Sunday, April 28, 2019

Recording: Man Made Hill

Artist: Man Made Hill

Songs: Fantasy Pants + unknown* + I'll Swallow You Whole + Find a Freak

Recorded at The Baby G (MFS 10th Anniversary Celebration / A Night of Rock Music!), March 2, 2019.

Man Made Hill - Fantasy Pants

Man Made Hill - unknown

Man Made Hill - I'll Swallow You Whole

Man Made Hill - Find a Freak

Although I don't get out to as many rawk shows as I used to, the 10th anniversary of this blog felt like enough of an occasion to warrant a special Saturday night kind of celebration. With a limited preview run of a new best-of compilation tape on the merch table quickly selling out (side note: second batch coming soon!) and a mini-remount of my MFS listening station, it felt a bit like a party, but what really made it was seeing so many familiar faces out for the hang.

What also made it feel like a party was having the one and only Randy Gagne to close the night out. As Man Made Hill, his absurdist anthems and give-it-110-per-cent on-stage attitude make every show a sweaty delight. The set included a string of stone MMH classics, but there was a bunch of newer stuff as well, with a tune about Fantasy Pants melding into an atmospheric fantasy sequence, as well as "I'll Swallow You Whole", a slo-jam that's been heard at recent shows that just might be Gagne's "Time After Time". Or maybe his "Bizarre Love Triangle"? In any case, it's definitely the tenderest song I've ever heard to include the lyrical sentiment "I'll eat your fucking life-force!"

* These titles are offered as tentative placeholders only for now. Please leave a comment if you have any info to confirm 'em! Update: "Find a Freak" confirmed via this fab new video!

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