this band has played in detroit frequently over the last few years, and i'm a little bit confused at the lack of a review. i'm sure i've listened to the record, and i'm sure i've written things about it.
i've wondered before if posts are disappearing, but why would somebody delete a review of a record? if some institution were to be removing posts, i would expect them to be political analyses, not artistic reviews.
i may have pulled back. i do that sometimes. i know i was strongly considering going back in september, but i think i decided it wouldn't really be any.....fun. i remember thinking the record was kind of haphazardly looped, although i'm not feeling that way right now.
and, i may have decided that i didn't have much to actually add to a review, or that posting about them wasn't worthwhile.
a show like this would be pretty brutal - cathartic and potentially sort of violent. it's curious to me that they keep coming back to hamtramck, as though they're looking to start a fight, and that's another angle to ponder about what they're doing. are they even aware that hamtramck is the only municipality in north america that is majority muslim? they're clearly standing for the rights of iranians, and the city is perhaps more full of porn shops and liquor stores and bars than anywhere else in metro detroit, but it's just as clear that there are people in that neighbourhood that would get very angry at them being there. it's a weird little place. do they know what they're doing, really, in repeatedly playing there?
i have a level of solidarity with what they're doing, though, even as i question if i'd enjoy it. i would definitely go see them play in the right circumstances, but it's a good distance to travel in february, and i know i wouldn't get as much out of it as i'd like, on it's own.
a show like this would be pretty brutal - cathartic and potentially sort of violent. it's curious to me that they keep coming back to hamtramck, as though they're looking to start a fight, and that's another angle to ponder about what they're doing. are they even aware that hamtramck is the only municipality in north america that is majority muslim? they're clearly standing for the rights of iranians, and the city is perhaps more full of porn shops and liquor stores and bars than anywhere else in metro detroit, but it's just as clear that there are people in that neighbourhood that would get very angry at them being there. it's a weird little place. do they know what they're doing, really, in repeatedly playing there?
i have a level of solidarity with what they're doing, though, even as i question if i'd enjoy it. i would definitely go see them play in the right circumstances, but it's a good distance to travel in february, and i know i wouldn't get as much out of it as i'd like, on it's own.
