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12 minutes ago, moonage505 said:
Personally would be over the moon for Gizzard to do GM.
Won't happen this year - they're headlining EotR.
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21 hours ago, benali said:
Three Spoons who are on the bottom line of the line up picture is a 3 piece band with Naima Bock, the singer from Gently Tender and someone else.
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!
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9 hours ago, Semprini said:
Don't think this has happened before but Pukkelpop in Belgium (and probably Lowlands in Holland too), which is the same weekend as GM, will be announcing their first names on Wednesday. PKP usually drop around the end of Feb or sometime in March (so well after GM) but the general consensus is that they're doing it early as Billie Eilish is going to be one of the headliners.
She's obviously nothing to do with GM but the festivals normally share a fair few bands, so should give you all some indication of what to expect.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!!
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8 hours ago, robith said:
Could be coloured by my experience last year, but the fest feels on a bit of a downward slope scale wise, and certainly can't live with Green Man's financial clout and security
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!
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10 hours ago, NWUYC said:
Clashes between Jockstrap and BCNR would be a sight as Georgia Ellery is in both!
True but Nina Lim often plays in her place in BC,NR when commitments overlap.
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2 hours ago, scatteredscreens said:
Might have to sell my ticket for this, got an early bird but will wait for the line up to swing around and then decide. If anyone is keen to get a ticket at a reduced price.
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!
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9 hours ago, riverlodge said:
Arguably they started in the Alcove at Latitude, then went for seconds (and 3rds if you include sessions set) at Green Man?
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.
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On 12/22/2022 at 2:40 PM, lessthanwill1 said:
Have been trying to keep the list below updated. It’s not comprehensive!
The possibility of Devo and The Walkmen is pretty exciting imo. I’m not a mega fan of either (but like them) but neither have played in the U.K. for a long time as far as I’m aware. I think Devo last played in 2009 and The Walkmen in 2013 (including at EOTR, where they played 2nd down on the 2nd stage).
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Electric Picnic (1-3 Sep): Amyl & The Sniffers
Canela Party (23-26 Aug): Les Savy Fav, Crack Cloud, Nilufer Yanya, Tropical Fuck Storm, Shame, Osees, Black Midi, Porridge Radio, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom
Paredes de coura (16-19 Aug): Walkmen, Wilco, Fever Ray, Yin Yin, Les Savy Fav, Tropical Fuck Storm, Kokoroko
Pstereo (18-19 Aug): Aurora, Protomartyr
Flow Festival (13-15 Aug): Devo, Suede, Jockstrap, Polachek.
Sziget (10-15 Aug) : Jamie XX, Moderat, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Comet is Coming, Los Bitchos, Kelly Lee Owens, Mall Grab
We Out Here (10-14 Aug): Could in theory see anyone on the line up at GM (e.g. Black Midi, Sun Ra Arkestra, Cymande, Makaya McCraven, Wu-Lu, Moin etc.)
Oya (8-12 Aug): Amyl and The Sniffers, Devo, Caroline Polachek, Jockstrap, Shygirl, Makaya McCraven
Off Festival (4-6 Aug): Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Off!, Melody's Echo Chambers, The Staples Jr. Singers, Gilla Band, Tropical Fuck Storm, Haru Nemuri and Big Joanie.
All Together Now (4-6 Aug): Jamie XX, Iggy Pop, Lankum, Kelly Lee Owens, Daniel Avery
Haldern Pop (3-5 Aug): Katy J Pearson, Comet is Coming, Golden Dregs and Sorry.
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!
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2 hours ago, jplewes said:
Most of the ones i've heard of have been at EOTR in the last year or two (Crack Cloud, Porridge Radio, Sorry, Nilufer Yanya, Black Midi!) I think! I don't think Osees have done it for a little while (obviously a slightly different project now!)
2018 was last time around for Osees, I think?
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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.
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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!
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2 hours ago, theesundayroast said:
If anyone else is at this please come say hi! No one else in my group managed to get tickets so I'm driving down from Cambridge on my lonesome (late trains have all been cancelled!)
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.
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7 minutes ago, Crouchinho76 said:
How was it?
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!
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10 hours ago, lessthanwill1 said:
Finally saw BCNR post-Issac this evening at Bush Hall. Thought it was pretty average tbh and a bit disappointing. Think I saw @JHad in the crowd but didn’t spot you afterwards, hope you enjoyed!
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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3 hours ago, JHad said:
I've got a spare for tonight's 8pm Black Country, New Road show at Bush Hall. FV - £22.
Gone.
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I've got a spare for tonight's 8pm BC,NR sure now, if anyone is looking. Posted in Spare Gigs and Tickets thread but thought I'd share here as the gig was already beginning discussed and seems to get traffic.
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I've got a spare for tonight's 8pm Black Country, New Road show at Bush Hall. FV - £22.
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23 minutes ago, benali said:
I was considering wearing a bow tie but I don't own an actual suit and as we're driving up from Southampton we're already putting in enough effort!
We're all going, so if you want to say hello I'll be the bloke with 2 sons, one will probably be the youngest there and the other one is big with loads of hair.
Awesome! We'll look out for you. I'll be there with my girlfriend for the evening session.
A bow tie in your pocket is probably a good option to have! I don't have one and there's no suggested dress code for the matinee, so I don't fancy being smart for that in preparation for the evening.
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12 hours ago, benali said:
What one are you going to? We have tickets for Friday evening.
All three! 🫣
No way we'll dress up as suggested though. Will you?!
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11 minutes ago, Crouchinho76 said:
I'd be really interested if you could give us all some post-gig feedback on this!
Of course!
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5 minutes ago, JHad said:
Massively intrigued by the 3 London gigs on Thursday/Friday this week.
Some extremely cryptic messaging around what they'll be and fevered discussion! I don't think it's been discussed on here yet (apologies if I've missed it) but they've sent different emails to the attendees for each, introducing different plays by a character they've created, and a dress code. Nobody seems sure what's a joke at what isn't, which I guess is the point!
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Just now, scatteredscreens said:
Hope the new album is out by then.
Massively intrigued by the 3 London gigs on Thursday/Friday this week.
Some extremely cryptic messaging around what they'll be and fevered discussion! I don't think it's been discussed on here yet (apologies if I've missed it) but they've sent different emails to the attendees for each, introducing different plays by a character they've created, and a dress code. Nobody seems sure what's a joke at what isn't, which I guess is the point!
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A little surprise at my number 1 song but I was addicted to that Unschooling track for a few months!
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On 11/3/2022 at 12:05 PM, JHad said:
I've got 2 freebies for KT Tunstall on 10th November at The Windmill in Brixton. They were prizes from one of the Save Our Venues money raising efforts during lockdown. They are assigned to my name but can be transferred if done soon (ID of lead booker strictly required on the door).
Drop me a message if you'd like them.
This is tonight, so last call for these.
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1 hour ago, benali said:
No thanks to Sleaford Mods, Idles or Self Esteem. They are all daytime 6music wear your t-shirt to work from home dad bookings.
Hilariously accurate! Add Billy Nomates to that list though and it would be the full set for me.
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