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Did anyone go see them on NYE in Brooklyn? I was supposed to go to the 2am show after I got out of MY Morning Jacket at MSG but lets just say I was a little too out of it to find my way around that city.
Post by DaddyMack-MackDaddy on Feb 16, 2009 17:45:58 GMT -5
I saw Crystal Castles at Webster Hall during CMJ last October... very crazy show. The band is definitely not super-interesting but Alice Glass is a magnetic presence on stage.
Definitely needs to be late night, cause I can't see them sweating under the sun.
White Denim - 8/13-14 Power of the Riff - 9/1-2 Bruce Springsteen - 9/19 & 9/21 Gonjasufi - 9/24 Jay Z - 10/4 Animal Collective - 10/5 Swans - 10/10 GWAR - 10/16 New Order - 10/18 Squarepusher - 11/1 Bassnectar - 11/18 Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 11/27 Bonnaroo 2013 - ???
Based on the footage mentioned above, I'm partial on them. Love the album, although I can't understand half of what Alice Glass is saying. Especially on Crimewave...something about breasts and eye lids? She's bonkers.
Post by SouthGA_Festival Machine on Mar 30, 2009 23:41:06 GMT -5
I DLed their CD a while back, when I saw them on the line up. I'm just now getting around to listening to it. It's ok, but I will most likely be elsewhere when they play their set at Roo.
Post by JimmyMoore16 on Mar 31, 2009 13:28:36 GMT -5
Thought I would add this review from CC's set at Ultra this weekend. This writer labeled them the best act at the festival. And if you saw the line up this year, you understand just how much of a compliment that is....
Ultra Music Festival '09: Crystal Castles Saturday, March 28, 2009 Bicentennial Park, Miami
Better than: Everything else at Ultra -- seriously.
The lights dimmed at the Bayfront Stage at Ultra Music Festival and from the darkness emerged the silhouette of the lead singer Alice Glass, a petite girl who looks like that goth girl in high school who kept to herself and nobody bothered to mess with because everyone thought she might beat the hell out of you. The man in shadows, Ethan Kath, poured synthetic beats over the speakers that sounded similar to their remix for the Klaxon's "Atlantis to Interzone" however it could have been a variation of their song "Knights" from their 2008 debut Crystal Castles.
My first encounter with Crystal Castles was back in 2006. The duo came down Miami several times to the now-defunct Revolver party. But it wasn't until WMC 2007 at Mansion's Mansion Loves Electro party that I got to see what they were made of. Glass shrieked her way through the set while crawling on the floor. Most people in attendance either looked toward the stage with confusion or simply made a quick exit to the adjacent room.
However, last night the duo received a much different reaction from the crowd. Hoards of underage teenage hipsters screamed for Glass in a Beatle-esque fashion. She paid no attention to them as she chugged on a full-size bottle of Belvedere. In fact, she looked wasted as she rolled around on the floor in a way I can only describe as a spot-on Courtney Love impersonation.
Along with a live drummer, Kath and Glass churned out song after song, including "Through the Hosiery," "Crimewave," "Black Panther," "Courtship Dating" and the unreleased track "Yes No."
It was during their live performance of "Crimewave" that I decide I was witnessing perhaps the best performance at Ultra Music Festival. The stage filled with smoke to the point that the duo was completely hidden, except for the backlighting which revealed that Glass' silhouette had climbed up on the DJ table that Bloody Beetroots and LA Riots had used earlier in the day.
All of a sudden during "Yes No" Glass, with Belvedere bottle in hand, leap/crawled/tripped over the stage onto the speakers lined up in front of the stage and then proceeded to climb on the barricade. Everyone bum-rushed the stage as she handed away the vodka bottle and proceeded to attempt to crowd surf. This poop was seriously about to turn into a punk rock concert! The seemingly annoyed security detail kept pulling her back, tugging on her shirt.
Finally, upon being forcebily returned to the stage by security, Glass ended the show by throwing the wired microphone into the crowd and drunkenly waving goodbye. The crowd demanded an encore but security came on to the stage to let everyone know that Crystal Castles wouldn't be coming back.
I saw them at Ultra, and maybe I just don't "get" it. I like their album and really like their studio stuff, but I HATED HATED HATED their live show. It was awful. Well, let me correct that -- the VOCALS were awful. It wasn't the sound they had an the album -- it was an awful high-pitched screech that may or may not have actually been the lyrics to the songs.
And I'm sorry, but if you think a "punk rock performance" at Ultra (an ELECTRONIC music festival) is the best moment of the festival...you're mistaken. Clearly that writer missed a few things at Ultra...
The whole stretch from Air Wars --> Knights on the albm is really badass in my opinion. Just started getting into this band and has also moved up high on my list