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[geekchick]

Today is Prickle-Prickle, day 65 in the season of Bureaucracy, 3271.

The great thing about the supplement adjusting yesterday was that it led to a state of definite hyperactivity and an unusually productive morning. It actually felt pretty good. The not-so-great thing is that even though I felt it had worn off, the effects stuck around until well after I got home from the DCD show last night. Which would be fine, except that around 2:30 I decided to go to bed and try to finish up the chapter I was reading in "Atonement" and having set my mind to doing something, I kept on doing it. Until at least 3:30. When I had to get up for work this morning, on a damp and overcast day (which makes me not want to get out of bed at the best of times, much less when I've had 5 hours of sleep).

Note to self: don't do that again.

I didn't think I'd have wanted earplugs for a Dead Can Dance show, but I really regretted not having them. Lisa's voice several times managed to make my ears buzz painfully. You know that rattling noise you get from the speakers when you've got your stereo turned up too loud? Yeah, that. Freaky feeling to feel that inside your ear, it is. As nminusone said though, if I had to sacrifice some of my hearing, this was a good cause. Strathmore is an absolutely gorgeous venue and the crowd was both respectful and very appreciative of the music (no loud cellphone conversations or wandering up and down the aisles that I noticed, and flash photography seemed to be kept to a minimum). We had, IMO, pretty damn good seats, close to dead center in the orchestra section towards the back. Good sound and line of sight. I didn't feel like standing in the extremely long line to get a voucher for a recording of the show, but hopped online once we got home and put in an order. I don't have the specific DC set list yet, but apparently all the North American shows at least have had the same songs, so here's the Boston set list, for reference:

Niereka
Saffron
Compassion
The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove
The Love That Cannot be
The Lotus Eaters
Crescent
Minus Sanctus
Saltarello
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
How Fortunate The Man With None
Dreams Made Flesh
I Can See Now
American Dreaming
Sanvean
Rakim

Black Sun
Salems Lot Aria
Yulunga

Severance
Hymn For The Fallen

Did I mention the eye candy? Dear god, there were some fabulous people there last night, in particular the stunning girl in a jaw-droppingly beautiful silver and black sari and the girl with long burgundy dreads. I've got my holiday wish list already made up. ;) It was great to get to meet kmusser and get to see tommx again, it had been far too long. (Longer even than I thought, apparently.) Yay for being social!

Comments

[points.livejournal.com]

Sounded about right. I think my seats in Boston were comparable with yours... though I think the Boston crowd were a -lot- less respectful than what it sounds like you had there. They were serving cheap beer in the lobby, which makes me wonder how much that had to do with it. Didn't have volume/pitch issues, but the venue seemed to have broken AC. I would have been much happier zoning to the music if I wasn't baking at the same time.

It was.. quite a night. Car accident and all. ;)

Sounds like you enjoyed yours, too. *hugs*

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

I wanted to punch several audience members, especially those on their cell phones.

[points.livejournal.com]

Never could understand folks who don't set their phone to silent, or turn it off. Cell phones stopped being a status symbol a long time ago now. Do they think we'll consider them important if they -have- to have a phone conversation while eating, or at a venue? Geez. I'm tempted to start carrying a cell scrambler with me, now that you can actually purchase them in the States. Pricey though...

[geekchick]

I got a recording of a Ryan Adams show from etree where he breaks off in mid-song to berate some people talking loudly during the performance. V. satisfying. =) I think it was in-person conversations rather than cell phones though.

[winterbadger]

When I was at the Dar Williams concert at the 9.30 Club a few weekends back, there were a couple of guys standing behind me *talking* through most of the show. WTF??? I mean, not whispering occasionally, not singing along with the artsit, carrying on a conversation at normal or slightly elevated levels. I turned around several times, and finally glared at them nastily and they eventually at least moderated their tone (one of the advantages of being somewhat large is that glaring nastily sometimes has an effect). But, I mean, what are people *thinking*? You (and everyone else) are there for the show, not for your flipping conversation. If you want to talk to people, go somewhere else!

[geekchick]

I'm pretty sure they were serving expensive beer in the lobby here. ;) (I didn't actually check on that, but I wouldn't have been surprised.)

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting the setlist!!

[geekchick]

NP, it's posted in the forums on lisagerrard.com, along with some reviews. (You weren't alone in wanting to punch folks, it seems. =))

The person who posted the Strathmore review I linked to also posted an mpeg of "Rakim" from the show, although given YouSendIt's download limitations it may not be available anymore.

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. You know, I had that same problem at the London show at the Barbican and I thought it was just that they hadn't adjusted their sound equipment properly. Actually ended up leaving a few minues early because it started to grate (plus, we had to catch the last train back.) Maybe it really is her voice.

[geekchick]

It only happened to me when she was really projecting, so maybe it was just a matter of needing to adjust their sound for that. Didn't happen with Brendan's voice at all though, just Lisa's.

V. annoying.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

hopped online once we got home and put in an order

Where can a neophyte do this? Sounds like it was definitely a good time.

[geekchick]

You can go to http://www.dcddiscs.com/ and place an order there. The discs are $30 each, total, including shipping. They won't have recordings of every North American show, but they've got DC, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Seattle, and will have tomorrow's Chicago show as well.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Am I likely to have heard of Dead Can Dance before?

[geekchick]

I don't know, actually.