talk about a random blast from the past. i think i saw them (sophie nun squad) play (accidentally) on someone's front lawn around midnight in columbus ohio during one of the more than music fests (98?). i recall breakers being turned off and either them or someone else [assuck?] playing the set powerless... but i don't remember anything particularly weird or even bad. maybe just fun...

i would also like to add mancake to the list... because the one time i saw them i was scared for my life. you just don't expect the singer of a band to swing an axe atcha.

the Classical wrote:

Peripatetic wrote:I thought addressing that post directly to you re:Buffo. I figured you were there. I think I saw you at every one of the first 50 shows I came to in Mpls (back when I had to travel from SD). That probably weirds you out...sorry. I figured out who you were via the STNNNG connection. Buffo was local I assume?

Yup they were local, I used those guys around town, but not so much any more

and I've been described as "that-guy-at-shows" by more people then I can count, no weirding me out 's cool...next you see me say "hey!"

Buffo were kind of a joke. It was two guys that ran Tough Guy Booking. Brian Earl and Christian Somethingorother. They would play a tape of all the angry messages they would get from bands or venues. I enjoyed the hell out of those guys.
I also agree with Classy about Waxwork of a Dynasty. They kept on making faces like they were fucking up and were disappointed about it.

rashiedgarrison wrote:
Also I saw Smog at the Royal Festival Hall and the support band were from Germany or some other European country and made a horrible racket. Two of them stripped naked and stuck a washing line up their respective arses. Or so it seemed from the balcony.

Yes, I was at that show playing with Smog. That band you are talking about was a total drag to watch. Totally in everyones face just to be in everyones face... but not in a good way like Suckdog...in a dumb way like... I dunno... something dumb. It was more of a theatre troop than a band. A total drag.

Wow, I would have never ever ever have remembered that without your post.

Many bands in the weird bad/shitty way.

The Residents on the "Demons Dance Alone" tour was pretty weird and great fun to watch.

Kinda tame i guess.

glynnisjohns wrote:The Residents on the "Demons Dance Alone" tour was pretty weird and great fun to watch.

Seeing the Residents (on the tour before that, for the DVD) was definitely one of the strangest things I've seen. To this day, I have no idea if they were actually playing or not.

The 5,6,7,8s were pretty strange. I saw them years ago at university in New Zealand.

clouddead was pretty strange, in a good way. i was all excited to listen to some solid hiphop and suddenly these 5 or 6 dudes dressed up like bushes (pretty elaborate costumes) get up on stage. so i'm standing there looking at these bushes that aren't moving anymore, and suddenly they start playing michael jackson covers really really well, and that went on for a bit.

it was pretty sweet.

oxes also put on a strange/good set when i saw them.. they were on their boxes and shuffling around the audience and drooling on everybody, and halfway through the set the two guitarists both just left the venue altogether for about 20 minutes but you could still hear them playing in the hallways

most of the shows i've seen that were suppose to be 'weird' were too gimmicky and had to be discounted. that's why i wouldn't count gwar or anything along those lines.

from fiction & shuttlecock are both bands where i watch them and i have absolutely no idea what to expect next, from fiction because they are so fucking good and explosive and shuttlecock because i don't know how 2 people are sounding like 6 musicians.

the weather are a pretty strange band. they're from chicago, aren't they?

davesec wrote:oxes also put on a strange/good set when i saw them.. they were on their boxes and shuffling around the audience and drooling on everybody, and halfway through the set the two guitarists both just left the venue altogether for about 20 minutes but you could still hear them playing in the hallways

most of the shows i've seen that were suppose to be 'weird' were too gimmicky and had to be discounted.

I used to feel differently, but now I think these two paragraphs are related.

Oxes played a show in Minneapolis where they ate their dinner on stage, taking a good couple minutes between songs, and then went on to play 12 minute versions of 5 minute songs. Might not have been as irritating if it wasn't a weeknight, but I thought it got old really fast.

Pretty much every time I've seen them, I've gotten progressively more bored, to the point where I'll probably buy that EP they're putting out, but I don't need to see them ever again.

This punk band we used to play with called "The Dorks" (really original name) had a singer that would stab himself in the forehead with a pair of scissors at the same point in every set. I think he was obsessed with GG, though.

I'll agree with US Maple, they opened here for The Shins or someone, anyways, the guitarist had this powder blue suit on and the singer had these fucking ridiculous pants and a green vest....I cant remember if it was fur or not....anyways...the whole performance was one big uncomfortable shitfest