Glass Candy in Australia

[Amytron]

http://www.myspace.com/glasscandy

They have a Melbourne date on their myspace..... Sydney anyone???

Otherwise I might go down to Melbs for a weekend.

Would be awesome if Chromatics came with them as well....

[jazam]

O
M
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YAY!!!!

miss broadyway would be the absolute bees knees!

[Amytron]

There are quite a few tracks of theirs on myspace at the moment that you can download (only 160kbs) but still, its keeping me smiling until I order their releases in the new year!

awwww, I really hope they come to Sydney!

[Amytron]

hmmmmm, I just checked... around the same time as V Festival... hmmmmmm I wonder....

[onthedancefloor]

Sounds cool. Maybe the Popfrenzy folks will do a party.

[Amytron]

*still wishing*

[Amytron]

:O Just got a message from Johnny and Ida on myspaz *swooooon*

The are going to be doing 6 to 7 shows in Aus. awaiting dates and venues from booking agents! Very happy!

[Violentine]

:O Just got a message from Johnny and Ida on myspaz *swooooon*

The are going to be doing 6 to 7 shows in Aus. awaiting dates and venues from booking agents! Very happy!

we might have something kind of cool to say about this shortly. :D

[Amytron]

we might have something kind of cool to say about this shortly. :D

oh vi... quit it!!! :love:

[Amytron]

hmmmmm, I just checked... around the same time as V Festival... hmmmmmm I wonder....

confirmed for V festival..... hmmm Maybe I'll have to get a ticket. Really keen to check out Air as well.

side show someone???

[Amytron]

Glass Candy remix of Ssion - Clown

http://stereogum.com/mp3/Ssion%20-%20Clowns%20(Glass%20Candy%20Remix).mp3

[Violentine]

confirmed for V festival..... hmmm Maybe I'll have to get a ticket. Really keen to check out Air as well.

side show someone???

:ninja:

[peccadilios]

I always come in here and not really know much.

But i know Glass Candy!

Excellent news, looking forward to it ^_^

[onthedancefloor]

March 28, Oxford Art Factory. Says its an early show. Not exactly the underground vibe I had hoped to see them in but they're being toured by the corporate machine so at least they have some chance to play outside that horrible festival thing.

[suenomartino]

FYI Glass Candy and The Emergency doing a show in the cabaret room Thurs April 3rd at The Toff in Town in Melbourne.

[onthedancefloor]

Mike Simonetti on the bill at oxford art factory too! See you onthedancefloor amytron!

[Violentine]

those who know, know the place to go. xx

[grimesy]

And mike simonetti who is glass candy's manager and head honcho of 'italians do it better label'

http://www.zshare.net/download/88843161a26d27/

[Amytron]

Mike Simonetti on the bill at oxford art factory too! See you onthedancefloor amytron!


*cries*

I don't think I will make it in time, as I have a work function that I really can't get out of....... this... is.... tragic... :(

[V-Tron]

I'm not sure if this is worth attending. Pitchfork gave them 8.1. They're not some crossover act are they? Their attire seems to suggest that they are.

Listening to tracks on their myspace now. Not much else is on that night - trying to decide between this, Subservice, THUG nights or Happy Ending.

The start of Miss Broadway reminds me of Bob Dylan.

EDIT: Hmm, I like this review:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/18103-love-love-love

As superficially as the new crop of "death disco" or post-punk bands sounds like their forbears, the nihilism and desire to destroy paradigms that spurred no wave has seemingly been conveniently repackaged as little more than a dandified fashion statement.
Ida No, however, lacks Greenwood's vocal dexterity, and in her no-wave attempts to move beyond tune or tonality ends up sounding like some hipster doing Karaoke to Nina Hagen at some electro-clash night at some bar in Brooklyn. On a purely technical level, No is similar to Mariah Carey, pulling out all the tropes and just kind of yelling according to a pre-prescribed genre-specific passion.

Within an already heavily footnoted genre, Glass Candy are laden by reference points. Like a self-indulgent short story by David Foster Wallace or some Borgesian tale questioning originality and authorship, this simulacrum lacks the pure immediacy of the original, turning what was at one point a kick in the ass of 80s materialism into an empty pose-- something to which you can dance absentmindedly, wondering if the asymmetrical hairdo you just paid $150 for looks vaguely authentic.

Wow, Pitchfork used to be good.

[Phil Collins]

I'm not sure if this is worth attending. Pitchfork gave it 8.1. They're not some crossover act are they? Their attire seems to suggest that they are.

Listening to tracks on their myspace now. Not much else is on that night - trying to decide between this, Subservice, THUG nights or Happy Ending.

