No Age performed Husker Du w/ Bob Mould (and guest Bradford Cox) @ ATP NY Sunday - pics
photos by Ryan Muir
“I’m going to remember ATP 2009 as the festival of bass, though, and fondly, because this event takes sound seriously. Somebody in the organization is aware that the small, judicious audience for something like this–including many fans flying over from England to see it–wants to feel music physically. In just about every show at the two principal stages, all weekend, the sound was loud and broad and clear; it got inside your bones.
But this may be why the Bob Mould and No Age collaboration didn’t quite get off the ground. Mr. Mould, once of Hüsker Dü, and No Age, the young punk duo from Los Angeles, apparently admire each other. They came up with a good and relatively easy idea: working as a trio for one night only, playing songs from both acts. The set included all eras of Husker Du (“Something I Learned Today,” “Makes No Sense At All,” “In A Free Land,” “I Apologize,” “Could You Be the One?” and “New Day Rising”); it also ran through No Age’s “Eraser” and “Boy Void,” as well as a cover of the Heartbreakers’ “Chinese Rocks,” with Bradford Cox of Deerhunter joining in. But there was no bass player, and it felt light in the wrong way.”
[NY Times]
Bass or not, I disagree. The No Age/Mould show, Sunday night’s second to last performance of the upstate NY festival (and one of the few that I saw from start to finish), was a personal highlight for me in a day that also included great sets by the Boredoms, Oneida, Super Furry Animals, Boris and of course the day closer/curator The Flaming Lips (pics & further review coming).
Bradford performed with his own band Deerhunter, and solo as Atlas Sound, on the Saturday of the festival. Atlas Sound tours with Broadcast in October.
Bob Mould tours with his own band in October too.
No Age, who played an NYU show at Le Poisson Rouge right before ATP, is back in NYC for four shows in October. The one happening at the New Museum goes on sale on September 16th.
More pictures of No Age/Mould/Cox @ ATP, below…
