Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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Clogs and overblown lyrics. You *know* who I mean..."A metamorphosis of completion
With perfection assured
A thousand butterflies released from the soul
A final solution and acceptance
Of realities nuances and trials
Never spoken but always there
It is the music of the spheres
A mourning of the sun
A new soundtrack to life."
The above are some lyrics from the new Fields of the Nephilim album, Mourning Sun. I think they qualify.
(I do actually like them but I'm really not all that bothered by the lyrics, particularly after a friend had the best part of his ear bitten off by an angry New Model Army fan, as part of a larger general kicking, at a Neph gig years ago. Don't remember why, maybe he ridiculed his clogs* or something. He still managed to enjoy the gig, so I guess hearing is optional?)
*NB While it might be the height of pretension to affect wearing clogs, without being from a clog wearing locality, it's a really, really stupid idea to take the piss out of someone wearing rather solid, chunky wooden footwear.
I don't know why I wrote "angry New Model Army fan" above. Was there ever any other kind?
(, Fri 30 Sep 2005, 13:49, Reply)
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