Gigs! They’re great! Everybody gets together to enjoy music in a wonderful, idyllic scenario where there is nothing but love and understanding. Everyone is there for one purpose – to have a good time with an awesome soundtrack. What could be better!?
Yeah right.
Gigs are a sweaty mess of idiocy fulled by overpriced booze and a sense that if you aren’t having the best time – the only solution is to drink MORE. Dance MORE. It looks like someone on the left is having a better time than you DANCEDRINK! It’s loud, smelly, and for some reason you are joined by some of the worst people in the entire world – who inexplicably have the same taste in music as you. And you can’t escape from them. These are those people.
…yeah, it’s been slow on the news front this weekend.
But never mind! What you see above is a fan-shot video of rubber mouthed rock dinosaur Steven Tyler of Aerosmith falling off a stage in South Dakota. Watch him go! Point – point – dance – spin – DOWN.
Arnocorps are not so much a band as a high concept performance art-piece, self-help tape, and a shot of pure happiness rolled into a sold musical unit. Their long-awaited follow up to their 2005 album ‘The Greatest Band Of All Time’ – ‘The Ballsy EP’ has finally been released and is nothing short of spectacular.
Music videos don’t come much better than this. Beautiful to look at, follows the beat of the song and tells a story. The story being man’s inhumanity to man through history and into the future. Wonderful, if heavy-handed iconography – but this is a music video – it’s better to use a big hammer than a scalpel to get your point across.
The video was co-directed by Kevin Altieri, known for his direction on Batman: The Animated Series – a massively underrated and beautiful show; and Todd McFarlane, better known for his work with the popular, if patchy comic book Spawn.
Before I left my flat this morning there was a repeated extract of a speech given by the late Harry Patch – the last survivor of the Great War – on Radio 4. Apparently, Thom York of Radiohead heard it and wrote a song in its honour.
