Dirty Projectors Played Mercury Lounge, We Second-Hand Report From The Sidewalk
Here's a show-going tip: If you head out to a buzzy set and arrive to find that it's sold out, don't wait on the sidewalk 'til your friends come out and proceed to make you feel as though you missed the lord and creator manifest in a 45-minute set by a Brooklyn-based Black Flag-tribute paying experimental indie band. Yep, Rise Above was on display at the Merc and we missed it 'cause we were late (apparently the show sold out just before 1:15AM, when we got there). The thing that stung most about the post-show sidewalk? It wasn't so much what friends said; it was their rapturous facial expressions. But, here's what some exclaimed anyway:
- "Dirty Projectors were amazing!" said Brooklyn Vegan.
- "The best live band I've ever seen!" said The Forms.
- "The best band ever!" said Grizzly Bear.
- "Never have I, at this venue or any other, experienced something so beatific, so worthy of my time, energy, and money, something so rewarding of my considerable effort to arrive at this show on time and with ticket in hand, as I have tonight watching Dirty Projectors at Mercury Lounge," said some other guy maybe.
So we went and had margaritas, which almost but not quite helped drown our jealousy. New Yorkers in attendance, may as well pile on; we're numb at this point. A track for your PMP:
Dirty Projectors - "No More" (MP3)
Anyway, Dirty Projectors are setting out on an overseas jaunt this month, so that's one must-see band that won't be at CMJ. But European friends, they are coming to you, so take the jump for tourdates, get yourselves tickets, and get to the venue in advance so you too can rub DP's awesomeness in the face of your sidewalk-stuck friends too irresponsible to make it to the show on time.
10/15 - London, UK @ Cargo (w/ The Blow)
10/16 - London, UK @ Barden's Boudoir
10/17 - Manchester, UK @ Academy 2 (w/ Battles)
10/18 - Edinburgh, Scotland @ Liquid Rooms (w/ Battles)
10/19 - Newcastle @ Stage 2 (w/ Battles)
10/21 - Kortrijk @ Sonic City Festival (w/ Deerhoof)
10/22 - Tourcoing @ Le Grand Mix (w/ Deerhoof)
10/23 - Lyon @ Grrnd Zero
10/24 - Poitiers @ Conforte Moderne (w/Deerhoof & 31 Knots)
10/25 - Nantes @ Olympic (w/ Deerhoof & Numbers)
10/26 - Cherbourg @ L'Epicentre
10/27 - Paris, France (BB Mix Festival @ C.c. Georges Gorse)
10/28 - Düdingen @ Bad Bonn
10/29 - St. Gallen @ Palace
11/02 - Castellon @ Tanned Tin Shows
11/03 - Berlin, Germany @ Festaal Kreuzberg (David Shrigley Worried Noodles Release Party)
11/05 - Schorndorf @ Manufaktur
11/06 - Heidelberg @ Karlstorbahnhof
11/07 - Berlin, Germany @ Bastard
11/08 - Hamburg, German @ Westwerk (w/ O'Death)
11/09 - Nijmegen @ Doornroosje (w/ Deerhunter)
11/10 - Utrecht @ Tivoli
11/11 - Rotterdam @ Worm
11/12 - Brussels @ Recyclart
11/14 - Keski-Suomi @ Dynamo Turku
11/15 - Helsinki, Austria @ Kuudes Linja
11/16 - Göteborg @ Berg211
11/17 - Oslo, Norway @ Spasibar
11/18 - Copenhagen @ Loppen
11/19 - Koeln @ Stadtgarten
11/21 - Bristol @ Louisiana
11/22 - Dublin, Ireland @ Whelans
11/23 - Manchester, UK @ KroBar
11/24 - Glasgow, Scotland - NiceNSleazy
Posted at 1:11 PM in Concert, MP3, Tour Dates
Tags: Dirty Projectors
yeah they are phenomenal
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I didn't like them. Boring, annoying and suphocating to me. I know, I have no "good" taste.
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I saw Dirty Projectors open for Broken Social Scene in 2003, and that show still tops the list for the worst set I've ever seen. I wasn't sure if it was a musical group or a comedy act. It wasn't funny...but as far as I was concerned, it wasn't music either. People definitely dug it though. I should have known they'd get big. No accounting for taste, right?
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they are a lot different these days than they were in 2003. they now have two girls in the band who are really incredible musicians. the songs have gotten better too.
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saw them at don pedro's a couple months ago (i.e. before pitchfork made it a priority). i was impressed then.
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i was also at that don pedro's gig. totally magnificent! i didn't know about the new album at the time, so i felt some strange familiarity to the songs they played, but i hadn't a clue they were black flag jams. gotta love it! check out their walkaround ny performance on www.takeawayshows.com it's incredible.
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I saw em (along with a whopping 25 other people) in NC last week. Great show. Most well-rehearsed band this side of Battles. Maybe that is off-putting to the nay-sayers here? I like how the dude singer sounds like Arthur Russell since you can't hear him live now.
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The Dirty Projectors played earlier this year with Deerhunter at the Silent Barn. I swear to christ I almost passed out from boredom (and probably the heat too). Deerhunter killed, but D.P.'s were junk. The weirdly-placed, drunken frat dudes hazing them were a far more entertaining act. And them reworking 'Damaged', are you kidding me? Sacrilege.
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I saw Dirty Projectors open for Hella back in March and they really blew me away. I loved them, they were powerful and clever, killer harmonies and great drumming in strange time shifts, I was amazed. I bought their album right then and there and took it home for more of the same, but it was not at all like what I saw live. The album was a concept story about Don Henley and Sacajawea (sp?) and was really really strange and unlistenable. I spun the disc about 4 times before I gave up(I thought it might grow on me). I have not listened since and don't want to. I hope they stick with sound of the band I saw live.
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ummm hello, if you wanted guest list guys, all you had to do was ask....
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