ALL THE LINKS ARE BACK ONLINE, INCLUDING THE LONG GONE ONES TO TRIGGERFINGER (Parkpop - 2009), THE HIVES (Coachella - 2012) AND MONOTONIX (Bottletree Café - 2011) ! ENJOY !! :-)
Monday, February 19, 2024
Sunday, February 18, 2024
DILLY DALLY - "Befeathered" - Lee's Palace - Toronto - 27-05-23
5 - Witch Man
6 - Green
7 - Believe
8 - Sorry Ur Mad
9 - Marijuana
10 - Morning Light
11 - Gender Role
12 - Snake Head
13 - Ice Cream
14 - I Feel Free
15 - Sober Motel
16 - The Touch
17 - Desire
Encore 1:
18 - Next Gold
19 - Bad Biology
20 - Purple Rage
Encore 2:
21 - Heaven
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 90 mns
Size : 15,7 Go
So, here we are again. New stuff, new shape. To be honest, I wasn't quite sure to get down to this ever again. Who cares anyway ? Everything is on YouTube now (and that's just fine, particularly with what lies in this one !). My almost 3-year truancy may also come from the fact I still spend (too ?) much time down the pit (see above). Better living it than making up for it I guess. Yet, people seem to crave for "touching the thing" again. Vinyl records reached an unexpected 45 % of physical music media sales here last year. It was 1 % ten years ago ! Time to author again then ? Hum ...
Actually, another thing kept me away from here. As mentioned before, what is a 720x560 dvd video worth compared to a 2560x1440 youtube cell-phone footage ? If I wanted to keep in touch with all this I needed to find an HD authoring soft to make the grade. Burning blurays seemed to be the awkward alternative then. Again, nobody cares anymore and so do the manufacturers. That kind of standalone softs no longer really exist, they have been bundled up into bigger video editing packages, just as cosmetic add-ons, with fewer functionalities.
After countless hours spent searching, I finally managed to get my hands on an old one. Then, I had to "tame the beast" ! I didn't start from scratch but the approach was quite different and getting familiar with the whole layout and firepower did sometimes make me sweat ! I eventually made my way through. One last hurdle was looming ahead. The rendering (shivers down the spine typing this) ! I'd had some looooong encoding experience with dvds, I expected a kind of act of glory with hd blu-rays ! I didn't get disappointed. I let the machine run the whole night for the first try. Waking time, feeling still clouded I headed to the computer, turned the screen on again and ... done : 6 %, remaining time : 102 hrs !! Ahaaaaaaaaaa !!!! Alright, I'm done with it. Really a shame to have spent so much time to something of no use.
Two days later, I still felt frustrated and decided to give it a second chance. Scouring forums again, I discovered that it would be better to demux video and audio and that there's a possibility not to make the soft render both files if I managed to turn them into bluray compatible formats. After multiple attempts with no avail I finally got the two green ticks opposite my files, quality untouched !! Yeaaaah !! Back to the fearful overnight rendering ! I felt a bit edgy when switching the screen on the next day. But ... done : 74 %, remaining time : 6 hrs ! This was much better ! All in all, my first 16 Go bluray was rendered in thirteen hours, which is somehow unexpected considering my 10+ year old setup !
Now, of course, talking about the band who made me feel going back to business ... As it often happened before, ... the opportunity made the thief ! On a blue Monday, I came across the sad news : Dilly Dally are quitting ! A real blue day indeed ! I've never got to see them live. I somehow planned to go and see them in Germany at some point but the pandemic screwed the whole thing up. So eventually, the two farewell shows were of course to be held in their hometown, Toronto. No possible way for me to get there. Sometimes being a huge fan is not enough. I could only hope that some guys from the lucky audience could post some footage to let me live the thing from afar. This is from there I need to send a so grateful shout-out to "ConcertJunkiex" and "Josh Cornell" !!! Thank You so much guys !! You made my day and managed to make me taste the special flavour of this night ! More, altogether you put on the whole experience of the show giving us the entirety of the set, 21 songs !! Amazing !! This was more than I expected and I tried to get the best of both worlds by doing some multicam stuff on "Marijuana", "Next Gold", "Bad Biology" and "Purple Rage".
