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Pop & Policy / Patrick Wolf with Bishi @ Cabaret Juste Pour Rire, October 5, 2007
Pop & Policy was the industry conference and workshop component of the Pop Montreal festival, hosted by McGill's Schulich School of Music. My sister dragged me to the Friday afternoon panels as her law professor had suggested they attend. This cost 15$, worthwhile as I acquired three CDs (one festival sampler, two handed out by one of the panelists making good on his music-should-be-free ideology), plus coffee, snacks, and drinks/appetizers at the ensuing cocktail. XD Also the talks were interesting. The first pitted DJs and academics against industry lawpersons in a discussion of copyright and sampling, and the second was about legal challenges/ramifications to the DMCA and alternative models of online music distribution (other than "sue the pants off downloaders"). There were some fair bigshots, like Terry Fisher. This was followed by a round table with Patti Smith being interviewed by a journalist.
The hilarious thing about the copyright/sampling panel was that it was, in its essence, the exact same argument that comes up re: the legal viability of fanfiction. Just substitute hiphop/DJ culture for fanwork culture, keeping constant the catalytic influence of the anonymous internets, the "old-fashioned" artists who actually care about maintaining control over the integrity of their work, and the intellectual-property lawyers. Putting representatives of the several groups on the same panel was like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
metafandom essayists versus - say - Robin Hobb's agent; it was that testy. The former group ranted rather idealistically about corporations but it's a red herring really; once the labels are out of the picture (and they will be soon) one runs up against other artists, as often as not those who - like Prince or Patti Smith herself - fought their own labels to retain artistic control. Having acquired said control they're unlikely ever to grok the necessity of relinquishing it to the next poxy-faced sixteen-year-old comer who wants to take a two-second snippet of their recording and Do Stuff to it. I've said somewhere that if I published a novel I'd consider it a failure on at least one front if people didn't write fic for it that completely twisted my artistic directive to suit their own ends, but then I came up through the fanwork culture too. XD;
Anyway. Less with the meta, more with the gig review.
Bishi (the opening act). I gotta say, this is the single best stage ensemble I've seen to date. XD ELECTRIC DISCO SITAR SOLO.
Tania, moved by demon gods known only to herself, bet me a dollar before the show that he'd be wearing black. This was safe as houses since I've come across like one picture of him wearing black in public since 2005. She should've bet on the hair colour, that one's wide open. XD
(Suspect it's not a coincidence that Agyness Deyn's colour job started to morph after that Burberry shoot. Then again, Elton John and she managed between them to get Patrick Wolf into a pair of real pants, so it goes both ways. In any case I've stopped worrying about Patrick Wolf's pernicious effect on the fashion industry as attending the show made me realise his look is entirely charming... on the fangirls. XDD)
Setlist:
Wind in the Wires / Overture / Teignmouth / Paris / The Bluebell / Bluebells / Tristan / ? / The Libertine / Accident & Emergency / Pigeon Song / Stars || ? / Magpie || The Magic Position
For the effort I made, i.e. none, this stayed in my mind pretty well, but I can't remember what the ?'s are at all. XD; Stuff off WitW or Lycanthropy, anyway. Probably there were also a couple of the WitW interlude songs, like "The Shadow Sea" or "Jacob's Ladder". It was a very WitW-centric, piano-pounding, sweeping-gothic-English-romanticism sort of set, which is fine by me - my only complaint is that it was too short. XD;
(It really was - I wouldn't be surprised if this were the shortest gig he played all tour. Hopefully not due to the fistfight, or getting served a White Russian without Bailey's in. =_= WTF PEOPLE SKIMPING ON LIQUOR IS NOT ON, WAY TO RUIN THE REP OF THIS CITY.)
During "Magpie".
"The Magic Position". Pretty much after the first encore he ran out, took off his shirt and dumped ANOTHER jar of glitter over his head.
Seriously, it normally takes me two weeks to get 15 hits on a Flickr entry. XD; I tend to feel a bit useless about posting gig pics, because it's not like I have great equipment, and a cursory search will usually turn up dozens of better shots. But so far mine are the only ones up of the Montreal show. What happened to the other ten people schlepping cameras in the front row? Who knows.
