Watched this for the first time last night. Shit is iconic. The impact of the shower scene has, inevitably, been diluted but the second murder is just intense.
The cinematic equivalent of Like Herod.
DB x
Consider
Last night I saw the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, a group who are actually called Penguin Cafe, despite the tickets and various paraphernalia advertising otherwise.
They were pretty fantastic. Seeing so many people on-stage, working off each other was very inspiring. In a way, it was a lot like seeing Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - musicians who aren’t simply performing their songs but putting on a performance. The movements of their bodies are just as important as the movements of their hands.
I almost wrote a huge, terrible spiel about how boring modern rock music is in comparison to other genres but decided against it. In its place, here is a good paragraph from a review of Cat Power’s [excellent] 2003 release You Are Free:
The Problem With Music doesn’t have as much to do with the influence of corporations or digital piracy as it does the delirious desire to be spat upon or condescended to by seemingly unflappable, fuck-everything rebels, projecting a confidence their sycophantic fans wish they could muster. Kids want to see their dreams onstage— which used to be harmless— but cool, cold fantasies about credibility, cash and chaos have given rise to an increasingly cocksure collection of unserious dopes with store-bought sticky-up hair. It’s a solid indication that pose is still prose to the uneducated, and that nothing has really changed in fifty years.
Make that fifty-eight.
DB x
Debut
The man once and still known as Brother Owl was nice enough to record the majority of the oft-mentioned first showing last month on a video-capturing device. Leaving aside the age-old conundrum of who would watch a live gig through a viewfinder, he is slowly but surely uploading his footage onto the Internet.
You can find the currently uploaded videos on YouTube by searching for “little victories bristol”, thus avoiding footage of The Horrors and Matt Nathanson (although you may want to watch the 65daysofstatic version) but I’ll save you the trouble and just link to them here.
This is a new one which has been called New Pop Song, La Plage and is currently called Across The Sea, in tribute to the Weezer song.
Internal band thinking is split on whether this is guaranteed a starting place or more a second half substitute. If you care enough, let us know what you think about it on our Facebook or Twitter. We are a band of and for the people.
And this is an old one that some of you will already know. It was never released before so we are absolutely free to keep playing it. Always different, always the same.
You can watch them in HD. How professional.
DB x
Cult
You know when people say “that’s my jam” when a song gets played? This is my jam. Even this extended version isn’t long enough.
So we played our first show. It’s strange how, with some of us not having played for close to a year, that time in the wilderness really does make you rusty. You can rehearse songs for months but performing them is wildly different to playing them.
It is not unlike the heady days of amateur theatrics, a pastime that half of LV were once involved in. The first time in front of a crowd is infectious and the instant reaction/gratification you receive is wonderfully exciting but you still need to perform a few more times, iron out the kinks and get every beat right, before you feel that you’re operating at peak performance. Last time I felt like that was coming off the back of a tour back in the old days, something we’re readily attempting to organise as soon as possible.
Thank you to everyone who came to see us try and work that rust out. The crowd reaction was fairly humbling considering that no-one had a need to care and, though the comparisons to Arcade Fire were more frequent than I’d hoped, we had a lot of fun.
In the space between now and next time, we will have to work on our stage design. The AOL keyword for 2011 is feathers.
DB x
Homework
An inglenook (Modern Scots ingleneuk), or chimney corner, is a small recess that adjoins a fireplace.
Bear this in mind come Saturday.
DB x
Introduction
Friends,
Apparently today is the big reveal. It’s a Tuesday.
For helpful future reference when you’re asked “what do Little Victories sound like?”, please use the following guide:
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PROTIP: Mix and match artist names to act both informative and witty (eg. Bruce Social Power, British Spring-Scene, Broken Sea-Steen)
In the links above you can ask us questions (like yr boys Belle & Sebastian) about being in a hatefelt jock pop band or see the boring MySpace and whatever else.
DB x
