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  1. Warm-up for a LGW? appearance perhaps?
  2. Won't happen this year - they're headlining EotR.
  3. They played GM last year, last up on the Sunday in the record store tent. I didn't see their set though and spent ages afterwards trying to find out who they were!
  4. Lowlands was much poppier / commercial at the top end than GM when I went but as you've said the mid-range acts are the ones to look out for. Exciting!!
  5. I agree. Each one I've been to hasn't felt as good as the previous edition. That doesn't mean it's been bad but I have the same feeling about a downward trend from a very high peak. Very much hoping this year's line-up makes me rethink that!
  6. True but Nina Lim often plays in her place in BC,NR when commitments overlap.
  7. I don't seem to be able to DM you but I might be interested, if you decide to sell. Been adamant that I won't go this year but am starting to get FOMO with this line-up talk!
  8. I was at the Latitude and GM sets but haven't seen them since! I think they played a couple of shows between as well - they definitely played The Lexington before GM. I'd bet on them being at EotR, but not headlining, personally. Could they play that same slot that Idles played? I know it's usually a heavier act but the inspiration narrative is a strong one.
  9. I really want Iggy Pop! I'm reality though, almost all of those you've listed I'm either already a fan of or would go to see through curiosity. First time I've begun to feel excitement for 2023 really, seeing this and the acts that are around!
  10. 2018 was last time around for Osees, I think?
  11. Excuse the long message! It gave me great fun on the train home for Christmas to write, even if it's too long to read! A completely mad year of gigs for me this time around. I decided at some point in early 2020 that seeing 365 different acts in one year would be a good idea. The pandemic put an end to that and made it too difficult in 2021 as well, but this year I managed it (just - 372)! 418 live sets in total is probably something I will never repeat. The self-imposed target definitely got me out at times I would've otherwise stayed at home and also lead me to make decisions to be more adventurous at festivals. I think it was a little too much though and did become a chore at times rather than the adventure into new music I intended. I managed Rockaway Beach, The Great Escape, Best Kept Secret, Green Man and End of the Road as weekend festivals and. I also did Wide Awake, Mutations, Visions, Made Me Like It, Pitchfork London, All Points East, and British Summer Time as one day or multiple day events. Green Man was the highlight of those - my favourite festival weekend to date - although The Great Escape was brilliant as well and cycling to and from the UK to Best Kept Secret in the Netherlands (again!) was also fantastic. My most seen act of the year was Black Country, New Road, who I saw 7 times (+ black midi, New Road once). Their first gig without Isaac in Brighton back in May seems like a good place to start in terms of highlights but it wasn't my favourite gig of theirs. More on that later! Looking back, I've marked 3 sets as genuine 10/10 moments so those are the top 3. Fitting the rest into a top 10 was beyond me, so you've got 9 plus these very highly commended! Sigur Ros @ Brixton Academy The Utopia Strong @ Green Man Robocobra Quartet @ The Lexington The Magnetic Fields @ End of the Road Viagra Boys @ Kentish Town Forum TEKE:TEKE @ The Great Escape Lime Garden @ The Great Escape Spiritualised @ The Roundhouse caroline @ EartH, Hackney Bicep @ Wide Awake Penguin Cafe @ The Great Escape SCALPING @ fabric King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard @ Best Kept Secret Gilla Band @ Peckham Audio Olafur Arnalds @ Hammersmith Apollo Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ Best Kept Secret Protomartyr @ Islington Assembly Hall Phoebe Bridgers @ Brixton Academy English Teacher @ The Great Escape Michael Rother @ Clapham Grand Unschooling @ The Great Escape. 9 ) Portron Portron Lopez @ The Great Escape (Green Door Store). One of the biggest joys for me is seeing a band I've never heard of smash the roof off of a small venue. Bloody hell, this French trio did that. Brilliant evening, with them, Unschooling, Byker Grove Fan Club, and Joe & The Shitboys was probably my favourite evening of music of the year, especially as it was spent with Big Jeff just a couple of weeks before his accident. 8 ) deathcrash @ Visions (Oslo, Hackney). Incredible crescendo of Doomcrash live for the first time, with perfect sound. Need I say more?! 7) Fat Dog @ Wide Awake. Pure word of mouth band. Technically mediocre but the most fun half hour set your could imagine. Honourable mention for their EotR set where I moshed. I don't mosh. 6) Pushpin @ Green Man. Most exciting new discovery of the year for me. Should've won Rising IMO. I can't wait to see them develop. 5) Dry Cleaning @ Peckham Audio. 150 capacity venue album launch. I'd find off them a little, but am thoroughly addicted to Stumpwork. 4) Melin Melyn @ Green Man. Their 2021 set was talked about all year and their 2022 set will be the stuff of legend. A jam-packed Walled Garden, plenty outside, and even those in a passing military transport plane had they're spirits lifted by the most joyous band currently out there. 