Spiritualized

Greeny

Yes I did. It was an absolute, stone cold, 24-carat triumph. It was Steve and his regular band plus three (superb) female backing singers, a string ensemble, harpist and horns. And they had clearly rehearsed it a helluva lot because they synced beautifully. Opened with It's Not Too Beautiful, after ...

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According to ATP Recordings' Facebook page there are still a few new copies available (click link and scroll down): https://www.facebook.com/atpfestival/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf This was as of November last year. If you look at all the comments, people who ordered did get their copies, and...

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Wowsers - what a set that must have been by the Stones! Some real rarities in terms of modern day performances.

What was the occasion for such an intimate gig?

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Bam ticket smaller.jpg There's my first gig. Three callow Norfolk boys of 16 and 17 years old somehow persuaded our parents to let us travel down to London on our own for the first time to see a New York electro legend! The whole thing almost didn't take place because one of the Soul Sonic Force wa...

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This show is also seeded on the ever-reliable Yeeshkul:

http://yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.ph ... +instincts

Greeny

I've probably played the series of jazz albums bought as part of that DeAgostini collector series more than anything else this year, but they hardly count as mew music since most are from the 50s and 60s! Of the new stuff, the Animal Collective and Death in Vegas efforts probably count as disappoint...

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Low at St George's Church Brighton. Finally got to hear their sublime Christmas album played live, which was just wonderful. Really sent shivers down my neck and will live long in the memory. That was part one. Part two became a bit surreal as some crazy old fool - who was clearly a big fan of the b...

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A friend has let me down and pulled out of coming to see Low's Christmas concert at St George's Church in Brighton on Saturday 3 December. This is a real long shot, but if anyone happens to be at a loose end and fancies the ticket they are more than welcome! There would still be trains back to Londo...

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One of the seminal musical works of my life... saw me all through my 20s that record did! I probably identified with the loneliness and melancholy of Soul Mining more, but Infected - and especially the movie - broadened my horizons in many ways. Matt Johnson is an out-and-out, 24 carat musical hero ...

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I'm guessing J already had the orchestral/choir arrangements for Out of Sight/Oh Happy Day to hand and didn't have time/inclination to produce new ones for other songs. With time to reflect, I'd say it felt a different performance to the last set of shows, a bit more swampy and enveloping sound-wise...

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What's the spoiler? It's the same encore that it's been with all of the LAGWAFIS shows. Indeed, but I mentioned it for the benefit of anyone going last night who hadn't been before and wanted to leave the encore songs to be a surprise on the night. That said, it was different to the last time I saw...

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Stay With Me. Wow. Worth the money by itself. Un-fuckin-believable...

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Good review just appeared on the Telegraph website. Contains a spoiler to the last song of the show...

Surely someone off here went last night??

Greeny

Good to see the acerbic Pierce wit is undiminished...

Really looking forward to tomorrow evening now!

Greeny

Still not had a chance to play it yet... the suspense is killing me!

Greeny

named after a sunken World War II ship called SS Montgomery, which sits on our Thames Estuary sea bed laden with 1400lb of explosives still in it, making it a very deadly ship wreck indeed. This is also said to be the reason why the "Boris Island" airport is a non-starter, according to a ...

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olan wrote:
As an old grumpy bastard it was a novelty not to have people chattering away through the set, or barging in front of you with a round of beers. The comfortable seat did not hurt either!

It's the only way to travel these days. Leave the standing/chatting/beer swilling stuff to the youngsters!

Greeny

And indeed Stars of the Lid at St Mary's Church was spellbinding. Oodles of dry ice, projections that filled the entire vaulted ceiling and played off the Gothic columns, with some pretty special drones. I don't really know their 'songs' that well, but there was one that evolved into something like ...

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spunder wrote:
whats the venue like? the Contemporary was an unusual space, helped make it all quite special. they build to a nice deafening drone at points!

It's a church. Should be ideal!

Greeny

Stars Of The Lid last night at the Contemporary in Nottingham. I loved it, my friends I dragged along were utterly bored ha ha. the room they played in was a big grey cube and the projections filled 2 of the massive walls. at times the lights, projections and sound totally transported me. I'm seein...

