The Hidden Cameras "The Smell Of Our Own" - C/D

But It Is Great And Amazing.

Why? Cos they're playing at Neighbourhood tonight as part of Rough Trade's 25th birthday shenanigans, is why. Adam Green and Fiery Furnaces playing too.

Anyone going? Mini-FAPette, anyone? Ah c'mon!

Oh! But who was that on guitar? We spent half the gig going, "Is that reall him?", and so it was - Bernard butler indeed.

I envision a future where Jim Steinman produces the Hidden Cameras and creates the greatest music on the planet.

i have the same experience with butler but only when i see him in the local budgens.

Supermarkets have musicians now? Wooo-ooow. Tescodisco, Mary-Ann Hobbs's Sainsbury's-Block, Safeway To Blue is it?

Sorry.

And Joel Gibb is tres fuckable.

(Arcade Fire came on after and someone yelled, "Gayer than the Hidden Cameras!")

the man that i am w/ my man

It's kind of wild to me that Morbs was at that show! Pre-fame Sufjan was there too, and all three members of Le Tigre

I had a weird nostalgia spiral this morning after a friend sent me a link to "Golden Streams" and the entire two golden years of this band all came flooding back. Joel really wrote 20 of the best songs I've ever heard, put together one of the best bands/experiences I've ever seen. At their peak, there were 15 musicians onstage, a choir of volunteers, lyrics projected on the back wall, yellow streamers coming down for "Golden Streams", the band "died" at the end of "Animals Of Prey", the band wore blindfolds for "Smells Like Happiness", there was an icon for every song. 1100 paid attendees before the band had management or label or publicist, Joel literally was handing out hand-made invitations at every art opening in the city. Every show had a theme, the flier for the "Boys Of Melody" show was a ghost with an erection, the flier for the "Bread And Shit" show was a piece of bread with a shit-stain on it. It was a magical time.

Following up that post from two years ago with video! Apparently there is a film coming out later this year and Joel has posted “Golden Streams” from that show I described above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAbG7WdEbqo

What is extra-charming to me about this is that the front row of musicians is me and four of my actual closest closest present-day friends (Mike Olsen on cello, Joel singing, Maggie MacDonald on glock, Reg/Regina on bg vox). It was a good time but it’s alarming to see how emancipated I was at age 24 (I was broker than broke that year, subsisting on canned beans, didn’t get a proper job til that fall)

*emaciated, that is