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Playing at End of the Road this year. Got to do a school run in the middle of the festival so hope I don't miss them 🙁
I'll tell you who I won't be seeing - Angine De Poitrine
Me neither. ****in awful overhyped internet novelty ****ery.
Angine De Poitrine
If it wasn't for some reasonable musicianship I'd swear it was Vic and Bob
I'll tell you who I won't be seeing - Angine De Poitrine.
Every gig within reach is already sold out, there was one local venue who put tickets up today at 11. At 11:00:05 I loaded the page and pressed two tickets. I was sent into hold/a queue ~ 11:00:20.
By 11:02 my place in the queue came up and they had already all gone.
Damn
Same here, gutted. But they’ve just been added to the bill for Edinburgh PsychFest and that’s sooner!
Hype be hype. I think they’re mega.
Currently on the train to Liverpool to enjoy and eve ung with Nightmares in Wax and friends.
Happy zombie Jesus weekend people.
Joe and the Shitboys lastnight, finest gay vegan punk you'll find from the Faroe islands at Fuel, Cardiff
Milk tonight for some rock and roll fun
Cardiff Psychfest tomorrow PM should be decent, Spithood are playing so will be energetic
Grabbed tickets for Nothing at Clwb later in April, Punchbag and Noisefest at the end of the month, have Shlug coming up at Canopi next week, there's a tonne going on in Cardiff for the curious.
I dont really listen to this type of thing at home or in the car, but when I'm out I kind of want to see something happen
Not a gig per se, but just enjoyed Tina the musical.
Wall to wall bangers.
grabbed a pair of tickets for Ferocious Dog, a pair for Lincoln, same for their last ever show at Rock City. Nearly didnt go for the Rock City tickets as they were a tenner more than Lincoln, but thought '"come on grandad, move with the times, £38 for a band you like at their last ever gig....." good job i did as it soon sold out.
James at the Utilita Arena, Birmingham were excellent on Friday. 2 hours of a good mixture of songs from their career.
Doves were the support and they were also really good.
Next Thursday it’s Rosadocs at The Louisiana in Bristol.
Saw Henge last night in Huddersfield. Bonkers but brilliant.
Angine de Poitrine
in October
(tbh, I’m pretty sure it’s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee under the masks😂😂😂).
Just seen Ist Ist at The Garage in London. Not my kind of music, just sounded like Joy Division to me. Really good, would bother again.
In contrast Kreator at the Brixton Academy last week was shit - dreadful sound quality. Carcass were good, but couldn't hear anyone else. The pyrotechnics were wild. Would not bother again.
I quite fancy seeing Henge as mentioned above!
Shlug at Canopi in Cardiff last night, support from Lung, sludgy Sabbath inspired metal, they were really good!
Last night we went to see Carsie Blanton and The Burning Hell pretty much based on one song I'd seen on Instagram. I don't usually go to gigs unless I'm pretty familiar with the music. But last night was awesome, life affirming, hopeful and funny. Molotov cocktails around last night.
Henge played a free gig on the field behind my house last year (maybe the year before). It was amazing apart from one thing. I'd been ill all weekend with the squits.
I watched as much as I could take and then urgently shuffled home. I opened the bathroom window and listened to the end of the set while sitting on the bog. It really ramped up at the end in more ways than one.
I've got tickets to see Angine de Poitrine in October. It'll be my first time going out and travelling to see a band in years.
I don't usually go to gigs unless I'm pretty familiar with the music.
I don't usually question people's life choices, it's up to you. But that one, you're just 100% wrong 😉
I don't usually go to gigs unless I'm pretty familiar with the music.
I don't usually question people's life choices, it's up to you. But that one, you're just 100% wrong 😉
Same. I spent 15 years going out to pubs all week listening to unknown bands.
You never know what you'll find. Some of it will be total crap and that's fine. Some of it will be amazing.
None of it's crap. There's just stuff you like, and stuff other people like (but are wrong about) 😉
(and then there's good stuff played badly, but that's a different thing. Some of the best shows I've seen have had bad sound, and mucking up the middle eight or repeating the second verse by mistake, but that's what live means. It's not an exam, and if you want perfection you're missing the point)
Someone mentioned novelty nonsense with good musicianship.
Nick Cage Against The Machine were great fun at the Crescent in York last week. Audience was a really good mix of young and old, punks and rockers too.
Not entirely sure that Killing in the Name should be a novelty song, but I am sure I want RATM back. We need them in these times.
RATM were the last band I made a proper effort to get tickets for and I was foiled 3 times. First by COVID and then by Zach blowing out his knee.
Maybe one day. Saw them at Leeds fest in 2000.
Each to their own and all that but due to financial and time constraints I'm generally only going to go and see acts I'm familiar with. I also like to go to comedy gigs which are generally cheaper and easier to get to.
What a week of gigs that was.
Buena Vista Social Club, some quality Cuban jazz
James, wonderful gig, they've so many hits. Having 2 drummers adds to it.
Prodigy with Carl Cox in support - sonic onslaught from the moment we walked into the arena for 3-4 hours.
Samantics on a boat, spoken word with loops of Ukulele / keyboard. Such a chilled Sunday afternoon cruising up and down the Dee, so good we snuck onto the second sailing to do it all again
Tues night, went to lovely little Heartbreakers in Southampton - , band I saw as support a month or so ago "headliners" this time (3 bands for £8 🙂 ) called One Lung, great fun, passionate punk attitude, so young..! Weird crowd, lot more kidz than I expected, but they were mostly just stood still watching. Left a 3 foot gap in front of the stage, too self conscious to get close? Me and my friend just went in the gap and bopped. One point these 2 young females came down the front next to me, danced for all of 15 seconds, thought we were gonna start a mosh going... but they then got their phones out, took pics for their insta (presumably) and disappeared back into the "throng". Bloody weird kids these days. Good that they are getting out seeing unknown bands in little venues though, so ho hum. 😀
Next is Just Mustard
In contrast Kreator at the Brixton Academy last week was shit - dreadful sound quality. Carcass were good, but couldn't hear anyone else
Saw kreator at Glasgow O2 academy and the sound was the best I have ever heard there. Carcass also had great sound . Exodus sound was awful
I don't know why bands play there, it's a rubbish venue and the sound is normally really poor
Was looking forwards to 2 gigs at Rock and Roll Brewhouse in Brum but I've broke a finger, dislocated another and banged a knee up last week coming back from a gig-2 good bands so worth it-in Rednal.
Saturday its Surface Air and Sunday its Rock Of Ages new bands show. Still a day n a half to recover more.
I'm seeing The Wildhearts in May. Then toying with the idea of going to Texas is the Reason on the 31st, but it would mean driving back from Manchester to Hull on my own on a school night, because apparently no one else knows who Texas is the Reason are.
I still reckon it'll be worth it though.