Live from Le Weekend festival in Scotland, May 2005 come Thurston and Kim! I saw Thurston walking around ATP with a bright orange cap on, he?s about 8 ft. in real life. I also saw Lee Ranaldo watching Bark Haze and was gonna say, dude, you played Mote! Way to go! But he was talking to J. Mascis. Lou Barlow was no-where to be seen so I couldn?t go and tell him how great Flame is. The bassist from Be Your Own Pet followed us around the WHOLE festival, I actually think there?s about six of him, he was literally at every single band. Anywhoo, Thurston + Kim, I can?t be bought, it?s good. I love the feedback actually. It creeps in and out of the strummed clean sections like leaking strips of light, sometimes overpowering the whole set-up, marking the fragility of the whole thing. It?s actually more enjoyable than when they go nuts, way more. You get that tremolo arm bending distortion one end and high-pitched squeaks the other, you know, it just feels slightly dissipated. Kim has this cool grainy effect on/off her voice, which makes her sound EVEN COOLER. The third quarter hits a great heavy under-drone, peppered with bits of Thurston. Almost GHQ in character, but no Nolan pumping out the jams. Or Shelley. At ATP you could hardly see Steve Shelly because Thurston is so BIG! At one point he got his guitar and held it up against the speaker stack to rip some feedback, stretched his whole body up and it?s like, look out Thurston, you?re gonna punch a hole in the Butlins tarpaulin!! I?m gonna take the opportunity to give props to Thurston for the whole Universal thing. Not that I?ve heard any snide remarks about selling out or anything, most of the people I talk to all listen to the Pet Shop Boys and Seth Lakeman anyway, but Ecstatic Peace is essentially a GOOD THING. So anyway, the last 15 or so minutes of this are the best, a pulsing, voltage-driven murky backroad, cluttered through, felt about in the dark, the dual effect on Kim?s voice setting up a nice difference and keeping you hung on the words as they drip from the loose and languid strings, and then SHAKE! SHAKE! SHAKE! Sweet. 7/10 -- Evan Rhodes (17 April, 2007)