[Incubation] WEEKEND for the weekend

[the happy one]

Just saw Weekend last Thursday night (5/19).  Great show from that trio,
intense as fuck...and they played three new songs.  A bit ridiculous to see
a few people wanted to slam dance to this, they may as well dove headfirst
into their own graves after being hit in the back of the head with a shovel.

Setlist

[intro to a slowed-down Buzzcocks "Ever Fallen In Love"]
Veil     [Sample from alternate recording (mine) here:
http://dl.atmyheels.com/weekend20110519/ ]
After Image
[broken bass string]
/new song #1/
End Times
/new song #2/
[so what are you gonna do on Saturday?]
/new song #3/
Monday Morning
Monogah, WV
Coma Summer

Grab it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZK9Z1LZR

Play LOUD.

Some notes:

* Recording taken from tomzero's effort I was trying out some new kit and
quite messed up the levels, leaving me with a brickwalled mess.  I put my
version of the first track so you can hear for yourselves...it would have
done in a pinch but I think Tom nailed this one down cold.

* They had these multicolor glow lights which was giving the crew fits, as
I'm not sure if they worked that well.

* Intro taped was a slowed down and digitally manipulated Buzzcock's "Ever
Fallen In Love".

* Just like in London, SD snapped one of his bass strings after a few
songs.  I can't imagine the intensity of the playing required on bass to do
that.

* New song #1 was a fast, driving song that had Durkan singing "When it's
over".

* End Times was introduced as being about what was going down on Saturday
night...shit, we're still here.

* New song #2 was a slower one that started with a kick/tom pattern and a
echoey bass line, and ghostly vocals.  Very Abecedarians like, whom I've not
seen anyone compare them to yet.  Ends in a maelstorm of guitar and cymbals.

* After this song, SD asks everyone "So what are you gonna do on Saturday"?
Some joker from the crowd responds, "Smoke weed!".  Shaun then replies,
"Smoke weed?  Man...you don't think much of yourselves.  The world's going
to end, weed's is probably the last drug I would do.  I would smoke black
crayons, because you know that shit is the hardest."

* New song #3 was another fast one that starts out like Joy Division's
Isolation and has a bassline cribbed from mid-era New Order.  I want to call
this song "Hazel" because that name is repeated throughout the song...it's
probably the most straightforward song I've heard them do, and was
definitely my favorite of the new stuff.

* Ending a blur with Monday Morning / Monongah, WV / Coma Summer.

* Unlike my initial reports, Slow wasn't one of the new songs performed, but
you can listen to here...think this was from their Part Time Punks
broadcast:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1kDdnEIgFI

[Visuals assembled by Moko117 from Carnival Of Souls...which fits perfectly
with the song.]

There were two opening acts.  First up was a one-man operation called
Jealousy who played pre-recorded drones along with his bass and
undecipherable vocals.  It's actually pretty good, this was the second time
we'd see them/him live, you can dig out the first recording on my blog if
you want to hear it.

Download:  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NQ333S4J
<http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NQ333S4J%20%20>

Second was an outfit called Clipd Beaks that sounded like a mutant Crispy
Ambulance / Biting Tongues blend but less formed.
Download:  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OFVLAG1X
<http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OFVLAG1X%20%20>

Jealousy was from Tom's recording, while Clipd Beaks was from mine, which
for this particular group, was servicable.

I've also been uploading some Weekend-related releases:

2011-02-09 Glasgow [jamroom: Church Audio CA11 > CA9100 > Edirol R-09]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N124H82H
Setlist: Intro / Untitled / Age Class / End Times / After Image / Coma
Summer

2011-02-11 Lexington Arms London [D-50 source]
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4W2KSC0E
<http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4W2KSC0E%20>
Setlist: Intro / Untitled / End Times / Age Class / [broken bass string] /
After Image / Coma Summer

Please keep the recordings private for now.

Weekend - End Times 7" b/w Coma Summer ('Speculator's Subconscious Mix').
Slumberland Records SLR141 7".
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LP6C54RR

Weekend - All-American 10" b/w Youth Haunts (Mexican Summer MEX034)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K104GBF9

GREM - ESME  [Shaun Durkan's solo project, more experimental than Weekend].
It's available on Bandcamp, but I digitized this from my cassette, #1/50
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OOG91OJ0

I also discovered that prior to Weekend, Shaun Durkan and Taylor Valentino
had played in an outfit called "We Followed Tigers", with one Joe Lippi on
bass.

They had two EPs released back in 2003-2004...I'd describe their sound as
"math rock", but you can definitely hear the glimmerings of the Weekend
sound.

"And Then We Killed" (2003), which you can find here:
http://sharethread.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-followed-tigers-and-then-we
-were.html

"So Much For Summer" (2004) here:
http://wefuckinglovemusic.blogspot.com/2010/03/we-followed-tigers
-so-much-for-summer.html

Here's a video for "I Died In An Eighties Car Crash":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-y7bnMYsvU

(it's the only visual record for WFT I've been able to turn up)

--Sam
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