Paulaviki
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anyone else heard the prague set? the set list is rather ace
the first encore sounds the bollocks
anyways, this rumoured uk tour in jan/feb - anyone heard anything about this, whether its going to actually happen or not, or whether its just another rumour
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PJ in Paris rocked, not as good as Reading and similar setlist in some ways, but still excellent! Man those boys can rock.
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Had a quick shufty in Kerrang while I was in Tesco earlier, they gave PJ's Reading performance 4 K's, much better than NME's shoddy review.
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off to Marseille tomorrow for the beach (Friday) and Pearl Jam (Saturday night)!
did paris in 2000 so going for a change this time. bercy is great though, I'm sure you'll have a great time.
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My mate's got as far as 'Oo est le beach and that?'
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Such sympathy.
I'm not giving up on the Leeds DVD though. I shall endeavour.
And yes I should have gone to Reading, that way I would have had at least one band to have looked forward to on the Sunday.
Anyway lady, Paris in 4 days........................Oh yeah!
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Rub it in why don't you.
I'm only just coming to terms with fowls tragic news.
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Got the Reading set on CD now after mr Ollie downloaded it, its bloody great.
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Oh yeah! I'd completely forgotten that!
I remember expecting them to stop, or at least after the song, to do their caring sharing thing and bring him out or something but no - they ignored it!
Fabulous!
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Just remembered, was watching PJ's Reading set the other day and some guy ran onstage, I don't remember seeing that when I was there.
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3.5 hour sets are extremely rare, 90% of PJ shows are 2-2.5 hours long. All 3 I've been too have been 2 hours, but one was a festival, one was a promo show and the other was in a venue with a notoriously tight curfew.
A lot of people seem to go to PJ shows expecting some mammoth 3 hour set because they did it once 3 years ago. Totally the wrong approach. I'm sure everyone wants to be at the show where they repeat "the experiment", but it's not gonna happen!
I know you're a fan and understand these things, but some newbs see fans fantasising like this and expect it as the benchmark. Pearl Jam don't always push the curfew, and they hardly ever play massive sets.
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Hate to point it out like, but the standing tickets are actually cheaper.
Good to see you're mad for the P Jam now though.
Paris beckons.
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Have upgraded our Paris tickets from seating to standing, wooooo! 1 week today and we are seeing PJ again!!
Hope we get a set similar to when they played Milwauke (sp?), they played for 3 1/2 hours and did something like 35 songs!!
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Fantastic review 5co77ie, I particularly like your closing paragraph
The quintet were on scorching form and it’s been one of the highlights of my life. How can Reading ever top this performance? For me I don’t think they can, it’s been one of the most magical performances I’ve witnessed and I doubt any band today could achieve the same. They were incredible and it’s a night all Pearl Jam fans will never forget – vintage indeed! -
'Lets take everything good about Pearl Jam and make out that they were rubbish as we are so excellent at criticism and we weren't even there. I heard that Mcready was pretty excellent on guitar. I know, we'll bring up that 'anti-guitar solo' thing we like to use to get out of any critical analysis that may require thought. I mean, I didn't work on researching this, so I'll be damned if I'm gonna think when writing about it. Oh, and I hear that Vedder was very genuine and was articulate in speaking to and for the crowd. Lets go with the 'boring American rock band' thing, people always understand that little piece of dismissive crap. This job is sooooooooo easy. Now hand me the Kooks set please.'
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Go and Hail Hail were 2 of the 3 songs I REALLY wanted to hear (along with In My Tree) so I was kinda annoyed I wasn't at Leeds. But Reading got Crown of Thorns and Jeremy so f**k that!
My 3 PJ gigs are now over.
Enjoy it those who are going to Paris and the other euro gigs.Oh, and the Reading set in stream:
http://www.pearljamonline.it/songofthemont...mbre2006/01.asf
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http://www.pearljamonline.it/songofthemont...mbre2006/02.asf
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Has anyone seen the NME today? They gave PJ a surprisingly fair review (at Leeds). Great comments like "tcrowd was bored becuase of the long guitar solos" and "they played for too long"... really sums up what the NME is all about.
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Wow they were awesome!! I got a good few of my fave tracks so far (still new to PJ), opening with Corduroy was a touch, but I have to say I am gutted Leeds got Daughter/Its Ok - you bastards!! But it was a great set and when the starting riff of Alive kicked in it was a hair standing up moment! Great crowd too, definitely the best band of the weekend, and it was so nice to see a band genuinely moved by the massive response they got from the crowd.
Seeing them again in less than 2 weeks............hell yeah.
And can't believe anyone could say they looked uninterested, did they see Mike McCreedy playing guitar over his head!!!!!! Uninterested by being moved to tears, uninterested using binoculars to look at the crowd...........uninterested by doing 2 encores and taking a band bow at the end..........oh and they must have been so uninteresting that people did not stop applauding.
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I am going to Paris, yes.
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Ooooh I like the look for your setlist Unpolished!!
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Which songs do they play off the new album?
Not sure if I have time to
listen
understand
Digest
Enjoy
The whole thing before reading as I've got coheed tomorrow and work at various points in between
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So all this talk of them notmaking money etc etc is, actually, all crap really. They ae record company bitches, just like everyone else. For better or worse.
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Doesnt help that a public right of way runs through the site.. but all they need is a day ticket as there is no seperate entrance
Yeah the public right of way is a big pain the ass, but isn't there some way that along this public right of way, entrances to the site are manned 24/7?
And true about the day ticket business, I think its a big part of the problem Reading has, they could do with separate entrances for day people but I believe thats not possible.
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I wonder too on the wisdom of holding two large festivals (WOMAD and 'the' Reading Festival) so near the centre of a town acknowledged by some of its residents to have no shortage of lowlife crims and thieves, and in one area at least, crack addicts. Although talk of people having onsite tickets, no doubt bought at locals' discount prices, may mean that only the more scheming and plan-oriented thieves, rather than chaotic crackheads, get on and do their evil thing .....
I've heard that thieves are prepared to buy tickets these days, a £125 investment when they can steal £100's of pounds worth of gear over a few days. But I'd agree that WOMAD/Reading being so close to a town centre does not help the crim situation, and Reading can be dodgy at the best of times, but security at Reading (not been to WOMAD) in the campsite has always been lapse, every year numerous people camp at Reading without wristbands, its too easy for people to get on site without a ticket and that needs to be addressed.
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Was listening to the Reading 'bootleg' again the other day, god that was great, its so nice to be able to listen to the performance again, and hear the crowd cheering, and Vedder being so emotional.....