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I skim read that and thought 'it all sounds a bit too Jools Holland for me' - then read the end of your first paragraph....
Excited for Y-Not this year, best line up for some time
I believe you are describing a 'mashup'
There's a thread idsea!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Edit
Johnny and The Baptists last Saturday in Norwich. They were both crocked and had a backing track because guitar playing while using a stick with an injured strumming arm wasn't going to happen (Paddy) while Johnny had problems that were not visible but equally restricting!
A small crowd but a great evening out.
Linkin park and Spiritbox tomorrow night at Wembley, biggest gig I'll have ever been to, a little excited now
Also, grabbed Prodigy with Carl Cox in April next year at the Wembley Arena, excited by this, both acts used to play side by side in the early rave days.. So it's the first standing tickets I've bought in a while also
Managed to get tickets for The Hives at Ally Pally in November. Looking forward to that.
Off to see Stephen Wilson Jnr in Bristol with my daughter and her partner.
Not gigs as such but I heard a great piece on R4 about a 3-gen family that do Glastonbury every year; Grandma went as a free spirit in the 70's, took her daughter after she was born and now she takes her kids too. Grandma's 72, kids are 7 and 9.
But their top festival tip..... every morning as a group they head to the long drops with Grandma leading the charge with a bucket of cleaning fluids, brushes, rubber gloves, etc., and then she commandeers a cubicle and scrubs it till it gleams, so the family can all enjoy relative comfort one after the other.
If you're there, keep an eye out and join the queue!
I've got James at Cannock chase tomorrow evening, really looking forward to James, but not too bothered about the support (Razorlight and someone else) but prepared to be surprised.
I've also got Prodigy / Carl Cox in Birmingham next year - I've not see them before so that'll be an experience
nice one @Stuf, i think I've seen the Prodigy as much as any other band from 1992 and the last time would've been 2018?
great boogie, interested to know what Carl Cox will play as he varies his sets a fair bit, pretty sure it won't be a pure techno set, he would need to mix it up with a lot of back in the day old school.. Actually, not sure I've actually seen Carl Cox live...
Eric Prydz on the beach in Brighton next month (forgot, but the Carl Cox chat reminded me) , love this setup, been twice before.. it's a special day out in the sun having a boogie...
alan1977 snap. Off to Linkin Park at Wembley tomorrow with my just about grown up kids and bought Prodigy & CC tickets for Birmingham with my lad yesterday.
We went to see Santana at Co-op Live last night. It was an excellent gig and not what I was expecting at all. As he’s about 900 years old...
I worked in a lab in London, late 80s, and the head technician went to see Santana. I remember saying about how old Carlos was even then - to a 20 year old. Impressive that he's still going.
One thing of note…. the average age of the audience was the highest of any gig I’ve ever been to, and when it comes to annoyingly holding iPhones up and filming, boomers are far, far worse for it than teenagers!
Fairport Convention last year, in a seated but steep sided theatre. If there'd been a fire we'd all have been burned to death because the average audience member seemed to have hip problems, walking sticks, zimmer frames and simply couldn't make anything like steady progress even on level ground. I shouldn't complain, it comes to us all! 😀
A bit late posting - but Deftones at Eden Project last Thursday were immense.
Next up for me will be Green Man - they have loads of acts I am looking forward to this year.
A bit late posting - but Deftones at Eden Project last Thursday were immense.
Next up for me will be Green Man - they have loads of acts I am looking forward to this year.
Awesome, saw them at Piece Hall last week.
To those that went, how was the Linkin Park gig? Gutted I couldn't get tickets.
So. Wembley Stadium....
I am not one to grumble or over dramatise
I was up at the back left, just before the curve to the back, viewing was great, all be it super far away
However
the sound was terrible, i want to say inaudible. I've never experienced such a bad audio setup.. my section definitely shouldn't have been used.
Apparently Wembley is famous for it... who knew?
