The three times I've seen Caroliner Rainbow (Noun Noun Noun) they were pretty strange, in a good way.

Wish they would play the East more.

This isn't really "far-out" weird, but anyway:
A band whose name I have forgotten played an original that sounded exactly like "Beating Around The Bush" by AC/DC. I mean, if you were to put a BPM counter, I would venture to guess it would not be more than a factor of two off. I think this is weird: have they really never heard this song, and actually somehow channeled the AC/DC vibe? Or, had they heard the song and decided it was okay to write one that sounded exactly like it, providing they leave out the interesting little fill that makes it such a special song?

I don't think many things are so "far-out" weird that they strike me as such, but this was strange to me.

I feel like I've seen so much weird shit, but nothing to match Caroliner when I saw them in a huge warehouse space in Phoenix circa the late 80's. They went so much further than anybody else. I mean, they had these things that were like 10 feet tall, on either side of the stage, that looked like giant washing machines or something, that were moving and swaying in robot fashion. This is in addition to all the shit the performers were doing. All under this mind-altering black light projection field that covered everything. One just doesn't forget experiences like that.

the weirdest show ever: the dead planets, about 5/6 years ago, in a quarry near the town i grew up in Scotland.

There were thirteen guys, in robes and hoods and stuff; and they had marked out the floor of the quarry in sort of 'magical' symbols (lots of pentagrams/stars/crosses). The guitarists were just playing total sludgy noise, and the two drummers were playing the s--l--o--w--e--s--t but HEAVYEST beats ever. It was late at night, and pretty scary.

Someone i met years later told me they were part of a witch/satanist cult thing, and to look at you'd totally believe it. It made me uncomfortable in a 'i don't want to repeat that EVER' sort of way. The same person also told me that they'd heard rumours of them playing in glasgow this year, but i don't think i'd have the balls to go. horrible.

mooliachi wrote:About 10 years ago my roommate's band opened for Crash Worship at this run-down theatre in Chicago. All I could see when Crash Worship was playing was a bunch of people crowded around a fire in the middle of the place, freaking out.

i saw them play in boston about the same time (94/95), and they almost burned down the (now defunct) Rathskellar. the ceiling was pretty low, and the fire was literally moving across the ceiling as it rose. plus strobe lights, people walking through the crowd pouring wine and water on people, and bursts of fire from these little buckets that were sliding around on the floor. i was a little stoned, and i was fully halucinating.

there was a dude playing this stringed thing that looked like he took random, rusty car parts, welded them together, and then layed bridge cables over the whole mess. he was banging on the strings with metal pipes. it was sick.

and then 'painkiller' played there 2 days later. that was a good week.

mattw Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:49 am Post subject:
Frog Eyes
Oxbow

Frog Eyes. Seriously? They're just really nice guys, and gal. Hmm....

Cobra Killer, they are pretty fucked up. But annoying aswell. I was doing the live mix for their first tour here in Australia, and seriously, they wanted to soundcheck for 2 hours. They used a cd player and a drum machine. Annoying.

But the weirdest "band" would have to be Lucas Abella, a performance artist here in Sydney.
His latest act is to attach a mic to a sheet of glass, the mic being plugged in to a pre amp and series of effect pedals, fill his mouth with a whole tube of KY lube, and then proceed to smear his mouth/face over the glass, consequently making some of the most vicious sounds you could imagine. At one show he became.... agitated at the lack of volume that he ended up slicing his neck with the glass before smashing it over his head.

Tops.

Whitehouse. I had the good fortune to see them supporting Sunn O)) a couple of weeks back in London and had a hoot! I've been reliably informed that they're canonical in terms of industrial music, but this was the first time I'd encountered them under any capacity.
They were two wirey middle aged men with the funniest Cockney sneers I've ever heard put to a grinding, undulating, throbbing digital drone. They looked and sounded like a pair of striking factory workers on a picket line - only with Merzbow providing the soundtrack!
It was the most fearful mix of campness and terror I've seen in a long time.
I do them no justice by describing them as I have above, because they were such a welcome revelation!

im going to have to go with US Maple.

i saw them last week in nashville, the band that opened played 2 operation ivy covers and a rancid cover. their (usmaple's) set was surreal, and i honestly felt unsafe towards the end, with drunken tennesseeans throwing cans and breaking bottles into the trashcan and generally being unrestful.

the stage antics combined with the music made for an oddly enjoyable uncomfortable experience.

The Digits dump a coffee can full of live crickets on a crowd at the Cubby Bear in Chicago once. Girls screamed - bug guts everywhere - it was pretty funny.