{"id":3660,"date":"2018-08-01T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:46:55","slug":"ezra-furman-the-big-moon-glee-november-18th-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/ezra-furman-the-big-moon-glee-november-18th-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezra Furman &#038; The Big Moon, Glee, November 18th, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3660 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/ezra-furman-the-big-moon-glee-november-18th-2015\/screen-shot-2018-08-01-at-16-17-05\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-01-at-16.17.05-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Ezra Furman is exhausted. He\u2019s been touring so long he can no longer remember who he was at the start of the tour, never mind before. He might get confessional, he tells us. That comes later.<\/p>\n<p>His first Nottingham appearance, a 42 minute in-store at Rough Trade in July this year, was a riveting, unforgettable gig. No surprise then, that tonight\u2019s show has long been sold out.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s dressed to kill, in pin stripe skirt, black vest and a long string of pearls. Perpetual Motion People is his sixth and best album, the second with the Boyfriends, who accompany him tonight and features heavily.<\/p>\n<p>Furman is twenty-nine, but looks younger, and plays raucous rock\u2019n\u2019roll with exciting hooks that recall doo wop, Lou Reed and early soul. He has a few slow songs, too, like opener Day of the Dog, title track of the first Boyfriends album. It\u2019s introduced with a slow, dramatic drumbeat, then keyboards, before he takes the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The show is intense.\u00a0Ezra tries to settle in. An enthusiastic crowd wills him on. \u2018Now we\u2019re getting into gear,\u2019 he says after a strong Haunted Head. And Maybe God is a Train is emotional. He talks about depression before At the Bottom of the Ocean. The insanely catchy Lousy Connection lifts things back up.<\/p>\n<p>The set climaxes with the wonderful Body Was Made and an even catchier Restless Year. It\u2019s curfew time, but also the end of the tour and the crowd insist on him coming back for a fifteen minute\u00a0encore. During it, he gets us all to crouch on the floor and rise slowly. For me, the show\u2019s highlight was a cover of the Velvet Underground\u2019s Rock\u2019n\u2019Roll, last played in this city by Lou Reed, on his Berlin tour. Tonight, Ezra proved himself worthy to bear Lou\u2019s torch.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Glee\u2019s insistence that punters arrive before start time paid dividends. All woman band The Big Moon were the most exciting, original support I\u2019ve seen this year, playing varied, quirky songs that at times recalled Belly and Sleater Kinney. Watch out for them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/09-Love-You-So-Bad.mp3\">Ezra Furman &#8211; Love You So Bad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/The-Big-Moon-Cupid-1.mp3\">The Big Moon &#8211; Cupid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen both acts again since writing the above and am pleased to say they only get better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Furman is exhausted. He\u2019s been touring so long he can no longer remember who he was at the start of the tour, never mind before. He might get confessional, he tells us. That comes later. His first Nottingham appearance, a 42 minute in-store at Rough Trade in July this year, was a riveting, unforgettable gig. No surprise then, that tonight\u2019s show has long been sold out. He\u2019s dressed to kill, in pin stripe skirt, black vest and a long string of pearls. Perpetual Motion People is his sixth and best album, the second with the Boyfriends, who accompany him tonight and features heavily. Furman is twenty-nine, but looks younger, and plays raucous rock\u2019n\u2019roll with exciting hooks that recall doo wop, Lou Reed and early&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}