The gert big music thread
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Especially when it's an album release gig. I get the impression a lot of the big bands enjoy the small venue at those.
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It's always going to happen, especially when a band were really big for a relatively short period. I really liked Woodface back in the day but don't think I know anything they've done since other than Distant Sun. Loads of people want the nostalgia of the hits from back in the day but don't know / want to hear filler tracks from their latest album.
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Get a grip.
That statement clearly shows you don't have a broad musical taste.
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I love going to these album release shows, you get about an hour of what they want to play. Might be lots of new stuff, might be all the hits. Crowded House did about half and half which is fair enough.
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Yeah, I think if you are either a big fan of music in general or a genuine fan of the band it's great. I suspect that for most people (and I include myself in that) you want to hear the big hits mainly. It's stupid as the big hits were unknown songs originally too but I guess it's the price you pay if you had a relatively short period where you were 'big'.
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Not wanting to brag about my incredible music taste here but the first album I ever owned was a cassette album of Shakin' Stevens - Shaky , which I got as some kind of consolation prize on the arrival of my younger brother when I was 3.
I went to see Shakin' Stevens one Glastonbury morning at teh Pyramid Stage and there was a crowd full of people (including one guy who had brought an actual full size wooden green door) waiting for a greatest hits setlist - he didn't play a single song that I knew, I think he just played his new album in full.
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I had always been a big fan of Siouxsie and the Banshees since the late 70s. I had bought their music, bounced around listening to them, but never had the opportunity to see them until they were playing at Reading Festival in 1993.
I was really looking forward to it. They came on stage, said something like ". . . if you think yuo're going to hear any old stuff, forget it . . ." and then proceeded to play their entire new album . . . that, quite obviously, nobody there (possibly very few) had heard anything from (they did play Israel as an encore, though I don't remember many folk shouting for an encore!)
If you attend an album release show, then that's what you're going to see/hear - you know what to expect - but when there are thousands of people who have paid good money on not only the festival ticket but buying the records over many years that have put the band where they are, it seems reasonable to expect the band to play the music that the audience has bought over the preceding years . . . that's what they are there.
Worst performance I have ever witnessed and I have turned the radio off every time they have come on since.
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Yeah, festival gigs are not the place to flog a new album to death. I saw James at a festival for the eclipse, they headlined one night and finished with a stripped back version of 'sit down' as they were trying to distance themselves from the wedding disco anthem. Like a lead balloon ...
I saw Dexys a couple of weekends ago at a small festival. They played out 4 tracks from the first two albums in the (short) set and it was absolutely fantastic. My wife said after 'You knew Geno absolutely word for word perfectly'. Well yes, I've been playing it on and off for 42 years!
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Given most albums are rarely an hour long. You might expect a band to follow the new album with at least 30 minutes of the older stuff.
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It's 10 minutes walk from my house and generally costs about £15 a ticket, so I take what I'm given.
Varies from stormzy who played 7 songs, all from the new album (and most of them terrible to be honest), through to the Pretenders who did 90 minutes+ with four new songs. Or The Streets who did no songs from his new album at all.
Rarely is there a piss take, and it's pretty obvious - I didnt go, but Tears for Fears did 10 songs, 6 of them off the new album, and charged £46 a ticket. Two shows in one night, but their fans who paid it seemed happy for seeing them in a smaller venue. 🤷♂️
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Have got this right 10 songs. If so that is an absolute piss take. I still buy cd’s so I can play them in the garage when I’m training. I have tried streaming service but get a bit peed off with the adverts, yes I shouldn’t be a tight arse and pay for one without.
Anyhow I recently bought Sam Fenders Going Under CD it has 21 tracks on it plus another live CD all for 11 quid and it’s an absolute banger. I read Stewart Marconi’s English Breakfast and he mentioned Sam in it so I thought I take a punt for 11 quid.
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Here's the setlist https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/tears-for-fears/2023/pryzm-kingston-upon-thames-england-2ba2204a.html
seems a joke for £46
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I wouldn’t be laughing at that joke. I’d be out raged.
I saw the Jam around the time of their first album. They played so fast, they’d gone through their entire set in about 30 minutes, so they just played it again😂😂
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Who are the artists/bands who you are really very keen to see that you haven’t yet?
dead artists don’t count!
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I saw a live gig by The Jam on Sky Arts the other night. I can see why Weller split them to form The Style Council , he must have been exhausted 😁
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I’m hoping the Davies brothers do some sort of Kinks reunion before it’s too late.
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About 10 years ago I was out cycling, coming up to a crossroads a couple of miles from me. As I approached saw a chap at the traffic lights. Thought to myself "he looks a lot like Paul Weller". Got closer and thought blimey this guy must be a Weller tribute act, spitting image of him. As I got to the traffic lights he started crossing and I realised it was actually Paul Weller. We said a polite hello to one another. Still to this day have no idea why he was randomly walking along the street in a small West Mids suburb. I probably should have actually asked him!
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I don't think I've been disappointed at any of those Pryzm gigs, other than the ones I failed to get tickets for that is. But that one looks like it would have done.
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Muse and The Who although I suspect The Who will be disappointing by now. Would have gone to Billy Joel in Cardiff but the tickets came out around the same time as the ones I bought for last night.
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I've been to see the Who twice, both times with my daughter. The first time was at Wembley and it was awful, but I don't like stadium gigs. I got a couple of freebies and took her along saying you'll never get to see a band like this again. The second time was an acoustic gig in the club down the road the KG has mentioned, again an album release gig. It was really Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey rather than the full band. Much, much better, but quite odd to go from seeing a band in a stadium to a club in your home town.
I'd love to see the Stones live, but given the choice of them in a stadium or a covers band in a pub, I'd go and see the covers band.
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I'd love to see David Gilmour do some of the old stuff in a concert like the pompeii one, but haven't paid the eye watering sums for the Albert Hall gigs this year because it's not going to be that.
If Kim Deal ever returned to Pixies, I'd go to any sort of venue, but I can't see it happening.
One I could have gone to, and for whatever minor scheduling/work reason I didn't, and I don't know why it still annoys me, is The Polyphonic Spree back in 2002.
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Strangely seem both James and Dexys at festivals and my experience was the opposite, James did a brilliant set and a stonking version of Sit Down, Dexys were playing a lot of unknown songs whilst acting put some sort of story on stage and very dull versions of Gino and Come on Eileen, people were just wandering off to go and see something else!
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I saw muse on their Origins of Symmetry tour - one of my first ever gigs. Not sure I could handle their stadium iteration having seen that.
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In what way, do you just think it would be too big to work or was it not to your liking?
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I reckon I must have seen Pixies with Kim Deal about 15 times . . . also seen them with "new Kim" and Paz a couple of times - neither detracted massively from the performances but Kim Deal was cooler than cool.
Of bands doing the rounds at the moment, I'd quite like to see Fontanes DC, Sleaford Mods or (and I'm surprised at this myself) Nadine Shah.
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Paz got sacked this year, there's a new replacement, and she's fine, but no Kim Deal.
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Yeah - I read that a couple of weeks ago - I also read it's 34 years since "Pod" was released . . . this makes me feel old!
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Couple reasons; I don't like the direction they went after Absolution and the whole stadium shtick they do is more reminiscent of queen and I just don't like them that way.
A bit like the Arctic Monkeys. I've not seen them but I'm not sure I would want to now. I quite like their newer stuff and their older stuff but the shooting-stars-club-singer versions of the old stuff would do my head in.
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I've seen Muse a lot, venues and festivals and every time they have been brilliant, one of the best live shows around.
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