#I can’t wait to scream this song in July when the re record comes out

[whovianwholikesgirls]

Fuck in my CM AU when me and the team go see Taylor live she’ll play mine (pun intended) and Spence’s song istg @anything-thats-rock-and-roll @penelopegarciaswife @selfshippery

[britishchick09]

danger force double livewatch!

today we’re doing a special livewatch... a double feature! i’ve been looking everywhere for ‘test friends’ and ‘lil dynomite’, which were taken down by dailymotion for a while. now that i’ve finally found them, it’s time to see what i’ve been missing!

first up is ‘test friends’!

oh no why is ray angry

WHY CAN’T BOSE FEEL HIS ARMS

is this an intricate training thing?

bose: ‘orphan sock!!!’ OMG NOOO!!

OMG the socks exploded!!!!!

wowza what awesome laundry! :D

hey this is the clip i watched on the henry danger force youtube!!! :D

YAS!!! :D

chapa: “harmony check!” all: “in tuuuune!!!!!” :D

what cute poses! :D

oh no they have 7 POSES???

miles thought captain man would ‘just be there’ lol :D

think is the forbidden ‘t’ word *LOUD GASP!*

captain man: “ts” the kids: ??? captain man: “the same” the kids are me when my friends say internet slang

miles said ‘chicken tendies’ ^_^

schwoz: “great group of kids!” captain man: “too bad i can’t trust them...” schwoz: *le GASP*

oh no captain man’s gonna prove that the kids are untrustworthy DID YOU SEE RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON

speaking of that awesome movie captain man’s acting a lot like raya...

captain man’s spying on them! :o

even swellview academy has surprise tests!

ray’s putting the answers on his podium... ;)

he’s talking like a fancy guy and chapa’s like ‘why are you talking like a book” lol :D

NO MIKA!!!!

mika: “no!!!” ray: “yesssss.....” ray WHY YOU SO SNEAKY

bose: “this answer key is tearing us apart!” you’re tearing me apart, answer key!

aaand he literally tears it apart! nice bose! :D

schwoz wants ray to let go but all ray does is want to make the tests harder... WHY ART THOU A MAN OF SILLY PROPORTIONS RAY MANCHESTER???

wait did silly man just say ‘man ladder’

the intro is at 7:30! how long that is! :o

i love how ray tells them to shut up lol :D

a cute bird house! :D

ray said ‘talketh’ coolio :D

oh no... TRUST FALL!!!!!!

bose saved him with levitation and the other kids grabbed pillows! how sweet :)

mika: “obvi” how ts of you mika!

ray wants to test them... WHEN THEY”RE ALONE >:)

bose is being prank called by ray aka ‘bose of the future’ AND OF COURSE HE’S GONNA FALL FOR IT HE’S BOSE!!!!

oh bose just said ‘wrong number’! how very mature of him!

YAAAAS RAYAAAAA!!!!!!!!! :D

ray’s prank for miles was luring him to ice cream while mika gets a speech review? ok...

CHAPA HAS TO USE AOL BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T HAVE A PHONE OMG

no miles found the ice cream.... AND HE’S TEMPTED!!

ray: ‘in the future, ray turns evil!” monsty reference? :o

ray: “destroy ray... no matter how good looking he is!” lol :D

miles went for carrots! :o

aww bose ‘loves ray too much’ :)

ray: “e before i except in july! amen!” ha ha :D

MIKA SCREAMED INTO THE ESSAY LOL!!!

the swellview version of instagram is swellgram :D

schwoz says ‘way’ like ‘vay’ and i love it :D

awww!!!! :D

oh bose believed ray!

schwoz spilled the beans! :o

OH NO THE LAUNDRY LEVEL IS AT 1000!!!

the baby goat bleating is so cute! ^_^

the vid went to an ad just as schwoz said ‘manche-’ and i thought he was about to say ‘manchild’ lol :D

mika: “i passed!” miles: “we all passed!” goat: “MEHHHH!!!!!!!!!” :D

oh no are the kids gonna do something bad :o

OMG miles just called ray ‘rayman esther manchester’ OHHH!!!!!!! :o

ray wanted them to eat a scorpion WHY RAY

miles teleported to ray and instantly went back lol :D

goat: “buhh jerry!” OMG IT TALKED!!!

ice cream party! :D

schwoz: “it’s a real milestone” eyyy ;D

schwoz says it all the time lol :D

ray’s been gone FOR A WEEK????

they all think it’s a prank but what if it’s real?

