At The Drive-In

[she bangs the drums]

I know most people think the crowd will be pretty small for an NME headliner but does anyone think the crowd might be lively?

I'm going to Leeds and I'm hoping for finish the last night with a bang as Enter Shikari, Mastodon and ATTD-I are all playing.

[Calzum]

I know most people think the crowd will be pretty small for an NME headliner but does anyone think the crowd might be lively?

Edited July 13, 2012 by Calzum

[she bangs the drums]

Here is some decent footage from last night's performance at FIB.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOig6hm62xc

[Vieuphoria]

Ahhh will watch this in a sec. Hopefully better than the Coachella set.

[Yellow_Fellow]

I liked the Coachella set. Enfilade was pretty brutal.

Edited July 13, 2012 by Yellow_Fellow

[she bangs the drums]

Looks like they are playing the same set list as Coachella? Will probably be the same at R & L.

The first day of Spain's Benicassim festival climaxed with a cult Texan post-hardcore band At The Drive-In's first European show in over a decade.

The band last played in Europe in 2001, shortly before they broke up, and announced their reformation at the beginning of this year. Guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has said the band will produce no new material, describing the reunion as "a nostalgia thing".

In a set largely dominated by the band's breakthrough 2000 album 'Relationship Of Command', frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala punctuated the band's set with bursts of bizarre humour, dropping an apparent reference to League Of Gentlemen comedy character Papa Lazarou's "Hello Dave" catchphrase and yelling "Seth Letterman? Seth Letterman? Your ride is here."

At the close of the set, he gently mocked the crowd, saying "Oh, I've been waiting an hour to hear 'One Armed Scissor'" before dedicating the band's best-known song to them.

At The Drive-In played:

'Arcarsenal'

'Pattern Against User'

'Chanbara'

'Lopsided'

'Sleepwalk Capsules'

'Napoleon Solo'

'Quarantined'

'Enfilade'

'Metronome Arthritis'

'Catacombs'

'One Armed Scissor'

Edited July 13, 2012 by she bangs the drums

[Vieuphoria]

Just noticed that video is only 35 mins? Maybe they will only get an hour at Reading. They don't seem to be playing that long really.

[chriseede]

Just noticed that video is only 35 mins? Maybe they will only get an hour at Reading. They don't seem to be playing that long really.

[jonodillieono]

At their own shows they've played around 15 songs each night so who knows.

Also Omar really doesn't seem to enjoy it, he's more than definitely only doing it for the money.

Actually I've just watched The Mars Volta from Open'er festival last weekend and he doesn't seem much into it there. He must still be depressed, that or he doesn't enjoy bouncing around the stage like a nutter anymore

Edited July 13, 2012 by jonodillieono

[Dan R]

At their own shows they've played around 15 songs each night so who knows.

Also Omar really doesn't seem to enjoy it, he's more than definitely only doing it for the money.

Actually I've just watched The Mars Volta from Open'er festival last weekend and he doesn't seem much into it there. He must still be depressed, that or he doesn't enjoy bouncing around the stage like a nutter anymore

[Calzum]

Pissed they haven't played Cosmonaut since they returned (from what I've seen) its my faveourite ATDI song

Still keeping my hopes up that they're gonna play it

[she bangs the drums]

At their own shows they've played around 15 songs each night so who knows.

Also Omar really doesn't seem to enjoy it, he's more than definitely only doing it for the money.

Actually I've just watched The Mars Volta from Open'er festival last weekend and he doesn't seem much into it there. He must still be depressed, that or he doesn't enjoy bouncing around the stage like a nutter anymore

Edited July 14, 2012 by she bangs the drums

[Chavmeisterdeluxe]

I've been saying for a while that they wouldn't play 90 minutes, mostly because I couldn't see them being stupid enough to have Enter Shikari and Billy Talent clash.

[mrtourette]

There are silly looking clashes all the time, if ATDI wanted 90 mins then the organisers wouldn't bat an eyelid at creating a partial clash between Enter Shikari and Billy Talent.

Saying that I agree that if they longest set they've played is 15 songs then it does suggest they'll struggle to fill out 90 mins.

[Vieuphoria]

They don't seem to want to play more. It'll be an hour it seems. Which is fine.

[mrtourette]

Yeah sure, that's what I was agreeing with, not that they'll get a shorter because FR don't want Billy Talent and Enter Shikari to clash.

It does mean that as the days with a 60 min headline slot traditionally have 11 bands that there may be a space free, or they'll just give The Cribs and maybe Mastodon as well some extra time.

Edited July 14, 2012 by mrtourette

[sjseabass]

According to setlist.fm they've literally never played Mannequin Republic live, which is a bit disappointing for me, it being my favourite song of theirs and all. Still hyped about seeing them though . I really hope they don't clash with Feeder.

[jonodillieono]

Really? damn it's one of my favourites as well.

[she bangs the drums]

I thought they were really good at Leeds and Cedric's voice was amazing.

I cannot believe how few people actually went to see them, the crowd was even smaller than the one for Faith No More, possibly the smallest crowd I saw in the NME all weekend. Must have been 2- 3,000 at the very most, in fact I think there was more people watching Feeder in the Festival Republic tent.

[gazza_20]

I thought they were really good at Leeds and Cedric's voice was amazing.

I cannot believe how few people actually went to see them, the crowd was even smaller than the one for Faith No More, possibly the smallest crowd I saw in the NME all weekend. Must have been 2- 3,000 at the very most, in fact I think there was more people watching Feeder in the Festival Republic tent.

[Mouseboy11]

I can see why they drew a small crowd, In fairness Kasabian are absolutely massive with 16-18 year old's whereas most of them would of never heard of ATDI. I hadn't until this forum talked about them a lot.

[moz4pm]

Might have been a small crowd but those who were there loved it, great crowd, great performance, I felt like I'd been injected with pure adrenaline during arcarsenal

[Siamesedream22]

Band of the weekend for me, Arcarsenal was simply amazing!!!

[moz4pm]

Band of the weekend for me, Arcarsenal was simply amazing!!!

[huntyyy]

Yeah their crowd was tiny at reading. I exhausted myself halfway through and went to refill my water and had no trouble getting back to the front. Not complaining though, it was insane. Brixton tomorrow!