James is friends with them, but I've been to so many D&B and Luna shows that they kind of know me.
It was pretty great. Got a setlist too! LOL
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Interesting. I found their late 90s period was when i started going off them, too much faffing around and not enough dance tunes. In saying that, the 2004 'farewell' shows were superb. I can't imagine doing 'shrooms at an indoor gig though. Festivals yes, but these days i mostly just like to be on my own, lying down in total silence.SpEnCeR1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:44 pm Orbital @ Rock City. Was OK but quite relentless, I was on a fairly heroic dose of liberty cap mushrooms so take my opinion with a pinch of salt but wasn't as good as late 90's Glastonbury appearances. Nice visuals tho. Seemed like a fairly aggressive crowd.
I took it that he had the heroic mushrooms dose at Glastonbury rather than last week at Rock Citysunray wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 5:53 pmInteresting. I found their late 90s period was when i started going off them, too much faffing around and not enough dance tunes. In saying that, the 2004 'farewell' shows were superb. I can't imagine doing 'shrooms at an indoor gig though. Festivals yes, but these days i mostly just like to be on my own, lying down in total silence.SpEnCeR1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:44 pm Orbital @ Rock City. Was OK but quite relentless, I was on a fairly heroic dose of liberty cap mushrooms so take my opinion with a pinch of salt but wasn't as good as late 90's Glastonbury appearances. Nice visuals tho. Seemed like a fairly aggressive crowd.
Ha! Now that you mention it i can see it reading that way. SpEnCeR1, can you confirm when the heroic dose occurred?niamhm wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:50 pmI took it that he had the heroic mushrooms dose at Glastonbury rather than last week at Rock Citysunray wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 5:53 pmInteresting. I found their late 90s period was when i started going off them, too much faffing around and not enough dance tunes. In saying that, the 2004 'farewell' shows were superb. I can't imagine doing 'shrooms at an indoor gig though. Festivals yes, but these days i mostly just like to be on my own, lying down in total silence.SpEnCeR1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:44 pm Orbital @ Rock City. Was OK but quite relentless, I was on a fairly heroic dose of liberty cap mushrooms so take my opinion with a pinch of salt but wasn't as good as late 90's Glastonbury appearances. Nice visuals tho. Seemed like a fairly aggressive crowd.
First time i've been in Room2 and its a good wee space. Sound was good. Defo worth getting down the front/in early as further back there is limited viewing due to huge concrete pillers. Will keep this in mind for a few shows that are coming up for the same venue.olan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 9:58 am Went to see the Sonic Boom and Panda Bear gig at Room 2 in Glasgow last night. Excellent gig which featured most of their recent LP, tracks from Pete’s last solo LP and a few tunes I didn’t know which I am guessing are from recent Panda Bear LPs. The gig kicked off just after 8:00 and was finished by 9:50 which suits an old bastard like me. The five song encore was brilliant featuring dubby segues between the tracks. Sound was great, visuals were excellent and I really liked the venue which was comfortably packed.
Yep, absolutely loved it - joyous show. Interesting to see that Stone Anthem will be signing to Castles in Space, home also to Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Planangel-sighs wrote: ↑Mon Apr 24, 2023 3:12 pm Thoroughly agree with Olan’s review of Panda Bear & Sonic Boom. Saw them last night in Coventry, I wasn’t sure what to expect really but I enjoyed it. Panda Bear can really sing, and you can tell they were properly piecing the whole thing together properly live, triggering the samples and adding handclaps, percussion and whistles etc. As mentioned, it was the album in full and then an encore of a couple of solo songs each. Great visuals and songs often flowing into one another. The ending to Everything's Been Leading to This built to a pleasantly hectic crescendo
The gig has actually made me appreciate the album more- might have to give it another play today.
Some great merch for sale too, I was tempted by a T shirt but there was also a record mat, songbook and cigarette papers!
