April 30th, 2007
DEVO playing in Dublin
Ah yes, how sweet it is. My life has taken a series of well deserved major good turns over the past while and then to top it all off I find out that DEVO are playing this summer. This is unreal. They are in my top 5 favourite bands and I had sort of resigned myself to the fact that I’d never see them. The three bands that I’d give my left nut to see would be Dead Kennedys, The Clash and Devo and although I saw the awful new Dead Kennedys it doesn’t count.
They’ve been a big influence on me and several references to DEVO pop up in my comics. That SHRIVEL UP comic in MBLEH gets it’s name from one of their songs and then there’s this:
The cwazy thing about them though is that I HATE alot of their stuff. Sweet sufferin jaysus, some of their later material is woeful. But I suppose you can only be pioneers for so long before you end up second guessing yourself. And that recent DEV0 2.0 nonsense is just callous. But I still love them dearly despite all this and can’t wait to see them live and hopefully buy a proper energy dome so I can get rid of my homemade one.
The Freak Show launch was deadly, thank you one and all to all the strangers who bought me pints. Dec’s new Freak Show bumper edition came out on the day, just delivered straight from Ivan’s which was another highlight. Looks deadly. And here, look at the cover to the Your Round comic that I contributed to, really is amazing and it will definitely stand out and do the biz.
Seeya later spuds
April 30th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Wham! My older bro was big into DEVO, just mailed him now. Yeah, Freak Show launch was slick. Bob was nowhere to be seen other than pinning two girls into a dark corner all night and escorting them back and forth to the smoking area. You greedy dog.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:31 am
Strangers bought you pints? Well i suppose some people offered to buy me some but i was TOO SOUND to take them up on their offer. Unless you count me as one of those strangers. And yeah, you couldn’t hook the Decster up with ‘anomynous hot girl’?
You’re dead to me Byrne.
May 1st, 2007 at 2:45 am
I was JUST listening to DEVO yesterday! Rats, and here I am in Australia, where the only visiting musicians are along the lines of:
1) Pink (who I figure is Billy Idol’s Downer sister)
2) Banjo Bingalong and his one man willy-wogga band
3) Slayer/Napalm Death/Overkill
Let the Devolution begin. You fucks.
May 1st, 2007 at 8:04 am
Bob I saw a full Devo costume in Tower, the one above Easons on O’Connell street
May 1st, 2007 at 8:19 am
yeh,they sell the domes aswell,in wicklow street. But they’re paper thin.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:00 am
Billy Idol’s Downer sister…..that’s a gem. Well I have to admit that Napalm Death is one of the others in my top 5, seen them 3 times and have NAP tatooed on my leg but I realised to stop there. Love them.
Paper thin energy domes? Nah my one is rock solid.Anybody guess what it is?
Yeah Dec I’m a prick, she was into you until I told her about your radical right wing politics. I’m building up my clam harem.
May 1st, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Hey, leave my radical extremist views out of it. She’d have found out eventually, but only after i got that ring on her finger and there was nothin she could do about it.
May 1st, 2007 at 1:50 pm
You were going to put your ring round her finger? That’s manky man, no wonder she opted for Bob….
On the Devo note…have you seen this? Figure you might like it…
May 1st, 2007 at 7:37 pm
your energy dome…
it wouldn’t be a christmass bell decoration thing by any chance….?
May 1st, 2007 at 11:19 pm
sad i missed the auld launch, must have been hilarious. Will be in Ireland May 10-14 but don’t know how long i’ll be in Dub-a-lub, may be Sunday night. Good news on Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh had an exhibtion in Norwich last year was great apparently.
It’s weird even though I’m a huge Pixies fan I couldn’t be arsed to stand in muddy field to see them, if they played and indoor venue it would be great, must be getting old.
May 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 am
Good stuff Klyle as always, that livejournal thing is like Betamax to me, refuse to get into it because I reckon it’ll dissapear as soon as I join.
Good man Collie, spot on, It is indeed a bell I yanked down from the ceiling in the Stephen Green Shopping Centre.
Lorcinator, there will be pints this May. I would never go to any of these open air festivals with thousands of goons around me. Wankers thinkin they’re in a Vodaphone ad. Hope they get burnt in their tents.
May 4th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
what do i win?
June 21st, 2007 at 7:54 am
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