Art Brut 47: Top of the Pops
Ok, I’m so freaking tired. Art Brut just got out at 1:30am from Knitting Factory.
Here’s a note: If you’re going to stage dive, please don’t stage dive on top of me–unlike the guy at the Art Brut show tonight. I’m little and you could crush me.
Some quick notes: The Chalets are AWESOME. Robocop Kraus reminded me why there are NOT that many German indie rock bands. Art Brut 47 (aka We Are Scientists) rocked and have the cutest band members this side of The Strokes. And Art Brut produced the most uncontrolable concert-goers ever and totally impressed me with their commanding stage show.
The theme of the show was “sex”, with The Chalets dedicating a song to Chevy Chase (who is “so not gay. Sooooo not gay”), Art Brut 47 insisting that one song was about having sex with The Chalets, and another one was about “doing it slow” to Art Brut.
Art Brut also found themselves singing about sex with the Chalets and also singer Eddie Argos “fessing up” about the namesake of the song Emily Kane, telling the crowd that Emily actually contacted him and that he now thinks that if a relationship doesn’t work out, it doesn’t work out for a reason. Then he dedicated the song to happiness to all of our exes and happiness with other people. Then during the encore, Eddie told the crowd that it was ok to “act like a slut” during “Good Weekend.” Yesssss.
This picture would have been more awesome if I had the proper settings on my camera. Whoops!
Read more over at Music Snobbery.
1. Anonymous | 7:54 am on May 18th, 2006
..was the irritating mohawk dude there pushing and punching people in a bid to ruin the show for everyone around him?
2. What’s the Word » Blog Archive » From KEXP and about their Art Brut 47 show | 6:51 pm on May 18th, 2006
[...] Music Snobbery and The Modern Age both went to the Art Brut 47 show and have some pictures of the show there. Posted by starbright31 Filed in Uncategorized [...]
3. Anonymous | 11:29 pm on May 18th, 2006
i just jumped i dint want to block art brut for too long sorry. i dint mean to hurt you
4. Susy Q | 1:14 pm on May 20th, 2006
Ahh Art Brut & We Are Scientists are rockin’
Thanks for the pictures
5. The Modern Age » Experts at the Crowd Invasion: Art Brut | 9:41 pm on May 21st, 2006
[...] Now the Thursday night show was the first ever Art Brut show I’d been to, so I had NO idea that this night was going to be the same exact show. And I’m not just saying that…anyone who’s seen Art Brut more than once will tell you that the show is HIGHLY scripted–even down to the between-song banter. It doesn’t make the show any less fun, but it becomes more like a Mystery Science Theater experiment, where I end up trying to make funny comments to the person next to me the entire show, and I tell them what’s coming next. [...]
6. DILDO | 9:24 pm on June 1st, 2006
Audacia Ray (of Wakingvixen.com, one of my daily reads)
7. BLONDE | 12:14 am on June 2nd, 2006
but how to do that, with him sitting there watching me?
8. poker-tip | 4:17 am on June 2nd, 2006
Instead Cup seems like a good option, but I know next
9. BLONDE | 9:32 am on June 2nd, 2006
“I send you DVD of belly dancers, plus CD of Arabic music. Next time I come to Sexyland, I test what you’ve learned.”
10. LESBIAN | 5:52 pm on June 2nd, 2006
You have a strong sense of right and wrong, and you’re not hesitant to express yourself.
11. LESBIANS | 7:04 pm on June 2nd, 2006
The day after the party, I managed to crawl onto my couch and consider my two arguments. I believe they’re somewhere near the money.
12. The Modern Age » Keith Murray of WAS = The SEX | 3:43 pm on July 8th, 2006
[...] Proof that Keith Murray of We Are Scientists/ Art Brut 47 IS the SEX…and that he knows it. Photo by Brad Walsh for Stolen Transmission: [...]