The NME said of Maximo Park (I have taken the liberty of removing the umlaut affectation from the “I” as it has no phonetic consequence) that they “write killer, dance-filling pop songs [how intentional was the use of “Killer(s)”? -ed], mostly about the near universal topic of not being able to get girls to fall in love with them”. The NME characterized these lyrical proclivities as “unpredictable”. Maximo Park say that they write songs about “real life”. Proclaimers of fake life beware.

If you are in NYC you can see Maximo Park this Friday night at Tonic (of all places) for what will certainly be a sold-out show crawling with journalists.

Maximo Park, originally scheduled for 10pm will now be going on earlier (9:30), adding an opener, and taking a nice long sound check, and bumping the new Kill Rock Stars/5RC signing The Robot Ate Me out of their 8:00pm bill and removing those cynical art-weirdos (and their similarly un-discofashionrock openers, Doveman) where they belong — midnight. Well it’s not like Maximo Park can personally readjust the bill. But they are on the cover of the NME and if that kind of buzz can’t carry enough influence at Tonic, what’s the point of rock and roll anyway?

Sorry Robots. Come back when you’re prettier.

(Learn more at www.therobotateme.com/
and www.dovemanmusic.com and to learn more about Maximo Park…well you can probably manage that one on your own).

p.s.
Lest my facetious fail to translate, my money is on the midnight show.