This Friday night at the Maria is the venue for an ADULT. show. A few weeks ago whilst perusing a local publication (go on, guess..) the picture + accompanying blab about the band -- "..as Berlin is suffering from a lack of 1980s inflected electro pop [is it? really? hm.] we should be thankful that ADULT. has arrived to fill the niche." -- caught my eye, so i cut it out, stuck it up on my calendar and sort of forgot. Today i arranged to meet up with a friend later this week, so i go to scribble it in on Friday 20th January and what do i see there? A nice black & white rectangley picture of a boy and girl sellotaped on there. So. Let's see.
They are from Detroit. Apparently they tried to keep quiet about who they really are. Who else is from Detroit? Brendan Benson, for one. Detroit Cobras (oK, i'm just guessing that one...) hm. Ok, Who else is from Detroit and tried and sort of succeeded at keeping quiet about who they really are? Yeh. But this is good. (I'm pretending that i don't know Eminem is from Detroit.)
ADULT. is three people with a lot going on. While Kuperus and Miller run the seminal Ersatz Audio label, show their paintings and photography and restore historic homes in Detroit, Consiglio participates in several other music and performance projects such as the art-cum-theater collective Perfect Wieners and Butts and Ersatz Audio's own Tamion 12 Inch.
That was interesting. And a little scary. Taken from their label's website, Thrill Jockey Records.
I believe the updated version of the band is now back to the origional line-up of just two. Alison Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller. Alison is also a photographer. She took this, i like it alot.
here is Alison talking about her photography and ADULT. music:
".. well I think that there's a lot of weird anxiety in our music and I think there's an awkwardness and I think that my photography is very awkward. I think that the lyrical content of our songs could have double meaning, and I think that my photographs have a lot of double meanings. It's like you're kind of just giving the viewer, almost like a still, and you don't know where the story is going, and Our music is like that as well where you don't really know where the end is."
Their new record called "Gimmie Trouble" was released last October.
I only have a couple of mp3s to go on, and one of those is a remix. i do feel intrigued enough to check their gig out, but it all depends on how much currency i dispense this week.
oK. mp3s.
Insound has one and epitonic has two. The it-was-new-in-December-2005 single In My Nerves is Here. It's totally on the first page of artists under "A".
Nite Life and some remix of Flexidisc are right here. Both good! Even the remix! Before you can say "this is soo electroclash" your shoulders and hips will be doing jaggedy '80s moves. And your hair will get poofy.
So ADULT. are noisy. I like it alot. i can see (hear) that her voice might probably get annoying if you listened to it nonstop for like, an hour. should just about make it through the gig. Oh! Kesseteens are supporting. And some djs after too. Show starts at 9pm.
Being broke is really spleening me. i could not afford the ticket/u bahn trips to go see Black Wire tonight. Boo.
2 comments:
Hey, just to let you know Black Wire is actually tomorrow (19th) at Knaack - I'm going, but I don't actually know anything by them apart from Attack! Attack! Attack! - but, as you say, they are rather photogenic!
Hope you can make it.
i know! i just noticed today that it was advertised wrong in the bloody listings. its great that i didn't miss them..but just today i've been told i HAVE to go to the Super 700 gig, also tomorrow night. Still don't know which one to go see though. ARGH. January was supposed to be dull and eventless. This week alone has 3 gigs, and the 2 i really want to check out are both on the same night. Oh, bother.
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