Donna Summer ? WTF?

[kungfoo]

just been at a Donna Summer "performance" at a Sonig Lable Night @ ZKM (Karlsruhe).. what the fuck did he do for his money? he just played one loop after another (no, that weren't very innovative loops) and jumped around shouting stupid stuff in his mic.. never seen something as sensless as this shit!!!
I'm glad Vert from the Sonig Label was worth the whole money i've paid.

[karitek]

yeah, i know the guy. he lived in nyc for a while. he was the worst live act i've ever seen. he basically jumped around and waved his hands in front of the computer as if he was conjuring up the music. amazingly enough, when i went to see him (in london), the crowd went wild over it. go figure.

[KaOz]

haha....

well i like the productions alot.. but i also heard donna live is massive gay

[grobelaar]

There's no accounting for the tastes of the masses and now with the internet they seem to have unprecedented influence... :)

[MUX]

donna summer is a chap?

[Martin23]

Seen him, I like Kebab better :)

[Ali]

Ended up sitting around a dinner table with this guy after he played in Bristol last month – seemed like quite a larger-than-life character, had some interesting stories to tell... I thought his ‘live act’ was amusing – blatantly just taking the piss, squaring up to hecklers etc… It’s just kooky cabaret innit, don't try to take this shit seriously. Some of his productions do rock the house tho.

[wheezer]

his productions are the shit, I'm not all that surprised to hear that the liveact ain't that hot...

[kungfoo]

amazingly enough, when i went to see him (in london), the crowd went wild over it.
same here .. omg hehe

[Marolo]

I saw him in Barcelona last year. I think I was quite drunk and shouting abuse at him. It did look quite pathetic if I rememeber correctly, but as Ali said, its meant to be a kind of Joke (one hopes).

[scott confusion]

Originally posted by kungfoo
just been at a Donna Summer "performance" at a Sonig Lable Night @ ZKM (Karlsruhe).. what the fuck did he do for his money? he just played one loop after another (no, that weren't very innovative loops) and jumped around shouting stupid stuff in his mic.. never seen something as sensless as this shit!!!
I'm glad Vert from the Sonig Label was worth the whole money i've paid.
I was in karlsruhe last week for a wee holiday- great place really love the chateau. :)

[thesnailsshow]

His BTTB Mix is amazing !
Never HAd the chance to hear him live, In fact, I've never been able to be in a liveact of the music I like :(
The only chance I had was Jan Jelinek in Monterrey, but when I arrived the party was over ! HA I had some E and went to talk with the guy telling him.... C'mon !!! it's 11:00 p.m. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA

[sibegg]

you think donna summer is is caberet ? i played with wevie stonder at a soing nite , now thats caberet...PS we're doing a sonig vs noodles EP with a donna summer track its cool..but the new mouse on mars stuff is fookin rockin... plusthis alters guy they have on sonig he's baaad too..

[kungfoo]

aw.. would love to see wevie stonder one time. hope he's coming near Karlsruhe someday.
I wouldn't say Donna Summer is cabaret, hehe.. it's more like we Germans call "Kasperletheater"
I'm looking forward for sonig-vs-noodles - guess it will be some freaky reccord :D

[karitek]

now wevie stonder live is wicked.

i just don't get donna summer's live show. i like individual tracks, and i get that he doesn't just want to stand behind a laptop doing nothing like a lot of the noise/laptop musicians out of nyc. but the whole jumping around thing like crazy is just annoying.

[aleks]

maybe it some sort of aerobic, just for physical fitness...

[KaOz]

its a sort of gayness

[invisibleplanet]

i just heard some tracks from the new Donna Summer on http://www.resonancefm.com, on The Creative Review with James D C, with his panel of various luminaries deliver an informative forum for reviews and intellectual debate of all of the multimedia arts including film, painting, photography, theatre, literature, performance, graphic novels, installations, happenings etc!
James D C has promised some more Donna Summer tracks will be played next week, if anyone who hasn't heard his productions yet would like to listen.