Yeah yeah, Matt, but ... um your venue is gonna say stuff like that, being (like myself) from the ahem .. upper echelons of musical pretentious-ness...
I think that playing over a backing track can be cool as fuck, playing over a drum-machine can be very cool (see link below), but there does have to be some playing... live.
Cheesy drum-machine played and played over by the very wonderful "Children and corpse playing in the streets".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRnUAwDaU0Y
