Topic: The Concerts and Festivals Thread!

[damomad]

Pavement last night. Top class!

[jackh]

Bit gutted to have missed out on a Fontaines DC and Lightning Seeds double header this weekend.

But next weekend is a bit of a mad one - three gigs in four nights (and an engagement party on the spare evening!)...Jason Isbell, Idlewild, and Ezra Furman.

[Crosby Nick]

This week is hectic.

Thursday - Groove Armada
Friday - Hot Chip
Saturday - David Gray (potentially)

Have you woken up from a coma thinking it’s 2001?

Quite envious though!

[AndyMuller]

Managed to grab tickets for Kendrick Lamar on Wednesday.

I've got Wet Leg tomorrow then Kendrick the day after, should be a good week!

[keano7]

Jamie T on Thursday at the 02 Warehouse. Looking forward to it!

[Crosby Nick]

Jamie T on Thursday at the 02 Warehouse. Looking forward to it!

That should be a belter. Enjoying his new album.

[jackh]

That should be a belter. Enjoying his new album.

That's Gerry Cinnamon isn't it?

[Ziltoid]

Porcupine Tree in Manchester next year; 30 years a fan and never seen them.  Had tickets when they supported Dream Theater in 2000 but the show was cancelled.

[storkfoot]

Wet Leg tonight at the O2. Was there a couple of weeks back for the best gig I have seen in a few years - Amyl and the Sniffers.

[AndyMuller]

Wet Leg superb tonight.

Kendrick Lamar tomorrow.

[AndyMuller]

Fucking hell that Kendrick gig tonight was pretty fucking special.

[Lad]

Sigur Ros last week. A game of two halves. First halves glimpses of brilliance but challenging new tracks which tested your patience. Second half after an interval…fantastic. And great light show.

[BarryCrocker]

Sigur Ros last week. A game of two halves. First halves glimpses of brilliance but challenging new tracks which tested your patience. Second half after an interval…fantastic. And great light show.

Remember seeing them at a small festival in Sydney a few years ago. They closed out the night with Untitled #8 aka Popplagið and it blew me away. The noise and lights were epic.

[Ray K]

Remember seeing them at a small festival in Sydney a few years ago. They closed out the night with Untitled #8 aka Popplagið and it blew me away. The noise and lights were epic.

I saw them in Dublin in the 00s. A fella beside me was shouting requests to them between songs, but was shouting out stuff like 'Album 3, Track 5!' or 'Album 5 Track 2!'   

[Yorkykopite]

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit last night at Hammersmith Apollo. Out of this world.

[AndyMuller]

Just bagged Blur tickets for the Sunday.

[Lad]

Remember seeing them at a small festival in Sydney a few years ago. They closed out the night with Untitled #8 aka Popplagið and it blew me away. The noise and lights were epic.

Yes they still close their show with that. It’s staggeringly brilliant as always.

[BarryCrocker]

What a weekend:

> Thurs - Groove Armada dragging MC M.A.D and the stunning Saint Saviour back over to Aus.
> Fri - Hot Chip pulling out all the earworms from Over & Over, Broken to Huarache Lights
> Sat - David Gray doing 'White Ladder' in its entirety was an 8,000 person karaoke session.

Only 1 gig this week:

> Sun - Khruangbin @ The Sydney Opera House

Have so missed live music over the past 2-3 years.

[AndyMuller]

Boss that Barry.

I've got Confidence Man tomorrow and then Nation of Language next week.

[jackh]

What a weekend:

> Thurs - Groove Armada dragging MC M.A.D and the stunning Saint Saviour back over to Aus.
> Fri - Hot Chip pulling out all the earworms from Over & Over, Broken to Huarache Lights
> Sat - David Gray doing 'White Ladder' in its entirety was an 8,000 person karaoke session.

Only 1 gig this week:

> Sun - Khruangbin @ The Sydney Opera House

Have so missed live music over the past 2-3 years.

Similarly good one here - Jason Isbell on Friday, Idlewild last night, and I'm off to see Ezra Furman this evening. Would have been nice to rest on Saturday, but I was at my friends' engagement party!

Idlewild's tour is a celebration of their 2002 album, The Remote Part - they always put in a good performance, but it was great to hear the album played in full...the opening double-header of 'You Held the World in Your Arms' and 'A Modern Way of Letting Go' is just deliciously ferocious live.

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit last night at Hammersmith Apollo. Out of this world.

