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Thee Oh Sees are awesome

Springolator  said about 3 years ago  or at  12:46PM on Wednesday, October 8 2008 in music

Have a listen and you might agree.
Thee Oh Sees
I think they're like a punked up version of the B52s but I'm crap at describing music so best you listen and decide for yourself.


pc  said about 3 years ago:

I agree


blake3030  said about 3 years ago:

I agree.

Masters Bedroom is one of my fave albums from this year.

All hit, very little miss.


JunkiePhil  said about 3 years ago:

So much better live then recorded.
Masters Bed falls short for me, love the first 2 songs, the rest gets a bit samey.
Lovely people too, John in one of the funnist people I've ever met in my life.
Had me thorwing up with lack of breath at one point.
I'm trying to get em over here somehow.
As is Eddy Cuz.
I think Witch Hats are doing a split 7'' with them soon too.


PaulsGrandfather  said about 3 years ago:

I've had Block of Ice stuck in my head for days!


Springolator  said about 3 years ago:

I'm gonna see them again on Friday! Want me to say hello for you JP?


JunkiePhil  said about 3 years ago:

Please do!
Can you say ''Aussie 5'' to him for me.
He'd say that in a british accent to me all the time, for some reason.
1/2 the time you can't even understand him, speaks a million miles a miniute.
Are they playing with Yellow Fever by chance?
They're excerlent too, say hi to them too!


Springolator  said about 3 years ago:

Supports are:

TY SEGALL
A real charmer from the Traditional Fools.
http://www.myspace.com/tysegall

HERE COMES A BIG BLACK CLOUD
Portland's most free-wheelin' and garage-smart dance band.
myspace.com/herecomesabigblackcloud

Ty Segall! Awesome!!


JunkiePhil  said about 3 years ago:

We played with him too,
Nice guy.
I aparently (can't remember it) yacked his ear off for an hour about the Scientists, and he'd never even heard them.
Felt like an ass the next day.
He's kinda like Made For Chickes by Robots.


JunkiePhil  said about 3 years ago:

There is another band John was in a while back called 'Coach Whips' that are a more savage raucous version of the Oh Sees.
Worth a listen.


JunkiePhil  said about 3 years ago:

We played a basment show with them in Sactown.
It was a really small room packed with about 40 people.
All jumping and what not, hitting your head on the roof everytime you moved.
I only lasted 5 songs due to one over excited punter spraying beer cans all over everyone.
He just kept on opening them and swinging them around his head, I was drenched and bailed because of it.
Then about 2 weeks later,in NY, on the other side of the country, same guy popped up again.


Springolator  said about 3 years ago:

Slabtown??


JunkiePhil  said about 3 years ago:

Nah, Played there though.
I ment Sacremento, they just call it Sactown, cause 2-pac did.


oort  said about 3 years ago:

Watched the live goner set, it was real good should really get the album. Do they have many release?


blake3030  said about 3 years ago:

They have a few. Their name seems to change slighty between each release.


rigid  said about 3 years ago:

I only lasted 5 songs due to one over excited punter spraying beer cans all over everyone. He just kept on opening them and swinging them around his head, I was drenched and bailed because of it.

fag!


heath-dan  said about 3 years ago:

Yeah, these guys are ridiculously great. Masters Bedroom is maybe my favourite record all year.


chelloveck  said about 3 years ago:

I just listened to ''Help'' and it freaking rules.


JunkiePhil  said about 3 years ago:

I've come round to the LP now.
It's actualy all bloody good, not a bad song on it.
Wish they'd come here.....


dogsvscats  said about 3 years ago:

i wish they'd come here too. if you get them over, adelaide show?


JunkiePhil  said about 3 years ago:

SURE THANG...
Were coming your way soon, but thats not with the Oh Sees, so I'll shut up...


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Jerm  said about 3 months ago:

Peak Twins 8.30pm
Total Control 9.20pm
Thee Oh Sees 10.20pm til 11.20pm

Thanks uvrace for the heads up about the rooftop show btw- two tickets bought


jhf92  said about 3 months ago:

Evelyn rooftop can't be that big, right? 26 and sunny is perfect for Thursday.


Jerm  said about 3 months ago:

Last night was fucking terrific. Most fun I've had at a gig in awhile.. Paying for it at work this morning though


postergirl  said about 3 months ago:

Last night was cool. Good to hear ''I Was Denied''. These chaps must love Melbourne, eh? They've been here for at least 10 days. Unless they've been away and came back again.


tigers  said about 3 months ago:

Still my favourite live band I reckon. So much fun. Rooftop worked really well.
Uv race were as bad as I remember them being, which is a shame.


BIG PUSSY  said about 3 months ago:

nah uv race were great. technical difficulties hampered them. took 1/3 of their set to get into it but i thought they were good.


Actionralf  said about 3 months ago:

Todays show was up there with the Bendigo show they played a few years ago...awesome.


woolfat  said about 3 months ago:

the corner show was fantastic, i'm actually really amazing at TOS's stamina, it was incredibly HOT and they were relentlessly lively and cheerful and it was pretty excellent, they played every song I wanted to hear. I was pretty damn satisfied.
with the exception of the barely 18 year old girls standing right in front of me, talking throughout the entire set, with their backs to the band, taking photos of themselves (with a very, very bright flash) all evening. and their barechested, horrid little boyfriends.


woolfat  said about 3 months ago:

errr, unrelentlessly.


bungle  said about 3 months ago:

No, you had it right the first time woolfat.

Unless you mean 'unrelentingly'.


woolfat  said about 3 months ago:

thanks bungle. hours and hours of data entry has my brain resembling baked beans.


bungle  said about 3 months ago:

:)

Also I thought Total Control destroyed it at the corner, though I still kinda wish they played the more synth-heavy tracks with a drum machine, as the live drummer doesn't quite sound as crisp.

The Oh Sees were a hell of a lot of fun, but by about the 45 minute mark I'd had enough of them, wouldn't have minded a little bit of variety.


woolfat  said about 3 months ago:

yeah, they definitely suit a shorter set.
i missed a bit of total control, but what i saw was fun.


TacoTacoTaco  said about 3 months ago:

Didn't see the Corner show. Thought the rooftop show was heaps more fun than the Sugar Mountain Show. I was a lot more intoxicated though


jhf92  said about 3 months ago:

they were good at Sugar Mountain, excellent at the Corner and best on the rooftop. But the last quarter of the Corner set probably could've been chopped.


TheBastard  said about 3 months ago:

Has anyone seen this blogspot before???

Fan Made Recordings

Was just trawling the internet as I do and came upon it


SeanceMascara  said about 3 months ago:

Hey that's my blogspot :)
Recording of the rooftop sounds so good because I got a line out from the soundboard. The guy who did sound is super awesome and always helps me out at shows so a lot of credit should go to him. I also recorded the show at The Corner but the sound isn't as good. I'm trying to get a multitrack recording off the sound guy before I do anything with it though. It's the longest show I've seen them do as well. Clocks in at about 70 minutes.


JunkiePhil  said about 3 months ago:

huwzey  said 6 days ago:

new song off an upcoming lp, sounds alright


huwzey  said 6 days ago:

weasel_zapper  said 5 days ago:

Sweet, man those san fran garage bands are prolific.


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