IT’S BEEN ANOTHER WEEK WHY

bose: ‘he’s taken this fake desert test really far” i don’t think it’s fake bose...

OMG RAY NO

why does he look like al from quantum leap but crazy af

THE KIDS TURNED HIM OFF

and they got to do the supes illustrated shoot all on their own!

WAIT DID CHAPA SAY THEY WERE IN PHOENIX???? :o

ray BUSTED!!!!

oh no is chapa sending the prank pic she deleted

dan schneider who lol :D

last but not least is ‘lil dynomite’!

omg there’s smoke everywhere!

and a treasurechest monster? :o

awww mika’s locker is her only personal space :/

she wants ray to put the monster in miles locker lol :D

the monster wants to eat swans ew :/

bose said the ‘mangenda’

ooh they said the title of the ep!

awww lil dynomite is cute!

he says ‘hello sir!’ :D

he’s ‘4 feet 10 inches of-’ neverending joy and smiles?

a country duo is signing a song called ‘almond milk’

66 DOLLARS A TICKET WTF

‘life size board game night? gayle from bob’s burgers wants your number ray...

ray during game night: “did i ever tell you the last time i saw my father?” ...ok :/

country lady: “there’s some flashbacks at table 5″ lol :D

they’re called court and courtney! :D

chapa: “almond milk feeds my soul!” YAS!

mika: “who would miss almond milk?” lady: “it’s funny you’re missing almond milk right now!” OHHHHH

OMG THE OTHER LADY SAID ‘BEAUTIFUL WIFE’!!!! :D

lady: “we have another song for you. it’s called..” her and other lady: ‘SHUT YOUR MOUTH’!!” lol :D

ray: “anybody hungy?” lol :D

ray: “you love my manflaps!” THAT PANCAKE NAME SOUNDS DISGUSTING OUT OF CONTEXT

OMG LIL DYNOMITE IS THE 5TH MEMBER

AND THEY KEEP SAYING ‘MANFLAPS’!!!!

he looks like a smol henry... :o

chapa said ‘booty hurt’ lol :D

why is the chest monster still there?

OMG CAPTAIN MAN ASKED THAT MUST AS I TYPED IT! :o

lil d stole bose’s mangenda job! :o

CAPTAIN MAN CALLED BRAINSTORM ‘BRAINBENDER’ NOOO :o

lil d reminds me of speedy alka seltzer with his ‘gee whiz!’ attitude

NO LIL D HAS MIKA’S LOCKER!!!!

miles *screaming*: “YOU MONSTER!!!!!!” you tell him miles!

the news people are back!

captain man and lil d played a non-copyrighted cover of ‘blinding light’ lol :D

lil d is making hair gel WITH CONDORS NO >:(

bose: “oh where is my brain?” it’s in a storm EYYY :D

lil d emphasizes ‘captain MAN’ and it’s so weird

the chest monster is singing lol :D

OMG HOMER SIMPSON BROKE THE NUCLEAR REACTOR

mika: ‘how did you get hired here?” nuclear lady: “i slammed the interview!!!”

it’s MELTY NOOO!!!!!

lil d: “wish me luck mans and sirs!” gee whiz what a quote!

HOLY FRICK WAS HE MELTED????

geez that’s rough!!! :o

chapa: “poor little guy... he just wanted to help” aww they care about him :(

captain man: “that better be awol!” awol: “i’m sorry what” captain man: “NOOOOO!!!!!!” AND HE BROKE THE LAST CONDOR EGG EVER NOOOOO!!!!!

chest monster: “never would’ve happened if you brought the chest monster along!” chapa: “SHUT UP CHEST MONSTER!’ yeah!

