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April 07, 2006
Art Brut - Live @ the Bowery Ballroom, New York City, 04.05.06
photos by Devon Banks
There's an old adage that goes, "A joke is like a cat. You can take it apart to figure out how it works, but after that it's dead." Which is a concise way of saying that any critical interpretation I might offer about Art Brut's second night of a two night stand at New York City's Bowery Ballroom is sort of pointless. Long winded meditations on irony and intent, laundry lists of musical references from "Enter Sandman" to "You Really Got Me" that the band slipped into constantly, or a point by point debunking of spontaneity by looking at the timing of Eddie Argos' stagedives and the similarity that the show's "Request Night" setlist produced to the previous evening's are all going to suck the life out of what was a very fun, if supremely goofy concert.
In the tone of Eddie's "...Guns of Milan" eunuch, "It was Art Brut...and they're playing there, and it's funny. And I liked it, of course I liked it. Why wouldn't I?"
Steve Coogan stars as "the Frontman" in the stage production of "The Jolly Good Punk Rock Comedy Review."
More pics after the jump...
This guy did a couple of the old "I'm gonna jump off the speaker and play my last chord right as the song's ending" maneuvers. To his credit, they were wildly inept.
Eddie takes some "requests."
Art Brut in action! Not afraid to point fingers.
Tags: Art Brut, Modern Lovers, Bowery Ballroom,
Posted by Jeff Klingman at April 7, 2006 12:20 PM
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Great pics. The third to last picture looks like the "these go to eleven" Spinal Tap dude.
Posted by: Merry Swankster at April 7, 2006 12:34 PM