I think... it was the fact that being side on, i was hearing the stage and the 2 pairs of pitch speakers, all time delayed, hitting me, it was just a wall of mistimed noise.. when there was clean drums you literally ended up with a reggae beat.. When you had guitars.. just a mess... At least Linin park play quite clean music, so it was possible to focus in (i had earplugs in which may have helped), but Spiritbox, who are much heavier.. was a total inaudbile mess
there are speakers hanging from the roof, i'm not sure if they were running, or not loud enough to overpower? or adding to the floor placement noise...
I understand the pitch audio was great, i suspect other, more central seating may have been better also
Looking around, it's a common complaint... a little miffed that there is no warning when buying tickets.. they tell you if your view may be broken...
I wouldn't do it again unless i could confirm this was improved
Just got tickets to see Gary Numan in November. Annoyed that I didn't act more quickly, (well, had my mates confirm which gigs they wanted to go to without several reminders) as Pop Will Eat Itself has just sold out FFS.
So I have a busy-ish autumn/winter:
The Stranglers/The Buzzcocks
Aussie Floyd
Gary Numan
New Model Army/Terrorvision
So. Wembley Stadium....
I am not one to grumble or over dramatise
I was up at the back left, just before the curve to the back, viewing was great, all be it super far away
However
the sound was terrible, i want to say inaudible. I've never experienced such a bad audio setup.. my section definitely shouldn't have been used.
Apparently Wembley is famous for it... who knew?
I think... it was the fact that being side on, i was hearing the stage and the 2 pairs of pitch speakers, all time delayed, hitting me, it was just a wall of mistimed noise.. when there was clean drums you literally ended up with a reggae beat.. When you had guitars.. just a mess... At least Linin park play quite clean music, so it was possible to focus in (i had earplugs in which may have helped), but Spiritbox, who are much heavier.. was a total inaudbile mess
there are speakers hanging from the roof, i'm not sure if they were running, or not loud enough to overpower? or adding to the floor placement noise...
I understand the pitch audio was great, i suspect other, more central seating may have been better also
Looking around, it's a common complaint... a little miffed that there is no warning when buying tickets.. they tell you if your view may be broken...
I wouldn't do it again unless i could confirm this was improved
I've been for a few gigs there and I think (from my small statistically non-significant sample) that its hit and miss depending where stood / sat. I've been in the side wings a couple of times, not far from being side-on to the stage, and it was OK or even fairly good. Surprisingly ok at ACDC for instance. But I think some parts get sound hitting from different places which are inevitably at different times after coming from different speaker banks, reflections etc.
(For Maiden at the Olympic stadium I purposely got the stage side of the repeater speaker banks (ie on the back side of the speakers) because I feared that I'd get a mixed up sound otherwise).
Enclosed stadiums like Wembley (and the Olympic stadium) always make me think there's a risk of being on a hiding to nothing.
The concrete hell hole box that is Wembley arena was poor when I saw Extreme - Nuno Bettencourt's playing is so fast and complex that it gets lost and half the sound is meeting itself coming backwards off the walls. Whereas Scorpions much simpler 4/4 and no more than 8 beats per bar was very good in the same hall.
My wide sent me a message last night while I was waking the dog, saying she had been offered a maiden ticket for tonights gig in glasgow.
Now I've been a maiden fan since my early teens, but have been pretty knackered with one thing or another of late, so was contemplating how to manage my day so I have enough energy to go, when she hits me with 'are you OK with me going and you watch the dog'
:-/
turns out it was one of her mates who'd been let down.
I think it's revenge for me stalling to see Iggy Pop when she was offered tickets and she lost out.
Yay - I managed to get some PWEI tickets from another outlet (happened to be browsing on Songkick and spotted that they were available). So, five gigs in Oct, Nov and Dec, all but one being on Friday or Saturday nights too.
The Prodigy hit it out the park on Sunday at Glastonbury. I hope those going to see them early next year get the same treatment, you'll love it.
Was at Maiden at the Hydro on Monday. Impressive show, but a bit disappointed with the sound mix of the low end. Guitars really sung out, but Harris’s bass was completely swamped by the kick drum. Only time you really heard it was during the quieter moments. How did the other dates sound? Wasn’t a venue issue as the Raven Age sounded amazing.
Maybe just a difference in approaches between the new and old.
