Coachella 2007!

looks like they finally have the set list up. tickets on sale this weekend. all i can say is FAITHLESS IS COMING TO AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i don't think they've toured here since their 2nd album (when i got into them). regardless i will be there and so should you. there's gotta be at least one band playing you want to see eh?

http://www.coachella.com/

Don't get overly enthused about trip-hop to be honest, so Faithless wouldn't be a big draw for me. I think the only stuff I've got that would qualify for trip-hop would be FLIR and CORK (caps matter on both). CORK will be nearly impossible to find any more (closest thing I've found is singer Misty Murphy "covering" a CORK demo on her MySpace page). I wouldn't mind seeing Blonde Redhead, though.

????????? What on earth are you guys talking about?????????? It looks like englisg, but it sure seems like a foreign language to me!!

Coachella is big music festival somewhere in the deserts of California (if they have deserts over there ).

@dteowner
i'm slightly disappointed that you would label faithless as trip-hop. less than 10% of their songs you could call trip-hop. even morcheeba, who hates being labeled trip-hop, has far more trip hop songs than them. no, faithless is a meld of genres but if you are going to call them anything it would be dance music. but what sets them apart from nearly all dance music is not the quality, but maxi jazz (god-the grand oral diseminator). he is one of the 3 permanent members of the group, the other two focusing their amazing talents on the music. dido was also a member of the band on the first 2 albums and still came back to sing a few songs on the next two. also each album has lots of other guest vocalists/musicians on them who do stunning jobs. faithless, like radiohead another one of englands most respected bands, has also become highly political in their music since their 3rd albums.

@Danicek
we have some quite distinct ones, and others quite unimpressive. most of southern california is desert in fact. i'm sure there will be people at coachella from everyones home country here at rpgwatch. its grown quite popular, this year they've added a third day even. i'm sure there are other larger festivals around the world, but coachella gets alot of great bands together, new and old. also a lot of bands have done 'reunion' shows at coachella. its a shame that cocteau twins ended up not playing at the 2005 show…i probably would have gone otherwise.

The JAMC reunion will be a big draw (although not particularly for me).

I only listened to a couple tracks from Faithless off their MySpace page. That might not have been a representative sample of their work.

understandable dteowner

http://www.faithless.co.uk

this is their site, which i hadn't checked in about 3 months. in that time they, managed to release a new album apparently. they had many fans including myself believing that no roots (2004) was their last album, not counting forever faithless (greatest hits). but i'm even more elated now. by the way robert smith is supposedly on a track in the new album.

I still wish you'd all speak english!!

sorry its not about footbal

Originally Posted by curious
i'm sure there are other larger festivals around the world, but coachella gets alot of great bands together

Yeah, this festival is actually quite famous. It has to be when I know from the name that it is a music festival somewhere in the California/US. I must have read about it something somewhere, probably a review of one of the previous years edition ;].

Originally Posted by Corwin
I still wish you'd all speak english!!

What I find interesting is how more and more of pop & rock has become largely sub-genrefied based not on the music but the lifestyle. Trip-hop makes some sense, as does things like ambient, but 'shoegazer' and 'emo' and the like only indirectly suggest anything musical, and they are so often tied to the stylings of one or two musical groups that they are akin to saying that the Beatles and Stones were in different genres.

Of course, genres don't matter anyway, it is just a label to help you build an association - that can be a good or bad thing, depending on your perspective.

Careful there, mister, or you're liable to receive a not-so-brief history of the term "shoegazer". It is actually intimately tied to the musicianship of most all purveyors of said music, although I will grant you that it isn't such a stretch to apply it to the people listening as well. Besides, you seem to be saying that you must partake to perform or listen to something like acid rock?

Originally Posted by dteowner
It is actually intimately tied to the musicianship of most all purveyors of said music

I don't get that - is it a requirement of the musicians to look at their shoes? …I mean, a meaningful sub-genre for me would be something like 'fusion' which is short for 'jazz/rock fusion', which was exactly what the music was about.

One of the defining aspects of the music is extensive use of effects pedals while playing, operated with….wait for it….yer feet. With upwards of a dozen pedals, each with its own variable control, you've pretty much got to watch what you're doing.

speaking of pedals you made me think of levator (originally a solo project by sky lynn)- i've seen her live and she is doing 10 things at once to make some great music/sounds and she's got a lovely voice to. own both her albums (thought the first one was much better though).

http://www.myspace.com/levator

another group she's in, who i haven't seen (though looks like they're coming to town!) or own albums of is blue light curtain who might be up your alley dteowner.

http://www.myspace.com/bluelightcurtain

Originally Posted by dteowner
Besides, you seem to be saying that you must partake to perform or listen to something like acid rock?

No, but I think it helped people think that much of it was any good - or that people like Jim Morrison were 'profound'.

Levator was way too lo-fi for me, but Blue Light Curtain wasn't too shabby.

Anyone for ABBA!! or Neil Diamond??!!

Here! *snaps fingers*
But I also like Rollo and his stuff, and thus, Faithless.

@jaz-i presume you've heard dusted-when we were young? that album is great and another example of rollo's amazing skills.

for those who don't know, rollo armstrong (one of faithless's 3 permanent members) is dido's older brother. yes those are there real names!