The start of Miss Broadway reminds me of Bob Dylan.

Hmm, I like this review:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/18103-love-love-love

Hey V,
I'm a fan of Glass Candy. Mike Simonetti too.
It's not really a choice between us and them tho...

As far as I understand it their gig finishes like 10 or 11pm. We're (Happy Ending) kickin off down the street at 10pm. $10 for two quality international DJ/artists, plus great local support. (we go till 6am).

So live first world style and eat it all ;)

[Dr_Hysteric]

EDIT: Hmm, I like this review:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...love-love-love

Quote:
As superficially as the new crop of "death disco" or post-punk bands sounds like their forbears, the nihilism and desire to destroy paradigms that spurred no wave has seemingly been conveniently repackaged as little more than a dandified fashion statement.

Looks like someone's been reading the Thesaurus again!

maybe the whole Glass Candy / Italians Do It Better thing is a little close to Vice Magazine for my liking, but there's not really anything better going on and definitely nothing that's touring Oz. It's alot better than Chicks On Speed, that's for sure.

[onthedancefloor]

Looks like someone's been reading the Thesaurus again!

maybe the whole Glass Candy / Italians Do It Better thing is a little close to Vice Magazine for my liking, but there's not really anything better going on and definitely nothing that's touring Oz. It's alot better than Chicks On Speed, that's for sure.

There's sort of two distinct glass candy sounds. One is more noisy art punk like on this love love love cd (they are from Portland--everyone seems to overlook this important fact!) and the other more of a icy dance sound but still with a pop edge. They're definately coming out of the American underground DIY indie rock/pop scene rather than the underground dance scene (which is a very American divide which is pretty silly.) It doesn't really matter. I personally have a soft spot for DIY pop and that's what I like about them.

From an interview with music journalist Andy Beta (http://andybetablog.blogspot.com/2008/02/johnny-jewel-interview.html)(there's a whole series of interviews here for a Spin article about the so-called disco revival that the eds at spin decided to make a Italo-revival article instead.)

Q: I remember Glass Candy as a more glam and rock and then moving more towards the studio. Was it less of a band?

Johnny Jewel: I’m the only one that plays any of the music on the records. It’s always been a studio project. Our first two records have drum machine and synth. We were more synth, there was no guitar, I played bass live through a synthesizer. It sounded punk because we weren’t very good musicians. We were never setting out to sound a certain way. In ’99, we were into the Bee Gees and (the Stones) “Emotional Rescue,” “Miss You.” Just the disco coming from a rock perspective. We did our first tour, at the Knitting Factory, the bass fell apart and we finished the tour with a guitar. Ida liked the way it sounded, so we did that for awhile. Guitar is such a rock instrument. I’ve used electronic drums on every single record I made. Sometimes they’re dirtier. Keyboards and electronics have been with us the whole time. I’m a better beat-maker.

Personally, I don’t know anybody that does the shit. All my friends are rock people and I’ve had to teach myself from scratch, so the music is becoming tighter and more danceable. Our tastes are always changing. It’s in the mix together. It’s not a conscious effort. We’ve always viewed ourselves as a disco band in the conceptual sense. We were thought of no wave for awhile. Now people think of us as Italo, which is as accurate and inaccurate. Glass Candy is enigmatic, every song we do is different. When we write a song, all the ideas that we have goes into that song. we’re finishing a double LP in March. We want each song to be its own entity. Each song could be a record in and of itself. Stringing it together is a difficult thing. We’re feeling the dancehall drum tones, which are more overtly electronic. the electronic drums were more acoustic sounding, and lo-fi, people would just assume its live drums. Drum machines are on every single record. Now were pushing the tones forward.

Q: Socially, it’s still a rock scene for you?

That’s changed a lot because of the age group. The cut-off is about 25. The people go to bars, not to shows. They don’t go to dance nights. The crop is different. The younger kids aren’t as prejudiced towards hip-hop as the people our age. They don’t have a problem embracing it. for the kids growing up and going to clubs now, they don’t have this idea…

With the internet, and MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, everyone’s a star and everyone’s life is celebrity. Even if it’s not super-famous, everyone thinks “this moment is being capture, this moment is being photographed, and people are going to see this.” And because of that, the shift has gone off of the artist performing and it’s more for the younger people, they don’t separate themselves from you that much, which is awesome in terms of breaking the ice and having a fun night. Mentally, we’re on the same level as the audience. We give them respect. We wouldn’t be there if they weren’t there. the whole night is a party, the kids aren’t thinking “I need to get their ass rocked off.” Or “There’s no drummer or no guitar.” It was more an obstacle when we first started putting on shows. People were more hung up on certain things. The more popular electronic music, they become more open-minded. A live rock band is cool. But there’s a million ways to exist and put on a show. Our shows are like DJ plus. I DJ the beats and play synth, she sings, and we interact. The younger audience is way open to it. it’s a different thing. It’s changing. In Europe, it’s not a rock scene at all for us. It’s different all over. City to city. LA is different from San Diego. Houston is different from Austin. Certain cities are more rock-oriented.

