October 21, 2003

I hummed in your ear like a fight song

Happy Birthday Tim! Happy Birthday Ida! I Heart You Two Thousand Clem Snide!

Molly and I went to the Califone/Clem Snide show last night. Califone failed to impress me. Succeeded in making me think their assorted percussionists would be more comfortable following the Grateful Dead. Sorry Califone! I had such high hopes for you.

I expected Clem Snide to be a lot more, you know...stand around and bop your head. People, when Mister Multi-Use Banjo started to play, Molly and I physically swooned. SWOONED! I don't think I've ever swooned in public before, and I've definately never seen Moll lose her decorum so readily.
Everything they played was new to me, which tends to frusterate me at live shows since it's so hard for me to hear in the first place, but the sound was better than usual at Ye Old Crocodile, and it was an 18+ show, so everyone was crisp and sober. And the entire set was engaging, suprising, and inexplicably sexy.

In conclusion. Swoon! I love you Clem Snide Two Thousand!

Posted by Sonya at October 21, 2003 12:27 PM
Comments

I want every tango to be a banjo tango, that's all I'm saying.

Posted by: mol at October 21, 2003 02:58 PM

I was just listening to Ted Leo last night and thinking of you two... especially when I got to the song where Sjet started punching her fist into the air.

Posted by: freesia at October 21, 2003 05:40 PM

are these people recording artistes or strictly live only? I am intrigued by *new American music* (tm).

Posted by: fire3500 at October 22, 2003 02:27 PM

Clem Snide is recording artiste and available through Amazon.co.uk -- so is Ted Leo! Hooray for availability!

(I tried to link but all links broke.)

(And not that I advocate patronizing the Amazon instead of your Local Independent, mind, just pointing out that it's purchasable in pounds.)

I've only heard Ted Leo in a crappy club wherein the music was too loud to hear the music, but I'm highly recommending Clem Snide's Your Favorite Music and The Ghost of Fashion.

Posted by: Molly at October 22, 2003 03:33 PM

I ordered Ted Leo off CDBaby or similar, and the CD is excellent.

Posted by: freesia at October 22, 2003 09:11 PM