Cloud Nothings - 5 February 2013, Ding Dong Lounge

As promised, here's Cloud Nothing's Melbourne sideshow. The show was a bit of a letdown in that as soon as the band left the stage the venue's DJ started to play. The guys at the sounddesk were waving at him furiously to get him to stop playing so the band could do their encore, but by the time he got the message 80% of the crowd had left. What they did play was hit and miss, some really great stuff (Cut You is a great song), but a few that didn't sound so great (Fall In). Part of the problem was the volume of the show, plus the fact his voice was pretty rough initially). So overall, only an average show, but here it is for those that want it.

Fall In
Seperation
Cut You
Stay Useless
Wasted Days
No Sentiment
Unknown new song
Our Plans
No Future/No Past

https://mega.co.nz/#F!8R1h2KYZ!IWwA2HjfqY0QPaSmBrDwcg

Violent Soho - 5 February 2013, Ding Dong Loung

I've got a few oldish recordings that I'll try to put up when I get a chance. This is Violent Soho's set opening for Cloud Nothings' Laneways sideshow. I don't know too much about these guys, but their set was pretty good. The trap for a band like this is every song sounding the same, but they seem to be mixing things up a bit.

The band was phenomenally loud, I'd set the recording levels pretty low, but there is still a bit of ocassional distortion, nothing too bad though. I've also got Cloud Nothings set (ruined by the venue's DJ), I'll put that up when I get a chance.

http://www.mediafire.com/?akrxb3mar7wiq

Mark Lanegan - 6 July 2012, Ding Dong Lounge

I'm a bit of a Screaming Trees fan from back in the day, but when Mark Lanegan played here early this year I couldn't justify spending $80 to see him.  So when a solo show to reopen the 300 person capacity Ding Dong Lounge was announced for just $50 I jumped at it.

My only worry with this show was that in my experience acoustic shows from normally non-acoustic performers are often great for the hardcore fan, but a bit of a bore for the casual fan.  This show didn't fall into that trap, in part because the star of any Mark Lanegan show will be his voice, and the acoustic setting only helped that.  On the negative side, the crowd was a bit weird.  Early on people in the crowd simply shhhh-ed the talkers, but eventually they gave up.  Because its fairly constant I found it easy enough to ignore when listening to this.  There is one exception to this - the woman (I got the impression she was a very past it groupie) who talked incredibly loudly.  Fortunately her comments are so stupid they actually add a bit of humour to the show.

Lastly, I noticed on a relisten that the set is very slightly different to that on the setlist.  This means that the labels for Phantasmagoria Blues and Gray Goes Black need to be swapped (the order below is correct).  I couldn't be bothered sorting it out myself.

When Your Number Isn't Up
One Way Street
No Easy Action/Miracle
Don't Forget Me
Where the Twain Shall Meet
Low
Gravedigger's Song
Gray Goes Black
Phantasmagoria Blues
St Louis Elegy
The River Rise
One Hundred Days
Hit the City
On Jesus' Program

Field Song
Traveller
Bombed
Wild Flowers
Halo of Ashes
http://www.mediafire.com/?fxq7470bsgg8i