaps it's more that i wasn't drinking enough to deal with it or i'm just getting too old for my own good and can't handle crowds? -
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hey, watch it w/ those Deadhead comments! One can be a Swans/Deadhead fan at the same time (i'm proof of it, and both are on heavy rotation)!
nobody out here seems to know the swans. i think someday they're going to have to be discovered... Though i enjoy the fact that they havent been..
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Unsu...
no offense or anything... generally, i don't mind 'deadheads', i just have a real thing against the, 'yeah, i'm into the dead but, the only cd i've got is 'skeletons in the closet'' (or whatever that best of disc is/was)... i actually appreciate the music and the culture of it all but, many of the fans i've encountered just ruin it for me.
this generalization also comes tainted from working in a t-shirt / headshop for about 6+ years.
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I'm a big grateful dead fan as well as the swans, as well. It does make for an interesting dichotomy, and requires a bit of a split personality, or perhaps just severe mood swings.
And i almost never come across people who know the swans, and i'm the only person i believe i've ever met who listens to the Angels of Light. But they're both fucking fantastic, in their own ways, in my book. And i tend to be a bit nervous when i do meet someone who's into the swans as well, as it does tend to indicate a certain inbalance. I'm sonicwarfare, btw. I'm new here. Please to meet y'all.
And has anybody here ever read the story M. Gira wrote for The Starry Wisdom, the H. P. Lovecraft tribute book? Some truly fucked up shit, and probably the reason i get nervous when i meet fellow swans fan, or anybody other than myself that enjoys this brand of darkness.
cheers
sw
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