First time I’ve seen them, as not a massive fan, but wanted to see them before one of the main members dies.
Nothing in the calendar until Counting Crows in October. Still wondering about the Lemonheads in August though.
How did the other dates sound?
I was at Manchester, the sound was really bad to start with – Dickinson's vocals sounded a bit flat (almost like both bass and treble were turned down) and during Wrathchild, Dave Murray was doing a lead break, the cameras were on him, but you could barely hear his guitar. Fortunately, they seemed to get it sorted as the rest of the set was pretty well much perfect and I thought Dickinson sounded better than other recent tours (but that may be a venue-specific thing).
Went to see The Wailers at Vicar Street last night. Good gig, if maybe not quite as good as last time I saw them there a couple of years ago. Lots of energy, good sound, great setlist.
Tonight's Weezer at Trinity College. I've been meaning to see them for about 5 years, since the Blue Album tour, so it's long overdue. But I'm absolutely knackered; could do with it being not tonight!
The Prodigy hit it out the park on Sunday at Glastonbury. I hope those going to see them early next year get the same treatment, you'll love it.
Will be seeing them in 4.5 weeks at Y-Not 👍
I see Fish56octagon has made it on the line up at Y-Not too. I caught the end of his set on The Glade stage at Glastonbury and he was pretty decent. He can mix and his energy behind the decks is infectious. Worth a watch if you like dance music.
Mister-P - did you go to Glastonbury?
I certainly did, yes. I said a few years ago I was done with big festivals but I had the opportunity of a free ticket so I thought why not. I had an absolute blast, what an experience. I'm not sure I'd pay to go, I still think smaller festivals are my future, but I'm very glad I went.
Was at Maiden at the Hydro on Monday. Impressive show, but a bit disappointed with the sound mix of the low end. Guitars really sung out, but Harris’s bass was completely swamped by the kick drum. Only time you really heard it was during the quieter moments. How did the other dates sound? Wasn’t a venue issue as the Raven Age sounded amazing.
Maybe just a difference in approaches between the new and old.First time I’ve seen them, as not a massive fan, but wanted to see them before one of the main members dies.
Nothing in the calendar until Counting Crows in October. Still wondering about the Lemonheads in August though.
At The Olympic stadium, where I was, if anything it was the 'mids' that needed lifting. Drum + Bass was pretty clear, but thought Adrian Smith's guitar wasn't coming through as much as I'd like. (Davey's solos cut through well, but Adrian's not quite so much). Again could be just the location I was stood, or maybe increasing age starting to mean I'm losing some of the higher frequency hearing ??
Was at Maiden at the Hydro on Monday. Impressive show, but a bit disappointed with the sound mix
Also there and agree 100% the sound was utter trash.
I initially thought it was the venue kit, but Maiden would have everything plus their own staff running it so **** knows.
Still nice to see them live, and well a fair bit of hair dye on show 😆 so how long can they continue.
Nice to be sitting down this time. H/223 put us the 2nd balcony up at the front at the glass, so no trying to peer round people
Bought the tour T-shirt.
Wet Leg tour tickets go on presale today. Was gonna get Portsmouth tix, but £40! Sod that. I think they will be one of those mass-singalong type bands now, hate that as much as phones at gigs (which there will no doubt be plenty of too, eh chaps?) so I'll give it a miss, unless the other half really wants to go!
Got PiL for my last of the retro gigs on Saturday.
Tim Minchin in Brighton last night. Continuing the theme of sound quality and hearing loss, I struggled with the first couple of songs to get the vocals over the band. Don't get me wrong the band were awesome but the point of his songs are the words and I couldn't hear them. It got better as the gig progressed as either they fixed the sound or my ears tuned in.
My wife got the tickets to go with my daughter as she knew my opinion of Mr Minchin wasn't particularily high. Daughter couldn't make it so, like a hero, I stepped up. I had based my opinion on sound bites, photo's and media, nothing else. Turns out you can be wrong about people, who knew 😯 Loved the gig, entertaining, funny, thoughtful, dark, and with a top notch bunch of musicians backing him. A few quotes will stay with me but one to share was his observation of marriage. "Basically, signing a marriage certificate is signing up to watch the one you love most in the world, decay right in front of you" Or something along those lines.
