FTV : Big Yellow Opera
Ragnar Kjartansson's opera without divas, Guy Bourdin’s Kodak, and a Pierre Chapo transforming table…
From The Vault is The Noisy Alchemist’s ongoing reclamation program; preserving posts from the original TNA blog that ran for three years, from early 2018 until its shuttering in early 2021. Much of this content is no longer available anywhere else on the internet.
The following column, ‘Big Yellow Opera’ was first published on 23.02.18 and has been reposted here in its entirety, in as close to its original format as possible without edit or amendment.
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Transmission follows.
Saturday is normally a contemporary low-fi affair in the shop. Think Dum Dum Girls followed by a touch of something heavier, i.e Von Bondies. I like to dial things back a bit in the afternoon, a la Cream or The Sonics but for the most part, it’s a fairly easy choice to make. Predictable even. That may explain in part why a few of my regular miscreants (because ‘friend’ is such a strong word after Friday night) raised at least one of their collective eyebrows at this particular foray into the boxes this weekend.
