Fela Kuti
Talking Heads
The Stones (of course)
DJ Shadow
Beastie Boys
Led Zeppelin
Harry Nelson
Miles Davies
Jimi Hendrix
Neil Young
The Chemical Brothers
Orbital
No Means No
Fugazi
Radiohead tom waits
captain beefheart
planxty
The following is taken from "The Art of Noise" review of the gig at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, (26 Oct 2007), With Max Tundra.
I guess the precedent of Rarely Seen Above Ground’s stage set-up is those arena shows where Elvis’ old band knock out the cobwebbed chops, while the spectral King phones it in from the big screen. Well, almost, if instead you had the band on screen, and Elvis on the stage, with Elvis singing from behind a drum set, and with a David Byrne kinda cadence. That’d be the precedent. Well, no, you’d also need the band on screen to be decked out not in faded crushed velvet or weary leather, but in fur-lined playground hoods, and in noir-ish yet psychedelic black and white, and you’d have to suspect that all of them were Elvis, filmed from a variety of angles.
Thinking about it now, I’ve painted a bit of a nightmarish vision there, so let’s take the sideburns and jumpsuits out of it, and just place in an unassuming Kilkenny sticksman in t-shirt and jeans. The hoods remain the same. That, you might think is the hook of Rarely Seen Above Ground, a.k.a. Jeremy Hickey, the fact that rather than just sing and crash away to a backing tape, he has a projection of the ‘band’ (as ‘twere) going throughout. Not just a half-arsed four-bodies-in-silhouette black and white image either. Instead, it’s done like a music video, albeit a particularly enigmatic one, with cuts, angles, swoops and production effects.
However, it is ultimately the distraction to the main event, and that is Hickey himself to the left of the screen, with his dexterous, inventive, gleeful drumming, and the strangled soul of his voice. It is a kind of distant, hollow vibrato that appears as though to be coming through the walls from two rooms over, but yet at the same time sharp and arresting.
hey jeremy well done on gettin to electric picnic,cant wait for the album......ummmm will i start back up lessons the week canices start back up with the music program?
01. Susanna & The Magical Orchestra – Believer 02. Colleen – Sun Against My Eyes 03. Ranger 3 – Sense Of Direction 04. Chequerboard - Skating Couple 05. Mad Theory - Numbers 06. Mice Parade – Double Dolphins On The Nickel 07. Cane 141 – Disco Toys (Heftord Remix) 08. Somadrone – Our Ears Were Like Canyons 09. Boxcutter – Bloscid 10 Sarsparilla – Gigi Go Deas 11. Murcof – Rios 12. Hannu – Sumu 13. L. Pierre – Weirs Way 14. Songs Of Green Pheasant – Fires PGR 15. Enrico Coniglio & Elisa Marzorati - Foliage
ah m'lad i love the songs, sounds great, seems like theres a great buzz around the rsag camp. if you get a chance we're playing this sunday in cleeres, first time in nearly two years to play, should be rocking.
