I have wandered over to Chapel Hill (a map showing dirty D and Chapel Hill can be found here) a few times now. Most of it to catch some music, but food is sometimes involved but there have been complaints so I am going to try some posts without mentioning it. It is pretty well renowned for music, Ben Folds, James Taylor and Floyd of Pink Floyd fame too. Other residents of note are Michael Jordan and presidential candidate John Edwards. All the action takes place on Franklin St. Which has loads of bars restaurants and shops on. Also the UNC campus backs on to it. All in all it is a really nice place, even if it has a shop in it that Ryan dubbed 'Murder Mart', it is America after all.
We caught a local Chapel Hill band called 'the Never' (also on Myspace). Once I had got over the pretension of them, they were actually pretty good. Reasons for being pretentious: All wearing red carnations (could have got away with it if they all dressed the same), had a string/brass section but used them really poorly (i.e. all you could hear were the guitars) and also had a mandolin (or as I put it 'is that guy playing a bloody lute? he bloody well is', I was soon corrected). The mandolin was made up for, as the guy who was playing was 'face melting' (this is Ryan's term for the facial expression as pulled by 'heavy metal'/'stadium rock' guitarists circa 1984) during his solos. I do actually recommend you check em out because they could be huge and they do play nice indie pop.
Also a cool radio station KEXP if Y'all get bored of UK radio.
PS. Notice how short this post is because of no food related items.... you know who you are.
We caught a local Chapel Hill band called 'the Never' (also on Myspace). Once I had got over the pretension of them, they were actually pretty good. Reasons for being pretentious: All wearing red carnations (could have got away with it if they all dressed the same), had a string/brass section but used them really poorly (i.e. all you could hear were the guitars) and also had a mandolin (or as I put it 'is that guy playing a bloody lute? he bloody well is', I was soon corrected). The mandolin was made up for, as the guy who was playing was 'face melting' (this is Ryan's term for the facial expression as pulled by 'heavy metal'/'stadium rock' guitarists circa 1984) during his solos. I do actually recommend you check em out because they could be huge and they do play nice indie pop.
Also a cool radio station KEXP if Y'all get bored of UK radio.
PS. Notice how short this post is because of no food related items.... you know who you are.
3 comments:
I always thought that a heavy metal guitarist's solo face was called a 'spunk gurn' for obvious reasons.
You may have heard, but most of Sheffield is under about 3 feet of water at the minute.
face melting is just a nicer way of putting it.
yeah I saw it on the news here.
'face melting' has nothing to do with the facial expression of the instrument operator. it has everything to do with what happens to the faces of the listeners. when the instrument operator rips it up so hard, the flesh on the face is compromised by extreme sonicity. face melting is not to be confused with "gut melting" or the induction of urges to vomit, though. feeling the need to vomit from burly music typically is a result of exposure to mid-ranged frequencies and mind shattering rhythm as opposed to the higher pitched slayings from jedi guitarists. mandolin face melters are an extremely rare breed, and thus the reason my face is still hurting a week after mandolin face melting exposure. drummers have been known to both face melt and induce vomiting, and for this they are kings of kings. the bass player and the drummer (good lord) of wild sweet orange were totally face melting everyone during their show last wednesday. FYI: whenever you see a bassist who plays with no pick (which is proper bass playing) and is barefooted, start protecting your face. --ryan
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