The last gig you went to...

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dubversion

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Flaming Lips a couple of weeks ago. I do love this band, but I've seen the show too many times now and it's starting to pall, as wonderful as it is. Having said that, i was surrounded by people who HADN'T seen them before who looked like they'd just been injected with the world's strongest happy drugs..
 
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gek-opel

entered apprentice
Supersilent @ Koko. Weird venue. Shit, hipsterish crowd. Crap support. Loud, precise sound system. Great band- especially the live sampling, breadth of totally improvised tunes (from krautish epic electronic rock to fucked up polyrhythmic electro-free jazz, to driftingly beautiful Nordic ambient) and sense of random humour ("this is jazz" cue nonsensical French vocals).

Ok, one point: why are LDN gigs now proceeding with the headliners going on at 11:30 or 12:00??? Its fucking annoying.
 
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don_quixote

Trent End
this is another problem i have with gigs, i would quite like some inclination as to when a band may come on as i don't fancy sticking around for a couple of hours, with nowhere to sit and overpriced warm drinks usually.

and there is usually no thought to them at all. i really dont think they give value for money, i would much rather pay less for less. and i urge everyone to leave before encores if they don't think the gig has been beyond their expectations.
 
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gek-opel

entered apprentice
Yeah, I live outside LDN, so I have urgent need to get last train. A few years back most gigs seemed to run on the assumption that main act goes on at 09:30 or 10:00, finished by 11:00 or 11:30. Wonderful! When I went to see Sunn0))) they went on at 12:00 and finished at 01:30 or something ridiculous! I think its a bit obnoxious, why can't they just start earlier FFS.
 
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mms

sometimes
battles and jamie lidell in new york
jamie lidell was amazing i only caught the end of battles.
i stayed up till 9 in the morning that night taking drugs and drinking and then got the plane back to england later on in the day, sat infront of a moaning couple with 3 of the most spoilt moany kicking kids ever all the way back, tried to drown em out with dinner jazz from the plane radio station but to no avail. don't do it kids 2 days without sleep fuks witcha.
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
STN said:
Z'ev was the support at the Kenji Haido gig as it happens - isn't there some connection between him and Glenn Branca/Theoretical Girls?

What was Mark Stewart like as a person?
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I've got a lot of time for Z'ev - I think he kicked off in NYC possibly as part of what is now the "ny noise" thing.

Mark is a large man, who is very chaotic and very funny. Big ball of energy.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
The last gig I saw was The Rapture at the Scala in September 2003. I suddenly found that I was too old for such rubbish. Actually, that's not quite true: I saw Dexy's Midnight Runners at the Royal Festival Hall the following month, which was really, really good, but wasn't a "gig" as such. I now go to the Oper-ah, ya. I mean, you know, those filthy London venues, bad beer in plastic cups, the existential tedium of it, etc. Very bad for the soul. My clothes are too good for it.
 
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eleventhvolume

Active member
Sussan Deyhim

I was at Supersilent - part of the "shit, hipsterish crowd" I guess. My most recent gig was a weird one, first time I've seen Sussan Deyhim perform. I was looking forward to it very much. It was at the Baltic (restaurant) and she sang mostly cover songs accompanied by two LA session-type musicians (keys and drums) and two Russian jazzers (sax and bass) to a crowd of wealthy so and sos. One track originally by Fairuz was pretty amazing, but her lugubrious renditions of Chet Baker and, er, Leonard Cohen were strange to say the least. It was also disappointing as the PR had said she would be performing an interpretation of Burroughs' Last Words of Dutch Schulz, but there was no sign of that. Oh and the opening set was Mike Figgis (director of the wonderful Timecode, etc) playing an exceedingly uninteresting straightahead jazz set. As I said, weird.
 
MankyFiver

MankyFiver

Well-known member
went to wolf eyes at bardens on wed, lots of supports, its a noise thing so in the spirit i've decided to rate them on attractiveness

sudden infant=4 (2 guys one with eyeliner and natty, could do things if older guy with hair clump went to sleep)

damien romero=2 (just standing there)

aaron dilloway=10(oh! preppy, looked like he could speak and we would find lots of fun bits with are bodies but he may want to contact mike them, but i think i would let him)

wolf eyes=3 ( thats each of them, so really 9 and thats a gangbang but i would allow no fist punching because its too annoying)
 
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Edward

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I NEVER go and see bands, I don't really like guitar music, indie etc.
But the other week I went to see The Producers at the Barfly in Camden. They are a band consisting of Trevor Horn (Buggles, producer of Frankie, Art Of Noise, Dollar, Tatu, etc etc), Stephen Lipson (producer of Grace Jones, Frankie, everybody ever), Lol Creme (10cc) and some other famous mainstream backroom people. It was a bit like being at someone else's wedding, with a really good wedding band with the twist that they had actually written all the songs themselves. Most of the crowd were really old, presumably music industry peeps from the 80s.
Good bits were an instrumental version of 2 Tribes, Slave To The Rhythm, Video Killed the Radio Star and other Buggles tracks. Shit bits were Will Young gettting up on stage to do 2 songs, some awful MOR newer stuff and a lame cover of Space Oddity. It as about 50/50 good/bad.
Overall it was worth the price of entry and I got to shake hands with members of the Art Of Noise who were in the audience.
 
