Faith And The Muse

[annuin]

Saw Faith and the Muse tonight in NYC with Vervain. First time I've seen them in 4 years I think... last time would have been 2000 in the Baroeg in Rotterdam when they toured for their Evidence of Europe tour. At least this time around the club's sound equipment was much much better than the Baroeg.

They still suffered technical difficulties which resulted in Monica singing one ballad accompanied only by Cynthia Coulter on bass. They ended up ad-libbing quite a bit because of some of the problems, but the set was still outstanding nonetheless.

Monica's gorgeous and graceful, and she never ceases to amaze me with her voice and stage presence. She was in top form tonight, as were all the band. Guitarist and violinist John Koviak is a new addition, at least since the last time I saw them play, and a good addition. He's all pointy angles, the quintessential skinny rocker archetype. [shallow] Cynthia's hair colour was amazing [/shallow].

They played for about an hour after handing things over to the dj's. It was hinted at that they might play again later on, but as they started at 11.30pm and their set ended an hour later, and it's a Tuesday, both Tom and I headed out after the (first?) set.

Anyway, much awesomeness... if you get a chance to see them live, definitely don't miss the oppertunity.

Comments

[zpydah.livejournal.com]

i always enjoyed the shows at the Paradiso in a'dam, or even better at paard de troi in den haag.. sheesh even the congresgebouw had better sound, at least for us.. but then again the teddy r. is dear to me heart.. r-dam shows were always cursed for some reason to have technical disasters..

and leiden.. ugh..

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Well, it wasn't a technical disaster, the Baroeg is just a pretty crappy old venue with a crappy old sound system. It looked like a cheap dive the one and only time I went there ;)

I did see The Cure in Rotterdam at the Ahoy the night before that particular Faith and the Muse show, that went off without a hitch ;) but considering the size of the venue it shouldn't be a big surprise.

[zpydah.livejournal.com]

rotterdam is just such an in betweener.. or at least it was when i lived in the hague way back when.. not as touristy as A-dam not as actually cool as the hague and scheveningen, not as literate as leiden.. although the statues around town were neat, and the fact that the city was leveled by the nazi's prolly has something to do with its.. oddness i spose.. well that and the fact that its basically a port..
that is whats cool about holland though.. everywhere is within the hour away.. i remember a run of shows back in the day that had GnR at feynoord one night, the cure in leiden the next, and the ramones at the paard de troi later in the week.. and of course the festivals.. now its 3 hours just to get to cleveland, 8 to get to charlotte.. ugh although october in cincy is actually the most filled concert season i've seen since moving back to the us of a..
=)

[gwen-alarch.livejournal.com]

the have a violinist now? wow! this means i must see them again, soon. last time i saw them was about a year ago at the terra gotha festival in holland. monica was ill (keelontsteking of zoiets) so singing was very hard, probably painful too. but she got on the stage nevertheless, trying to make the best of it. i have seen them five times (the baroeg gig 2000 was my first time) and i certainly wouldn't mind seeing them perform again five more times. or ten. :)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Well he only played violin on one track, The Burning Season, and most of the time he played guitar.

[passercul.livejournal.com]

Oh god. *drips a green puddle of envy on the ground*


I'm going to sit here and grumble about how hardly anyone, much less one of my favourite bands, Ever pops by this side of the world. Again.


(Noooo!)

[darktor.livejournal.com]

You're getting out and about allot latley =)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I know, it's disgusting isn't it? :P

There also seems to be an inordinate amount of interesting stuff to do lately as well. I'm sure things will quieten down again soon enough ;)

[darktor.livejournal.com]

There seems to be more and more interesting stuff latley and growing... there's a number of cool club things happening, but they're never on sat due to bitchcave.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a shame Fratrave still dominates the Saturday. Maybe with the recent legal unpleasantness things will start to change...

We can live in hope at least.

Speaking of Fratrave, the Crüxshadows will be playing there on the 25th.

Kreestof also mentioned he's spinning at the next Contempt.