Did anyone get tickets for the Sabbath gig on Saturday?
I'll have to be content with watching the delayed live stream at home.
I think they will be one of those mass-singalong type bands now, hate that as much as phones at gigs
Is anyone going to fess up to attending tonight’s singalong for 50-odd year old, coked-up scaffolders in Cardiff?
Wales is probably about to run out of Stella
Did anyone get tickets for the Sabbath gig on Saturday?
I'll have to be content with watching the delayed live stream at home.
I tried and failed, but, as time has gone on, I have started to think it will all be a massive disappointment – I'd be there for Ozzy and Sabbath (the rest I'd enjoy but not go out of my way to see live nowadays) and, as Ozzy is doing vocals on so few songs, I think I would have felt a bit short-changed.
I am looking forward to reading the reviews of Oasis tomorrow – it is either going to be absolutely epic or a complete disaster and, at the moment, I am thinking it will be the latter.
Is anyone going to fess up to attending tonight’s singalong for 50-odd year old, coked-up scaffolders in Cardiff?
Hilarious that it's going to be on iPlayer! You won't be able to hear the band (probably a good thing) 🤣
Hilarious that it's going to be on iPlayer!
I'll admit you got me a bit excited there, but seems the thing on iPlayer is not going to actually feature the performance;
What to expect from the Oasis live stream?
The BBC’s live stream from Cardiff will be hosted by Jason Mohammad and Tina Daheley, it has been announced. It will start at 1pm and cover the build-up to the first show of the tour.
It will be broadcast from a site overlooking the stadium and there will be a mixture of live coverage, special guests and on-the-ground reports from the BBC’s team speaking to fans out across the city. It won’t feature any of the gig itself - it is not like the broadcaster’s coverage of Glastonbury last weekend.
If it had of included the performance I was going to point out it was slightly contradictory to the original tweet announcing the reunion!;
Come see.
Ah, no ta, you’re alright.
Did anyone get tickets for the Sabbath gig on Saturday?
I'll have to be content with watching the delayed live stream at home.
Didn't bother trying. Ozzy is sadly well past it, it'll be an absolute miracle if he pulls a good performance out of the bag (though here's hoping I'm eating my hat come the end of Saturday). Tommy Iomi still seems to have 'it' though.
Of the other support bands, there's a few i'd like to see, but suspect the ones i like will only get a 20 min or so slot, or judt come on with someone else.
I know this is sacrilege in metal circles, but I really couldnt give a monkey's about Metallica (I'd actually prefer seeing the Monkees). Or Slayer or Pantera.
The only ones I'd go out of my way to see in their own right are Ghost and Halestorm / Lzzy Hale. (I thought Halestorm were brilliant last week supporting Maiden).
Nonetheless, I hope everyone that got ticket has a fabulous day 🤘
I am looking forward to reading the reviews of Oasis tomorrow – it is either going to be absolutely epic or a complete disaster and, at the moment, I am thinking it will be the latter.
Well it’s tomorrow and scanning through the first reviews, I’m going to say you are a touch wrong on your prediction. So far I’m seeing 5 out of 5 reviews from The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Telegraph & The Times.
My son, who is not 50-odd nor a scaffolder nor coked-up, has just got back from the Oasis gig and says it was brilliant.
I suppose it was always going to be one of those gigs where you think ‘this is either going to be absolutely brilliant or truly awful’
Looks like it was the former. Fair play to ‘em
Am travelling back from holiday today so was excited about the Sabbath back to the beginning stream, but £34 and only available to watch until till 3pm on Monday is a p*** take.
What? £34 to watch a gig on the internet?! Who would stupid enough to actually pay that?!
Well it’s tomorrow and scanning through the first reviews, I’m going to say you are a touch wrong on your prediction. So far I’m seeing 5 out of 5 reviews from The Guardian, The Independent, The Sun, The Telegraph & The Times.
To be fair, I did think it could be epic too - my hunch was more towards the latter, but fair play to them, I’ve read a few reviews and they are universally glowing.