Bedhead, Saturnine, Clem Snide - Knitting Factory NYC - 4/3/98
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We caught the last few songs from the first opener, Clem Snide. Their upright bass and cello rounded out otherwise straight-forward Gretch/Vox indie country hits.
Saturnine delivered the rings: those sad chords at a spinning pace- infected with those spacey instrumentals that make you forget when they stopped singing. The girl/guy guitars/vocals duo was definitely happening for me. The guy does this kind of raised eye-brows look when he shifts trajectory- meanwhile a well polished rythym section keeps us all in orbit. Bringing out a trumpeter and keyboardist added red and blue to the spectrum.
Saturnine’s set made me want to pick up their new album (”The long, long trail”-?- I couldn’t tell what the guy said), but you might want to try to request one off the radio before committing. As a die-hard sad hits fan, I’m all about the re-working of one form- you know, if the hyper-drive ain’t broke… Remember when they thought the planet only had 9 rings? or am I making that up?
By Bedhead, our group was wishing they’d roll out the Lazy-Boys. Or maybe turn on the anti-gravitional floor. Of course, I’ll stand during most of a Low show, so Bedhead was no problem. The bearded Kadane brothers and co. were in tip-top shape for their start-out-slouching-so-you-end-up-slouching-loudly songs (you can’t beat 3 guitars when you need to get loud- plus more layers for your money). The guitars traded solos of the bright-sad tone the 90’s have taught me to love. The show featured mostly new material- from their latest, and so far most inspired: “Transaction de Novo.”
Bedhead closed a 30 minute encore with Joy Division’s “Spirit / Feeling” - which was pretty nice of them since people had been yelling out for it all night, and M. Kadane had told the crowd they wanted 5 bucks each to play it, but we were too cheap to fork it over.