Manchester on Friday for me. Loved it - the live show really adds some rocky weight to the songs.  Really got the impression the band get on well too, and are a gang of real musicophiles! First time I'd seen Isbell since a support slot in 2012 - given that the last album was a covers record rather than original material, I'd like to think it might not be too long until the next time. The songs either side of the encore ('Cover Me Up' and 'If We Were Vampires') made for a beautiful double-header.

[Crosby Nick]

2002 for that Idlewild album, I presume, not 2022! I saw them support Ash in about 1998 which ages me massively.

Is that the one with American English on it? Loved that tune.

[gerrardisgod]

Caught Lightning Seeds (with Badly Drawn Boy) in Manchester on Saturday, Damon was fucking furious with the sound and all the dickheads just constantly talking, still thought he was ace, as were Lightning Seeds. It was massively oversold though, was scarily crush like and I was near the back of the room.

[liverbloke]

Caught Lightning Seeds (with Badly Drawn Boy) in Manchester on Saturday, Damon was fucking furious with the sound and all the dickheads just constantly talking, still thought he was ace, as were Lightning Seeds. It was massively oversold though, was scarily crush like and I was near the back of the room.

hate this at gigs - went to see the verve in manchester and was at the back and the amount of people just talking through the whole concert was shameful

also hate people who get drunk - so drunk that they're falling over, heckling the artist (ffs) and just being annoying

the security never seem to give a shit - just taser them and throw them out

[jackh]

2002 for that Idlewild album, I presume, not 2022! I saw them support Ash in about 1998 which ages me massively.

Is that the one with American English on it? Loved that tune.

Yep, that's the one

[BarryCrocker]

Boss that Barry.

I've got Confidence Man tomorrow and then Nation of Language next week.

Confidence Man are super fun.

[AndyMuller]

Confidence Man are super fun.

Didn't go in the end, my girlfriend was sick all day unfortunately.

[smutchin]

Wet Leg superb tonight.

Nation of Language next week.

Wet Leg tonight for me, and Nation of Language tomorrow. Very excited about both.

Should have been Working Men's Club next week too but that's been pushed back to December.

Saw BC Camplight a couple of weeks ago at a gig to mark the 25th birthday for Bella Union. My wife is more into his music than I am but he's a truly brilliant performer, really engaging and funny. It was mostly him solo but accompanied on some songs by one of the members of his band - he introduced her but I didn't catch her name, but she's obviously a very talented musician in her own right, with a great voice and a brilliant guitarist and sax player too. Annoyingly, he didn't start playing until nearly 10pm and we had to leave before the end to catch the last train (in the middle of an absolutely storming performance of I'm Desperate), which was gutting. Will definitely make an effort to see him again some time.

[AndyMuller]

Wet Leg tonight for me, and Nation of Language tomorrow. Very excited about both.

Should have been Working Men's Club next week too but that's been pushed back to December.

Saw BC Camplight a couple of weeks ago at a gig to mark the 25th birthday for Bella Union. My wife is more into his music than I am but he's a truly brilliant performer, really engaging and funny. It was mostly him solo but accompanied on some songs by one of the members of his band - he introduced her but I didn't catch her name, but she's obviously a very talented musician in her own right, with a great voice and a brilliant guitarist and sax player too. Annoyingly, he didn't start playing until nearly 10pm and we had to leave before the end to catch the last train (in the middle of an absolutely storming performance of I'm Desperate), which was gutting. Will definitely make an effort to see him again some time.

Let me know what Nation of Language are like please mate.

[smutchin]

Will do. I've heard lots of good reports from the tour so far. Think I'm actually looking forward to them more than Wet Leg, to be honest.

[smutchin]

Turns out Nation of Language are an amazing live band. Ian Devaney is a proper front man - touch of the Samuel T Herring about him. Really brought the songs to life. Sound quality was superb too, which helped. And the crowd were really into it too, so the atmosphere was just euphoric. Main set closed with The Wall & I, which was fantastic. Then they came on for an encore of a cover of the Pixies' Gouge Away, Chicago (one of their earliest singles) and a proper anthemic showstopper rendition of Across That Fine Line.

One of my top gigs of the year, along with Katy J Pearson and black midi. 10/10.

