The last gig you went to...

perhaps i should have asked what the gig was too and what made it worth it...

...I do entertainment rigging so can't remember the last gig i paid to go to. Maybe it's the job but there just doesnt seem to be much that makes it's way to NZ that i would fork out cash for

and yes since 9/11 combined with high fuel prices there has been a downturn in big acts coming to NZ...

...last gig I saw was mobb deep who were decidedly average
 

don_quixote

Trent End
no, we got ripped off by the concept of "joint-headliners", when the one who was clearly at the top of all the posters came on second to last and we turned up halfway through his set, and then the band on last were fucking shit and seemed to be quite nobbish, so i adjusted the speed setting on the smoke machine so that it annoyed them and then left before i got chucked out. so yes, i was being nobbish too.

i really really hate gigs now. the thing i hate about them most is camera phones and people waving them for a fucking age in the air trying to take a terrible photo of a sillhouette.
 

STN

sou'wester
Kenji Haido at Spitz, yes it was worth every penny. It made one of my friends throw up.

That's entertainment.
 

john eden

male pale and stale
Pita and Z'ev, playing together in some kind of warehouse space off Brick Lane.

They were excellent, the rest of the bill was shite.

Five quid in, and Pita gave me a CD (a collab with the Sun O)))) geezer)

Plus, I got to meet Mark Stewart.

Wicked.
 

matt b

Indexing all opinion
i went to see cud at the leeds irish centre

maybe a tennor in?

not hip by any stretch of the imagination.

i nearly went to see jackie-o motherfucker last night, but our kitchen had flooded.
 

martin

----
Xylitol and some looney art rockers in Shoreditch. A very good night out, I think I only mildly pissed one person off and ended up having a conversation about Donegal Celtic with some guy who's making a film of the underground electronic scene. Apart from that, it's just been a couple of reggae shows, and a spectacularly bad metal band playing Bob Marley songs in a Metallica vein in Kaiserslautern, in some open air bar during the World Cup.
 

smn

Well-known member
Jamie Lidell in NYC. And worth every cent as he always is.

Having said that I was happy to hear him say that it was the last date of his Multiply tour; I've seen him do it a few times now and it would be nice to hear him do some different stuff. I remember the first time I saw him solo and he covered Kraftwerk's The Robots and Prince's Forever In My Life, the latter of which was particularly fantastic. Some more of that and a new album to get stuck in to would be good.

Battles were also on the bill and although pretty unimpressed by their EP C / B EP album they totally rocked it live.

In general not a great year for gigs though.
 

MankyFiver

Well-known member
Erase Errata at the Spitz, which is a venue i hate, about £7 with plenty of supports who were ok, included Ebony Bones who are 3 young black women who look like they have dressed up for carnival and sing punk/funk style stuff-ok but nothing amazing

Erase errata were great, so tight, the drummer is amazing, hardly played anything i knew but it was worth it
 

ramadanman

Well-known member
the last proper show thing i went to was probably the beastie boys when they played wembley...about 2 years ago now
 
I think if I ever go to another hiphop gig and the clown onstage tells me to 'throw my muthafucking hands in the air' or 'get em up, get em up' and do some stupid 'when i say you say shit' i'm gonna bumrush the stage and throw whatevers handy at him.

For some reason, we get all the b list, lo set up hiphop acts of 2 turntables, a mic and rappyoke fame along with the crusty old rock dinosaurs looking to cash in and make a few reddies for their long overdue second retirement

In the last 2 weeks I've blown off working for U2 and Elton John cos the pay was shit. I worked rolling stones earlier in the year and they sucked some major ass, not that they need the dosh so it must be an ego thing. I'm sure keef is a zombie with some sort of hi tech embalming fluid keeping him mobile and i couldn't help but wonder that if mick weren't a rockstar he'd be good for naff all else.
 

don_quixote

Trent End
oh no no no, far worse than hip hop groups doing that is any american act going "i'm sorry about our president!!!" and then even worse than that is the morons who still cheer this as some radical political statement.
 

Capper

Member
Modular Xmas Bash

So The F***ing Klaxons headlined. With New Young Pony Club and Van She in support.

The Avalanches did an ADD DJ set.

The last 90 mins was bangin' techno.

I was definitely in the oldest 90% of those present.

So yeah... quite good....
 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Pita and Z'ev, playing together in some kind of warehouse space off Brick Lane.

They were excellent, the rest of the bill was shite.

Five quid in, and Pita gave me a CD (a collab with the Sun O)))) geezer)

Plus, I got to meet Mark Stewart.

Wicked.

damn wish I'd seen that John, Pita is great live
 

swears

preppy-kei
Some rubbish indie band playing at a clubnight I went to about a year ago in Liverpool.
I just got up and left after about five minutes, one the the fellas from Ladytron was DJing afterwards but I couldn't even be bothered sticking around for that.
 

Slothrop

Tight but Polite
the thing i hate about them most is camera phones and people waving them for a fucking age in the air trying to take a terrible photo of a sillhouette.
Truth!

See also, people who try to juggle a full pint and a cigarette in the middle of a dancefloor and then glare at you for jostling them by actually trying to, er, dance...
 

STN

sou'wester
Pita and Z'ev, playing together in some kind of warehouse space off Brick Lane.

They were excellent, the rest of the bill was shite.

Wicked.

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?
 

Leo

Well-known member
believe it or not...wreckless eric, solo acoustic/electric at maxwell's in hoboken, $8. was actually a blast, some decent new stuff but lots of old hits ("take the cash" still rocks the bells). looks ok, in good spirits, even played a few songs accompanied by his newish GF amy rigby. a good laff, all in all (althought i probably wouldn't have gone had the show not been across the street from my apartment!)
 
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