Re: [microsound] SONAR/Brc.lna_hi.lts

[Frans De Waard <frans@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi derek

thanks for your comments. we thought things really went well and rank 
it along with our best gigs (next to Mutek last year). sonar is a 
strange festival, a bit like a gigant music supermarket. we had a 
great time. i'm glad you finally think we are not an obscure dutch 
noise band :) goem never did noise...

frans


> 6) Goem and Massimo (Staalplaat showcase): i think this show really 
> reordered a
> few of my previous conceptions. maybe i've never really seen 'obscure noise
> music' as a music for the masses, and even taken secret thrill in 
> artists which
> drove crowds from the room instead of into it. perhaps it even is some sort of
> machismo... 'i can take more than these sissy ravers can', and more such
> nonsense. all this aside, i went to see goem expecting all kinds of 
> things that
> go bump and scrape in the night. what i saw was a room packed full of several
> hundred people absolutely rocking out to what i had always considered (sorry
> frans!) to be an 'obscure dutch noise band'. there was simply nothing obscure
> about it. frans and the boys were tight, they were right there, they were with
> it. this was perhaps the only act at SONAR i felt like dancing to. so i did.