[Nuit Blanche]

hey people,
some pics of the latest stuff i found to keep me busy, asides my current work : the 'Nuit Blanche' of this Oct 4th.
I was proposed to take part to a small performance, strange happening which melted electronic music, a real choir (the guys in the windows, called 'White Spirit Band'), light animation and video projections.
My rôle was to make a video there, and that is what it gave : lots of people, who seemed to like it...

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A short break for the Architecture Biennale in Bordeaux,
+ a few craps, music rolls on...

wish you fun under the sun, people!

Top 5 - It's all about the music 2007

Year's end is coming, what does this mean for us? Yeah right! Time for top-5-lists!
I'll make a start, feel free to edit and complete it (once again the reminder: sign in by using the address: becauseiamguest@gmail.com, password: becauseweare).
Actually, I am not too sure about a lot myself...

[Edit: oh this was hard. I guess I'll modify everything again soon.... haha]

Here we go!

Top 5 bands:

marie (spr):

1. The Arcade Fire
2. Pulp
3. Two Gallants
4. The New Pornographers
5. Malajube

michau (usual):

1. Architecture in Helsinki
2. The Knife
3. Tunng
4. Klaxons, Cansei de Ser Sexy, New Young Pony Club, Justice, MSTRKRFT, Outlines
5. Stateless
6. Xploding plastiX
7. Kashmir
8. Hermigervill
9. True Live
10. Boards of Canada

sorry, couldn't not mention any on these bands.

peter (rude):

1. The National
2. Arcade Fire
3. Elbow
4. Great Lake Swimmers
5. Kashmir

max:

1. The Mothers of Invention
2. Odean Pope Trio
3. Sublime
4. Diamanda Galas
5. The Organ

Top 5 solo:

marie (spr):

1. M. Ward
2. Bob Dylan
3. Feist
4. The Divine Comedy
5. Frida Hyvönen

michau (usual):

1. Jens Lekman, Roísín Murphy
2. Iain Archer
3. Rufus Wainwright
4. Ben Westbeech
5. Michael Ward, Patrick Watson

peter (rude):

1. Jens Friebe
2. Rufus Wainwright
3. Jens Lekman
4. Maximilian Hecker
5. Pelle Carlberg

Top 5 posthumous:

marie (spr):

1. The Beatles
2. Elliott Smith
3. Frédéric Chopin
4. Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht (Dreigroschenoper)
5. Georges Brassens

Top 5 albums:

marie (spr):

1. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2. Two Gallants - The Scenery of Farewell (ok, this was an ep)
3. Justice - †
4. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
5. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

noncompetitive: Evil Kangaroo - Agent Hello In Goodbye's Sober Day :]

michau (usual):

1. Architecture in Helsinki - Fingers Crossed
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. Justice - †
4. Tunng - Good Arrows
5. Stateless - Stateless

peter (rude):

1. Radiohead - In the Rainbows
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. The National - The Boxer
4. Broken Social Scene presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If
5. Seabear - The Ghost that Carried Us Away

jani:

1. (shared) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
1. (shared) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
3. The National - Boxer
4. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
5. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Top 5 songs:

marie (spr):

1. The Arcade Fire - My body is a cage
2. Polarkreis 18 - Crystal Lake
3. Get Well Soon - If this hat is missing I have gone hunting
4. Kukka - Chabom (no idea when it's from, let's say from 2007...)
5. Duke Special - Our love goes deeper than that

michau (usual):

1. Jens Lekman - The Cold Swedish Winter
2. The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Heart
3. Stateless - Bloodstream
4. Klaxons - The Bouncer
5. The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home f. Patrick Watson
5. Tunng - Soup
5. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Wirlwind (Hot Chip remix)

jani:

1. Spoon - The Underdog
2. Panda Bear - Bros
3. The National - Fake Empire
4. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
5. Cosmobile - On My Way

Top 5 loved songs:

marie (spr):

1. Justice vs. Simian - Because We Are Your Friends
2. M. Ward - Right in the head
3. Pulp - Like a friend
4. Two Gallants - Steady Rollin'
5. New Order - 1963

michau (usual):

1. Justice vs. Simian - Because We Are Your Friends
2. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Wirlwind (Hot Chip remix)
3. Jens Lekman - The Cold Swedish Winter
4. Kashmir - Kalifornia
5. Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone

Top 5 live concerts:

marie (spr):

1. Two Gallants, Dec 15, Postbahnhof (Berlin)
2. The Decemberists, Sept 30, Postbahnhof (Berlin)
3. Risto, May 9, Vanhan Kirjastotalon Puisto (Tampere)- yeah really this was such a nice atmosphere!
4. Jan Delay, July 14, Melt! Festival (Ferropolis)
5. Art Brut, June 25, Maison de Radio France (Paris)

noncompetitive: Immergut Festival, June 1/2, Neustrelitz

michau (usual):

1. Architecture in Helsinki, 18th August, Mysłowice, Off-festival.
2. Genesis, 21st June, Katowice.
3. Klaxons, 11 November, Postbahnhof, Berlin.
4. Dick4Dick, 18th August, Mysłowice, Off-festival.
5. Leszek Możdżer, November, Łodź.

jani:

