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Clint Boon Experience!
Posted Feb 12, 2000
Clint Boon Experience! 2000-Feb-11, University of London Union, London.
Well this was my 6th time seeing the band headline in London. The venues have got progressivly bigger and the crowds have to match.
Clint used to play the organ (Farfisa, NOT a Hammond) for the 90's band the Inspiral Carpets. This band have similar moments (not hard when they are one of few bands to use an organ in indie pop/rock).
Most of the must is very uplifting and feel good. There are a few slower numbers which show that Clint actually has a very good singing voice.
Having seen them several times before (and also having the album and all the singles) meant I knew most of the songs. They did play some new stuff and it sounded good, but the older stuff was what got the crowd going. Standing near, but not right at the, front means that you end up getting a bit pushed around, not that I mind, I can handle myself in these situations. It also meant I was close enough to the stage to be seen and recognised by the band (clunk, did you hear that name drop 
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At the end of the encore, they played Now I Wanna Be Your Dog, the old Iggy and The Stooges tune. It's become a bit of an anthem for the CBX! this time they had Fran and Dougie from Travis on stage helping out as well as a couple of people who climbed onto the stage with them. To finish Clint stage dived into the crowd. Awsome, something you don't see too often.
After it was all over, I was suprised to see two friends from the canoe club standing there. We went and had a drink, and I introduced them to the band guitarist who was in the bar area. He got their CD they just bought signed by the band. He's a nice guy he is. They all are, shame he couldn't get me into the aftershow though 
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Moby
Posted Feb 11, 2000
Ok heres the next gig review. Moby, 2000-feb-10 London Astoria.
Lets start with the support act (cos they went on first) it was HardRocx Two DJ's one male one female (who was also a singer of sorts) playing rocked out hip hop breakbeats. They also had a couple of erm exotic dancers on stage as well. It was actually quite good, even if I did start by thinking what is going on here. At one point I burst out laughing because one of the sample/cuts they were using was from a KLF track that I just didn't expect to be there.
Now the main attraction, Moby. Quite what I expected him to do in a live show I don't know as his music is mostly composed by himself alone with synthesisers, drums and probably a huge stack of records that he can sample from. His latest album Play, uses some samples from blues and gospel recordings made way back (a point he made telling the audience before one of the tunes that he would have had the singer there, but he'd been dead for over forty years). He did have a band of three other people, drummer, bass player and DJ (one turntable) who played some synth stuff as well. Moby played guitar, bongos, synth and the audience.
Now what i didn't expect was the energy of the man himself, running, jumping and shouting the word love at the audience. He did stuff from throughout his carrer, from Go to a lot of stuff from the new album, with things like his reworking of the James Bond Theme in between.
The set did rely heavily on samples, but that was expected.
The finale of the show had Moby just standing in the middle of the stage behind a keyboard whilst one of this techno tracks played. That was it he just stood there, lifted his arms up and then put them back at his side. He did climb on the keyboard and stood there. Of course the lights were going crazy, strobe effects, sweeping multi coloured spots. The audience (myself included) were going crazy. Amazing really as he didn't do anything at during the finale.
All in all, a very good gig, expecially as it only cost £8.50, bargin
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Gig Reviews
Posted Jan 26, 2000
I'm going to try and put gig reviews up here after I go to gigs, so other people can see what kind of music I like (and find out if the bands are worth seeing) and because I got bored of not having any journal enties 
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Beta Band, 2000-Jan-25
Posted Jan 26, 2000
I went to see the Beta Band last night at the Astoria in London.
The Beta Band are a four scots guy's who don't hold to the usual idea of band line ups, ie everyone plays their own instuments. These guys run all over the stage and almost seem sometimes to just pick up something that they trip over and start playing.
OK sounds like it should be a bit of a shambles and it could well have been but they pulled it off. The highlights included some of the more song like tunes from the first album (The Three EP's), including having the singer singing to backing vocals which were samples of himself), the short background films projected onto the backdrop, a New York rapper who had come over to play a couple of songs with them and the finale/encore which they played the new single and then ended in a frenzied jam which had four people playing two drum kits!
(two playing drums, and two hitting cymbals in case you were wondering how they managed it)
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