MGMT, Coldplay, Julian Casablancas

[irons]

I don't get this apparent willingness to play an opening or earlier slot. Having seen Coldplay live, a great deal of their set relies on lighting. To play early in my opinion is to plan to play a poorer set. Why would they do that? Either Chris Martin has developed a particularly effective headtorch ensemble or they'll play Thursday evening on the Pyramid?

[Langdale Wolf]

MGMT - definitely playing.

[ampersand]

thumbs up for strokes man and coldplay. still to hear the mgmt album, but any band who give joanna newsom a starring role in their video are okay by me.

[DIsForDylan]

yes!!! source?!

MGMT - definitely playing.

[ampersand]

why do people always ask source. his sources are his usual sources no doubt, not that it will mean anything to us.

[Wooderson]

You don't like much do? Everytime I come on here I see Wooderson slagging off some band or other. I'm suprised you actually enjoy going to festivals or do you just sit around all day moaning?

[eFestivals]

yes!!! source?!

can't say. But I'm certain that the info is good.

[Langdale Wolf]

I hate all forms of music. You got me.

[popcornmaster]

MGMT - definitely playing.

[neil_hill_1]

Thanks, Neil.

Good news - I think. Love their album, but thought they were shite at the JP in 2008. Apparently their set at the Park was better. I'm willing to give them another go.

[Langdale Wolf]

i saw them at the park, and at the time i was in a very good moord for music as i belive shlo-mo (or however you spell it) had been on just before. anyway .. mgmt at the park were f*ckin shite. i like their recorded stuff but live ... they are really really drab. miss them and you will not regret it if you only knew the crapness of their live performance.

[neil_hill_1]

I thought the only redeeming feature of their JP set was the crowd during Time To Pretend and Kids. It was a great atmosphere, but I felt the band did the quinessential 'going through the motions' job during that set.

Have they got a new album coming out?

[robith]

MGMT were absolute shite when I saw them in Sept.

[robith]

I thought the only redeeming feature of their JP set was the crowd during Time To Pretend and Kids. It was a great atmosphere, but I felt the band did the quinessential 'going through the motions' job during that set.

Have they got a new album coming out?

[rexclark]

MGMT - definitely playing.

[LondonTom]

MGMT - definitely playing.

[robith]

Awesome news, I am seeing them at Heaven in March, so hopefully they will have uped there live game with the new songs to could be bit more padded out.

...Everytime I seen Klaxons they been nothing short of great, they really seemed to have a lot of energy and the crowd was wild both times.(Although stopping people brining glow sticks killed the atmosphere a bit initially with bouncers coming into to the crowd to grab them off people.)

[LondonTom]

Really?

I have seen them 3 times, and every time they have been shoddy, out of time, out of tune (a problem when your music relies on vocal harmonies) and at times barely able to play their instruments

[robith]

Saying that it could be that they were one of my first gigs, so it was more about the atmosphere when you first go so that could have effected it and the 2nd time wasn't that long after so maybe I was just young and naive?

I enjoyed them at the time though, great was a bit of an over statement maybe

[LittlemissC]

See this is it - everyone I know who has enjoyed them live said "Oh the atmosphere was great!"

People must have been having too much fun to concentrate on the band. I blame Plant Food

[Wooderson]

Yeah, they remind a lot of Klaxons - 3 catchy singles, mediocre album, awful live

[Langdale Wolf]

After MGMT at the JP in 2008, I walked away thinking 'that was really shite' as people around me were singing the riff to 'Kids'. I overheard people saying 'wow - best performance of the festival so far!' or 'that was AMAZING!'.

I have never been so bewildered by other people's thoughts on an act I'd just seen. They were absolutely awful - I don't get why other people couldn't see that.

I posted my thoughts on here afterwards and loads of people said they'd loved that set too.

So this year, I might actually go back on 29 years of moral principles and go on the drugs.

[plaskins]

So this year, I might actually go back on 29 years of moral principles and go on the drugs.

[robith]

Indeed!

Funny that both Klaxon's an CSS can't make another decent album? Must have interupted their creative flows with all that love makin'...

[Kyelo]

After MGMT at the JP in 2008, I walked away thinking 'that was really shite' as people around me were singing the riff to 'Kids'. I overheard people saying 'wow - best performance of the festival so far!' or 'that was AMAZING!'.

I have never been so bewildered by other people's thoughts on an act I'd just seen. They were absolutely awful - I don't get why other people couldn't see that.

I posted my thoughts on here afterwards and loads of people said they'd loved that set too.

So this year, I might actually go back on 29 years of moral principles and go on the drugs.