3) black midi @ Best Kept Secret. Technically the greatest band I've ever seen, who only seem to get better and better. They were on top form at BSK, and their set really hit me. I've still no idea how they play John L even faster live than it is on record, which seems next to impossible in itself. 2) The Rolling Stones @ British Summer Time. I wasn't expecting much. They're 80 years old, for god's sake! Regardless, it was a band I had to see once. What transpired was just brilliant. A performance I'd have expected them to put on 40 years ago. I went away a proper fan. 1) Black Country, New Road @ Green Man. The best set I've ever seen. My most seen and my favourite band but I'd never seen them pull off a 10/10 set. When Isaac left, I doubted that would ever happen. They had to fulfil their festival dates in order to be able to remain a full time band and wrote 9 new songs for them. I'd seen the set twice and was kind of ambivalent towards it, but most people hadn't heard these unreleased tracks. I feared for them playing Far Out (a sizable stage they'd somewhat flopped on as a last minute replacement in 2019). However, their set at Green Man was one of the most life affirming things I've ever seen. They changed the order of the set, cut one song and had tweaked others, as they tend to do. Just 8 songs and 50 minutes, but it couldn't have been better. The ovation they received after Turbines/Pigs (the penultimate track) seemed to go on for a good few minutes, as if everyone was sharing the moment and imploring the band to keep making music together. I was in the front row, crying for the final 3 songs. Various members of the band were also crying and struggling to take it the love for them, their new music, and the moment they'd created. My favourite band, playing my favourite ever set, at my favourite ever edition of my favourite festival, in a year defined for me by music more than any other. Perfect. 😎 Just looking back through all the acts from this year has made me realise how special it's been and how lucky I've been to do it, although next will definitely be a bit more chilled! However, it will be my first Glastonbury after a decade of trying to get a ticket. I cannot wait to see which acts I've not yet heard of will be on this list next year!
  12. I'll be there but no idea what to expect! Just to add to my review above, these were the pamphlets for each performance. There's going to be some kind of video/doc/play and maybe a live album (?) in the spring. For me a live album makes perfect sense given these songs were developed live, even more so than the previous material. Gives them the winter break they've got from touring to write new stuff too, rather than spending it recording these.
  13. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot. It was their usual live set they've been playing this year. The play thing was all a joke (unless it forms a part of the video, perhaps?), although they were dressed as characters and there was a pamphlet of each to collect on your way in. They also sometimes took longer than usual between songs too get things right for the recording. There were cameras everywhere - 3 main ones (on a balcony, central on the floor, on stage), plus smaller cameras mounted in various spots, and camcorders given to people in the crowd. Thursday and Friday nights were both great. Turbines/Pigs in particular on Friday was sublime and it was very clear at all 3 shows that that's most people's favourite of these new songs (mine too). They were technically very good and much more on it than at their ICA show last month, which I left wondering if these 3 gigs would perhaps be it for the band. Emotionally, it didn't quite live up to the Green Man set, but was right up there technically. I didn't think the Friday matinée show was as good. The sound didn't seem quite right, especially tinny vocals. They also made a few mistakes which you could see they were annoyed with themselves for. Glad to see they're touring again next year and hopefully they've time to add to their repertoire by then. Perhaps I'm just lucky to have seen it so many times, but I do appreciate some variety in a set which they understandably haven't been able to introduce. Talking of which black midi, New Road at the Windmill tonight should be very very different!
  14. Yeah, I spotted you too, @lessthanwill1, just as they came on stage. You were a bit in front of me leaving and I didn't catch up to you. @benali was there too, bit we didn't manage to catch up either! Fair enough, I can understand that opinion. I was underwhelmed the first time I saw the new set in the spring and I've wildly fluctuated since. For me, GM was the best (my favourite ever live set, as I'm sure I told you repeatedly in my GM buzz!) and last night and Thursday night were the next best technically, although they lacked a little of the emotion of the GM set. The matinée was really poor IMO, both sound wise and with the mistakes they made, but they stepped it up in the evening and it was obvious they were very pleased to get close to perfect takes of a few tracks, namely Turbines/Pigs. I'm intrigued as to what is next as they've played these same 8 tracks at all of the shows this year, sometimes with the addition of Geese. I assume they'll be writing more material over the next couple of months now there is a break from touring, and then this love album will be out in the first half of 2023.
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