spzretent wrote:A fight at a Mazzy Star show? Wow.
it takes all sorts doesn't it. i was at queens of the stone age in dublin last night & one of the things i found remarkable was the lack of aggression in the audience.
there was harmony in the crowd & everyone seemed to be looking out for each other. even tho there was plenty of moshing & mucking about going on nobody went too far & not too many were pushing their way to the front.
i mean someone else could have a different interpretation of it & maybe thought people were being dicks or bumped into a random asshole but i have to say it was one of the best crowds i've been in for a while, it was a really good atmosphere.
but it's the kinda crowd you'd have expect would attract some idiots & that's why it was so surprising the overwhelmingly positive energy in the room whereas at mazzy star you'd expect a respectful coffee house crowd..
in a sense i actually missed some of that menace to be honest.. it just didn't quite feel like a hard rock gig should.. which is kinda representative of qotsa as a whole. there should be a strict no hugging policy at gigs. romance bromance any kind - unless you're absolutely so shitfaced stoned you're unaware of anyone else, but people who aren't insane then no take it somewhere else.
niamhm wrote:Queens Of The Stone Age last night, a top drawer big rock show and all that entails big light show and stage setting , which was just as well as seat were up in the gods ,been a fav. of mine for a while but haven`t seen them since 2003 for one reason or another , and this is a totally new version of the band to the one I last saw, Nick Oliveri the most obvious change but this band rocks fuc#ing hard , no slouches. Most of this years superb ...Like Clockwork was played leaving plenty of career spanning greatest hits to make up the set, highlights for me Burn The Witch, No One Knows ,Go With The Flow and the ballad Like Clockwork. The venue , the all new ,purpose built Hydro concert hall , looks surreal from outside ,inside its concrete and steel , functional I suppose, but queuing for toilets? not good , the sound was superb, clear and loud, a massive step up from the SECC next door, picked up a nice t-shirt and `Black On Black` RSD version ... Like Clockwork,
like i said caught them in dublin last night, going to belfast show tonight.
am pretty wrecked after dancing for 2hours
i'm glad i decided to do the 2 nights after seeing the first show. really top class show. like i said above the energy in the room was good. people were glad to see josh & obv loved the songs.
& the band were great. think they maybe used a backing track on a few numbers & i didn't care too much for the ballads. but overall it was a great rock show the hits are fired off w/a confident nonchalance & are still so awesome - i swear to god the stuff off the first 3-4 albums reads like a greatest hits & i mean you could replace them w/a dozen equally as clinical such is the brilliance of that back catalogue.
the new stuff is highlighted. i found some of it hit & miss. i love vampyre but it didn't completely convince me live conversely the opposite react to fairweather friends. sat by the ocean was a snooze whereas if i had a tail they could've jammed for 20mins & i wouldn't have minded.. they fluffed i appear missing but salvaged it, it was p neat i thought esp w/the video.
i thought the stage show could've used some work but for the price it was decent enough i guess.
the show was great overall tho & am looking forward to seeing if they do anything different. it'll be interesting to see how the shows compare, see if they can match it or do better.