RAY WAS GONNA ADOPT LIL D :o

chapa’s trying to hit ray but she keeps hitting lil d HE GONNA DIE

why did the chest monster say “get wrecked” :(

ooh schwoz hologram

awww schwoz built the healing suit to give him powers!

OH CRAP LIL D DED!!!

captain man was gonna feed lil d to the chest monster :o

OH CRAP U DED C MAN!!!!!

HOLY FRICK

awww the kids are defending captain man!

AND LIL D JUST CALLED HIM A MANCHILD! :o

wait captain man has daddy issues

THEY’RE ALL SCREAMING

NO LIL D NO!!!!

GO DANGER FORCE!!! :D

ray right after lil d and awol teleport away: “...we still doing movie night?” lol :D

those were the new(ish) danger force eps! i-

*record scratch*

wait...

THERE’S MORE!!! you thought this was just a double livewatch? i’ve sneakily turned it into a TRIPLE livewatch! this has been a lot of fun so we’re watching the other ep i missed out on!

the final ep of this forcetastic livewatch is ...‘monsty’!

double bubble toil trouble... :)

mika walks in screaming “WHERE’S MY MEAT???” just go to wendy’s!

mika is wearing captain man’s clothes because she did a bad thing! :o

ooh thunder!

spongebob who?

chapa: “you go to your dentist once a month?” lol :D

bose: “33 months? that’s like a hundred years!” miles *softly*: “buddy...”

mika: *breaks a glass* MIKA’S BROKEN A GLASS MIKA’S BROKEN A GLASS! (paul would be proud!)

is this what she’s freaked out about?

lol :D

bose: “WE LUV YOU DANNY CHEEEESST!!!!” double lol :D

there’s a ‘struggle for candy equality’

bose: “what’s a jury duty?” captain man: “when you turn 18- like i did a couple years ago” more like a billion couple years ago! :D

did mika go to jury duty to make up for the glass?

ray thinks left handed people cheat on taxes why

HE MEMED THE MEME!!!!!

and he thinks all people have 2 first names lol

WOAH mika was gonna CLONE ray???? :o

a tongue is god’s napkin

THUNDER STRIKE!!!

omg TINY RAY!!!!!

chapa: “is there a tiny ray shooting a blaster?” ray: “there’s an old ray doing that but that’s another story for another week” great fourth wall reference! ...and possible ‘gnight everybody?’

oh no she cloned ray THE SCARY WAY???

mika: “this is where the story starts to get weird” chapa: “starts to?” lol :D

OMG IT RAYENSTEIN!!!! :O

so that’s monsty!

monsty peed everywhere ew :(

twins! :D

also that’s monsty’s pee bucket double ew :(

chest monster was teleported away! rip chestie

bose keeps calling ray ‘sir’ is that like lil d?

i wonder if that’s a real phone number...

danny chest: “now we have... 100 dollars in pledges” ...oh :/

chapa called him ‘danny boi’ lol :D

DANNY’S THREATENING TO LAUNCH THE GANG AWAY

captain man: “surprise villain! classic!”

they were locked up and captain man said it was a classic!

jennifer lawrence donated 10 thousand! :D

launching off of mountains only ‘hurts for a second’ according to ray

WHO JUST GOT A PEE BUCKET HEAD :o

mika: “captain man wants us to say cool stuff before we use our powers!” how very sailor moon of you ray!

mika called bose ‘honey’ lol :D

CHAPA WANTS HIM TO LIFT THE ANVIL

miles wants monsty to help!!! :D

why is there dramatic music playing in the monsty teleport flashback

awww :D

awwww!!!!!! :D

HE’S IN THE DUNGEON WITH CHEST MONSTER

YAS CHEST MONSTER!!!

bose dropped the anvil on captain man WHY

chapa to mika: “SCREAM GIRL!!!!” YAS! :D

omg DUST :o

mika: “monsty’s coming through that door right now!” monsty: *doesn’t come through that door* awk-ward....

