Music: Shooglenifty. GO!

[jbsegal]

You have 8 more chances to see Shooglenifty (www.shoogle.com ) on their US tour. (that's followed by 4 chances to see them in Mexico...)

GO! Buy your tickets now. GO TO THESE SHOWS.

By the way, I mean it.

There are at least 2 of you near Mpls. There are some of you in NYC.

Some of you have family in Chicago you could pretend to visit.

GO! Really.

Holy fuck, was that amazing!

USA

NY * Satalla 5
PA * Sellersville Theater 6
WI * Shank Hall, Milwaukee 10
IA * CSPS, Cedar Rapids 11
IL * Hot House, Chicago 12
WI * Harmony, Madison (WORT) 13
MN * Cedar Cultural, Minneapolis 14
IN * Second Story, Bloomington 17

Comments

[boymeat.livejournal.com]

Who are they?

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

As it says on www.shoogle.com :
Hm...it doesn't say, does it?
Hm.

Well, as others have said elsewhere:
They self-describe as "hypnofolkadelic trad acid croft" music; in other words, take a Scottish ballad, have Jimi Hendrix play it backwards, add in Satan playing the fiddle from "Devil went down to Georgia," and have Underworld cast a skeptical eyeball at it. Rakish and whimsical, avant-garde but not inaccessible, falling somewhere between "alternative"
and "rock" on the celtic scale...well, they just can't be pigeonholed. I, personally, have been waiting to see them for the last nine years or so, and I dearly hope they live up to their albums.

Bass, Drums, Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, and a metric ton of kick-ass.

[mangosteen]

Really? I found random music by them in the past few days and it sounded, um, kind of limp. Maybe they have the "can't be duplicated in the studio" curse.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Well, the clips I was able to find on amazon - from an album I have and know what it sounds like sounded NOTHING like the album I have...

So I'm not sure what you were hearing, but it may not sound at all representative. (and I've not actually heard their studio albums yet (ok, I have, but during massage, where they sounded really good, but I'm very suggestable then...:), but their live album is faboo and the show, well, the show was amazing.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

I'm *really* bummed to have missed it, and to have missed seeing you in your happy-music-radiance mood. If we win the lottery, we'll fly to all the US shows :)

-off to go buy you a lottery ticket with pennies from the change jar-

*hugs*

Love you.