(TV) Television at the Green Man Festival review

[Keith Allison <keith@thewonder.co.uk>]

"...Are Television a one album band? Or even a one song band? It's not 
as if the rest of their work is bad; just that this song surpasses 
everything else. It's so oddly sparse yet vibrant, so detached yet so 
warm, signifying nothing and somehow everything. 'Marquee Moon' could be 
many things, but upon closer inspection, it turns out to be none of 
them. It's movement around the graveyard could make it macabre - but 
it's not at all. It's journey-like qualities - the cadillac that putters 
- suggest perhaps an allegory, but it's too conflicted, too immediate, 
too doubled in darkness and oxymoronic for any real reading of this kind.

It's why it grabs me here so hard. Thinking of this man carting his song 
around for over 40 years, and it still works. It clicks something into 
place, reminds you that you're here, you're alive too. In what other art 
form could you find such a thing occurring collectively, apart from 
music. Visual arts? No way, too elitist. Film or television? Too removed 
from the immediacy of audience. A figure such as Verlaine being able to 
tour the world because of a song. Whatever rock music is about (or 
indeed, if you're a half-empty kinda person, was about) perhaps this 
might be it."...


http://thequietus.com/articles/18673-live-report-television-review

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