Echo & the Bunnymen: Dancing Horses - PopMatters Music Review http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/46040/echo-the-bunnym... Features | Columns | Blogs | News | Music | Film | TV | DVDs | Books | Comics | Multimedia | Events | PopComix | Front about contributors submissions book imprint advertising contests PopShop Media Center PopMatters Picks Echo & the Bunnymen TODAY ON POPMATTERS Dancing Horses [DVD] FEATURES | recent [Live at Shepherds Bush Empire] :. Film Fete: The Best of Short Ends & (MVD Entertainment Group) Rated: N/A Leader US release date: 26 June 2007 :. The Essential Selection: An Interview with UK release date: 23 April 2007 Beth Ditto by Adam Besenyodi PopMatters Associate Music Editor COLUMNS | recent Email Print Comments (0) NEGRITUDE 2.0: The NAACP’s Mock Burial of Its Relevance The journey of Liverpool’s other famous THE OUTRÉ OEUVRE: A ‘Head’ of Its Time musicians is a somewhat incestuous and BLOGS | recent certainly messy one. After Pete Wylie and SHORT ENDS AND LEADER: The Front Page: Star Julian Cope left Ian McColloch and their Struck Down - The Last of Lohan band the Crucial Three to form Wah! and RE:PRINT: Publisher blasts Oprah over James the Teardrop Explodes, respectively, Frey controversy McColloch hooked up with guitarist Will SOURCES SAY: The Sydney Morning Herald and Sergeant in 1978. Together, along with the cultural life of Sydney their drum machine, Echo, they formed the MEDIA CENTER: Maps: “You Don’t Know Her neo-psychedelic post-punk genius of Echo & Name” the Bunnymen. After scoring varied CRAZED BY THE MUSIC: Is print media scared of successes on the UK and US charts in their freebies? first ten years together, McColloch left the PERIPATETIC POSTCARDS: In the Shadows of band for a solo career. Sergeant, bassist Icons Les Pattinson, and drummer Pete de Freitas MUSIC | recent | short takes | archive (who replaced the original Echo a year into :. Common: Finding Forever the band) decided to carry on without :. 1990s: Cookies McColloch, but before they could record, de :. Turisas: The Varangian Way :. Robert Gordon and Chris Spedding Freitas was killed in a motorcycle accident. POPSHOP featuring the Jordanaires: The King and I AMAZON Sergeant and Pattinson continued on under AMAZON UK :. Various Artists: Chasing the Sun: The what is considered by both critics and fans Greatest Songs of Summer as false pretense, releasing Reverberation :. Scott Miller and the Commonwealth: Click to Listen Reconstruction as an Echo album in name only. McColloch Now released his first solo effort, Candleland, the :. Nico Muhly: Speaks Volumes same year to a deservedly better Your search did not EVENTS | recent | archive reception. After both sides languished for a match anything :. Ottawa Bluesfest Days 1 and 2 feat. Van few years, McColloch and Sergeant formed Morrison and Bob Dylan — July.07: Ottawa, ON Electrafixion—amping up the guitars to powered by | mercora prove relevance in the throes of grunge. In TELEVISION | recent | archive 1997, nearly 20 years after first coming :. Saving Grace: First Episode together, Pattinson rejoined the group and Echo & the Bunnymen had returned. Four DVDS | recent | archive :. Elvis Costello: Elvis Costello & the Brodsky studio albums and another ten years, we Quartet: The Juliet Letters find the Bunnymen marking their 30th :. Diggers anniversary with a new DVD of two-year old material, Dancing Horses. :. The Spanish-American War: First Intervention Showing themselves to be still relevant, if only as the elder statesmen of the post-punk movement, the Bunnymen pull out 15 classics from their BOOKS | recent | archive catalog to complement the four songs off the then-new Siberia release at :. Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan this Shepherds Bush Empire show recorded 01 November 2005. An :. The United States and Central America: uncomplicated stage creatively lit to accompany each song is all that Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility adorns the stripped-down and raw pub sound of this latest incarnation of by Mark Rosenberg :. Sammy's House by Kristin Gore the band. Gone is the smoothed-out (overproduced?) gloss of 1987’s self-titled pinnacle or McColloch’s Candleland. Instead we are presented MULTIMEDIA | recent | archive with a sometimes-ragged-yet-appropriate sounding McColloch, and :. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition trademark swirling guitar work from Sergeant. NEWS | recent :. INTERVIEW:Creator as surprised as anyone Opening the show with a their dissonant early ‘80s Crocodiles‘ “Going Up” by success of ‘The Simpsons’ and segueing into Heaven Up Here‘s “With a Hip” sets the tone, but it :. Michael Moore’s film festival benefits surprisingly isn’t until “Stormy Weather” that the band really feels like it’s Michigan town connecting. “Stormy Weather” is one of those songs that helped garner :. Penny Lane not cashing in on Fab 4 Siberia its “return to form” acclaim. It’s the trademark Bunnymen :. INTERVIEW:British director gets around to combination of Sergeant’s cascading guitar and McColloch’s vocals all mixed making his own sci-fi adventure in an ‘80s stew of keyboards and live drums. But the band quickly moves :. Campaigns sold on video revolution back to “classic set list” mode with another Heaven Up Here cut, “Show of Strength”, with its post-punk, gothic roots of heavy bass and mid-song tempo changes on display. Atmosphere is the goal here. While “Bring on the Dancing Horses” gains a new lease on life via the creative intro, it’s McColloch’s scatting and emotional delivery (voice appropriately cracking 1 of 3 7/30/2007 11:08 AM Echo & the Bunnymen: Dancing Horses - PopMatters Music Review http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/46040/echo-the-bunnym... during the “brittle heart” repetition) that allows the song to rise above what PopMatters Feeds could have been a rote performance of an overplayed hit. Things get a little sonically murky with the hollow-sounding rendition of PopMatters All PM content, except blogs/news “The Disease” functioning as a lead-in for Siberia‘s sub-par offering “Scissors in the Sand”, despite Sergeant’s engaging guitar and McColloch’s Think menacing vocals. But the guys bounce back with a trio of early catalog Features, columns and essays. notables: “All that Jazz”, “The Back of Love”, and “The Killing Moon”. The Blogs former, another Crocodiles contribution, is a driving rocker for these guys. All PM blog posts. “The Back of Love” is a ferocious, sweeping display of post-punk power that Listen is both sonically and structurally cut from the same cloth as “All that Jazz”. Music reviews. This crowd pleaser off 1983’s Porcupine finds the band reeling it in where Watch appropriate by balancing the charging Space Invaders-like flourishes with Film, TV and DVD reviews. quieter moments. The subdued approach to “The Killing Moon” (forever Read re-appropriated for a new generation as the lead-in for the original Book and comic reviews. theatrical release of Donnie Darko) accurately captures the original Play composition and builds upon it in this live setting. McColloch’s voice often Video game reviews. sounded strained on these last couple of performances, but rarely to the RECENT MUSIC In Person detriment of the song or presentation. In bold are PopMatters Picks, the best in new music. Live event reviews and articles. Siberia‘s throwback strengths are again on display with “In the CD REVIEWS :. William Parker & News Margins”—complete with ringing keyboards and classically themed :. 1990s Hamid Drake PopWire news/commentary. :. Acoustic Alchemy :. Pearl Jam Bunnymen lyrics about starting out someplace dark and having hope to :. Against Me! :. People Press Play move someplace better emotionally. “I see now / How life wins / When all :. Air Traffic :. Perpetual Groove that’s left is love”. Shortly thereafter, we come to the part of the show :. Sara Bareilles :. The Pierces where Mac the Mouth’s crotchety demeanor really starts to shine through. :. The Beau Brummels :. Prince :. Ben + Vesper :. Will Stratton Near the end of the show, McColloch invites the crowd to shout any :. Bishop Allen :. Straylight Run questions they may have, but “don’t shout a song title!” And when they :. Block :. Tayo continue to scream songs titles, he gets more snippy and admonishes them :. Caïna :. Turisas :. Bill Callahan :. U.S.D.A. further before blasting through a few more tunes. :. Kendel Carson :. John Vanderslice :. James Chance & the :. Suzanne Vega The proper set ends with the show’s highest point—“The Cutter”. Boasting Contortions :. Velvet Revolver McColloch’s strongest vocal performance of the night and Sergeant’s :. Chasing the Sun: The :. Rocky Votolato Greatest Songs of :. Nicole Willis and the eastern-sounding guitar work, the song delivers on all counts. Then things Summer Soul Investigators get a little weird again. The break between the main set and the two-song :. Chromeo :. Within Temptation first encore is real-time. So the presentation lazily cuts between an empty :. Common :. The Young Gods :. DJ Mayonnaise :. Sarolta Zalatnay stage and the band standing around just backstage drinking, until they :. Daddy Yankee finally return for “Nothing Lasts Forever”, the lone Evergreen cut, and an :. Dimitri From Paris EVENT REVIEWS excellent rendition of “Lips Like Sugar”. But before the band breaks in, :. Dog Day :. Battles :. Derek Trucks and Susan McColloch makes someone wipe down the stage because it’s apparently wet :. Donnie :. Mark Farina Tedeschi’s Soul Stew where he is (never mind that during the intro to “Lips Like Sugar”, he :. Mr. Geoffrey and JD Revival dramatically kicks over a container of water, splattering the stage again). Franzke :. Electrelane Then amid a smattering of f-bombs and comments like “it’s always nice to :. Robert Gordon and :. Guns N’ Roses Chris Spedding featuring :. Harmony Festival feat. be down in this neck of the woods” and “thanks for coming” he bitches that the Jordanaires Brian Wilson, STS9, just once he’d like intelligent comments shouted from the crowd.