[gigs] Are DJ Food coming to Adelaide?

According to the JJJ gigs guide, and to this site, DJ Food will be at the Crown & Sceptre on May 26. At the moment there is nothing on the Ninja Tune site, and JJJ lists no other Australian show … so I’ll hold back the excitement as much as possible until further confirmation. Maybe Amon Tobin & Kid Koala put in a good word for the C&S back at the Ninja Tune HQ after their visit in December.
DJ Food was one of the aliases used by the Coldcut duo of Matt Black & Jonathon Moore while the Coldcut name was tied up in legal battles with their old label, but over time, as they became Coldcut again the name was moved on to the duo PC & Strictly Kev (hence “are” in the title), who have done some great stuff like the album “Kaleidoscope” and the brilliant first
volume of the Solid Steel series “Now! Listen” (together with DK). The latter is one of the best DJ mixes you’ll hear.

Also in May is the welcome return of Love of Diagrams. I was very, very impressed last time they were in Adelaide, since then I’ve got hold of a couple of their cds which have also impressed me and it looks like I’m not the only one since they’ve recently achieved world-wide indie fame thanks to a record deal with Matador. Not to be missed.
In other news, Melbourne’s Art of Fighting are to tour in support of their new album. The last couple of times I’ve seen them (at Jive 2 years ago and in Sydney last year) were excellent, I’m really looking forward to seeing them again.
APRIL
5th – Mike Cooper at Urtext with Daniel Varricchio.
8th – Taught By Animals at the Jade Monkey. (or perhaps not – see next post)
13th – Little Ice Age and Running With Horses at the Wheatsheaf.
13th – Satan’s Cheerleaders at FAD.
14th – Really Good in Theory at Urtext. Market from 12-5pm, gig from 8:30 including Home for the Def and Aviator Lane.
MAY
10th – Love of Diagrams at Jive.
26th – DJ Food at the Crown & Sceptre (?)
JUNE
1st – Art of Fighting and Subaudible Hum at Jive.

AUGUST
Maybe The Shins?
Last night I saw The Pixies at Thebby theatre. With reunions there is always a concern that maybe they’ll just be going through the motions … but I’m not even sure that would be possible for The Pixies. Their material is just so strong, and so distinctive … in particular hearing early stuff like Caribou drives home the extent to which they appeared pretty much fully formed as a band right from the start. The underground scene in the US was really strong in the 80’s and they came in towards the end, yet still found their own niche which set them apart from the others. An amazing band who I’d never expected to ever see live. Here’s the setlist:

Bone Machine, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Wave of Mutilation, U-Mass, Head On, Caribou, No. 13 Baby, Tame, Hey, Gouge Away, Mr Grieves, Here Comes Your Man, I Bleed, Planet of Sound, Broken Face, Debaser, Crackity Jones, Something Against You, Isla de Encanta, Nimrod’s Son, Vamos, Where is My Mind

Encore: La La Love You, Gigantic

I should also mention that I really enjoyed Jarvis Cocker‘s set. I never really listened to Pulp – not that I didn’t like them, it’s just that you can only get around to listening to so much music – but I had heard good things about his live performances, and he certainly lived up to what I’d heard.
Last weekend I saw GB3 at the Garden of Unearthly Delights. Unfortunately there was a small audience, probably no more than 20. I’d put this down to the awkward time (7:15 Saturday night), the fact that it wasn’t listed in the fringe guide (not all events at the garden were part of the fringe) and another factor may be that quite a few Adelaide music fans had gone interstate to see the Pixies having made plans before the Adelaide show was announced.
Anyway there was a bit of a treat for those of us who did go. The GB3 material was very good, but for all of us Underground Lovers fans the highlight was the end of the show where they played a number of Undies classics. First was Weak Will, in a very different arrangement to the album version, with just Glenn Bennie on guitar and Phillipa Nihill singing. Then there were Losin’ It and Holiday which both had a bit of a country feel thanks to Graham Lee’s pedal steel guitar, and they finished with a version of I Was Right which was very true to the original. It was great to see Maurice Argiro with his distinctive technique of playing harmonics on the bass by rubbing the strings with a slide too.
On the Stereo
El-PI’ll Sleep When You’re Dead cd (Def Jux)
Miles DavisGet Up With It 2cd (Columbia)
<trio x 3>New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden 2002 2cd (Hatology)
Various
New Thing! 3LP (Soul Jazz)
Various
Studio One Women 2LP (Soul Jazz)
Hood
Singles Compiled 2cd (Misplaced Music)
Tortoise & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
The Brave and the Bold cd (Spunk)
Tunng
Comments of the Inner Chorus cd (Spunk)
Sonic Youth
s/t (Geffen)
Dead Kennedys
Plastic Surgery Disasters / In God We Trust Inc. cd (Shock)

4 replies on “[gigs] Are DJ Food coming to Adelaide?”

  1. Peter Hollo says:

    Yeah – not one song from Bossanova! Why did they play a bunch from the far inferior Tromp Le Monde but not from that album? I listened to it the day after and it’s awesome…
    You got a few more than we did at V, but I think identical to the Sydney sideshow.
    I don’t think we got Mr Grieves *sob* & the set Crackity Jones, Something Against You, Isla de Encanta, Nimrod’s Son I think we missed too… So, we still got a stunning show and lots and lots of hits.

  2. Stu says:

    According to the setlist here there were a couple of extra songs in the other Sydney show. Still nothing from Bossaova though. The set here was probably a little shorter than there because of the venue’s strict finish time (it’s in a residential area) and the fact that there were 3 other acts on beforehand. Anyway, despite the fact that I do like Bossanova, I was still happy with the setlist we got.

  3. Derek says:

    Oh man, would have been great to see Tame, Gouge Away, Planet of Sound, Something Against You, Broken Face, Vamos…

    Not that you would have seen them previously, but do you think they’ve retained their intensity after all these years?

  4. Peter Hollo says:

    They have totally retained their intensity. I think Charles was always pretty unemotive – there were comments about how he actually cracked a smile at the Sydney sideshow… But regardless of that, they were totally intense and insane.
    Admittedly, Charles can’t quite screech the high stuff 100% of the time, but still in say “Tame”, it was there!

    And yeah, I’m not saying it wasn’t a fantastic setlist, just disappointed that even the longer setlists included nothing from Bossanova, but did include a number of later songs that I don’t think are particularly great…

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