Also worth mentioning the support Stone Anthem. Think he was like 17 years old, but did a great set of synth and guitar soundscapes that seemed pretty improvised. Word was that Pete Kember was acting as kind of a mentor for him and he’s signing to Castle in Space records.
erm prior to the Rock City gig. the walk there in the evening sun was incredible, everything turning to plasticine, we nearly did decide to stay outside and miss the show. olden days Glastonbury would've been dosed on MDMA :')sunray wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 6:21 pmHa! Now that you mention it i can see it reading that way. SpEnCeR1, can you confirm when the heroic dose occurred?niamhm wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:50 pmI took it that he had the heroic mushrooms dose at Glastonbury rather than last week at Rock Citysunray wrote: ↑Sun Apr 16, 2023 5:53 pmInteresting. I found their late 90s period was when i started going off them, too much faffing around and not enough dance tunes. In saying that, the 2004 'farewell' shows were superb. I can't imagine doing 'shrooms at an indoor gig though. Festivals yes, but these days i mostly just like to be on my own, lying down in total silence.SpEnCeR1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 10, 2023 10:44 pm Orbital @ Rock City. Was OK but quite relentless, I was on a fairly heroic dose of liberty cap mushrooms so take my opinion with a pinch of salt but wasn't as good as late 90's Glastonbury appearances. Nice visuals tho. Seemed like a fairly aggressive crowd.
Yup, it's interesting and a good fit for that label. Bear in mind this was just word of mouth from my mate so can't totally vouch for it!
I'm sure I saw Castles in Space mentioned in Stone Anthem's Instagram feed, but I can't find it now. He also stood in for Field Lines Cartographer who is on the same label. WRNTDP was great when I saw him earlier this year, so very much looking forward to seeing him at Fargo later in the year.angel-sighs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:05 pmYup, it's interesting and a good fit for that label. Bear in mind this was just word of mouth from my mate so can't totally vouch for it!
The Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan show later in the year should be a good one too
That sucks, I also heard some controversy about his dealings with Hollie Cook?Aquarian-Time wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:10 am I was a subscriber to castles in space, that was until i quickly (or not quioky enough) reakised he takes your money way in advance and you wait months to see anything, by which point you dont know where you are upto and all his disciplies think he is some kind of electronica god. Paid £15 quid a month every month this year and not received anything, apart from 3 albums (that were awful) which were from last year.
Took a swag to a local second hand record shop and cashed them in, some sort after goodies as well, kept FLC, Warrington Runcorn Dohnavur and a few others.
Much prefer Woodford Halse as a label fro Electronica and anything Dom (Feral Child, PolytechnicYouth) touches as well is always VFM.
Ha! Assume you are thinking of bits like the "ba ba bas" in Edge of the Edge?BROKENHEART wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 1:35 pm Chilled sounds with great visuals. Good crowd up for the evening. Not sure about some of Sonics vocals, which reminded me of Clarence "Frogman" Henry . No disrespect to Sonic just an observation on my part . Great night.
quite a detailed review -BROKENHEART wrote: ↑Sat Apr 29, 2023 1:35 pm Panda Bear & Sonic Boom at Brighton Komedia. Like others on this site wasn't sure what to expect. Really enjoyable evening.
Chilled sounds with great visuals. Good crowd up for the evening. Not sure about some of Sonics vocals, which reminded me of Clarence "Frogman" Henry . No disrespect to Sonic just an observation on my part . Great night.
Insanely detailed! The exact stage times and details of the post-interval drinks are a bit creepy...clewsr wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 10:12 am quite a detailed review -
https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/202 ... onic-boom/
stegraham wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:35 am Saw Rose City Band last night at Scala in London. I was disappointed last time they played in London because I couldn't make it, so was really looking forward to it. I haven't been to Scala for years - I think it was to watch the House of love on their She Paints Words in Red tour. I had a bad back for about a week after that - the place was so packed and I could hardly move during the gig. Put me off the venue TBH. It's easy for me to get to though - I live in St Albans, so a 20 min train to St Pancras and then it's just over the road from Kings Cross. Easy!