HE BROKE THROUGH THE DOOR YAS!!!! :D

danny hit monsty NOOOO :o

mika: “can you zap monsty?” chapa: “i can, but that’s mean” mika: “i know, but-” chapa: “i’ll still do it tho” lol

YAS MONSTY HIT DANNY WITH THE ANVIL!!!! :D

oh no is monsty gonna accidentally launch them

captain man go YEET!

monsty: “rut roh!” *wah wah wah wahhhh...*

how fancy!

captain: “time to distribute the employee of the month award to someone who has had great courage and sacrifice... mika can you get out of the way please” lol :D

aww monsty is the employee of the month!

AND MIKA IS PROUD!!!! :D

and schwoz did jury duty :) *wah wah wah wahhhh!!!!*

that was a great trio of eps! it was fun getting back to danger force and i can’t wait to see what will happen in the next eps! :D

[glittering-coffeebean]

Kate Tempest + Savages, July 4th 2017

The night of Kate Tempest's concert. Well it wasn't really her concert. As in she wasn’t the only artist to play. Actually she was the introductory artist. She shared the stage with Savages, a (post) punk rock band.

I was initially coming for K. Tempest. I had been waiting for this day for a very longtime, and with a tremendous amount of impatience. Let them eat chaos has accompanied me for months. The instrumentation of the album is stunning, so are the texts, and the concept helped the text unfold and tackle various themes, with various words and styles. Tempest's poetry moves me also because, unlike the usual rappers, she voices people, not just herself. Of course she's there in those texts, but she's there hidden, there to let the others shine, even when their stories, the stories she tells are complicated, and do not help portray characters you might like or might not. This is not the point anyway, the point is to see the way they're lost, the way they feel, the way they cope, and what happens to them.

In this album various influences are present - she's a poet after all, and of the sort that reads many books. The staging of the story and the idea of a storm changing things and generating an event, the way it is staged feels kind of similar to ancient greek and latin poetry. It's interesting as well to make a natural event like a storm create a disruption in the characters' life, especially when during the course of the album the planet's death is very present and denounced. What are we gonna do to wake up, she asks, well it's the storm, it's nature that woke you up, finally.

The album is very dear to me for various tracks among which Pictures on a screen, Europe is lost Grubby  and Tunnel Vision are particularly important, for various reasons.

But aside from the texts which i can't analyze for lack of time, I have to throw out a few words on instrumentation. I recently re listened to Brand new ancient, who took a very jazzy and acoustic direction. Let them eat chaos is much more electronic, closer but still very different from Everybody Down's sounds. Indeed, the work on ambiances seems very important in this work. The atmosphere is rather dark, and even when it seems lighter, with Tunnel vision for instance, this feels more like a ride on a bike in the night under the city lights, than a diurnal experience. There's also a great work on paces and tempos. Depending obviously on each people and the state of mind they're in, the rhythm changes, but the drummer and drumming patterns are sometimes of those that will have you dance instantly, there's something in them which sometimes makes me think about some afro beats. This is because of the sounds and their roundness as well as the pattern. Finally, what i love the most is, say, the plumbery aspect of the instruments. The music is kind of intestinal, and well plumbery is the intestines of a city, isn't it. And as far as K. Tempest's record deals with intestinal movements such as population movements, fluxes, I find this a very clever choice. Clever is never a surprise with Tempest, though.

Anyway let's talk about the performance. I was right in front of the stage, in the Cité de la Musique. The drummer, with whom I had the chance and honor to exchance a few (silly because I was way too grateful and excited) words at the end of the show, was really drumming his life in the show. Not hidden with a full set of acoustic drums, he probably also benefitted from the fact that he was more visible, and had maybe more space. We could hear him cue things to his partners, which is something I actually like – sort of witnessing the music being made, tight in the present. A few arrangements were made : changing some segments of instrumentals, rapping just in silence during Europe is Lost and get back to the spoken word from which she started, make the words clack by themselves.

K. Tempest is giving a lot on stage. If you've already seen interviews of her, I watched some to compare and while she speaks and has a lovely and appeased face during conversations, on stage performing Let Them Eat Chaos her eyes are cold and filled with rage. Well rage is all over the album, so this is totally coherent. She's just rapping and here with us, in the moment, delivering everything and this, though with rage, she did that with easiness, too. The delivery is as angry as it is fluid, like a ballad during which she shoots stuff with a machine gun.

