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Concert Review: Blonde Redhead at the Hollywood Avondale - 22 June 2024
KATIE BROWN — 26 JUNE 2024
Fascinating: it’s the best word I can think of to describe US-based act Blonde Redhead’s outstanding performance at Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland’s character-laden Hollywood Avondale venue on Saturday night. And I’m talking about fascination in the snake-charmer kind of sense: bewitching; beguiling. Ipnotizzante.
For the unfamiliar, Blonde Redhead comprises Italian twin brothers Amedeo (lead guitar, keys, vocals, bass) and Simone Pace (drums, keys), along with Japanese Kazu Makino (vocals, keys, rhythm guitar). Stylistically, their work runs the gamut from shoegaze to noise rock to dream pop: it’s an eclectic, intense sound that often leans towards the melancholy, and unsurprisingly, it’s gained them a cult following worldwide.
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If you are familiar with the utter delight that is French film Amélie (or Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain for the purists), you might recall the fabulous voyage of Amélie’s father’s garden gnome, prised secretly from his garden one night by Amélie Poulain herself, that worker of secret miracles. In the arms of Amélie’s flight attendant friend, the gnome travels around the world, his journey documented by Polaroid photos that Amélie’s father, Raphael Poulain, receives in the post.
Raphael is bewildered. First, his beloved gnome disappears, and then he reappears in photo format in the post. More, the gnome appears to be living the jet-setting and adventurous life Raphael, stoic, risk-averse, and preferring to keep his world small, controlled and therefore safe, could never be bold enough to live himself.
“Je ne comprends pas,” he mutters. “Je ne COMPRENDS pas.”
I don’t understand.
— Je Ne Comprends Pas
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