The Most Serene Republic
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Holy Cow! A whole year plus has gone by since my last mog entry? Let me assure you, that I am in no way worthy of the 'smokin' appellation that is on my mog page.
Well, I have been active elsewhere on the interweb. But I feel bad for having left behind the wonderful friends and fellow moggers I've met here. Mog is really what got me started in music blogging and I intend at this point to become a more active mogger once again.
Here is one of my more recent blogs, and I will post the others here in succession. I will then post my blogs to iWeb (first)), last.fm and last but not least Mog.
Here is a review of a performance by the Most Serene Republic.
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The Most Serene Republic have come along way since I’d seen them last. Adrian Jewett’s (lead singer of TMSR) performance back in ’05 was crazy, over the top and oddly vaudevillian. But it wasn’t enough to carry the rest of the band at that time.
Now, however, the band seems to have matured and gelled into a newer, more mature sound. That new sound is oddly more like the Broken Social Scene than it ever was. But that whole sub-genre of Canadian pop has a life and substance all its own. And wether or not TMSR comes across as sounding just a little bit like their Arts & Crafts contemporaries doesn’t seem to make them any less genuine, or genuinely enjoyable than they ought to be.
The front-man's possessed vaudevillian showmanship have been toned down from the previous time I saw them. He’s not “trying too hard” any longer, and his performance flows more naturally as a result. At times, though, (especially toward the beginning) he could have put down the beer he was drinking and done more of his shtick to keep us entertained. He did, however, become more and more animated as the show went on, thereby becoming more engaging for the audience.
The band seemed more like a hippy-commune throwback in the midst of a psychedelic freak out (though sounding far more modern). At one point the lead singer chided the audience for “not being high enough” claiming that “this is New York Fucking City! The 60’s happened here. It’s really okay”. Very original observation Adrian. Who are you guys anyway? Monster Magnet?
Adding to the dirty-hippy dope fiend fun of the evening were several audience members dancing frantically to this decidedly undanceable music. But, to their credit, they found a way and that made the show more fun.
And apparently he knows his audience well, because he took a moment to mock members of it for “immediately bloggisizing” the event and taking a moment to pause in wonder that the show would be reviewed on the Internet that very night.
I was slow to the uptake. I took a night to sleep. But I did make sure that I got my pictures of the show up on the web before I went to bed. :D
Well, I have been active elsewhere on the interweb. But I feel bad for having left behind the wonderful friends and fellow moggers I've met here. Mog is really what got me started in music blogging and I intend at this point to become a more active mogger once again.
Here is one of my more recent blogs, and I will post the others here in succession. I will then post my blogs to iWeb (first)), last.fm and last but not least Mog.
Here is a review of a performance by the Most Serene Republic.
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The Most Serene Republic have come along way since I’d seen them last. Adrian Jewett’s (lead singer of TMSR) performance back in ’05 was crazy, over the top and oddly vaudevillian. But it wasn’t enough to carry the rest of the band at that time.
Now, however, the band seems to have matured and gelled into a newer, more mature sound. That new sound is oddly more like the Broken Social Scene than it ever was. But that whole sub-genre of Canadian pop has a life and substance all its own. And wether or not TMSR comes across as sounding just a little bit like their Arts & Crafts contemporaries doesn’t seem to make them any less genuine, or genuinely enjoyable than they ought to be.
The front-man's possessed vaudevillian showmanship have been toned down from the previous time I saw them. He’s not “trying too hard” any longer, and his performance flows more naturally as a result. At times, though, (especially toward the beginning) he could have put down the beer he was drinking and done more of his shtick to keep us entertained. He did, however, become more and more animated as the show went on, thereby becoming more engaging for the audience.
The band seemed more like a hippy-commune throwback in the midst of a psychedelic freak out (though sounding far more modern). At one point the lead singer chided the audience for “not being high enough” claiming that “this is New York Fucking City! The 60’s happened here. It’s really okay”. Very original observation Adrian. Who are you guys anyway? Monster Magnet?
Adding to the dirty-hippy dope fiend fun of the evening were several audience members dancing frantically to this decidedly undanceable music. But, to their credit, they found a way and that made the show more fun.
And apparently he knows his audience well, because he took a moment to mock members of it for “immediately bloggisizing” the event and taking a moment to pause in wonder that the show would be reviewed on the Internet that very night.
I was slow to the uptake. I took a night to sleep. But I did make sure that I got my pictures of the show up on the web before I went to bed. :D
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