I thought the gig was great - RCB played lots of stuff from the new record, Garden Party, and well happy they played Wee Hours/Wildflowers from Summerlong (Fav album and fav track(s)) . Typical London audience - couple in front of me looking at their phones for alot of the gig and then left early, two blokes behind chatting throughout the gig (why?). It's difficult to get lost in the music sometimes, when being distracted by people around you. My main critism of the music/band is that they should have turned Ripley's guitar up - there were some parts where you could see he was soloing, but was being drowned out by the rest of the instruments - both the steel guitar and keyboards were slighly too high in the mix . Maybe it's the Scala sound system - not sure?
They played for about 1.15hr. Dawn Patrol (last track on Earth Trip) was the first encore - love that tune and they did it justice. Great stuff! However, for the last song they played a track with the support playing with them. Support was called Rosali, just a solo women, played country-ish slow songs - not my cup of tea really. I didn't recognise the song (maybe it was a Rosali one?, or maybe a cover), but I would have preferred another RCB one to finish the evening TBH. Not the strongest finish IMO.
Reading back at what I've written I sound like a right grumpy bastard! Sorry about that - I did have a good time, they were great and I'd definately go and watch them again!
Went to Chalk Brighton to see these. Really to catch King Hannah although Kurt Vile was great as always. His grooving, don't give a shit style songs I love. King Hannah's music was introduced to me by a friend. I couldn't stop playing Crème Brûlée, a single they brought out in 2020 I think. Anyway they were Brilliant at Chalk. Great Grunge guitar with Hannah's beautiful vocals.SpEnCeR1 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 12:28 pm Kurt Vile and King Hannah - Nottingham The Level.
Great night , took my eldest and my Dad, great venue, fairly new University spot, should be competing with the Rescue Rooms. Intimate but 700 ish capacity.
Enjoyed most of King Hannahs set; great guitar sound. Read reviews saying Portishead crossed with Mazzy Star which is sorta right.
Kurt set was great although a run of carbon copies of the records really, no surprises but the vibe was well chilled and happy , Jessie the guitarist seemed to attract alot of amusing attention from a group of drunk but good natured fanboys. no Freak Train
I didn't realise Just Mustard are Irish! Love Cranes, believe there are reissues on the way too.BROKENHEART wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 9:11 am Visions festival at Hackney. Really enjoyable day yesterday. Luckily all gigs were inside venues as it was pretty wet . I camped down in Hackney church as most of the stuff on was probably the best of the venues + the weather. Spiritualized headlined and we're great as usual. A bit of everything and as usual the wonderful Shine a light which I don't think I'll ever get bored of, it's a killer every time.
The best other bands Scalping and an Irish band Just Mustard with lots of guitar feedback and noise with vocals almost identical to Alison from Cranes. Coincidentally Cranes have reformed and will be seeing them later this year and 1 gig in London next year.
All in all a great day yesterday with really reasonable ticket pricing.
Here's the full set:BROKENHEART wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 9:11 am Visions festival at Hackney. Really enjoyable day yesterday. Luckily all gigs were inside venues as it was pretty wet . I camped down in Hackney church as most of the stuff on was probably the best of the venues + the weather. Spiritualized headlined and we're great as usual. A bit of everything and as usual the wonderful Shine a light which I don't think I'll ever get bored of, it's a killer every time.
The best other bands Scalping and an Irish band Just Mustard with lots of guitar feedback and noise with vocals almost identical to Alison from Cranes. Coincidentally Cranes have reformed and will be seeing them later this year and 1 gig in London next year.
All in all a great day yesterday with really reasonable ticket pricing.
