{"id":6434,"date":"2010-03-20T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejoycollective.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2010-04-03T16:33:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T16:33:14","slug":"thee-silver-mt-zion-memorial-orchestra-gravenhurst-fleece-bristol-16-03-10-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/review\/thee-silver-mt-zion-memorial-orchestra-gravenhurst-fleece-bristol-16-03-10-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra \/ Gravenhurst : Fleece, Bristol : 16.03.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6435 alignright\" title=\"Moby Alert\" src=\"http:\/\/jonnyjaniero.wpengine.com\/thejoycollectivewp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Moby-Alert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Moby-Alert.jpg 298w, https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/Moby-Alert-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/>Nick. Nick Nick. We&#8217;ve been here before haven&#8217;t we? Your <strong>Gravenhurst<\/strong> set last year, supporting M\u00fam in Cardiff, was the spit of tonight&#8217;s: quiet and insistent murmuring over lightly brushed electric guitar, sporadically pretty, eventually dulling. An Informed Man tells me you&#8217;ve impressed with a full band in the past, certainly your last song, where guitar strums are fed backwards and mangled by electronic withcery, is pretty sparky. It&#8217;s just all a little&#8230; bullied at school. Get your hair cut four eyes (sorry).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thee Silver Mt Zion<\/strong> have undoubtably made music to be sad to, strange scrapings of strings and vocals filled with tears. They&#8217;re equally good at capturing ragged defiance, and it&#8217;s this singing from collapsed buildings that dominates tonight&#8217;s proceedings. Coalescing around the midstage figure of Efrim Menuck, rocking the psych ward surfer look and probably sick of being called an ex-Godspeed You! Black Emperor member, three other black-clad comrades drink red wine and play double bass and effects-laden violins, adding swish layers to the guitar, drums and off mic hollering. They begin with &#8216;Thirteen Blues For 13 Moons&#8217;. 20 minutes, and three movements later, they stop and make a joke about Moby. Leavened with dry wit between them, these songs rage like angry ghosts, unfurling more easily than a first gig in two years perhaps should. They power on in this way &#8211; gothic post rock sometimes overripe with pathos, mostly righteous quiet\/loud waves &#8211; for as long as we&#8217;re here. What other band would have a heaving crowd roar recognition for a song called &#8216;God Bless Our Dead Marines&#8217;? We run for the train home, and put pennies on the tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick. Nick Nick. We&#8217;ve been here before haven&#8217;t we? Your Gravenhurst set last year, supporting M\u00fam in Cardiff, was the spit of tonight&#8217;s: quiet and insistent murmuring over lightly brushed electric guitar, sporadically pretty, eventually dulling. An Informed Man tells me you&#8217;ve impressed with a full band in the past, certainly your last song, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459],"tags":[476,1006,1134,799,1122,1135],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-bristol","tag-fleece","tag-godspeed-you-black-emperor","tag-gravenhurst","tag-thee-silver-mt-zion-memorial-orchestra","tag-unfortunate-jim-davidson-reference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonnyjaniero.com\/thejoycollective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}