[DID NOT ATTEND: November 7, 2022] The Murlocs / Paul Jacobs
I saw The Murlocs just before the pandemic. The show was a lot of fun and I was surprised at how crowded it was.
Everyone knows that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are hugely prolific. Well, fascinatingly, KGATLW’s Ambrose Kenny-Smith and Cook Craig are also in The Murlocs.
I’m not sure if this show was also in The Black Box (an awesome intimate venue), but I had scheduled another show for the following night, so I didn’t really feel up for two nights in a row (after the craziness of October, it seemed wise to back off a bit). I’m sure they’ll be back–they seem to need to constantly be on the road.
I didn’t know who Paul Jacobs was. Had I realized he was the drummer for Montreal band Pottery, I would have been far more interested. Pitchfork says of him
Paul Jacobs’ cartoon world is constantly expanding. Since uprooting himself from the border city of Windsor, Ontario to the perpetually buzzing Montreal music scene, his hand-drawn animations and hallucinatory illustrations have graced the covers of multiple albums per year. As the drummer of post-punk quintet Pottery, Jacobs is the engine behind yelpy extended jams that sound equally at home on a nightclub dancefloor or at a psych festival. Yet it’s solo albums like Pink Dogs on the Green Grass where Jacobs’ soft-focus, lysergic visions truly bloom.
He seems like a PERFECT fit for a KGATLW spin off. Indeed, he seems like a KGATLW spin off himself.
I probably should have gone to this show.
I saw Pottery open for Fontaines D.C. and was really impressed by them (I actually enjoyed them more than Fontaines because the Fontaines crowd were jerks).
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