Did You See the Raconteurs Tonight? Yah, Me Neither
Were you one of the 20 lucky folks on the guest list for tonight’s intimate Raconteurs performance at an undisclosed location. Nope? Me neither…instead I was seeing Astra Heights/ Nightmare of You/ She Wants Revenge…uh, close, but no cigar.
UPDATE: Dan found these photos of the event for XM Radio recorded for the Opie and Anthony Show.
After catching Astra Heights (4-piece from Texas) and the totally mis-nomered poppy-sounding Nightmare of You (I mean no disrespect, but who are we kidding? Shouldn’t they be called “Morrissey CD In My Back Pocket” or something?) I ran out of the venue after only catching a song and a half of She Wants Revenge. Sorry, I just can’t stomach their music.
Uh…but I managed to spend 45 minutes trying to memorize the lyrics to “Dance, Dance” so I could rip it up for the next time I do karaoke.
Um, why are you looking at me like that?
Head over to the Music Slut for a more comprehensive review.
1. Pete | 8:13 pm on April 4th, 2006
I think it was at the vinyl factory
2. idioten | 8:58 pm on April 4th, 2006
it was at the hit factory….
check out http://www.theraconteurs.tk for more info about the gig and the setlist…
3. tobias funke | 9:56 pm on April 4th, 2006
i mean no disrespect by this…
but how does it feel to be totally humbled by not getting into a show?
4. laura | 9:59 pm on April 4th, 2006
i’m ok with it. i’ll see ‘em on Friday.
5. tobias funke | 10:00 pm on April 4th, 2006
which is much better than my philly ass.
i hope they play a small venue here. but not the electric factory.
sigh.
6. Channy | 10:54 pm on April 4th, 2006
E.F.=no fun.every show i’ve attended the sound has been awful
7. Channy | 2:34 am on April 5th, 2006
“dance,dance”.that ipod just ran away.it’s in rehab going through withdrawl.
8. Eric620 | 5:34 am on April 5th, 2006
The show they played last night was a session for the Opie and Anthony show. Yeah I don’t get that either. Didn’t Jack used to hate frat boys?
9. danfun | 5:59 am on April 5th, 2006
I didn’t take these but I found the link on another page
http://www.foundrymusic.com/LOUNGE/displaygallery.cfm/div/LOUNGE/gallery_id/353/page/LOUNGE_displaygallery.html
10. eugene | 9:11 am on April 5th, 2006
i’m looking at you like that because have you got nothing nice to say about Nightmare Of You? They’re better than Morrissey, in my opinion, whatever it’s worth. And–maybe that’ll get the backlash of the century–but they’re certainly great and deserve to be regarded differently than that. You have the chance to promote a different and great new band and all you do is compare them to Morrissey? Maybe you’re too busy listening to Howie Day or something. I…I just don’t know.
ohhhh snap!
…but no disrespect.
11. laura | 9:24 am on April 5th, 2006
hey i actually thought Nightmare of You was good but I don’t think their name is representative of their music b/c the name sounds so …emo, but they sound very poppy. i was thinking kinda Phantom Planet, but with more of a british pop influence. i don’t think i’m alone in that thought. oh crap, did i just start a debate on being name-appropriateness? oh boy.
to be frank, sometimes i don’t have the chance to write a complete essay on all of my thoughts regarding every single band i’ve seen, but since when is sounding like you’ve got a Morrissey CD in your bad pocket a negative comment?
sorry if my snapshot comment irked you, but that’s all i had brain power to write last night.
12. sugarbritches | 10:20 am on April 5th, 2006
as a fellow jack white fan - don’t you find it very strange he would affiliate himself with Opie and Anthony - the originators of WOW (whip em out wednesdays)??? Isn’t this the reason he wants all control of his music, so that it is not connected to this kind of thing? Not very gentlemanlike and frankly rather disappointing.
13. Jen | 10:53 am on April 5th, 2006
I concur, sugar.
14. Henry | 12:57 pm on April 5th, 2006
That explains why they were in town since this past weekend. Who knows, maybe they’ve played 50 other shows since they arrived that are even MORE secretive…to like…2 people…! And…in the NY sewers! WoOoOo! I better nobody knew about that….’cuz it was a secret…
15. Henry | 12:58 pm on April 5th, 2006
I should start to proofread what i write from now on.
16. sara | 1:17 pm on April 5th, 2006
“Nightmare Of You? They’re better than Morrissey, in my opinion…”
funny.
17. Anonymous | 1:18 pm on April 5th, 2006
does anyone have any idea what the deal is with this “play around and find” thing on the raconteurs website?
http://www.raconteurs.tk
18. Anonymous | 1:24 pm on April 5th, 2006
theraconteurs.tk - sorry. Very curious
19. Anonymous | 2:34 pm on April 5th, 2006
Sugar Jack doesn’t have sole control of this band it’s not just up to him to decide what they do anymore.
20. ... | 5:23 pm on April 5th, 2006
they played a secret show for your mom last night.
??????
21. Anonymous | 5:42 pm on April 5th, 2006
Well, to be fair, I didn’t know who the hell those Opie and Anthony guys were before I went to look at pictures of the Raconteurs on their site, so maybe Jack agreed to do it while similarly in the dark.
