Mudhoney • Botanique
Schedule
Fri Oct 04 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm
UTC+02:00Location
Le Botanique | Brussels, BU
——— MUDHONEY (US)EN/
Ultimately, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge epitomised the very best of Mudhoney: here was a band reconnecting with its purest instincts, and in the process reinventing itself. This 30th anniversary edition, remastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service, stands as testimony to the intense creative surge that drove them during this period. The album sessions yielded a clutch of material that would subsequently appear on B-sides – notably the stinging “Ounce Of Deception,” easily worth a place on the main record – or were scattered on various compilations and split-singles. It’s great to have these gathered together here. There’s also: the non-album single “You’re Gone” plus its flipside, the early version of “Thorn,” recorded in March 1990 during the band’s legendary first Australian tour; an unreleased version of “Paperback Life,” the Billy Childish tribute that possibly toppled into wholesale larceny; and a new Johnny Sangster mix of “Overblown,” Mudhoney’s contribution to the 1992 Singles movie soundtrack.
The sweetest gravy for keen Mudhoney anthropologists, meanwhile, is the Music Source session in its entirety. Only one of these tracks has been released before (“Something So Clear,” on a Reflex magazine flexidisc), but now all five are available newly mixed by Jack Endino, offering a fascinating glimpse of an alternate historical path. Or, as Dan Peters puts it: “These are the 24-track demos for our 8-track album.”
By going back to basics with Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Mudhoney flipped conventional wisdom. Not for the first time – or the last – they would be vindicated. A month after release in July 1991, the album entered the UK album chart at Number 34 (five weeks later, Nirvana’s Nevermind entered at 36) and went on to sell 75,000 copies worldwide. A more meaningful measure of success, however, lay in its revitalisation of the band, casting a touchstone for the future. This album is a major chapter in Mudhoney’s ongoing story, the moral of which has to be: when in doubt, fudge it.
NL/
De wereld loopt over van het afval. De mensheid blijft verslaafd aan vervuiling ondanks dat de wereld iedere seconde blijft opwarmen. Mensen drinken ontwormingsmiddel omdat iemand op tv hen zei dat het COVID zou genezen. Tom Herman van de invloedrijke avant garage band Pere Ubu heeft nog steeds geen eigen Wikipedia pagina. Het einde der tijden is blijkbaar dwazer dan wat we hadden kunnen voorspellen.
Gelukkig zijn de absurditeiten van het moderne leven al jaren de grondstof voor de muziek van Mudhoney. Het viertal uit Seattle mikt er met bijtend plezier op, op hun 11de album ‘Plastic Eternity’. De band gaat al mee sinds de late jaren ‘80, maar hun promordiale punk en scherpe lyrics blijken prangender dan ooit. Of ze nu de klimaatsverandering bekijken vanuit het standpunt van het klimaat, of ja, toch als het klimaat gitaar zou spelen zoals Jimi Hendrix (‘Cry Me An Atmospheric River’), of een rock & roll nummer schrijven over drugs maar bedoeld voor vee (‘Here Comes the Flood’), of eerder een klassieke punkaanval doen over mensen behandelen zoals vee (‘Human Stock Capital’), blijft de band relevanter dan ooit.
——— FOR FANS OF
Soundgarden, Melvins, Temple of the Dog
——— PRESS
"Mudhoney a toujours combattu par un humour féroce et des paroles politiques sur fond d’un mélange de musique punk, de guitare heavy et de garage rock." — L'Echo
——— INFOS
• Orangerie / Doors 19:30
• Bota'Carte 25,5€ (https://bit.ly/Bota_Carte)
• Ticket 28,5€
• Day of show 31,5€
(costs included)
——— TICKETS
FR: https://botanique.be/fr/concert/mudhoney-2024
NL: https://botanique.be/nl/concert/mudhoney-2024
EN: https://botanique.be/en/concert/mudhoney-2024
Where is it happening?
Le Botanique, 236, Rue Royale,Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels, Belgium
