Artist: UNKLE
Venue: Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Date: October 18, 2007
This is a public sevice announcement. Do not, under any circumstances, go to see UNKLE live. No matter how much the temptation of the Pitchfork 9.8 Psyence Fiction review attracts you, realize that the 9.8 belongs more to the arrogant but incredibly talented DJ Shadow than the arrogant but incredibly annoying douche James Lavelle. Not wanting to spend any more time than is absolute necessary to convey the massive shitfest that this concert was, let me resort to that great destroyer of deep thought and convincing argument: the bulleted list.
- Most of War Stories is more awful to listen to than the horrors of real war stories.
- The singer was so off-key on most songs that I was praying for the soundsystem to spontaneously combust, preferably in a massive fireball that consumed everyone on stage.
- The only old (read: good) songs they played were so horribly butchered that it would have been far more humane to simply play the studio version of them and just STFU.
- Lavelle’s frequent exhortations to the crowd for clapping along with the songs were only marginally less pitiful than his shit-faced arrogant hipster attitude and reminder that this was his first ever show in NY and that too with a brand new band (whose singer shouted “this is my very first gig!!!” with all the pride of a middle school band student).
- Fuck it, I can’t even go on in list form…it’s too painful.
Fuck off you narrow minded idiot..I suppose you only listen to a bit of Trip hop, Hip Hop and other formalised and catagorical gendres of dance music? All of Unkles songs have twisted lyrical darkness that maybe you should pay attention to. Some of them could have been written by you mate if you had a bit more grasp on our mother tounge.. You do seem to have a bit of angst! And i suspect a few other pesonal personality issues that you need to face up to. Even if Unkle are not your bag? who the fuck gave you the authority to decide what I should watch or listen to..Cunt
Gerry Calderhead
September 20th, 2008