{"id":2964,"date":"2006-10-22T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2017-01-19T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:42:58","slug":"ladytron-comes-to-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2006\/10\/22\/ladytron-comes-to-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladytron comes to Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sadly, I don\u2019t have any pictures due to the shortcomings of my digital camera. I can\u2019t emphasize the importance of an optical zoom if you buy one or you&#8217;re looking into your next one. Despite the lack of good photos, the Ladytron concert was quite good. The opener was some guitar-heavy act from Brazil with CSS in their name. They weren\u2019t awful, they were quite memorable since they made me think of what Sleater-Kinney could be if they took some tips from Puffy AmiYumi across the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ladytron definitely didn\u2019t disappoint. They took advantage of the outdoor awning on the outdoor stage of Stubb\u2019s with a projection system showing lava-lamp-like movies to match the mood of their songs. I especially enjoyed their use of it when they hit the stage during the opening song \u201cHigh Rise\u201d (hopefully my concert conspirator Mark will correct this if I\u2019m wrong), it was a red screen with white letters showing up saying \u201cHello Austin.\u201d Okay, it seems impersonal but this is an Electronica\/Pop band so it\u2019s more in the nature of the music\u2019s genre. I was really impressed with Helen Marnie\u2019s vocals because Electronic bands either succeed live or fail miserably due to the heavy technical aspects of their sound. There was some modification on her voice yet I could clearly hear her actually singing. They did the bulk of everyone\u2019s favorites, or at least what I knew, \u201cEvil,\u201d \u201cPlaygirl,\u201d \u201cBlue Jeans\u201d and \u201cThe Last One Standing\u201d amongst many. They didn\u2019t do \u201cThe Way That I Found You,\u201d yet they saved \u201cDestroy Everything You Touch\u201d for the encore after a Shocking Blue cover (yes, the band that originally did \u201cVenus\u201d that Bananarama covered in the Eighties).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know Ladytron isn\u2019t everyone\u2019s cup of tea. I do recommend their albums, especially the current one\u00a0<em>Witching Hour<\/em>. They are mandatory for fans of Kraftwerk, Epoxies, early Berlin, later Underworld and the one they remind me of the most, Propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, I don\u2019t have any pictures due to the shortcomings of my digital camera. I can\u2019t emphasize the importance of an optical zoom if you buy one or you&#8217;re looking into your next one. Despite the lack of good photos, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2006\/10\/22\/ladytron-comes-to-austin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18710,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/18710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}