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Posted: March 04 2007 at 22:16

mmm....

I'm going to see Isis and Jesu on saturday. This is gonna rule... Approve

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Posted: March 04 2007 at 21:14

Asyte2c00 wrote:

Mono, Do Make Say Think, Isis w/Jesu, are all performing around here. but they are all on school nights so I cant go.

But thats okay, Im going to go to NEARFest this summer.

Where do you live? I might be going, since I'm close, but I won't have my license then so I'd have to get a ride or something.

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Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:58

I had the privelege of seeing DMST just last night, and i must agree. INCREDIBLE. Absolutely powerful and moving experience, beautiful expansive yet organic walls of sound.. If you ever get the chance to see this band, don't pass it up!

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Posted: March 04 2007 at 16:46

I'd really like to see some post-rock bands live. I imagine GY!BE, Mogwai etc. would probably work very well in a live setting, where your attention is usually completely focused and the dynamics are more pronounced, along with the general energy that comes from playing live.

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Posted: March 04 2007 at 08:58

I've seen many of the major post-rock bands live, and I've actually never really been blown away, although Sigur Ros and Mogwai always put on a great show. I think one thing that makes post-rock work in a live setting is that the dynamics can be so much broader than on CD. So the whole soft-loud thing gets a lot more life when the soft can be pretty soft but the loud can be ENORMOUSLY loud. (This goes especially for Mogwai, Explosions and Mono.)

I'm seeing Do Make Say Think for the first time later this month, really can't wait. Of all the big post-rock bands, in a lot of ways they are the most unpredictable and interesting. The new album didn't disappoint.

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Posted: February 24 2007 at 20:25

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Should any of you get the chance to, see Sigur Ros. One of the most incredible feelings I've ever had at that show.

I agree, Sigur Ros is amazing live! i saw them outside in pouring rain, which may or may not have added to the experience

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Unfortunately for me, all my favorite post-rock bands are playing at venues within three hours of where I live over the course of the next five months or so. That sounds amazing, except all of them are 18 or 21 and over clubs! It's definitely agravating. For now I have to listen to bootlegs from archive.org. I'm happy for you though, Do Make Say Think is my favorite, and I can't imagine how moving they'd be live.

I totally agree with you, fellow 18+ hater. EITS, ASMZ, Mono, Pelican, and DMST - of course were all 18+ in Boston...

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Posted: February 24 2007 at 16:00

It's so painful hearing about good Mono are live. I just wanna die Cry

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Posted: February 24 2007 at 14:45

I've seen Pelican twice, once with Mono and once with Russian Circles. They were both absolutely amazing shows, but I must say that both Mono and Russian Circles were better than Pelican live.

Mono's performance was probably the single most intense live show I've ever seen. At one point they built a song to such a frenzy that they just stopped and stood in front of their amplifiers looping feedback for about 5 minutes while the drummer slumped over his drums as if he had passed out from the intensity.

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Posted: February 24 2007 at 12:36

Mono, Do Make Say Think, Isis w/Jesu, are all performing around here. but they are all on school nights so I cant go.

But thats okay, Im going to go to NEARFest this summer.

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Posted: February 24 2007 at 12:09

I want to see EITS and GYBE but they will not come to israel, ohh no way...
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Posted: February 24 2007 at 04:21

If you EVER get the chance, go see Mono live, they're INCREDIBLE. I'm going to see the Album Leaf next week and I can't wait. Apart from Mono and Yann Tiersen (that guy REALLY had some post-rock songs in Amsterdam

) I haven't seen any post-rock bands live, but I can't wait to do so!

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Posted: February 23 2007 at 22:36

so far here in Singapore i've seen Tortoise and Mogwai live. Tortoise were of course jawdroppingly amazing w 2 drummers while Mogwai was of course pretty good. Another band that came down some years ago were German postrockers Kriedler.

In March as part of this festival we'll be having The Album Leaf and Jaga Jazzist come down, so yaaaay!!!!!

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Posted: February 23 2007 at 21:57

I saw EITS last Monday at the Warsaw in Brooklyn.

EITs were okay live, but nothign spectatcular.

You can dowload their bootlegs at www.archive.org anbd receive the same experience I did last Monday.

55 minute show. They performed "It's Natural To Be Afarid" which was incredible.

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Posted: February 23 2007 at 21:52

Should any of you get the chance to, see Sigur Ros. One of the most incredible feelings I've ever had at that show.

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Posted: February 23 2007 at 21:29

Unfortunately for me, all my favorite post-rock bands are playing at venues within three hours of where I live over the course of the next five months or so. That sounds amazing, except all of them are 18 or 21 and over clubs! It's definitely agravating. For now I have to listen to bootlegs from archive.org. I'm happy for you though, Do Make Say Think is my favorite, and I can't imagine how moving they'd be live.

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Posted: February 23 2007 at 18:49

I don't think I'll be seeing any post-rock concerts anytime soon here in Puerto Rico. Its very rare that even common known bands get to play here I can't imagine a band like Sigur Rós playing here in Puerto Rico.
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Posted: February 23 2007 at 18:49

I wish Do Make Say Think could visit Sweden some time. I'd really love to see them, they're my favourite Post-Rock band. I might see Explosions in the Sky in March, but I'm not sure.

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Posted: February 23 2007 at 18:29

From what I understand, post rock is a genre to be experienced live. All I have seen live, are a few groups of the local underground here in greece but the live feeling was AMAZING.

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Posted: February 23 2007 at 17:43

Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Do Make Say Think on the first show of their current tour. It was my first post-rock show, although I've been listening to the genre for quite a while, so needless to say, I was excited (especially since DMST is one of my favourite bands). I have to say - I was COMPLETELY blown away by their live performance! I'd always wondered how post-rock would sound live and whether or not it would be exciting to see, but not only did the band sound fantastic - their music, when heard live, sounds about a bajillion times better than it does on the albums. The intensity and raw emotion of all 8 musicians on stage was simply incredible, and don't think I'll be seeing anything quite like it anytime soon.

Still, that's the only post-rock show I've ever been to. For those of you who have seen other bands in the genre (or the same one), what were your experiences like? Were the shows you went to as mind-blowingly good as the one I saw? Any particular bands in the genre you'd recommend seeing, or any who weren't so great in a live setting (hopefully there aren't many of these!)? I'm looking forward to your responses!