| Author | Message | ||
     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3185 Registered: 05-2005 |
TROU, Andrew and whoever else is nearby, can you make it to any of these shows? I saw them in Sydney (their first gig in a decade) two years ago and it was incredible. 10 Nov 2009 8pm CHINON - Espace Rabelais (with special guests: 49 Swimming Pools) Chinon, France 11 Nov 2009 8pm PARIS - L’Européen (with special guests: 49 Swimming Pools) Paris, France 12 Nov 2009 8pm CLERMONT-FERRAND, La Coopérative de Mai (with special guests: 49 Swimming Pools) Clermont-Ferrand, France | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 259 Registered: 02-2007 |
I agree Padraig. I saw them in Bisbane about the same time. Brilliant. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 2160 Registered: 03-2005 |
This is one of those threads where I just wanted to type one word, but that's not allowed. The one word: Sigh. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 229 Registered: 05-2005 |
It seems to be a rare event but I've never heard the Apartments... During the week of their (not so near from me) concerts in France I go to see Wilco, Grizzli Bear, And Also the Trees and a jazz concert. Must take care of my health... But I'll try to find their records. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1774 Registered: 10-2004 |
Damn, he's playing a mere 9 days after I leave Paris! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 496 Registered: 04-2005 |
Thanks for the info Pádraig ! Was Mr Wilsteed on bass when you saw them ? I had already seen the tour dates, as a member of this board was holidaying in our corner of France and passed me a couple of Apartments CD to listen to. "A Life Full of Farewells" is excellent. At the time I did a bit of digging on the net for more info on them; apparently it is the not the first time that dates have been setup in France that do not actually happen... (don't book those plane tickets quite yet Randy!) Clermont Ferrand is about 5 hours away AND it is a school night, but havent't totally written it off as an impossibility yet. Heard good things about that venue too. And who knows the whole story behind Peter Walsh's brief sejour with the G-Bs and 'Don't Let Him Come Back' ? Was he that awful to work with ? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3190 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mr Wilsteed was indeed on bass Andrew, and Lindy and Amanda were in the audience! | ||
| David Mayocchi Member Username: David_m Post Number: 7 Registered: 12-2007 |
The Apartments opened Pig City at the July 2007 Queensland Music Festival. Yes they were brilliant. At that concert it was John Wilsteed on bass and Robert and Lindy were in the audience. By weird coincidence Peter Walsh was sitting in the seat two down from me at Robert Forster's show at the Sydney Opera House last year. I thanked him for his music and told him Apart was one of my favourite albums. He said other people had described this as his Trans! | ||
| Charles Coy Member Username: Coy Post Number: 158 Registered: 10-2006 |
..Padraig..this may have been noted previously, however with Amanda and Lindy's band 'Rainy Season', do you think it was taken from the line in 'Finding You'..OA | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3198 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm pretty sure Rainy Season the band predates OA Charles! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 498 Registered: 04-2005 |
Interview here with Peter Walsh (in French) http://www.magicrpm.com/a-lire/tous/the- apartments/entrevue-03-11-2009 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 477 Registered: 10-2008 |
as a relative newcomer to the apartments (thanks randy!) i'd be curious to know how everybody else rates them, and their albums in the grand scheme of aus rock. i'm on record here as not being the biggest fan of aus bands but the apartments seem a bit out on a limb to me, and that attracted me. i have recently acquired "the evening visits...", and "a life full of farewells" | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 3228 Registered: 05-2005 |
A Life Full Of Farewells is one of my favourite ever records Kevin. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 590 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really like "Drift". The thing about the Apartments in Australia is, like the Moles, they are virtually unknown. Go-Between fans here MIGHT know something but when I mention them to most people who knew "what was happening back in the day", most will say "who?". I guess overt melancholy and introspection were never something most Australian warmed to - unlike the Brits that seem to thrive on that stuff. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1794 Registered: 10-2004 |
I quite like "The Evening Visits," but only a scattered selection of songs from all the albums that followed. But those songs I like are really good! | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 515 Registered: 04-2005 |
And I belatedly get my answer to the origins of "Don't Let Him Come back" in this interview with Walsh (in French)...just "affectionate irony" ? He speaks with great affection for McLennan and Forster and remarks how un-worldly and inexperienced they were when he first knew them. http://www.blogotheque.net/En-verite-je- n-ai-jamais-manque-de And he hopes to come back next year to France. And there are new songs to record. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1809 Registered: 10-2004 |
You know, about 14 years ago I could've read and understood a good deal of that article. Sigh... |