Gratefulness and awe were the feelings I was left with when she left. Grateful because as you may have understood from now this record touched me deep. Awe, because this is the kind of performance you don't see everyday. Thank you, Kate Tempest. To you, and to all your musicians.

And yet, after she was gone, a band I had barely listened to but to not be lost during the concert (a matter of respect for the artists) arrived and lit the room up. You don’t see what you see with Savages on stage everyday either. Well obviously K. Tempest had already prepared the crowd well and the heat was already present, but the energy she elicited had to be turned and released on a very different level because the musical genre was so different. And Savages nailed that conversion, really. I guess most people came to see them as well and let themselves go when they arrived. And as I was literally before the stage, I don't really know what happened in the crowd. I only know that, on the upper levels, where people could seat, there was an old lady reading the newspaper during the shows. And this is gold.

Anyway, as curious as I was, not expecting anything, I was filled with joy. It's strange because on stage, the bass player spent the show eyes closed, the guitarist wasn't moving that much, the drummer, Fay Milton, was full of energy but, since she's a drummer, was hidden behind her drums. She was great though. I mean they all were, musically it was qualitative. My point is rather that the energy came mostly from Jennhy Beth, the singer [she happens to have tumblr, so that’s where the link will take you, reader!]. If wonder if she plays tennis in her life, because whenever she interacted with  the drummer, she looked like she was praticing her forehand and backhand. Which was very entertaining.

The band played their last LP in date, Adore, which is an LP that I found explored various currents of rock music, from a very lousy country/marilyn mansonnish with a touch of Bowie track Adore, to classic rock songs, and punk, with tracks like Surrender or Sad Person.

Know how I felt. Ah. First things first, I have to have you remember that I almost listened to them for the first time. It is not something new for me, sometimes when the show’s price is cheap or when the artists are playing at the beginning of concerts, I like going there without knowing much. You have a different relationship with the music this way, and I feel more in the present, more open somehow to what's going on. Because you cannot put yourself and the personal relation with the music you have, you're just here with what the artists give and the crowd's energy. It's a nice experience too, and in the case of Savages, certainly a thing you can do, because a show there is. A connection there was. You can experience it in a way that is introspective like the bass player Ayse Hassan, cerebral like Gemma Thompson the guitarist, energetically enjoying yourself in your corner like Fay Milton, or spread yourself and give all your energy to the exterior, be all over the place like Jehnny Beth.

I experienced something strange, though. Jehnny Beth is a knot, a node, un noeud (because why not french this up). Really. Sometimes I try to remember and it feels itchy. The voice, great and powerful but also veiled, strident, while deep. Singing punk music in a suit with high heels, owning the place yet always demanding for more to the crowd, try to grasp and feel it. Looking at people in their eyes, or ignoring them completely when they're annoying like the crazy guy who was praying the sun and screaming Savaaaaaaaaages throughout the show. Massive strength palpable, massive confidence too, massive questions as well. Presence in the present, governing the boat as well. This is the part when the text becomes awkward because I still haven't put the finger on what this was. Musically I'm a very eclectic person and it is the first time the itch like this happens. I take it to be a good thing. New experiences are always to be welcome, and I do believe that feeling itchy when listening to a punk/post punk is a good sign that the music is doing the job. It's suppose to destabilize you, and the melodies and way her voice was always poised and following a somewhat coherent but deconstructed pattern stroke me. I loved it. In terms of pure sounds there is nothing new since it's composed with drums bass guitar and voice, but there's still something which I think is innovative. I'm just not sure what yet.

Anyway, this was a very interesting and intense night, I really look forward to seeing Kate Tempest again, as well as Savages, and to hear their next works and the direction they decide to take. Kate Tempest's project touches deep my heart and mind (not that those are actually separated), and Savages, I'll have to dig more into the project to really grasp what's going on, but for sure something happened.And for sure I entered and left the concert room with hell of a smile.

Either way, thank you both for what you gave us and I during that night. Thanks a lot.

EJS.

[Photos by me - text as well. If used please source]