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I'm not sure I'm ready for the Arcade Fire discourse again already 😅
Pre-allegations, this would've been an all-time gig announcement and would've been tempted to travel down for it. Great venue and one of my favourite albums of all time. Now, it's just weird.
The fact they still have replies/comments off on all their socials says enough.-
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On 3/29/2024 at 11:36 PM, 4AssedMonkey said:
The Hives were on brilliant form in Nottingham tonight. Great setlist, top drawer drumskin tight musical performance and all the crowd interaction and banter you’d expect from Pelle. Still one of the best live acts out there.
Support act (Bad Nerves) are good too, like a Strokes/upbeat Ramones vibe.
My neck hurts, my feet hurt and I’ve lost my voice. 10/10.
This is great to hear, cannot wait for tonight at the Barras.
I’ve only ever seen them at festivals or support sets. I still go on about his ladder banter from Glastonbury in 2013. -
1 minute ago, gfa said:
interesting they are doing both the eventim apollo and o2 brixton (both on sh*t days!)
Manchester and Glasgow being on Sunday nights is also odd. Strange tour all round with some big geographic gaps, venue sizes and the dates.
Another perfect advert for a gig venue in central Scotland in-between Academy and Hydro size.-
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2 hours ago, finn_with_1_n said:
Vampire Weekend tour announcement today by the looks of it. 3 dates have appeared on O2 Priority
Wed 4th Dec - Eventim Apollo
Fri 6th Dec - The Halls, Wolverhampton
Sun 8th - OVO Hydro Glasgow
Tour announced now:
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1 hour ago, 4AssedMonkey said:
Seeing The Hives at Nottingham Rock City on Friday. Really looking forward to it. If you see a 50 year old man in the pit, who looks like he should know better but is going batshit, that's probably me.
Would love a review in here after if you can!
I'm off to see them at the Barras in Glasgow on Monday and cannot wait. Should be a cracker.
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5 minutes ago, smogo said:
I don't think I've ever met anyone who likes Coldplay. How do they manage to sell out massive shows? Who are their fans and why?
I've seen Coldplay on their last two Stadium tours (2016/2022) and they were great.
I like to think that I have a pretty wide and good taste in music but can't help but just enjoy Coldplay (although their last album was rubbish to be fair).
They will be just fine as a Pyramid headliner again, despite it not being very exciting or at all forward thinking.-
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Considering how many big/strong acts are touring this August around the UK/Europe, I'd be quite surprised if it makes it back next year in the same format
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Catfish and the Bottlemen playing the Festival Site the weekend Connect usually falls, and not having any Connect branding, is surely the end for this festival (again).
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1 hour ago, Gejonimo said:
Got Death Cab/Postal Service tickets for Glasgow. Still think there'll be a Manchester date but can't risk missing Transalanticism, plus we can make a night of it. Worth it for us as we get a free companion ticket, but good lord, £90+ each is a bit ridiculous.
That seems really rough considering a standing ticket is coming in just under £60 including fees.
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4 minutes ago, Dark Star said:
Ryan Adams appears to have crawled out from under the rock he'd been hiding under since being cancelled.
Joining the Arcade Fire strategy of "Distract people with an Anniversary Tour".
Makes me wonder if Ben Gibbard is shifty-
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What an odd choice of Special Guest and some suspiciously large venues
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2 minutes ago, fraybentos1 said:
I had no idea there was a proposed arena in Edinburgh. Being from glasgow I always enjoyed how we got all of the bigger acts playing here cause going through to the Corn Exchange or whatever on a school night is a pain.
I agree that scotland defo needs that sort of size space though. Going to go read into the proposal now...
They've deliberately picked a site next door to a train station (Edinburgh Park) so getting to/from Glasgow and other places along that line will be easier than the Corn Exchange or even the Usher Hall (in theory)
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51 minutes ago, MEGABOWL said:
Yep, still plenty of seats and that’s with the top blocks curtained off judging from the map on Ticketbastard. Thats very expensive.
This seems to happen quite a lot with Glasgow though. Unless someone is willing to play the SEC itself (which is terrible for gigs) there’s a big gap between the Academy and the Hydro in terms of available venues at the right capacity. When I went to the Hydro for HAIM, Elbow and The National there were decent portions of the upper seats blocked off. But if you’re an act capable of selling roughly 3/4s of the Hydro (as with the latter two) or even half (as with HAIM) there’s nowhere else to go.
This gap between Academy and the Hydro is one of the reasons the proposed Edinburgh Arena is only 8500 capacity. Edinburgh is even worse than Glasgow given there's no real Barras equivalent.
It's very much needed for central Scotland to have that "smaller" arena to keep bands of that size coming up here and it being financially viable for them.
Enter Shikari are the most recent example of not being big enough to play the Hydro so just playing the o2 Academy in Edinburgh instead. It was sold out but they obviously couldn't bring their full production given the size difference. -
7 minutes ago, matrainertje said:
Saw Radiohead both in arenas and festivals and their festival sets were all much much better. Rock Werchter 2017, Lolla Berlin 2016 and NOS Alive 2016 were magical. Great crowds too. Their indoor show in 2012 was also fun but not on the same level as these festival shows.
Radiohead at Rock Werchter 2017 is maybe the best headline set I've ever seen. It was like they felt the pressure too much for Glastonbury
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Arcade Fire were/are my favourite band and I had totally blocked out the fact that Funeral would be 20 this year and they might do gigs like that. I would've sold my dog a few years back to see Funeral in full but I really don't know about it now.
The atmosphere at the WE tour was so strange but that was partly down to the news coming out between tickets being bought and the shows taking place. Now anyone buying tickets either doesn't know, or it doesn't put them off.
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9 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:
That's a huge tour for them. Fair play but I can see a few curtained seats on the horizon
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More acts added. Still looks awful
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2 hours ago, Goer190 said:
Gary Neville at Glasto?
What a coup by Kendal Calling to get Abba to play underneath The Pigeon Detectives
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Does anyone have any indication if Connect will be back next year?
Given the recent APE and Victorious announcements, LCD Soundsystem and Biffy Clyro feel like layup headliners for this. There seem to be a lot of "Connect style" acts touring around the usual time so they could do well here.
All this obviously means it won't happen given how DF have booked Connect so far but it's nice to hope. -
This will sell well but you couldn't pay me to deal with that crowd.
The fact that Radiohead were the first TRNSMT headliner seems wilder by the day.
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I loved them at Primavera last year and reports of their arena tour recently were great, so I'm very tempted by that Edinburgh Castle show
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4 minutes ago, -TLR- said:
something else that pisses me off these days is how they never actually put the cost of tickets on anything until you get through to the payment stage.
the promoters are well aware that the prices are absolutely f**king disgusting.
if they thought prices were fair and reasonable they would not try so hard to hide them and stand by them.
This is a Ticketmaster special. Seetickets are pretty good at showing prices ahead of on sale dates but so many acts are only available on Ticketmaster now.
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The first 3/4 songs are very poor/average imo and are just bad LDR/Lorde songs.
It picks up after that. Despite the terrible song names, So Long, London and But Daddy I Love Him are both great and with time will climb up the favourite song rankings.