22. Anonymous | 5:50 pm on April 5th, 2006
I’m sure all the band knew was that they were going to do an XM Radio session and some guys name Opie and Anthony were hosting it. They don’t live in New York so they probably didn’t know who they are.
23. Anonymous | 6:45 pm on April 5th, 2006
Not buyin’ it. I’m way far from the NY scene & I know them by reputation. This band has sophisticated management–I’m sure they know exactly what they’re doing. This whole musical genre is doing not so well saleswise so I figure they feel they have to suck it up and do this for the publicity.
24. Anonymous | 9:45 pm on April 5th, 2006
the best publicity for them is Jack White’s bald spot. Yeah Laura we are back to olde Jackie’s hair again.
25. Anonymous | 10:14 pm on April 5th, 2006
please no fall out boy, it burns my ears:(
26. bill | 10:55 pm on April 5th, 2006
I am pretty sure Opie and Anthony were only hosting it and doing an interview and the show will be played on one of the XM music channels in the future.
O & A were giving away tickets on Tuesday to anyone who came down to the studio.
27. anonymous | 7:07 am on April 6th, 2006
is jack really have a bald spot
28. Gina | 8:34 am on April 6th, 2006
Haven’t seen it up close, but when he’s onstage and under the lights, it does appear that there is a lighter spot at the top of his head. It’s either a bald spot, or his lighter colored hair growing out.
29. Anonymous | 8:47 am on April 6th, 2006
uh, who cares?
30. Anonymous | 10:14 am on April 6th, 2006
when the white stripes played conan’s show 4 days in a row back while elephant was out,you could see jack’s bald spot pretty clearly during the last song they played (lets build a home/goin back to memphis) as jack played slide guitar on conan’s desk. now that ive written that, ill go kill myself.
31. Fish | 11:09 am on April 6th, 2006
I was there. One of the O&A producers got me tix. It was Effing awesome. Some pics we took are here. I’m so pissed I didnt take my good camera.
http://flickr.com/photos/12249345@N00/sets/72057594099189125/
32. Anonymous | 11:55 am on April 6th, 2006
Jack is going bald! Yikes-he may be an odd looking bald man-some can pull olff being bald some cant. He seems like a “cant” pull it off type
33. Anonymous | 12:34 pm on April 6th, 2006
Bald spot? Kinda??
http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/8852/jackrenee6kg.jpg
34. Anonymous | 1:06 pm on April 6th, 2006
I have been so busy staring at his gigantic crotch I never noticed the thinning hair. Yeah, Jack will look strange bald. Mother Nature has her revenge on a rock god-its gonna get ugly!
35. Anonymous | 4:55 pm on April 6th, 2006
He doesn’t have a bald spot, its his natural hair growing through. i saw the secret gig and its his which is fair. sorry but he has a full head of hair. He’s either too tall, too big, bald whatever, I’d say he’s too talented, too cool for you, and too good looking.
36. Anonymous | 6:33 pm on April 6th, 2006
just becuse hes too good looking does not mean he is not balding bozo-I was there too-he is losing his folicles. I never said he wasnt sexy
37. Tess | 8:41 pm on April 6th, 2006
I just read that whenever The Raconteurs play down under in Australia they have to change their name to The Saboteurs, because another band has already taken Raconteurs.
38. Anonymous | 10:03 pm on April 6th, 2006
for those obsessed with jack’s hair: i’ve seen him in person many times and there was no “bald spot” to be found. he has thinned at the temples, but that’s normal for men his age. it probably wouldn’t be as noticeable if he cut a couple inches off and quit flat ironing it to death.
39. Constant Dater | 6:10 am on April 7th, 2006
Comment #34 cracked me up . . . It brought me back to my first viewing of the “Under Blackpool Lights” video. “Hm, the lighting is hitting really weird and making strangely suggestive shadows . . . holy shit!”
And thus were thousands of crushes on Jack White born.
40. CAgirl | 11:29 am on April 7th, 2006
Let’s see…we’ve talked about Jack’s crotch,his hair,his height,his weight,his morals. How ’bout his music? Pretty talented guy if you ask me. Let’s try forgetting he was in the White Stripes for like 2 minutes and talk about a new band (ie. 4 guys) called the Raconteurs.
41. bill | 2:12 pm on April 7th, 2006
http://community.webshots.com/album/549217841YNkHRH
42. Anonymous | 10:32 pm on April 7th, 2006
Hey #39,I am from Detroit and have been into the Stripes since the Gold Dollar show and that is not lighting or shadows, Jack is part horse!
43. to boddha | 8:14 pm on April 9th, 2006
he’s getting bald. just searh for raconteurs on google images and you will find a pic where he is facing the other black haired guy and both are with the same colt and you see hwo hes going fucking bald. and the other guy too. whatever raconteurs sucks and i hope bald bitchy jack doesn’t screw the WS.
44. joey | 8:02 am on February 22nd, 2007
raconteurs.tk
45. joey | 8:05 am on February 22nd, 2007
46. joey | 8:38 am on February 22nd, 2007
http://raconteurs.tk/