Night Gallery was the follow-up show to the Twilight Zone and featured Rod Serling in an art gallery, unveiling paintings that depicted the story ahead. I only know about it because it is parodied in a Halloween episode of The Simpsons. I don’t think it was as popular in the UK; over here we are all about Michael Aspel.
This Night Gallery is Adam Griffin and Aaron David, and as with Aaron’s other band, Gatekeeper, their band’s name fits the music perfectly. But while Gatekeeper take influence from the music used in movies of Dario Argento and John Carpenter to make a strange transcendent form of electronic dance music, Night Gallery are more influenced by classic synth-pop, new wave, and the Labyrinth soundtrack. It’s still pretty dark though, and the track below is about a child killer from Newcastle. They are releasing a record on Rainbow Body sometime soon, but for now listen to this.
Anonymous, on Dec 16, 2009 wrote: hey, reasonable hipster-hating guy...
You like to put labels on stuff, dont ya? yeah. yeeeah... looove it... Labels like "hipster" or "sub-culture" but sadly i am rubber and you are glue so whatever you say bounces offa me and sticks to you... Douche.
Anonymous, on Nov 20, 2009 wrote: Interesting point you fucking windbag...
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: Someone’s halfway through their sophomore year at college!
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: for some reasons, i fucking hate hipsters. here is a brief reason of why.
hipsters are the new yuppies. both are easily categorized commercial sub-cultures whose belief in the importance of their own "uniqueness" really indicates an overwhelming insecurity about their own lack of authenticity.
the interesting thing about both hipsters and yuppies, is that while the subject clearly feels itself to be radically different from its compatriots, to the outside observer, they all look the same. somehow all of the variety produces nothing but the impression of uniformity. the subject typically replies to this by saying that the observer simply isn’t sophisticated enough to appreciate the differences.
the hipsters have taken the conflation of products and identity to a new level, since they are a more recent state in the evolution of american lack of identity,. their commercial aesthetic has incorporated the notion of "marginalization", and for them this somehow suffices as proof that they are operating against the culture, rather than within it. however, the commercialization of the margin is typically the only way anyone learns about it. it becomes a fetish to be purchased in some way.
for the hipster, inauthenticity is equated with "un-originality". hence, their quest for authenticity plays out in absurd attempts to demonstrate their own originality in terms of clothing, music, taste in literature, tattoos, bones in their ears, etc. what is lost on the hipsters is that almost all of their search for authenticity takes places in a commercial landscape, or within a location which is clearly circumscribed by a commercial landscape or interest. while this may seem somewhat trite due to the fact that the western human world is essentially a commercial entity nowadays, with the phrase "existence precedes essence" being replaced by "purchasing precedes essence", the hipsters nevertheless occupy a distinguished place in the modern mess of things.
The particular piece of bad faith on the part of the hipster is that they believe the opposite implication to be true. That is, they believe in their case that their essence determines their purchases, or lack of. Hence the absurd conflation of originality with products, and as such, the devotion to the sorting of products, both commercial and cultural (difference?), with the construction of self.
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: naw the best part of the labyrinth is weird david bowie.
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: i get all my cultural references from the simpsons too
bkallday, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: gloomy little track. i like it though.
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: Finally something worth while listening to. Thanks.
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: night gallery has got to be the world’s most obscure reference
FiveAlive, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: the voice really is familiar
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: good stuff
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: goddamn this voice sounds so familiar and i can’t place it.
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: So glad to finally hear anything definitive about this band. I randomly found three tracks of theirs two years ago, it was good stuff but I was never able to find anything more about them. Nice to know.
Anonymous, on Nov 19, 2009 wrote: the best part of labyrinth is the soundtrack anyway
Whenever you travel to a new place for the first time there’s always that fear that everybody in the scene will be a bunch of toffs and you won’t meet anybody operating on your level. Then you bump into some slit-eyed goon burbling something about stolen chips and you know everything’s going to be all right. Enlarge/Comments More DOs & DON'Ts
Look at him, taking back “wee ginger cunt” the way rappers took back the n-word and womyn took back the night. Enlarge/Comments More DOs & DON'Ts
Night Gallery was the follow-up show to the Twilight Zone and featured Rod Serling in an art gallery, unveiling paintings that depicted the story ahead. I only know about it because it is parodied in a Halloween episode of The Simpsons. I don’t think it was as popular in the UK; over here we are all about Michael Aspel.
