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Even the big acts.
When I go there I always feel like I’m either under a huge overturned boat, like those people in David Copperfield, or inside the Ark, or inside the belly of the whale.
If the band manages to fill the space I feel like I’m inside the Ark and we’re all together having a huge communal experience, gathered round the hearth-fire and storytelling on stage, navigating the storm-tossed waves and getting through it all together. All in the same boat.
When the band doesn’t fill the space it feels like I’m a little tiddler swallowed by the enormous whale, an incidental morsel amongst so many other thoughtlessly scooped up food scraps and the buzzing energetic act at the end of the space is the brain going about its business without any real connection to what it’s ingested.
Hollis
bloody furious
Yeah - I've seen Neil Young, New Order, Springsteen, Roxy Music and Elton John there..
I think the best bet is to get a seat in the lower tier front third of the arena.
Best acts I've seen there were Elton John and Roxy Music.. Roxy Music - had a good seat near the front and was just amazed to be seeing them. Elton John I thought did a great show.
I imagine more 'performance based' acts work better there?!
Last night- I could see Nick Cave was doing a great show.. but being 2/3rds back it lost some of its intensity..
I think the best bet is to get a seat in the lower tier front third of the arena.
Best acts I've seen there were Elton John and Roxy Music.. Roxy Music - had a good seat near the front and was just amazed to be seeing them. Elton John I thought did a great show.
I imagine more 'performance based' acts work better there?!
Last night- I could see Nick Cave was doing a great show.. but being 2/3rds back it lost some of its intensity..
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Yeah, that could be true.
Probably the best things I’ve seen there was David Byrne’s American Utopia thing, which had live musicians and also choreographed dancing.
AC/DC filled the space with inflatable sex dolls and flame throwers. And Angus. A performance of ever there was one.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Just got tix for Moin at the Barbican next May - there's still some left but they're going fast
www.barbican.org.uk
Moin | Barbican
Moin are a three piece based in London featuring Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews of the electronic outfit Raime and percussionist visionary Valentina Magaletti.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
And the worst are up the top tier. I guess that's obvious for the view, but that's not the worst part - it's that they're so tightly crammed with hardly any leg room and they're just so uncomfortable. Never again. I generally fucking hate the place anyway.
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Craven Faults was really good.
No idea when he’ll play again but I’ll be there.
Would recommend.
Next week I’ll be at EartH for this.
One of my favourite ever shows was Spiritualized doing Ladies and Gentlemen WAFIS at the Royal Festival Hall in 2009. I had front and centre seats and it was so astonishingly overwhelmingly affecting that I made sure to go back the following night and do it again.
Both nights, I had to walk home to Brixton because even the idea of being on public transport - the bright light, the friction of other human beings - was just impossible. Even now remembering it, I feel transported back to then.
Like a positive beneficial version of ptsd.
Post Event Pleasure Experience…? Horrible acronym though.
No idea when he’ll play again but I’ll be there.
Would recommend.
Next week I’ll be at EartH for this.
One of my favourite ever shows was Spiritualized doing Ladies and Gentlemen WAFIS at the Royal Festival Hall in 2009. I had front and centre seats and it was so astonishingly overwhelmingly affecting that I made sure to go back the following night and do it again.
Both nights, I had to walk home to Brixton because even the idea of being on public transport - the bright light, the friction of other human beings - was just impossible. Even now remembering it, I feel transported back to then.
Like a positive beneficial version of ptsd.
Post Event Pleasure Experience…? Horrible acronym though.
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On that Saturday I went to see USA Nails and Mums at the Dome.
Mums were disappointing. But USA Nails were really good. Better than they have a right to be really. I’m surprised they’re not pulling in better crowds tbh.
I had to come back from Salford cos I had a reunion thing on the Saturday. A bunch of two-wheeler muckers from back in the day. Bikers and couriers, we were fearless and fucked up, no respect for our bodies but taking advantage of all the pleasures our bodies afforded us in our twenties.
We used to share over-the-bar shouting about fighting and fucking, and here we are deaf-shouting about back-chat from the kiddies and back-ache.
I remember my granny and her biddie-buddies starting every visit with a round up of who’d died, and here we are.
