Club Arnage

OK, I know this divides opinion, what with a car race to watch, but there have been some good concerts, well, at least a couple, so...

Does anyone know who it is this year?

Do I have to grow a mullet, shave my head, frizz it? (I still have the gold lame hotpants and feather boa to bring if needs be).

Aricus

The way 2016 has panned out so far it would be a brave man who booked anyone and expected them to be around to turn up

Bob,

I'm sorry I'm not sure I follow.

Aricus

As John Cleese would say - "This parrot is dead"

RIP all

>Martini...LB
Not a singer or musician

Ah!

Sadly it has been a bad year for people in the music profession.

Aricus

More bad news for music lovers and the music industry, I'm afraid................



Kanye West has been found alive and well.

As you 'with it' types may say, lovvl  :D

I would like to see a good rock band there, nearest we have had i suppose was The Stranglers a few years back. But I think someone like the Quo would go down a storm. Shame most of them are probably looking behind their back now.

For what it is worth though there is a 3 day rock festival going on down South from Le Mans, the Hellfest... You never know one of those may be playing. I can just see Twisted Sister now belting out "Were not gonna take it" as the ACO toilets start overflowing from the effects of the red sausages.

Bring on Rammstein !

Ich Will  ;D

Links 2,3,4!
Now that would be worth leaving the race for!

Having just seen the line up, I can confirm that I will continue with the watching of loud cars and the drinking of copious amounts of beer.

The Shoes????

Anyone?

The Shoes.....for what it's worth!

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15225-crack-my-bones/

And a link to their most popular song on Spotify...

https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ctde5yK1DUhf21Y2ruBsJ

Unless you're a hack laptop DJ who spends too much time trolling Hype Machine for hot new remixes, you may not be familiar with French production duo the Shoes. For the past couple of years, they've been toiling in that creative substrata of the electronic music world which means turning out big, buzzy remixes for indie popsters like Ladyhawke and Late of the Pier and occasionally getting a stab at flipping a song as massive as Wiley's bottle-popping, grime-gone-clubbing UK hit "Wearing My Rolex". No shame in that. Everyone has to start somewhere, and if Guillaume Brière and Benjamin Lebeau's aren't yet household names, their background has at least prepared them well for making their own surprisingly pop-oriented debut.

Shoes have recruited ringers including prolific all-purpose collaborator Gonzales and high-profile pop producer Lexxx (Arcade Fire, Crystal Castles, Madonna), as well as lesser-known names like Esser, CocknBullKid, and the Bewitched Hands to help out on everything from keys, vocals, and percussion to mixing and production duties. It would be surprising for these tracks not to come out sounding like well-polished pop, and indeed, they land nicely somewhere below the breezy highs of fellow Frenchmen Phoenix but above the well-groomed banality of, say, Tahiti 80.

About half the album aims for pathos at the disco, the kind of contrast of melancholy emotion and moving rhythms that have allowed rock bands to infiltrate dance clubs without mussing their pouts since at least the dawn of New Order. "Stay the Same" cops the glum night out vibe of early Hot Chip on the verses and the drugged choirboy falsetto of the Klaxons on the chorus. The title track has its vocalist sighing, "There's nobody in the club/ I am the only one who's dancing" over weeping synthetic strings, a listlessly robotic hand-clap, and an appropriately spacious amount of reverb. "Wastin' Time" is an effectively encouraging lift-your-head-up sort of ballad, backed with stick clicking percussion and soft cushioning synthesizer chords, its icy background vocals and keys recalling similar producers-turned-band Miike Snow.

But Shoes are at their best when they shake such ennui off. Of their more upbeat numbers, "People Movin" might have the most effective hook, an understatedly soulful revolving door chorus ("People movin' out/ People movin' in/ Why?") set to a preset Rhythm Ace "Latin" beat augmented with live drums and a mopey flute motif. Also outstanding is "Cliché", on which an arresting female vocal stutter opens up into synth squeals and airy diva vocals on the choruses.

Cheers Aricus, just confirmed what I feared and that Im better off in the Guinness tent...

And me too Pat

I've just tried it on my yoof who said that it wasn't as bad as he was expecting (as it's a French band actually meant to say).



Aricus

Sorry Eric, if you have to write that much they have to be a pile of ....

>Martini...LB

Err... Me too I think.

Is that three years on the trot of crap plastic French bands?  I guess that's it's becoming a tradition.  Perhaps we should have an entry in the a Guide on the new era of concerts?

I will just have to focus on delivering my dance moves on Friday  >:D >:D >:D

Aricus

Surely the Target market (captive audience) are mostly middle aged and over, slightly portly men drinking beer and farting.
Maybe I speak for myself.........................

These gigs serve ONLY to bring in the youngsters (many of whom have no interest in Motor racing, I guess) solely to bring the attendance figures up at between peak times during the race week!

Nothing there for the bread and butter punters at all (the ones that support the race year after year AND spend the money!)
Not been interested in seeing any of it since The Stanglers.

Rant-ette over......

Hi!

I think you are exactly on the money.

I've tried listening to a couple recently and was struck by the large number of completely spaced out youths - clearly on more than beer.  A few that I saw were out for mischief - one tried to take my take my phone out of my pocket, but was unsuccessful.

The music of late has been in the dubstep style which the French youths seem to like.  This makes the bass extremely overblown and unappetising to my ears.

Aricus

Hmmm - Status Quo at the Silverstone Classic last year seems light years (a little Star Wars Day joke there - May the fourth be with you and all that) away from a plastic french band.

Shame really as it could be one heck of a gig!

Status Quo are one of the few rock bands that I have yet to watch. Fortunately for me they are playing up the road in Chinnor (Of all places) at the end of the month, so a few beer tokens will be well spent...

ah well, indy has skrillex...

The mighty Quo last time at Knobworth great swinging from the poles in the beer tent, splif on.

Speaking as someone who has seen the Quo several times since the 70's I thought that they were a bit naff at Silverstone last year. Just going through the motions in my opinion with no banter at all.
Note perfect though.

With a couple of notable exceptions (Stranglers in 2009 and Jamiroquai in 2003), the Saturday concerts have generally been pretty rubbish.

Far better when it was the Flying Baguettes on the DfH stage on Maison Blanche on a Friday night......

MG Mark

Quite like Skrillex  :)



So they should be after nearly 50 years  ;D

I'll give you that (motions etc) but it could have been Justin Beiber...

Yup, that was the gig of the century at the race track!!!! Oh, sweet memories...

The line up is as follows:

Wednesday- shake shake go

Thursday- Julian peretta

Saturday - the shoes - the avener

Jules

Indy also has Journey as well.