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mrchrispy

Member
Wow - for a place where people are passionate about music the attitude towards live music is by and large pretty dim. Some of the best times I can remember happened at great concerts/clubs/raves - in fact I'm convinced that some types of music can't be properly understood without having been experienced in a live (or club/rave) setting.

Recent gems:

Basement Jaxx at the Bowery Ballroom - absolutely insane, what Parliament/Funkadelic would sound/look like if they'd made house music instead of funk. Drums, guitar, synths, three horns, a handful of guest vocalists and a roomful of people dancing their asses off. My friends and I walked out in stunned disbelief and tried to sum up the vibe, my friend Matt came closest, "If you weren't there, there isn't anything I could possibly say to describe it and if you were there there isn't anything that has to be said."

Massive Attack at Roseland - as trippy and beautiful as I expected and at times way more energetic and loud than I would have expected. I gave up NY Mets playoff tickets to go to this show since the band had been on my "artists I must hear live before I die list" for about 8 years. Horace Andy's tracks were worth the price of admission alone - what a gorgeous voice that guy has. Overall a really solid show, but I do wish I'd been able to see it about 5 years before when I was at the height of my Massive Attack obsession. Still, in all, quite solid.
 
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Ness Rowlah

Norwegian Wood
I've been on a beers&guitars bender the last few weeks (as part of a balanced diet I will flush the system next year by doing more tronics&experimental stuff). They were all worth it, although what annoys the hell out of me is the fees you can get charged on top when going to a small venue. An 8 quid ticket often ends up 11 or 12 quid.

Serena Maneesh -awesome noise, best gig since Monolake@Tate Modern
Gliss - good, but played for a crowd of just 15 people (the warm-up band Grace were appaling, but had somehow managed to hijack the gig)
Young Knives - OK, but Astoria is shite
Raconteurs - good (but surprisingly they had to play a handful of their songs twice, not enough material)

Next week: Billy Childish's new band at some pub in North London
 
vifsophiste

vifsophiste

Wild Horses
Junior Boys in October at a quaint cozy venue. It was one of those nights when everything, from the crowd to the spirited drinks, were in accord and on fiyah. I didn't want the night to end.
 
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Canada J Soup

Monkey Man
the undisputed truth said:
was it worth the admission price ???
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Nope. Was a Fall gig during CMJ week a month or so ago. $25 for the ticket. Had to sit (ie: stand) through three pretty mediocre bands and some tiresome digital audio/video artwank perpetuated by two of the current Fall line-up before Smith and Co came on stage...whereapon they played for just under 20 minutes. Very disappointing. Now that I think of it, I don't believe my mate every paid me back for his ticket, so the gig may have actually cost me $50. I had been really looking forward to it as well.
 
MankyFiver

MankyFiver

Well-known member
Luther Blisset said:
Dinosaur Jr at the Concorde, Brighton. Fantastic stuff. J's solo in 'In a Jar' rent a hole in the space-time continuum.
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saw them about a year ago on my birthday cos an ex boyfriend bought me the ticket and had been looking forward to it but on the night really didnt want to go, but they bought me the ticket and i aint that bad a friend- so went along and fucking best gig in years, energy and forgot how good j mascis's guitar can sound, lacerating! stll waiting for a gig that unexpected
 
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tate

Brown Sugar
mms said:
battles and jamie lidell in new york
jamie lidell was amazing i only caught the end of battles
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I saw lidell the night before this, with snax, at hamilton. Have a bunch of pics too. Snax was great (btw, nice to see his vox on the latest get physical comp), and of course lidell was stunning.

Saw Akron/Family a couple of weeks ago in San Diego. One of those occasions when you realize that you like the band members more than the music. They weren't bad, but weren't as good as I'd been led to expect. The drummer dana used to live in my town, he played in a jazz rock group. Weird town, tiny place, lots of musicians here. Saw Johnny Dowd play this evening at a small cafe in front of 25 people. He began by reading a poem about James Brown, and later made reference to sun ra in the middle of a free section.
 
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