I rolled in with the day-after signifiers all over, got a cheer from them all. Around the table were the beer barrel bellied and the tight lean muscle machined, all points along the spectrum between. How is it that we barely spoke a full conversation with each other back then, just mainly took the piss, and here we are comrades, brothers and sisters, none of the details of the 40 years between then and now are as relevant as the fact that we shared all that, then. Something about how intense it all was back then keeps us utterly enmeshed. Even though these reunions only started happening three years ago when three of us died ffs.
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klang
klang
This will be very cool.
Karma Sheen this Friday Lexington
Karma Sheen this Friday Lexington
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
I saw them on 10 October 1997 at the Royal Albert Hall (it was then released as a live album). Amazing gig.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Was there on the Saturday. Lucky to get standing tickets and to be near the front. Am not a super fan but he's extraordinary live.
hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
If you're also seeing Porridge Radio in the next week or two, that'll make it 3 for 3 in terms of big gigs I'm seeing this month. Bonus points if you also see them a day or two before I do.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Like, in Nottingham on Tuesday?
I went to see Nick Cave too, last night at the NEC. Despite not wanting to go initially due to the venue I ended up getting a resale ticket last week. So glad I did because it was amazing.
There were no phones out, did he say something about no phones at earlier gigs? It was very striking.
There were no phones out, did he say something about no phones at earlier gigs? It was very striking.
Hollis
bloody furious
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
If you like the Geordie Greep album I posted last week and want to see him he's playing Koko next April https://dice.fm/event/nv37w8-geordi...aign=google_youtube&utm_medium=google_youtube
but Goldie Lookin Chain, Manchester. You knows it 
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
Might try & get a ticket for Mogwai @ the Barrowlands in May. Not seen them before.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
The Mekons are back in Leeds!
New album out in 2025
Mekons sign to Fire Records. Listen to the new single ‘You’re Not Singing Anymore’ – FIRE RECORDS
(Probably already seen it but I'll flag this for butchersapron and past caring)
Mekons sign to Fire Records. Listen to the new single ‘You’re Not Singing Anymore’ – FIRE RECORDS
(Probably already seen it but I'll flag this for butchersapron and past caring)
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weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Dae it.
zedr
new but not *that* new
Very excited for this weekend. Its the Another Subculture punk newsletters' 3 day festival across south London. Spanners, Avalon Cafe and Ivy House.
Can't wait to see Gimic, No Home, Rubber, Sublux and R. Aggs from Shopping/Trash Kit plus a bunch of pals' new bands. All profit to Free Kitchen Gaza and MAP too.
Here a photos of the posters from the Another Subculture one pager.
Can't wait to see Gimic, No Home, Rubber, Sublux and R. Aggs from Shopping/Trash Kit plus a bunch of pals' new bands. All profit to Free Kitchen Gaza and MAP too.
Here a photos of the posters from the Another Subculture one pager.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Griff
Feeding the foxes
Not so much an upcoming gig, but I'd recommend catching Body Horror if you get the chance.
Saw them as a support at the Moth Club the the other week and expected them to be an absolutely shit waste of time after seeing the odd Youtube clip.
Turned out they were excellent, some weird and wonderful mix up of Pop Will Eat Itself, Devo and a Hackney rave. Excellent.
Saw them as a support at the Moth Club the the other week and expected them to be an absolutely shit waste of time after seeing the odd Youtube clip.
Turned out they were excellent, some weird and wonderful mix up of Pop Will Eat Itself, Devo and a Hackney rave. Excellent.
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Not so much an upcoming gig, but I'd recommend catching Body Horror if you get the chance.
Saw them as a support at the Moth Club the the other week and expected them to be an absolutely shit waste of time after seeing the odd Youtube clip.
Turned out they were excellent, some weird and wonderful mix up of Pop Will Eat Itself, Devo and a Hackney rave. Excellent.
Body Horror kick the house down for sure.
Saw them a lot last year
I confess that I stopped following them so closely because I'd gotten used to them. I want them to go deeper, further, odder, stronger, but they seem to have plateaued.
I'll pick them up again now you've reminded me.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Third year running I’ve booked a holiday for those middle weeks in May. Third year running there are at least three great gigs it means I’ll have to miss!The Mekons are back in Leeds!
New album out in 2025
Mekons sign to Fire Records. Listen to the new single ‘You’re Not Singing Anymore’ – FIRE RECORDS
(Probably already seen it but I'll flag this for butchersapron and past caring)
(There’s a chance I could get to Glasgow, but I ain’t holding my breath)
Booked in for notts
