{"id":999,"date":"2010-03-04T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/03\/the-beginning-and-the-end-of-the-clientele.html"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:38:00","slug":"the-beginning-and-the-end-of-the-clientele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2010\/03\/the-beginning-and-the-end-of-the-clientele.html","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning &#8212; and the End &#8212; of The Clientele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Followers of the UK indie scene have been aware or the chimey, reverb-drenched Clientele for several years now. The band&#8217;s current tour, which brings them to LA\u2019s Spaceland on Friday and Saturday night, could likely be their last.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-et-clientele5-2010mar05,0,3387329.story\"><span>Here<\/span><\/a><span> is my LA Times piece on the band, which goes up Friday. I spoke to lead singer\/guitarist Al MacLean about his early schooling in classical guitar, his fondness for LA bands like the Byrds and Love &#8212; and his sense that The Clientele may have reached the limits of his vision for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S5BTQLJDEbI\/AAAAAAAAArQ\/js6xO796GYw\/s1600-h\/clientele-brick.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/S5BTQLJDEbI\/AAAAAAAAArQ\/js6xO796GYw\/s320\/clientele-brick.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>The Clientele are more proof that the West Coast sound of the 1960s is often best mined by English and Scottish groups.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>He sees several possibilities for the group, but adds:\u00a0<\/span><span><span>\u201cWhat I don\u2019t think we can do is a record like the five we\u2019ve already done.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Weirdly, the collapse of the band could happen after one of their best records &#8212; the hypnotic <\/span><i><span>Bonfires on the Heath<\/span><\/i><span> &#8212; and their most serious tour. Either way, I&#8217;ll be at Spaceland Friday. I caught them at the Knitting Factory the last time around, and MacLean&#8217;s encore with the guitarist for Great Lakes was like seeing a jam session between Johnny Marr and Chuck Berry. Don&#8217;t miss them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Followers of the UK indie scene have been aware or the chimey, reverb-drenched Clientele for several years now. The band&#8217;s current tour, which brings them to LA\u2019s Spaceland on Friday and Saturday night, could likely be their last.Here is my LA Times piece on the band, which goes up Friday. I spoke to lead singer\/guitarist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,40,30,61,227,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-brit-culture","7":"category-indie","8":"category-los-angeles","9":"category-spaceland","10":"category-the-clientele","11":"category-west-coast","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}