and i get almost anything i want
The Mae Shi are an example of why you should go to a show based on things you’ve heard from the room next to you. They’re from Los Angeles and sound like a birthday party where everything is going wrong, things are getting broken and your friends are sat in the corner wondering what to do with their lives, and you’re just watching all this happen and yet you’re too busy grinning ear to ear because you know this kind of carnage is WHAT THIS WORLD NEEDS.
After about five years and a load of records and members and Betamax synths have flown by whilst I busied myself with Razorlights and Carling Weekends before throwing such music at my siblings and fleeing to London, they’re now with Moshi Moshi (purveyors of kawaii glory from the likes of Architecture in Helsinki and Best Fwends) to present a new LP that I hope garners some delicious attention or at least a few more starry-eyed followers who know their way around WordPress. ‘HLLLYH’ indeed.
Seeing as my head has appeared to blend their three performances (at Barden’s Boudoir, the Old Blue Last and the Macbeth respectively) into a single singalong entity, I’m not in the best frame to write seperate reviews; instead I recommend you look at these pictures of the past few days, give them a listen and catch them before they hop back across to play The Smell (8th March, US types!) - your last port of call for now is at indie club juggernaut probably Push a week today (2nd Feb, details) playing alongside if-math-rock-was-twee Hot Club de Paris.
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The Mae Shi ‘Run To Your Grave’ (mp3, 2.7MB)
The Mae Shi ‘Vampire Beats’ (mp3, 2.0MB)
Listen and buy from their MySpace. (Thank goodness for PayPal!)
30/1 update: I don’t tend to follow bands around for more than three shows but I went to see t’Shi again at Upset! The Rhythm’s Gramaphone show on the 30th, where it was more of the delightful same, except in a cosy basement and in front of a satisfyingly kinetic audience. As it says above, you’ve got one more chance and if you’re the kind of person who turns his or her nose up at half an hour of glee every now and then you should shimmy on down. Over the past four shows there have been some excellent new bands who mostly fit under the pigeonhole of happy-go-lucky hardcore; synopses and songs tomorrow I reckon.
roman david
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“The Mae Shi are an example of why you should go to a show based on things you’ve heard from the room next to you”
lovely stuff! here’s looking to next week xxx
It has taken me 4 years to finally see this band. MAJOR EXCITEDZ
“whilst I busied myself with Razorlights and Carling Weekends before throwing such music at my siblings and fleeing to London” — love it.
“and fleeing to London”
That’s what you did you did flee to London and you got to see The Mae Shi!
Damn you, fleeing to London.
I wish I was still doing a blog with you I could show you how band-dry it is down here in comparison. It’s all digital these days for us