I was gutted that Big Brave's Dublin gig a few days after EOTR was scheduled for the same night that Whores were in town.BROKENHEART wrote: ↑Fri Sep 15, 2023 1:25 pm End of The Road Festival
Great festival, really beautiful location. Punters on site seem to respect the objectives of the festivals ideals. I don't think you'll see a cleaner festival site. Everything catered for, including a rare thing nowadays at a lot of festivals, a real ale tent. Too many sponsor oriented bars at festivals with shit beers.
Top music for me over the 4 days, I'm sure I missed some good stuff as well.
Deerhoof, Wilco, Friendship, Angel Olsen ( emotional Americana with a string duo),Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, Big|Brave
(Probably the highlight of the weekend for me. I hadn't heard or seen these before. Wonderful Doom Metal drone),Moin,King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard,Allah-Las,Divide and Dissolve and Ezra Furman . It's not really always about the music for me. Something about the atmosphere and like-minded friendly people and staff.
A no brainer, I've bagged early bird tickets for 2024.
Saw them in Edinburgh last night and totally concur with your verdict, the band were brilliant breathing new life into some very intense versions of PIL classics, Slow Motion being a particularly mesmerising highlight for me, Lydon was great, what a voice - obviously in the non classical sense - powerful, entertaining, an let’s be honest funny and theatrical, it was a bloody great show, turned up early as my cuz wanted to see Meryl Streek, glad we did, he was brilliant, a super angry Dubliner alone with his tapes, made perfect sense for him to on this tour, pretty sure he had a lot o& new admirers after last nightBzaInSpace wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:01 pm Public Image Ltd.
Last night in Aberdeen’s Beach Ballroom enduring storm weather was perfect for them:
Absolutely extraordinary. The sound from those 3 guys and Lydon was pummelling, intense and very clear indeed. Lydon was awesome and on good form… the sound (that bass!) enveloped the venue was suitably intense. Glad I didn’t have anything more than some wine beforehand…
‘Flowers of Romance’ was epic. The whole thing was epic…
I really wanted to see this tour. I liked early Lush a lot so Miki Berenyi would have been a nice bonus to the GO4 set which is really right up my street (showing my age here.....)angel-sighs wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 8:46 am Gang of Four were very good last week in Birmingham , see them if you get the chance.
I have a feeling it may have been downgraded from the bigger room at the venue but still a good and lively crowd. The setlist was pretty much perfect- mainly from the first 2 classic albums and a couple of later songs. Tight and energetic. No impression of them phoning it in or anything, always a risk with bands of this vintage. David Pajo was great on guitar, nailing all the parts including great feedback section at the beginning of Anthrax.
The only drawback was the set being a little samey seeing as this era of their career had just one sound really. But I think they knew this, it was definitely done in a tight 90 mins
Miki Berenyi as support, don’t know much about her work but enjoyed the set. the drums were on a backing tape but still worked well. Dreamy guitars and vocals and good melodies.
Not to rub it in, but it was honestly really good. Possibly gig of the year so far. I missed out on seeing Gang of Four many years ago with what i think was the while original lineup. Regretted it since, this was the next best thing.
I caught PBE during the summer, i thought they were much better live than the records would suggest (which i found to be a bit lightweight). Nice Stereolab vibe at times. Also saw Ciel a few weeks ago supporting Blood Red Shoes. They were ok but not something i'd be searching out in the future.stegraham wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 11:19 am Went to see Pale Blue Eyes last night at the Corn Exchange in Hertford. First time I've been to the venue. It has a capacity around 300 people but it was only half full - maybe the bad weather, or maybe people prefer the London gigs. CIEL were the suppot, not really my cup of tea TBH. PBE, however, were fantastic. It's the second time I've seen them this year and you can tell they are having a great time - bouncing around on stage with big smiles. It is really infectous and their krautrock, poppy, shoegaze vibe has got a great goove which really wants to make you dance. They released their second album in September and they played most of the songs from it, as well as debut albums favs such as Dr Pong which could last forever for me. Great friendly bunch too - we had a chat with the singer after at the Merch stand/table. Tempted to go to the London gig on the 16th if tickets are still available. Recommended!