LCD Soundsystem

[NorthernSoul52]

I think they had a support at O2 Apollo in Manchester six or seven years ago. Let me check.

[NorthernSoul52]

Can't find it, though have found a review!

 

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/gig-review-lcd-soundsystem-at-manchester-apollo-832341

[BlueMorpho]

1 hour ago, AtomsForPizza said:

Going back to this, I'm sure I've read that they don't typically have a support act? Or just someone DJing. Consensus seems to be they play for about 2 hours at a headline (non-fest) show as you say 

There wasn’t a support at the Barrowlands show I went to last year, just a DJ. But they had James Righton (formerly of Klaxons) supporting when I saw them at Brixton in 2022 and then Joe Goddard at Ally Pally in 2017. So I would expect supports here too and a 2 hour LCD set

[NorthernSoul52]

Lovely stuff.

 

Have mentioned in other threads but I have a certain litmus test for a gig, based as much on the venue as the price. An O2 Academy joint requires at least two hours of music between headliner and support - unless the price is north of fifty quid, in which case I want 150 minutes all in, the same I'd demand from arenas.

 

Snow Patrol the other week would have been a no-go had I not got it as a freebie. They clocked in just over ninety, but probably only got half-an-hour of support from Nina Nesbitt. Needed a little more meat at either end.

[Mardy]

It can be as short as you like, jut make sure it's exciting, I'd take a 25 minute chaotic thrilling gig over an interminable Foo Fighters (or others) snooze fest. It's not something you buy by weight, it's art, not sausages.

 

 Give me a quick blast of the good stuff, a line of cheap speed that blasts the synapses, an ill-advised bang of tequila, a quick 3 minute snog with a stranger behind the waltzers. These are the things that make life worth living.

 

 

 

Edited March 5, 2025 by Mardy
Remembered that Foo Fighters were even more interminable than Springsteen

[NorthernSoul52]

Just now, Mardy said:

It can be as short as you like, jut make sure it's exciting, I'd take a 25 minute chaotic thrilling gig over an interminable Springsteen (or others) snooze fest. It's not something you buy by weight, it's art, not sausages.

 

 Give me a quick blast of the good stuff, a line of cheap speed that blasts the synapses, an ill-advised bang of tequila, a quick 3 minute snog with a stranger behind the waltzers. These are the things that make life worth living.

As a massive Springsteen fan, disagree. Give me three hours of LCD Soundsystem.

 

To me, art and sausages are interchangeable. I really love sausages. Got a great one at the farm shop near here called The Dogs' Bollocks.

[Mardy]

It's that thing when you ask someone what the food in a pub was like and they say 'yeah, massive portions' and never mention the taste, the flavour. As if quantity is more important than quality. Give me less, but make it better.

 

Edited March 5, 2025 by Mardy
fat fingers

[NorthernSoul52]

2 minutes ago, Mardy said:

It's that thing when you ask someone what the food in a pub was like and they say 'yeah, massive portions' and never mention the taste, the flavour. As if quantity is more important than quality. Give me less, but make it better.

 

I mean, yeah, agree with that. But massive portions ain't sausages, and sausages are art.

 

Ergo, if I am paying a certain amount, I would like some requisite bang for my buck.

 

If price is no object, then you can buy us the pints of piss in June @Mardy 😉

[Mardy]

1 minute ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

I mean, yeah, agree with that. But massive portions ain't sausages, and sausages are art.

 

Ergo, if I am paying a certain amount, I would like some requisite bang for my buck.

 

If price is no object, then you can buy us the pints of piss in June @Mardy 😉

 

hehehe, or a half of something mindblowingly good 🙂

 

You're on!

[NorthernSoul52]

They've had a decent Brooklyn IPA at the O2 Academy in Leeds on my last few visits, but that means they've lost John Smith's. Mixed fortunes. 

[Walter Sobchak]

1 hour ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Can't find it, though have found a review!

 

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-culture/gig-review-lcd-soundsystem-at-manchester-apollo-832341

 

That was a cracking performance and venue! 

 

We got How do you sleep too, only time I've heard them play that live - quality! 

[theDandy]

13 minutes ago, Walter Sobchak said:

 

That was a cracking performance and venue! 

 

We got How do you sleep too, only time I've heard them play that live - quality! 

such an underrated song! 

[NorthernSoul52]

I'm not sure what my favourite is. I'll broker few arguments - among many immaculate songs, I think Someone Great is their best.

 

But my favourite is a wildly different question. Possibly Oh Baby.

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

7 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

With that username, you might have some bias.

 

But lovely stuff.

 

Maybe :)

 

The Hot Chip / LCD joint headliner at Ally Pally back in 2010 was a dream gig.  The worst organisation imaginable by the venue, but the gig was great.

[NorthernSoul52]

Have heard mythical things about it. Was a bit too young - gulp - to remember the era, or more accurately, my palate was not sufficiently wide.

[Suprefan]

16 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Unless the search function has dramatically failed me and I'm quite wrong, we don't appear to have a strand dedicated to James Murphy and company.

 

So, ergo. Presales have begun for Brixton. Pricing looks to be split between Thursday/Sunday and Friday/Saturday. Seats started at £61.60 inclusive of fees for the former.

 

That is a strategy I've not seen before - pricing by day for a residency. I know some theatres do it, but fascinating all the same.

 

Its the Vegas method. Weeknight shows are 10-20% cheaper than weekend ones. 

 

That said, will probably go to the final Sunday when I know for sure theres no other conflicts coming up.

 

And they play a solid hour 45 on a solo show. Just check their setlists and make a playlist and clock it. Add 10 mins and thats your show time.

[NorthernSoul52]

Do wonder if a fifth record will ever materialise. I'm happy for them to Billy Joel their way through history from here. 

[NorthernSoul52]

Standing pretty much gone for the Friday and Saturday shows, while platinum pricing - damnit - has kicked in on some shows too.

[SPW]

On 05/03/2025 at 12:04, Mardy said:

Got the first Sunday. I'm an old man these days, love an early show. I'd initially thought about the Friday and had booked a hotel in Brixton, but can cancel that. A 9pm finish means I can get the last train home to deepest darkest Kent.

 

£62 quid. Still too pricey by half, but not quite the nolubeturnaroundpullyourpantsdownandgetahardf**king I expected.

I too went for the Sunday and, likewise as an oldish git am an increasing fan of out early and home early (am too in Kent so also means not sweating on anything going wrong to catch the last train home....usually end up at the back for encores to hot foot it to the tube). Really excited for it, and have Pulp on the Fri night of the same weekend.  Have gigs either side of Glastonbury with Fontaines DC, ElO and then Oasis after it (I was booking everything as they came up as consolation in case didn't get a place at Glastonbury).

[NorthernSoul52]

Going to have to organise some eFestivals members gathering with you fellas for the first Sunday. Can all shout obscenities at each other for an hour over drinks, and then lose our minds to Someone Great.

[SPW]

On their mailing list and just seen that LCD and Pulp are doing a double bill in LA in September. Lucky LA (and anyone able to travel for it) 🤩

[gingerevans84]

Just now, SPW said:

On their mailing list and just seen that LCD and Pulp are doing a double bill in LA in September. Lucky LA (and anyone able to travel for it) 🤩

25/26 Sep at Hollywood Bowl. Good god.

[Suprefan]

3 minutes ago, gingerevans84 said:

25/26 Sep at Hollywood Bowl. Good god.

 

oh now you lot hate us? 

[Walter Sobchak]

Why can't we have the same in Manchester? 😞

[NorthernSoul52]

Why can't they come to Manchester, to be frank.

 

Will be a very good show, that.