The hilarious thing about the copyright/sampling panel was that it was, in its essence, the exact same argument that comes up re: the legal viability of fanfiction. Just substitute hiphop/DJ culture for fanwork culture, keeping constant the catalytic influence of the anonymous internets, the "old-fashioned" artists who actually care about maintaining control over the integrity of their work, and the intellectual-property lawyers. Putting representatives of the several groups on the same panel was like
metafandom essayists versus - say - Robin Hobb's agent; it was that testy. The former group ranted rather idealistically about corporations but it's a red herring really; once the labels are out of the picture (and they will be soon) one runs up against other artists, as often as not those who - like Prince or Patti Smith herself - fought their own labels to retain artistic control. Having acquired said control they're unlikely ever to grok the necessity of relinquishing it to the next poxy-faced sixteen-year-old comer who wants to take a two-second snippet of their recording and Do Stuff to it. I've said somewhere that if I published a novel I'd consider it a failure on at least one front if people didn't write fic for it that completely twisted my artistic directive to suit their own ends, but then I came up through the fanwork culture too. XD;Anyway. Less with the meta, more with the gig review.
Bishi (the opening act). I gotta say, this is the single best stage ensemble I've seen to date. XD ELECTRIC DISCO SITAR SOLO.
Tania, moved by demon gods known only to herself, bet me a dollar before the show that he'd be wearing black. This was safe as houses since I've come across like one picture of him wearing black in public since 2005. She should've bet on the hair colour, that one's wide open. XD
(Suspect it's not a coincidence that Agyness Deyn's colour job started to morph after that Burberry shoot. Then again, Elton John and she managed between them to get Patrick Wolf into a pair of real pants, so it goes both ways. In any case I've stopped worrying about Patrick Wolf's pernicious effect on the fashion industry as attending the show made me realise his look is entirely charming... on the fangirls. XDD)
Setlist:
Wind in the Wires / Overture / Teignmouth / Paris / The Bluebell / Bluebells / Tristan / ? / The Libertine / Accident & Emergency / Pigeon Song / Stars || ? / Magpie || The Magic Position
For the effort I made, i.e. none, this stayed in my mind pretty well, but I can't remember what the ?'s are at all. XD; Stuff off WitW or Lycanthropy, anyway. Probably there were also a couple of the WitW interlude songs, like "The Shadow Sea" or "Jacob's Ladder". It was a very WitW-centric, piano-pounding, sweeping-gothic-English-romanticism sort of set, which is fine by me - my only complaint is that it was too short. XD;
(It really was - I wouldn't be surprised if this were the shortest gig he played all tour. Hopefully not due to the fistfight, or getting served a White Russian without Bailey's in. =_= WTF PEOPLE SKIMPING ON LIQUOR IS NOT ON, WAY TO RUIN THE REP OF THIS CITY.)
During "Magpie".
"The Magic Position". Pretty much after the first encore he ran out, took off his shirt and dumped ANOTHER jar of glitter over his head.
Seriously, it normally takes me two weeks to get 15 hits on a Flickr entry. XD; I tend to feel a bit useless about posting gig pics, because it's not like I have great equipment, and a cursory search will usually turn up dozens of better shots. But so far mine are the only ones up of the Montreal show. What happened to the other ten people schlepping cameras in the front row? Who knows.
that last pic
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...not that I object to such things at all, ffs, but you know what I mean XD
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I think it should be easy to tell who Patrick Wolf has been
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(Unless suspender shorts are already the height of fashion and I've just managed to block it out. Just rewatched a vid in which Maja Somethingsson out of The Sounds was wearing a very similar outfit.)
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I mean, just, what.
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Patrick Wolf really looks nothing like I envisioned him. It's amazing how I follow SuJu so avidly since my usual music fangrrlism M.O. creates a situation where basically I haven't the foggiest idea what the band looks like unless I've been to their gig(s). Oh well. I have become shallow and visual-oriented in my old age XDDDDD~~~
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I'm sad XD I'm still waiting for my CDs so I can subject everyone to my SuJu and WG singles wherein I coo over Ken Innerwagmwerermndf and Kenzie and how scary Korean music production still is. (But I wub it XD)
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