It's Goodnight From Me

Quite frankly, I would have thought less of RTD if he hadn’t made that Two Ranis gag.

“We’ve got the bangers now, but they’ll be followed by the bummers”

Of course, the problem with that is that even the Los Campesinos! bangers are…in fact bummers. I cherish with fondness the day (before) I met you and all that I can read is you’re the B-side! after all.

But still, always a treasure. Blowing the doors on a smallish indie venue on a Friday night in Columbus, Ohio as if they were on their first overseas tour, not nineteen years in. And I still don’t know why they come to Ohio on every tour (they even referenced the fact, but Gareth didn’t really delve into it except maybe it’s to piss Minnesota off), but I’m glad they do.

(If Saint Etienne were the band that presented a cool, modernist Ideal For Living and how you wanted to present yourself in the world, LC! are the band that is more who you are. Sure, you get the B.S. Johnson references, but also I think we need more post-coital and less post-rock)

Also: so many families there! Not just us, but a whole brace of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, or a mix and match. Never seen that at an LC! concert before…

Oh, and if you were the guy in the Agora Cleveland t-shirt that leered over a bunch of people on your way down to the front, making an entire section of the first four rows incredibly uncomfortable for the second half of the show: we all hope that somehow you picked up a nasty boil on the way home and it just slowly grows year after year. Never life-threatening, just enough pain to make you wince every day…