Don’t really rate the new records because they just lack that space-in-between emotion of the early albums.
I know everyone has one of these stories, but I finally got my ‘I saw them with about nine other people in the venue!’ yarn from No Age. they did an Australian tour last year which seemed a bold move, but of all the cities to do two gigs in, Perth was one. me and my girlfriend walked from my house in South Fremantle, over the traffic bridge, to North Freo to a venue that had about eight metres from stage-to-bar. it was still absolutely dead. most of the crowd was the support band who were the fellas who work down my local.
Afterwards I bought a copy of Everything In Between and paid them direct to their paypal. they were really nice fellas. think we were the only actual fans there. spoke about how Colin Greenwood used to go to a heap of their shows and wear their tees but they never liked Radiohead. asked them to scribble in the book that came with the LP and left with a heap of ‘I’ve just gone vegan’ type call-to-arms.
