[Music] The Live Music thread

[Pogue Mahone]

Merlin Tonto support Follakzoid next week if you are doing that one.....

That's interesting, where were you stood? I was right in front of the mixing desk and it appeared to me that the vocals started with far too much reverb but got much better after the first vocal part of the first track but I conceed they were never totally right.

Personally I don't think Rachel's vocal needs ANY reverb, as my heavily drunk but well intentioned mate told her after the gig.

Quite near the front, to the left of the stage. Maybe It was better further back.

 

[spring hall convert]

Quite near the front, to the left of the stage. Maybe It was better further back.

Perhaps, I'd imagine it was super loud up front. The soundcheck was deafening from outside the room....

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Perhaps, I'd imagine it was super loud up front. The soundcheck was deafening from outside the room....

Yep. My ears were ringing for some time...

 

[spring hall convert]

Yep. My ears were ringing for some time...

One that would have benefitted from a little more subtlety and a little less bludgeon, I reckon. Glad I couldn't get in the room until they were on and had to stand at the back then!

 

[Pogue Mahone]

One that would have benefitted from a little more subtlety and a little less bludgeon, I reckon. Glad I couldn't get in the room until they were on and had to stand at the back then!

I will give them another go next time, and stand further back!

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Hope we have a home match to precede this beauty...

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Mudhoney tonight.

Loud, very shouty. I was surprised by quite how many of their songs I knew. Good fun, if a little over-long and samey.

Support band Wolf People, meanwhile, were staggeringly bad. How do bands like this secure support slots like this?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I saw Wand last night. Yet another one of these West coast psych bands. I was really tired and not really up for it but credit to the band for livening me up. It was at West Germany, a pretty much derelict small room in a labyrinthine concrete 70s complex in Kruezberg which only seems to open when they can be arsed (once every few weeks), has zero publicity and is a ball-ache to find. I've been before, a few times in fact, but even I got lost and ended up at the wrong place last night. Beer was 2 euros, gig was 12.


http://unlike.net/locations/west-germany

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

I saw Wand last night. Yet another one of these West coast psych bands. I was really tired and not really up for it but credit to the band for livening me up. It was at West Germany, a pretty much derelict small room in a labyrinthine concrete 70s complex in Kruezberg which only seems to open when they can be arsed (once every few weeks), has zero publicity and is a ball-ache to find. I've been before, a few times in fact, but even I got lost and ended up at the wrong place last night. Beer was 2 euros, gig was 12.


http://unlike.net/locations/west-germany

I am regretting not staying to watch Wand at The Great Escape. We had just seen a great band called Bully and they were next on but by then we had been in The Haunt almost two hours and enough was enough.

 

[spring hall convert]

Mudhoney tonight.

Loud, very shouty. I was surprised by quite how many of their songs I knew. Good fun, if a little over-long and samey.

Support band Wolf People, meanwhile, were staggeringly bad. How do bands like this secure support slots like this?

I actually like Wolf People (well I certainly like their first and second albums, haven't seen them for a few years now) but I was staggered when I saw they were supporting Mudhoney. Total mismatch of sounds. It's a full tour support so it either came form the band themselves or the band's management/ label/ agent.

Perhaps they share management/ label/ agent?

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I actually like Wolf People (well I certainly like their first and second albums, haven't seen them for a few years now) but I was staggered when I saw they were supporting Mudhoney. Total mismatch of sounds. It's a full tour support so it either came form the band themselves or the band's management/ label/ agent.

Perhaps they share management/ label/ agent?

I don't know how it came to pass.

They just seemed a bit shambolic, obviously talented musicians who all seemed to be playing different songs. A bit of West Coast guitar duelling ( I was genuinely surprised to hear English accents when they spoke), sudden changes in mood in the middle of songs that seemed totally incongruous and a lack of any connection to their audience didn't help. They were a bit like I expect bands were pre 1977.

Whereas Mudhoney belonged slap bang in the middle of 1977. And that's not a bad thing.

Also, my mate and I were distracted by the fact that Wolf People comprised of his Uncle Pete on guitar and lead vocals, Neil from The Young Ones on drums, Catweazle on bass and an old mate of mine who used to be a Labour Councillor in Hove. Clearly.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I am regretting not staying to watch Wand at The Great Escape. We had just seen a great band called Bully and they were next on but by then we had been in The Haunt almost two hours and enough was enough.

Ah, I know how you fell. That's the nature of TGE (and festivals in general) though. I have a number of misses and regrets from this festival. But, importantly, plenty of hits to more than compensate.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Also, my mate and I were distracted by the fact that Wolf People comprised of his Uncle Pete on guitar and lead vocals, Neil from The Young Ones on drums, Catweazle on bass and an old mate of mine who used to be a Labour Councillor in Hove. Clearly.

I like the idea of this super-group.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I am regretting not staying to watch Wand at The Great Escape. We had just seen a great band called Bully and they were next on but by then we had been in The Haunt almost two hours and enough was enough.

Reminds me of when I wanted to see some sappy acoustic act at The Red Roaster that I really really liked. Just before we'd seen Gallows literally destroy Digital and we were so energised and hyper from their sheer anger and chaos me and the missus sat down in the cafe looked at each other and said "nah, this isn't going to work now is it?"

 

[spring hall convert]

Anyone on here been to the Jazz(ish) festival in Glynde, Love Supreme?

Is it as nice, quaint and middle class as it appears to be?

 

[spring hall convert]

Blimey - black/viking metal legends Enslaved are playing The Concorde in September

http://www.songkick.com/concerts/22946713-enslaved-at-concorde-2

 

[spring hall convert]

Tinariwen/ Songhoy Blues was fantastic at the Concorde last night.

Be prepared for Songhoy Blues to take over the world. They were fantastic and westernised enough to not get tagged as 'world music.' They revisit the Concorde in October and on last night's evidence, tickets won't hang around for long.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Got tickets for The June Brides earlier today.

 

[spring hall convert]

I wish I was at Primavera.

 

[Spider]

I wish I was at Primavera.

I am at Primavera now. Excellent first day - The Replacements were a highlight.