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The Chic Excitmenet Thread.


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The Chic - Portishead clash is tearing me apart!

I ended 2011 with Kool and the Gang and it was without a doubt the most fun I've ever had at a gig, and Chic look like they're gonna hit the same level...

...but I have wanted to see Portishead for donkey's years...

Ahhhhhhhh, FREAK OUT!

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The Chic - Portishead clash is tearing me apart!

I ended 2011 with Kool and the Gang and it was without a doubt the most fun I've ever had at a gig, and Chic look like they're gonna hit the same level...

...but I have wanted to see Portishead for donkey's years...

Ahhhhhhhh, FREAK OUT!

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I must be the only person on here who felt let down by Kool and the Gang. Maybe it was that they didn't play much early stuff, or they were just a little bit too cheesy for me, even though I was expecting that to be the case. I went to see QOTSA instead

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Yeah the situation might have had something to do with it. I was on my own as half my mates were at Beyonce and the rest at QOTSA.

Plus I wasn't nearly pissed enough. Can't wait for Chic though!

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the way I am looking at is this - it's Friday night, the start of the big weekend. Do I want dour Portishead (whom I love) to kick my weekend off, or do I want some disco and pop classics from the legendary Nile Rogers and Chic to get me moving and start the weekend off with a great vibe, good crowd and good old sing song?

No contest

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Getting pretty obsessed with Nile Rodgers now, yesterday night I sat all my friends down and told him how much I was looking forward to his set at Glastonbury and how he literally owned half the 80's and sparked a whole new genre of music (Hip Hop).

I'm not missing this set for anything in the world baby.

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the way I am looking at is this - it's Friday night, the start of the big weekend. Do I want dour Portishead (whom I love) to kick my weekend off, or do I want some disco and pop classics from the legendary Nile Rogers and Chic to get me moving and start the weekend off with a great vibe, good crowd and good old sing song?

No contest

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this is pretty much how i made my mind up. i'm gonna have more energy on the Friday night (out of the music days, anyway) and i will definitely want to end it in the best of moods, jumping around and dancing my arse off, screaming along to songs and leaving with a giant smile on my face, probably still singing along with the crowd as we leave the stage. Chic will deliver this tenfold

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