LAMBCHOP Live at Teatro Masini, Faenza – 21st June 2013
On the night Lambchop played Faenza, the town’s annual deranged chariot races (“La folle corsa delle bighe”) were taking place in streets nearby.
From footage of previous years’ derangement these look like something out of a Monty Python sketch in which home-made chariots, with occupants dressed in makeshift medieval robes, are pulled by two men to race one another around a short circuit.
I think Kurt Wagner could write a pretty decent song about such orchestrated madness but you could count on the fact that it would be no straight narrative of events. His is another kind of strangeness. Continue reading