So, this is where this back to authoring business all started from. Got to do something to pay homage and make it up for not being there that very night ! I have always loved Dilly Dally for drowning us into a loud grungy pool of molten tar until the aery sound of Liz's guitar hovers around to pull us up from asphyxia. Katie / Enda's silk sandpapered voice is also a distinctive touch of the band that just keeps you float, eyes wide open, in their limbo. This humble tribute also gave me the opportunity to rediscover some songs I shamefully overlooked at the time, like "Bad Biology" (I used for the second menu) for example which perfectly illustrates the atmosphere described above. Additionally, I tried to use the artwork of their two albums to fiddle with a kind of broad thematic design for the whole thing. Well, at least, I tried ... don't know. Anyway, Dilly Dally are breaking up, this is sad news but on the bright side, they're still friends, which leaves the doors open for a possible future reunion, fingers crossed. "Who knows ?" Just hope that day I won't be going mad with an exasperating video editing bench but going mad down the pit for, really, what it is meant to be !
Thank you so much for being around Dilly Dally ! Wish you all the best for your future individual journeys !
Enjoy !
Cheers !
Chac
Friday, April 23, 2021
EIFFEL - "Who Else ... Anyway ?" - DVD X 2 - Trabendo Session - Paris - 18-02-07 - La Nef - Angoulême - 24-11-09
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 58 mns + 60 mns
Cheers !
Chacaux
Saturday, December 26, 2020
02 - Kid Kapichi - Glitterati - First On Stage - Homeschoolfest - 10-05-20
03 - Saint Agnes - This World Ain't Big Enough - BadPond Festival - Brighton - 19-12-20
04 - Healthy Junkies - Mayday (with Frog) - Punk and Roll Rendez-Vous Festival - The Unicorn - London - 12-09-20
05 - Birdeatsbaby - The World Conspires - Punk and Roll Rendez-Vous Festival - 13-09-20
07 - Pollypikpocketz - Waving The World Goodbye - Punk and Roll Rendez-Vous Festival - The Unicorn - London - 13-09-20
08 - Yard Act - Human Sacrifice - Hype Stage - Homeschoolfest - 10-05-20
09 - Do Nothing - Gangs - Hype Stage - Homeschoolfest - 09-05-20
10 - Tiffany Twisted - Sold My Soul - BooTV - The Engine Rooms - London - 24-10-20
11 - The White Ribbons - Same Old Mistakes - Punk and Roll Rendez-Vous Festival - 13-09-20
12 - A Void - She Threw Her Baby From The 7th Floor - Punk and Roll Rendez-Vous Festival - The Unicorn - London - 12-09-20
13 - Bexatron - Hex Your Ex - Punk and Roll Rendez-Vous Festival - The Comedy - London - 13-09-20
14 - Wargasm - Post Modern Rhapsody - Alt Stage - Homeschoolfest - 09-05-20
15 - Beach Riot - Tune in, Drop Out - First On Stage - Homeschoolfest - 10-05-20
16 - Gaffa Tape Sandy - Meat Head - The Smokehouse Presents - Ipswich - 11-12-20
17 - 45AcidBabies - Jetlag Jenny -The Sessions - Effenaar - Eindhoven- 22-11-20
18 - Bongloard - I Want It Now - HipFest - YMCA -Scheveningen - 22-11-20
19 - FFOOSS - Slayer - dBs Studio - Utrecht - 17-05-20
21 - Pollypikpocketz - Amnesia - Punk and Roll Rendez-Vous Festival.- The Unicorn - London - 13-09-20
Technical info :
DVD Full Pro-shot
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 87 mns
Size : 4,06 Go
Personal highlights of the year ? : FFOOSS, a young fuzzy garage-trash-pop duo from Utrecht whose livestream really gave me hard time to edit as it was totally out of synch and virtually unwatchable. The image is still a bit blurry (initial low encoding I guess) but picture and sound fit much better now (if not perfect) and the energy shown by Sophia (guitar and singing) and Jannes (drums) is just infectious ! A band that definitely deserves to be followed in the next months and hopefully to be watched live with the coming release of their second album, "Millenium Friction". These two young guys are really talented as Jannes played guitar (!) in his own band, Bongloard (also on this dvd) while Sophia also leads her own group under the name of "45AcidBabies" whose first album was just on repeat at home throughout 2019 (and of course duly featured on this dvd as well) !