The younger audience and the computer age, people being exposed to shows on YouTube or a dancehall show. Fifty people on stage with mics, one DJ, no live musicians. They’re killing it. it’s fun, it feels live. It’s a moment. It’s not karaoke. When we first switched to beats, people were like “It’s like karaoke.” Okay, we like karaoke, too. Glass Candy has always been an outsider band. we never really make sense if you judge us on the status quo. We only make sense in the context of what we do. Some people like the records and the live show is more rock and they’re disappointed.

Q: Do you vascillate between rock and dance yourself?

I don’t think of myself as either. I think of myself as a graphic designer that’s working with music. I’m not a musician, she’s not a singer, she cant sing melodies. She can only sing microtones, like a blues singer. We’re really weird, probably we shouldn’t be making music but we love it and we do it. it comes out sounding really unique. We do our thing, we don’t think about where we fit in. That’s for writers to think about.

[Spitchen]

and the other more of a icy dance sound but still with a pop edge.

That's the sound they have on their MySpace.

Was thinking of checking them out at V Festival (free tickets :thumb: ) but after hearing the tracks on MySpace I'm less impressed. They sound like a couple of fashion students dabbling in a music project in, as you say, a very DIY/amateur way.

Musically its not very interesting but the fashionista cool kids will probably like it.

And she needs to blow her nose before recording her vox. :P

edi: The disco track is pretty cool though.

[onthedancefloor]

That's the sound they have on their MySpace.

Was thinking of checking them out at V Festival (free tickets :thumb: ) but after hearing the tracks on MySpace I'm less impressed. They sound like a couple of fashion students dabbling in a music project in, as you say, a very DIY/amateur way.

Musically its not very interesting but the fashionista cool kids will probably like it.

And she needs to blow her nose before recording her vox. :P

edi: The disco track is pretty cool though.

Which one is the disco one?

It's sweet that they make hand silk screens for their records, release all the different parts, fall down in public and have always had lots of tracks available to download for free (part of their success.)

But I agree that this is not earth shattering and lots of throw away stuff. You know the problem is that when some of these little bands (or DJs for that matter) come to Oz there's so much hype around them that they're almost sure to fail to live up to it.

If you think of them as kooks from portland putting on a show its all a lot easier.
Sadly, I'm going to miss the spectacle.

[Spitchen]

You know the problem is that when some of these little bands (or DJs for that matter) come to Oz there's so much hype around them that they're almost sure to fail to live up to it.

Totally agree. Stick (UK) or (US) etc after a band or DJ name and hey presto you've got interest. I'll try and check them out at V anyways.

The disco-esque track is "Miss Broadway".

[onthedancefloor]

Totally agree. Stick (UK) or (US) etc after a band or DJ name and hey presto you've got interest. I'll try and check them out at V anyways.

The disco-esque track is "Miss Broadway".

Ah yes. The Belle Epoque cover. you know the original? It's on this Alec de Ruggiero mix if you haven't heard it (this mix was my fav gym companion a few years back http://www.milkaudio.com/web/guest_alecderuggiero.php)

[Spitchen]

Ah yes. The Belle Epoque cover. you know the original? It's on this Alec de Ruggiero mix if you haven't heard it (this mix was my fav gym companion a few years back http://www.milkaudio.com/web/guest_alecderuggiero.php)

Know the name but not the track. Ta for the mix, will have a listen. :)

[Dr_Hysteric]

Not so keen on "Miss Broadway" (prefer original), but I like the "I Always Say Yes / The Chameleon" 12" and the demo of "Rolling Down The Hills" on Permanent Vacation 2. Unfortunately the pressing and/or mastering of both records is not good.

Looking forward to seeing them anyway..

[V-Tron]

Wait... Miss Broadway is a cover? Definitely not going now. Thanks, saved me $25.

[suenomartino]

Cant help but be reminded of this Youtube clip..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FNe1oYXvlTU

[onthedancefloor]

Cant help but be reminded of this Youtube clip..

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FNe1oYXvlTU

So great!

[adam baby]

Caught them at GC Vfest - the art thing didn't quite translate. For a big festival stage it was a bit introverted. I think a post-midnight small club gig could be good tho!