Support act were Deep Tan - old-school spiky, funky post punk in a Slits/ESG stylee. Really good. I reckon they're going to be worth keeping an eye on.
Here's a clip of them from a gig in Newcastle earlier this year: https://youtu.be/Jby8unpZjvg

Wet Leg were good but not in the same league. I wasn't in a great mood for that one though - had a nightmare journey getting there, so we missed the support acts, and then Wet Leg's set was only 45 minutes. They just don't have enough songs yet. And while they are good musicians, they aren't yet polished and seemed to lack confidence as performers. Highlight was Ur Mum - the whole audience joined in with the scream, which was fun.

[BarryCrocker]

Just home from seeing Khruangbin @ The Sydney Opera House. What a gig. Split into 2 sections, the first being more of their slower more intricate works and the second half had everyone up and dancing. There's a lot of sound coming from this trio and they all play such a perfect role in balancing that out.

[AndyMuller]

Turns out Nation of Language are an amazing live band. Ian Devaney is a proper front man - touch of the Samuel T Herring about him. Really brought the songs to life. Sound quality was superb too, which helped. And the crowd were really into it too, so the atmosphere was just euphoric. Main set closed with The Wall & I, which was fantastic. Then they came on for an encore of a cover of the Pixies' Gouge Away, Chicago (one of their earliest singles) and a proper anthemic showstopper rendition of Across That Fine Line.

One of my top gigs of the year, along with Katy J Pearson and black midi. 10/10.

Support act were Deep Tan - old-school spiky, funky post punk in a Slits/ESG stylee. Really good. I reckon they're going to be worth keeping an eye on.
Here's a clip of them from a gig in Newcastle earlier this year: https://youtu.be/Jby8unpZjvg

Wet Leg were good but not in the same league. I wasn't in a great mood for that one though - had a nightmare journey getting there, so we missed the support acts, and then Wet Leg's set was only 45 minutes. They just don't have enough songs yet. And while they are good musicians, they aren't yet polished and seemed to lack confidence as performers. Highlight was Ur Mum - the whole audience joined in with the scream, which was fun.

Great to hear you enjoyed Nation of Language mate, got them next Friday which I’m looking forward to a lot.

Agreed on Wet Leg, fun but short, they need more tunes.

[andyrol]

Next year looking good.  Devin Townsend, Joe Satriani, porcupine Tree in Manchester and now James at the fantastic Piece Hall, Halifax.

[AndyMuller]

What a weekend:

> Thurs - Groove Armada dragging MC M.A.D and the stunning Saint Saviour back over to Aus.
> Fri - Hot Chip pulling out all the earworms from Over & Over, Broken to Huarache Lights
> Sat - David Gray doing 'White Ladder' in its entirety was an 8,000 person karaoke session.

Only 1 gig this week:

> Sun - Khruangbin @ The Sydney Opera House

Have so missed live music over the past 2-3 years.

Just got tickets for Hot Chip next February, with Todd Terje and a few other djs supporting!

[John_P]

Got tickets to see Circa Waves playing The Cavern as part of their album launch in February.

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Just got tickets for Hot Chip next February, with Todd Terje and a few other djs supporting!

Nice. Always regret not going to see him last time he was in town.

[AndyMuller]

Nation of Language absolutely relentless tonight. Every song keeps you moving and the frontman has so much energy.

[Black Bull Nova]

hate this at gigs - went to see the verve in manchester and was at the back and the amount of people just talking through the whole concert was shameful

also hate people who get drunk - so drunk that they're falling over, heckling the artist (ffs) and just being annoying

the security never seem to give a shit - just taser them and throw them out

One of the reasons I hate sitting down is that you can't get away from dickheads, sat in front of someone years ago who spent all the time on the phone telling someone else how much she enjoyed each song despite everyone giving her grief, just shut the fuck up and listen.

[BarryCrocker]

One of the reasons I hate sitting down is that you can't get away from dickheads, sat in front of someone years ago who spent all the time on the phone telling someone else how much she enjoyed each song despite everyone giving her grief, just shut the fuck up and listen.

I had two lads in front of me at a gig constantly talking to each other. It got to the point where I told them I paid good money to watch this band and handed them $20 and told them to fck off to the back bar if they talk about shit. They didn't take the money but they did shut up.

[jackh]

It's not talking, but it's on the 'annoying at gigs' theme... I was behind someone a few weeks ago who held her phone aloft (either holding with one arm stretched entirely upright, or against her forehead with both elbows out) for almost the whole set in a futile attempt to make song requests to the band and to tell the guitarist he was "sexy".