Was intrigued after seeing Wings of Desire but didn’t pursue until I got started with Boatman’s call after seeing “About Time” about 10 years ago. Love everything he’s ever done pretty much. I think I love the two Bad Seeds albums the most though. Hard to say though, Murder Ballads is amazing and Let Love In is an obvious classic. Oddly enough I’m a bit of a prog head but he’s my favorite artist of all time by a pretty significant margin.

Thanks for checking some of it out. I’ll give your stuff a spin tomorrow.

We are. https://fian.bandcamp.com/album/notes-from-the-underground

So far as I have observed this is the rule for all art, music, books, films, etc. At least 95% of it is pure unadulterated shit. 4% is tolerable and 1% is gold. Goes for pretty much any genre and for any timeframe. Beautiful, weird, wonderful, profound stuff is always being made but most of the time you have to go and intentionally seek it out.

Here are the rules as I see them:

1. Small touring band gets middle slot from the locals as a courtesy. Hopefully it’s paid forward.
2. If it’s all local bands, whoever booked the show chooses the line up. Booking is such a fucking pain in the ass. If I email 15 venues over and over finding a night that works for them and I put a bill together emailing 50 bands to find the ones available and finding new ones after the first set inevitably flake you better bet your ass I reserve the right to take the middle of the night. Then again, I also use that as a bargaining chip when trying to book shows with bands above our weight. Or if another band becomes friends with us and I want to be cool to them.
3. Everyone agrees beforehand. No changes night of. That’s is, in the words of Santa/Crashmore, unprofessional bullshit.

For tiny bands, middle is almost unilaterally “best.” Everyone who came only for the opener is still there, those filtering in for the last band start showing up.