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Personally think The Car would've been a much stronger album if it was majority like Sculptures. Mirrorball and Sculptures are great. Hello You and Perfect Sense are good. The rest is totally forgettable, sadly. A couple of tracks are even, in my mind, absolutely mindbogglingly woeful. And I'm saying this as a huge fan that's seen them live more times than I can remember!

This might just be down to personal taste so could be nonsense but for me, I felt after Holy Fire, Foals were one more absolutely solid album (with 2-3 big singles) away from being able to step up. I felt What Went Down completely missed (apart from Mountain at My Gates and perhaps the title track at a push), but I think they really fell off overall. Their double album in 2019 was an awful idea from the beginning. Still a great live band, one I've seen multiple times, and they always seem to get their setlist right to this day. Just think they slightly misfired when they had their chance to take it to the next level. Overall, I'm a big fan, I saw them for £4 in a room that was 90% empty when I'd only heard Hummer, and seen them plenty since!

This has probably been discussed so apologies if so - do people think there's a chance of The Walkmen being added to the Strokes day, once they've sold out their own shows at KOKO? Seems to make so much sense given the timing but not sure if it's already been ruled out for any reason.

A one-off gig announced after he'd sold out multiple nights at Wembley, so fairly different tbf. Overall, you can't blame the artist or promoters for booking the wrong venue. A lot of acts would prefer to do two or three nights in a smaller venue than one in a massive one, I think. For me, if you haven't got a ticket, you turn up to try and get one off a tout then go home if you fail, or just don't bother. Doesn't seem hard to act like a normal human being. Really tragic what's happened.

Out of interest, how did you get tickets as an NHS staff member? Wondering if I can get a family member to pull a favour for me...

How busy do people think it'll be today? Any idea if it's anywhere near sold out? Presuming not...

I remember the Saturday being carnage down the front, fights everywhere. But that's the sort of crowd they had. They always used to say they'd hate to do arenas because they prefer the intimacy of small venues, but obviously they outgrew them. Probs a bit of that in their reluctance to do stadiums, rather than letting a few idiots ruin it. Those types stand towards the back at AM gigs these days!

Got a couple this eve for the National tomorrow. Managed to get VIP ones for the same I was hoping to pay for ‘normal’ ones so why not. They’re ‘VIP View’ so right in thinking it’ll give us access to that front left bit? And access to a couple of different bars/toilets? Anything else worth noting? Wouldn’t have gone for them normally but at the price I thought why not.

Thanks mate but I need two so probs easier for me to buy two together off the same person. Seems to be a fair few floating around.

If anyone's got a couple spare for the National on Friday give me a shout. Will be looking to buy two tomorrow once pay day arrives.

Cheers mate. And for anyone that's been before, presuming VIP just isn't worth it?

Hoping to see The National on Friday - anyone know if it's likely cheaper tickets will become available the day before or anything like that? I'll buy full price if not, but waiting to see...

What was his original slot?