Second personal favourite on the bill : Birdeatsbaby, a music truly apart made of thunder and whispers, dark, complex with intertwined breaks and layers. Song making must take ages ! A kind of Muse meeting Kate Bush meeting Marilyn Manson meeting Nine Inch Nails meeting Rachmaninov. Mishkin's voice is just fantastic !! Seven albums since 2008 with huge critical acclaim coming along the last one,"The World Conspires". As many solo albums from Mishkin. Two live lps. A band close to their fans who are close to the band. Maybe not everyone's taste but definitely highly respectable and worthy of devotion due to the richness of their world. Can't understand this band isn't more widely praised.
Third, fancy a side kick of punk rock ? Pollypikpocketz is your man. First sight, first reaction : how can you possibly have an odder mixture of styles ?? But hell, it damn works !!!! Myura's Gwen-Stefani-like clear singing suits perfectly legendary Frog's Hugh Cornwell-like deep voice. The guy can't be missed in his perpetual fluorescent outfit and flashy yellow-dyed hair ! And he just has ants in his pants on stage while his hairy-moustached-always-sunglassed fellow Kiki shreds some 70s vibes riffs. Quite an unexpected line-up but the living proof that bringing different cultures together makes you better ! A true punk rocking machine !
At last, I couldn't miss to feature one of my best live memories of 2019 (the old world) : Saint Agnes. It was a close thing, as they hadn't played live since Valentine's day up to this last December 19th. I managed to cram one of their songs played on that occasion at the last minute.
A "quick" overview of what's "inside" can be watched below (the out of synch seems to grow a bit by the end of the video but I couldn't fix it - it's not the case on the dvd ! - ... and I've just got enough ! ;-) )
Don't know what's gonna come next here as the whole thing always take more time and work than expected but I hope it will definitely be inspired by some kind of experience ... OUTSIDE !!
Keep safe, keep rocking, guys !!
Enjoy !
Cheers
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Stéréolux - Nantes - 11-10-19
17 - L'Horizon
DVD Full Pro-shot + Audience shot
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 86 mns
Size : 3,99 Go
Roaming the local club scene as soon as 1989. the band started playing under the name of Dolly Bird, then Dolly and Co. In 1995, they turned to a flat Dolly moniker and played extensively until 2005, when their career sadly came to an end with the tragic departure of their bass player, Mika. Manu, lead singer, couldn't really get over the passing before 2008 when she released her first solo album, "Rendez-Vous" with its beautiful and moving self-titled song in tribute to their gone beloved friend. Nikko, Dolly's lead guitar, was still there. He now plays with another too often underrated band, Eiffel.
Anyway, all my gratitude goes here to Kevin and Alexandra Chamberlin who shared online some rare footage of Kevin's dad and friends. Without them, little would have survived of Dolly's high-energy live heritage. What I've done here is just paying a humble tribute to a band I probably overlooked too much at the time. Other priorites, I guess. Other priorities, never you should have ! :-) I tried to brighten up the time-faded colours, to sharpen the edges here and there, ... Well, in times of high-resolution standards, it's far from being 4k but I hope this is a fair rekindled legacy of what Dolly could truly deliver on stage. The band had only released their first album at the time and the live rendering and the feedback from the audience are wow !!, already full of promises. Particularly regarding the day, the very hour, the set took place, when the "whole" country was glued to their TV set, watching our national football team struggling its way to the world cup semi-final. Manu is referring to it several times during the show. On the performance ground, Dolly 's music is some kind of stormy weather. Infuriated electric thunder followed by a sweet sunny spell. Swirled in the midst of the hurricane, Manu's delicate voice seems to be the only light you can hold on to. She brings that sweet touch that makes the whole stand out. Sweet grunge ? Grungy sweetness ? Pick your temper. More, there is also some kind of Cobain-like moves in her playing.
On a side note, I've just realised I'm releasing this Eurockéennes show dvd the very day the festival decides to cancel its 2020 edition. "These are dark times, there is no denying ..."
Cheers
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
CHEMTRAILS
Video : Mpeg - 720 X 576 - 25 FPS - 16:9
Audio : Mpeg - 48000 Hz
Running Time : 85 mns
Hi folks ! It's been a while ! But back at last ... almost in the same circumstances as those of the last post ... a year ago !! As I've already said, my editing stuff has become erratic as I'm first not a professional editor and it really takes time and fu***** goddamned impenetrable glitches to get over to reach the idea in mind ! And second, I now rather spend my free time on the spot in a moshpit than being glued in front of a screen. But, well ... obviously, I got caught again !