From Tom Millar Sent Sun, Jun 20th 1999, 18:04
From Tom Millar Sent Sun, Jun 20th 1999, 18:04
"m@" wrote: > i wanted to know why he was received so badly... he didn't play a *bad* set > at all.... but there was just very little response, and at one stage he > stopped playing and called out something unintelligible to most along the > lines of 'what's the f***g problem?!' ....... was it a bad night, or does > new york city (or the us?) just not get what he does??? definitely a lot > of people dancing to his set were looking real conscious and awkward.... it > wasn't till most had left and the 10 or so remaining were going hard out > that things started feeling right (though empty). Well, most of them were probably there for the headliner, that subliminal kid. So they probably didn't know exactly what to do with a techstep set; The New Yorkers who would've showed you what was up are the ones I saw one night last year at CBGB's slamming around to Alec Empire, Bomb 20, CDB and Merzbow at the DHR CMJ showcase. Fuck me, it was ridiculous. Most of the folks I've met at other shows in NY (e.g. the phoenicia show, with more live PA's than you can shake a stick at, last summer) are all far too absorbed in weed or other drugs and passing the word around about how cool so-and-so is to get down and dance. No slam on NYers, though, in my experience America is more or less the same all over with respect to dancing acumen at these sort of shows- I think it's the pants. Tom