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...from Swans played live in my native Stockholm, Sweden a couple of days ago! Were any fellow swede there? I have been felling strange since the concert and is working on my third day of bourbon-drunken-stupor but it doesn't seem to exorcise it...
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I saw him in Nottingham some months ago. I had a quick chat to him at the end of the gig, and he grabbed a copy of his latest CD from the merchandise stall, signed it, and gave it to me. :notworthy:

Yeah, it was pretty intense music, and it knocked me sideways.

Only time I'd seem him before that was the last Swans gig in London in 97/8 (can't remember the year exactly)
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I saw Swans in 95 and 97 but this was far more intense! I can't understand that just one man and a (semi)acoustic guitar can make so much sound! He was as usual very polite but the man is intensity an violence personified and I was s**t half the show. But afterwards he did his own merchandising and I got to chat a bit and he signed the stuff I bought and was very polite but the man is scary anyhow!
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yes - I think the fact that it was an acoustic one-man show, but he still managed to beat the intensity of the Swans was amazing.
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Yes it was! I really got scared from time to time! That man contains some danger! But I was pleased to hear my favourite swans songs, like failure and god damn the sun which they didn't play on the swans-concerts I saw.
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Dimehart wrote:...from Swans played live in my native Stockholm, Sweden a couple of days ago! Were any fellow swede there? I have been felling strange since the concert and is working on my third day of bourbon-drunken-stupor but it doesn't seem to exorcise it...
Nope I missed it. Was it at Narlen?
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My only encounter with Swans was the album Holy Money which I bought on a Friday and returned to the shop on the Saturday. It sounded like a complete artwank to me, maybe I never heard the right stuff?
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James Blast wrote:My only encounter with Swans was the album Holy Money which I bought on a Friday and returned to the shop on the Saturday. It sounded like a complete artwank to me, maybe I never heard the right stuff?

yep...artwank is about right...agressive...but artwank all the same
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James Blast wrote:My only encounter with Swans was the album Holy Money which I bought on a Friday and returned to the shop on the Saturday. It sounded like a complete artwank to me, maybe I never heard the right stuff?
"the burning world" & "white light from the mouth of infinity" are
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Mona Lisa,mother earth is one of the best songs i ve ever heard
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I need an education it seems
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James Blast wrote:I need an education it seems
we've always said that. ;)
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I did front stage security for Swans at the Mardi Gras in Liverpool in about 1988 and spent the whole gig making sure one speaker stack didn't fall over. It was both interesting and noisy. Who thought it would be a good idea to put them upstairs on a sprung dancefloor with a million k rig?
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I read recently that Michael Gira bizarrely 'dated' Madonna in the early 80's. It was Thurston Moore who said it tho', so he may have been fibbing.
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has anyone checked out his latest release? its only available of the young god records website. Hes even written songs for his kids on the new album. Yet, even the kids songs are as scary as hell.
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