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Yup - once there were good seats online for night two me and my mate weakened. Snagged a nice pair dead centre of the stalls...

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Heh - when I saw the email title "Spiritualized perform the album which changed British guitar music" in my inbox, my immediate thought was Oh my God they're going to play Pure Phase!!!

No such luck...

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See my post in the "Gigs" section...

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Not being cynical or anything, but perhaps J needs another quick cash injection: http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?id=20304&utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CCCONW290916G&utm_content=&spMailingID=52413508&spUserID=NjcxNjAwOTM2NwS2&...

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Cracking read - got to buy this book!

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Nice double ticket buy this morning - Low Christmas show in a church in Brighton and a special Steve Mason career retrospective at the Barbican... niiiice!!

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Oh well, wait until Trump gets in and the dollar tanks and it'll be happy days again...

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Yes, I think that will be my strategy too. Just can't afford almost 400 quid for some CDs/DVDs right now, lovely though the package looks.

Greeny

But for a commercial Box Set, this is the 2nd most expensive I will have purchased; the 1973 Wagnerian Set of The Ring in that lovely Wooden box Lined w/ Red Velvet to protect the discs was a little bit more, VERY pricey for that time, but the $ is in that box; the Deutche Grammaphone discs are tru...

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What do you think about this little lot Semisynthetic?

Quite a collection, at quite a price...

https://www.burningshed.com/store/progr ... /453/7841/

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yes... want all the details please!! Sounds totally corny, but it was akin to a religious experience. I saw them back in the day and for me any my mate it is a gig that means so much. I've lost count of the times we've spoken about it in hushed tones. So there was a real risk the new show couldn't ...

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Lift to Experience. Magnificent.

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My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. They played a tiny bar not far from home, so I figured why not. Haven't seen them live in 25 (!) years. A stripped-down foursome, started off with some technical difficulties. First show of the mini-tour. They worked out the kinks and made it fun. Groovie Mann is ...

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That guy's ability with a guitar is still really impressive and at times it was like the finer Stereolab shows I saw 25 years ago. I really enjoyed the original, more guitar-y Stereolab too. Remember loving seeing them at the T&C2 when Sean O'Hagan was still in the band, then being quite disapp...

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Wowzers - that made the hairs dance on the back of my neck!!

Just can't wait for Friday week, although I am astonished to see some tickets still available. At the back end of the stalls and top of the circle, mind, but still...

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The whole thing can be heard here:

http://crackmagazine.net/audio/audio/de ... nsmission/

I like it on first listen. Not every track immediately grabs, but I'll defo be buying it.

Greeny

The Mash nails it as usual:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts ... 0513108805

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A bit surprised there's been no thread on the new LP so far! I'm one play in so still need to give it more time to develop, but it's certainly the most 'cinematic' thing they've done, with Thom's preference for glitch electronica seemingly giving way to Johnny's love of strings. I felt a couple of t...

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I know you shouldn't pine for the past but did he do much Beta Band stuff?

Greeny

There have to be new musical heroes out there but, to be honest, as a jaded middle aged man I have no idea who they might be! We'd have to ask 'the kids'... but unfortunately my own kid is only nine so his favourite song is Uptown Funk. With the music industry business model so fucked I think it's f...

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ATP are a fucking shambles who are not fit to run a bath, let alone a business. Utter incompetents who have left a trail of debt and failure for years while still - somehow - retaining a modicum of credibility in the 'alternative' sector. The only reason they've got away with it for so long is throu...

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Despite the 'one that got away' (Radiohead) this year is shaping up to be my best in a while, with: Lift to Experience (!!) at RFH Floating Points in Brighton King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard in Brighton James Holden, Sonic Boom etc. at LSO St Luke's Already in the bag, plus Death in Vegas yet t...

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This looks set to be a fabulous show, as it also includes the genius James Holden. Got two tickets in the bag - yes!

Greeny

The last album worked fantastically live, especially with the two drummers.

Failed in the pre-sale this morning, we go again for the general sale...

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In! And front row too!