1. The Hold Steady, June 30 @ Accelerator The Big One, Stockholm
2. Dan Deacon, 22 August @ Klubi, Tampere
3. The Arcade Fire, 23 March @ Cirkus, Stockholm
4. Deerhoof (w/ Cosmobile), 10 July @ Redrum, Helsinki
5. The Flaming Lips, 6 July @ Ruisrock, Turku

noncompetitive: Immergut Festival, June 1/2, Neustrelitz

Top 5 why-on-earth-haven't-i-been-to-the-concert-concerts:

marie (spr):

1. The New Pornographers, Oct 2, Mudd Club (Berlin)
2. Rufus Wainwright, Oct 5, Volksbühne (Berlin)
3. Daft Punk, June 30, Velodrom (Berlin)
4. Simian Mobile Disco, July 14, Melt! Festival (Ferropolis)
5. Wiidakko, Oct 17, Klubi (Tampere) :)

jani:

1. Feist, 2 October @ Cirkus, Stockholm
2. Daft Punk, sometime @ somewhere

Top 5 concert venues:

marie (spr):

1. Immergut Festival, Neustrelitz
2. Postbahnhof, Berlin (have hardly been anywhere else in Berlin this year although I would have liked to see Lido)
3. Yo-Talo, Tampere
4. Maison de Radio France, Paris
5. Vanhan Kirjastotalon Puisto, Tampere (yes I really liked this ONE concert I've seen there)

jani:

1. Immergut Festival, Neustrelitz
2. Accelerator Festival, Stockholms Universitet
3. Fabryka Trzciny, Warszawa ("where's the vip-room!")
4. Cirkus, Stockholm

Top festival:

marie (spr):

Immergut Festival! but the Melt! festival is almost keeping up with it.

Top 5 Finland:

marie (spr):

1. Justice vs. Simian - Because we are your friends
2. The Fratellis - Whistle for the choir
3. Rauli Badding Somerjoki - Tähdet Tähdet
4. Paavoharju - Musta Katu
5. Scissor Sisters: I don't feel like dancing

Top 5 tops:

marie (spr):

1. Top skill brought to perfection: rushing to the bathroom between two songs during a concert
2. Top alternative festival drink: Jaloviina (beurks)
3. Top amazing additional live instruments: accordion (could hardly decide between accordion and harmonica...)
4. Top toy: last.fm software
5. Top secret favourite song: Mika - Grace Kelly
5. Top secret favourite song: Anita Ward - Ring My Bell

michau (usual):

1. Top skill brought to perfection: organising exhibitions and vernissages
2. Top shirt provider: Threadless.com
3. Top city: Copenhagen
4. Top toy: last.fm software
5. Top secret favourite song: Anita Ward - Ring My Bell

jani:

1. Top toy: Guitar Hero, last.fm software
2. Top dead Swedish guy: Ingmar Bergman
3. Top controversial concert venue: Redrum, Helsinki (perfect sound but no vision unless standing in the first row)
4. Top new indie club in Krakow: B-Side, Pl. Nowy (the competition in this category was very tough. NOT!)
5. Top secret favourite song: Ace Of Base: The Sign

we are happy land fill

underground rehearsal and strawberry-bloodspill in our favourite Café cellar;
and some midnight noise and dance on the bridges of tha beautifool Paris;

(excuse the foggy pixels, i came back to use this lousy camera you know)

in an abstract parallel, we move towards a blurred horizon in a foggy school system ruled by gangstas (a kind of mob crew who kicks us out of the building every evening), whereas work is falling like rain (some courses appear in one day, very surprising)...
that is why, i finally don't think i'll be able to join this New Year gathering that is so warmly proposed, it'll be for sure a white christmas ;]

hugs to everyone!

radiohead is radiohead is radiohead & independent

Radiohead's 'In the Rainbow' for a price you say.

I never was a Radiohead fan, but the idea is great and the album really 'Spitze'. Therefore I payed of course!

3 days Off

So, we in Poland have festivals as well ;) This one was quite cool as you can see below. It's not the biggest one, cause it's not meant to be such, even though it was impossible to see all the bands and events (industrial art + streetart + architecture as planned). But for us it was possible to see as much as we could from the first row - thanks to Macias who "organised" photopasses.

Funny thing was, that we had there 2 reunions - first finnish one - Michal, Maciek, Ania and me first time altogether after Suomi. And the second one was last.fm reunion, cause Ida, Ania, Maciek, Wojtek and Michals are scrobbling high!

So scroll, scroll people!



Organiser and frontman of Myslovitz. Some of you have heard of this band ;)

electricMia of Electrelane. She had power, so one of us proposed to her.


Kasia Nosowska is a legend!
But we've been playing frisbee ;)

Bassisters Orchestra made jazz'n'rap + hot version of Because we are! And that was high!
I've got a clip for curious ones.


Architecture! Just check what does SZAŁ mean. I cannot translate my feelings. Sorry.


Dick4dick. Performance. Dicks were dancing, shouting, climbing and exploding.

Ścianka, they are taking lsd. Seriously.

Music Makes Happy

Heho.
A good evening with nice guests here in Dresden just passed. Fortunately a school friend was able to sponsor free tickets for the RHCP show tonite. We had a lot of partys in our home town together and, well, she made it to her profession and works for a concert agency now.
Ági and me just went there and enjoyed a short 1h 30min concert of the I don't wanna talk Mr Kiedis and his mates. Lucky man who's not being a real fan and payed € 65.-

Red Hot Chili Peppers

PS. This picasa album tool is not that beautiful, is it?