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Fischerspooner at Irving Plaza in New York City - 11/19/02
You can put a pair of fabulously glittery jeans on a boy, but that dont make him a rock star. In fact, if you are Carey Spooner, main front attraction for the performance (and I use that term terribly loosely) art troupe Fischerspooner, it does nothing but add to the complete ridiculousness of your live show. Up until Fischerspooners show at Irving Plaza, it had been some time, if ever, since I had been to a show and tossed around the idea of getting the hell out of there approximately one minute into the first song. Fischerspooner call themselves performance art, but after seeing their live show, I wonder what exactly it is they are performing. Are they trying to figure out how bratty they can be and still have the press hype them? Or how much they can get away with in front of those that pay good money to see their show? That is, a show, which appears to have been choreographed by a high-school drama teacher and a show that includes outlandish attempts at humour, repeated several times throughout the performance just in case your ears werent bleeding from the first couple of times. Does obnoxious behavior and a snap to it bitches attitude have any place in your rock n roll world? The fellas of Fischerspooner say if you dont see the humour, it is because you dont understand, you just dont get it, or you are that ignorant. I got humour baby, but I neglect to see any in this so-called band. I had visions of fantastic color and something visual that would stop me in my tracks. Instead, I got bras & panties and a lot of makeup. Perhaps the only saving grace is that the backlights were so bright and rapid that it was difficult to see some of the show, score one for the audience. Costume changes in between each song? It was a 45-minute show, are you serious? Did I mention that several of these changes took place on stage, while the audience was subjected to endless, as well as mindless gibberish by Casey Spooner who for all of his originality may well have been a preprogrammed robot. I felt like I was watching some whacky college kids do a first rehearsal of a play that would never go anywhere except that space that it was created in what a wreck. There were few moments that I can highlight as being worth seeing. Maybe the two model type gals who came out and did their share of lip-syncing for one song maybe that was interesting. One of them did have a hole cut out of her pretty sequined dress for her rather pregnant belly to hang out of I know what you might be thinking: either that this review is terrible or that I shouldnt be reviewing this show since I have left out the music entirely. It is difficult to review the music stylings of lip sync and the DJ, when there wasnt any. I could certainly review the CD for you, which would be more accurate but I think besides the point. Lastly EMERGE the hit single charting for weeks on the UK charts, the only truly fantastic song on the record and it turns out Fischerspooner knows this as well. It was saved for the closer, expectedly. Casey Robot continued his diarrhea of the mouth through the beginning of this song threatening to walk off stage after he was booed for saying they had to hurry because they had a second show to do, which of course would be better than the first. How is that possible? It was completely rehearsed, and it was bad acting. It was a group of people who used some brand of trickery to bamboozle Ministry of Sound into giving them a record deal and a supporting tour. Where is there room for interpretation? I promptly fled about 25 seconds into the last song it was what brought me to that show. It was what compelled me to order their debut CD from the UK and pay too much for it luckily those who havent been sucked in yet can buy it in the states in early 03 when their U.S. distro finally kicks in. It was the song that kept me hoping they had the goods now that I knew they didnt, I had to leave with what purity of a stellar song I had left in my head. I guess that is all that really matters oh that, and the knowledge I have gained to forewarn others.
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