God I'm excited...

Greeny

To be fair, Fearless has always been fascinated by/accommodating to the sleazier side of life. Thinking back to tracks such as Leather/Girls and certainly a lot of the stage visuals...

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Guess the new "disco" direction means we'll never see the likes of this again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A8pQq7PQSs

Pity.

Greeny

LTE live at Dingwalls occupies hallowed ground among the top two or three shows of my entire 500+ gig-going career. It is not possible to convey the astonishing wall of noise Josh managed to achieve with just one guitar; noise we saw conjured from the very front row, literally in touching distance o...

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No no this is going to be rubbish, awful, embarrassing... they probably won't show up... in fact Mods please delete this thread before anyone else finds out about this gig

Greeny

I did Glastonbury in an unbroken run from 98 to 2005 when I 'retired'. Had some of the best of times and some pretty shitty ones too, although most of the tears and wailing came in the fearful days after the festival to be fair! No interest in ever going back now, mainly because I could never recapt...

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For those in London/the south there's also an opportunity to catch this project live at the new festival being put on by the guys at Caught by the River.

See: http://www.caughtbytheriverthames.com/

I shall definitely be going along to the Saturday, given Low and Beth Orton are also on the bill...

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clewsr wrote:Got the record the other day. It is lovely. Beautiful sleeve design too.

Agreed. Mine's just arrived, clear vinyl loveliness...!

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Well, that was quite something. Music so beautiful it quite literally took my breath away - certainly in terms of forgetting to breathe at points anyway! There were times when it just felt like floating in space, to coin a phrase. Not a note wasted all night. And Hauschka was as fabulous as ever; no...

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And a nice bump that got me listening to this album again last night for the first time in years! Surprised and delighted to see the oil still inside the cover, although it's gone clear now - it was coloured originally wasn't it? If ever an album demanded the full "Don't look back" treatme...

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Booker T Jones at Ronnie Scott's on New Year's Day - what a way to kick off 2016!!

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I'm curious as to what the setlist was for the first half of the Ride show. I saw them in Chicago and loved it. I just can't imagine what non-Nowhere songs felt "light weight"? "Drive Blind"? Barn-burner. "Birdman"? Wish they'd have played it when I saw them. "Twi...

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Just to join the Ride party... we saw them in Bristol last night. A real game of two halves, in which the first set was really quite perfunctory, almost as if it was a surrogate band doing a bog standard support set. But the Nowhere half.... fucking hell. That was a different story. Everything was t...

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I just got tickets for their London Barbican show, mainly on the strength of the marvellous Hauschka being in support. No idea at all what to expect from AWVFTS, so it'll hopefully be a nice surprise!

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johnnyboy wrote:King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Best. Band. Name. Ever.

Greeny

Any more of this and I might actually get back into Spiritualized!!

Fucking love it.

Greeny

rameses wrote:Cool. Downloaded for listening to in the garden later.

How do you download it? Some sort of funky ripping tool?

Greeny

I think you`ll have little trouble getting a ticket this time round, the Glasgow gig sold out pretty sharpish, but I think that was on the back of touts/scalpers hoovering them up, as I walked up tickets were widely available at face value. The Scottish leg this time is in the barn like Edinburgh C...

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Well, as I said I think earlier in the thread before the dates were even announced, I'm only really a fan of Nowhere and it was a bit light on that for me. I thought it would be one where I would be blown away and enjoyed everything live but it wasn't to be. I wouldn't say they played badly, so if ...

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I just looked into finding mp3s for the Meltdown fest, I believe this is the one, thanks! But the mp3 I found sounds a bit different and has a glitch in the audio. I'll try and find a different recording of the same performance. If you're struggling I have a first generation BBC Radio "In Conc...

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Are they playing Nowhere? If so I would go along, despite thinking the Manchester show was a shocking load of... well, not my cup of tea. Really interested to hear more James - that's the first negative 'review' I've seen and both of the mates I have who've been to their comeback gigs haven't stopp...

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Just got my tickets for Autechre live in London - an 'all-star' all-nighter at the old Brixton Fridge... shirts off and wrestling that should be!!

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