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of their daytime show at Ven festival and they were making this big racket fromthe middle of the hall and I thought it sounded pretty interesing so went to see their acoustic show in the evening. Was so insultingly bad. One guy was was dribblig beer on to a mic'd up hotplate and looking really pleased with himself while another guy was blowing a bit of ripped plastic bag.

I left.

JimmyHuntspill | 23 Mar '08, 19:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Possibly inspired by 0:57 onwards in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eOYqR_Lz9w

I think so.

I saw them at the Free Noise thing too and it was an awesome racket. Difficult to tell who was doing what though with that many people on stage.

mug_mug_mug | 23 Mar '08, 19:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i like how ignorant people are

when they throw around the word pretentious like they actually might know what it means.

first, spell it right.

dirty_white_boy | 23 Mar '08, 20:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

They've released so much music

I'm not it really matters

http://www.jyrk.com/yellowswans/releases.htm

Placid_Casual | 23 Mar '08, 19:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

this is true

fallingdown | 23 Mar '08, 19:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

drone bands are

ten a penny now though arent they? i love the way Pitchfork always give them 8.8 when in fact they should be like, 3.2

Heringerin | 23 Mar '08, 19:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

You're an idiot

Placid_Casual | 23 Mar '08, 20:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

what did this band

have to do with fabulous muscles by xiu xiu? its listed on that discog page as related works.

jam_sandwich | 23 Mar '08, 20:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

they made all the noise

on support our troops, oh!

dirty_white_boy | 23 Mar '08, 20:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

thanks!

what an awesome bunch of noise that was.

jam_sandwich | 23 Mar '08, 21:01 | Send note | Report this | Reply

oh for sure

the strings in that are fucking incredible

dirty_white_boy | 23 Mar '08, 21:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

i could never figure out

was it a crazy sax or was that done electronically, if you know the noise i mean. near the beginning.

jam_sandwich | 23 Mar '08, 21:12 | Send note | Report this | Reply

its a shame,

they seemed like one of the more interesting bands around. i imagine their back catalogue will keep all occupied though!

bostockbostock | 23 Mar '08, 20:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Splitting up in June,

hopefully that means their Sonar show is still on. Was pretty amped about seeing them live.

beepz | 23 Mar '08, 20:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

since when

did everyone start calling noise bands 'drone bands'? half of their stuff couldnt possibly be classified as drone...

this is quite sad, YS have been one of my favourite noise artists, really prolific and not afraid to try out new stuff. also really nice guys. best of lubk to them in their future projects.

shambler | 23 Mar '08, 20:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply