STARFUCKER
Are you ready to fall in love with Starfucker?
My love affair with 'German Love' began last week when I was reading a LocalCut post about Blitzen Trapper's MP3 selections for Paper Thin Walls. Since I have an affinty for Blitzen Trapper and Matt Wright, I clicked the link and listened to a bit of Starfucker's 'German Love'. Cue me migrating over to his myspace. Cue me becoming obsessed.
So I headed down to his show at a house show on SE 15th and Clinton on Friday. Even though it was the night before Sasquatch and I'd have to get up super early the next day, his show coming up on the 8th is not an option since I'm going to CSS and I couldn't wait to see the art of his sound come alive much longer.
Wow - the party was packed even for it being so early. He was playing second and the house was already to capacity. I got there in time for his scheduled 9:45 start time and headed down to the sweltering basement, but alas he was still in the middle of his set-up - a forty minute one according to Billy of the Newspapers who also had a hand in putting on the show.
So we watched and we waited and soon came the static-y drown of his feedback as he began his short-ish and beyond super sweet set that had the frontlines dancing.
It was clear that most people were there to greet the buzz around Starfucker in person than for any other purpose, well. . . maybe other than getting hammered. The bar in the corner of the basement was doing some major business and at times it felt like the median age of the attendees was 10 (yes, that's an exaggeration, but it was very young crowd) and we know what their priorities can be. . . :)
Turned away from the audience, he raised his guitar to the amp, enveloped in his own sonic world as we watched on.
After a few minutes he took to his drum kit, back hunched, head bowed, lips to the mic trading the static for the melodic.
He launched into 'German Love' as his second song which was a bit surprising - playing the bona-fide current and future hit so early, but he easily continued to keep everyone captivated.
He drummed as he sang and sporadically played the keyboard and guitar while wearing two layers that betrayed the humidity of the basement and rolled up trousers that revealed him to be a biker.
He soon exited the same way he allowed us to enter - in a mass of feedback.
At the end I wondered to myself how I could have so few photos, but the lapse was understandable - I appropriately spent the moments dancing and singing along like the people I swayed next to as opposed to snapping.
It was a beautiful escape into a musical world I only found out existed a few days prior and one I intend to visit often (as if I don't already live there what with my continued repetitive plays of all things Starfucker).
If ever there was a song to fall in love with. . .
'German Love' Starfucker MP3
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Starfucker myspace
http://www.myspace.com/starfuckerss
My new best friend (:D) Arya was there too and the set was recorded for his Willamette Week podcast.
hey! Love that german love song, I really want to do an electro remix of it, any way to get the vocals?
Posted by: Brendan Scott | June 02, 2007 at 04:01 PM