OT Music Festivals etc. etc.

[Dods]

For anyone who missed it and wants to see what they were lucky to avoid!

[Blackwhite]

For anyone who missed it and wants to see what they were lucky to avoid!

Jesus fuckin wept. Like the very worst kind of soundclash, never heard anything like that without moving 150m nearer one of the two noises.

[AndyPaul]

For anyone who missed it and wants to see what they were lucky to avoid!

My god, didn't anyone tell them how bad it is, I mean, fuck that's really shit

[Quiffy]

changing the mood a little.... this has done my bonce in recently......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4

[MightyWhite]

Off to see Kasabian at Notts tonight. Looking forward to it, even though I realise I haven't really properly listened to their new album yet, so a lot of it will be foreign to me.

Saw them outdoors when they supported Oasis at Heaton Park the other year (the gig where the power kept cutting out on Noel and co) and, to be fair, they stole the show for me.

[SimonB]

Heading to the 02 academy in Brixton on Sunday to see Trivium, a good evening of loud uncomplicated head banging metal music

[Man Called Sun]

Off to see Kasabian at Notts tonight. Looking forward to it, even though I realise I haven't really properly listened to their new album yet, so a lot of it will be foreign to me.

Saw them outdoors when they supported Oasis at Heaton Park the other year (the gig where the power kept cutting out on Noel and co) and, to be fair, they stole the show for me.

I'm disappointed with the album, I was expecting great things after the last one. I've seen them a few times, they played an instore in Fopp (a record shop in town) just after they got signed and the police bizarrely stormed in cos they'd seen the masked face banners everywhere and assumed they were terrorists.

Although I've just realised that was about 8 years ago. Fuck me, I'm gonna turn into that creme brulee bloke off League of Gentlemen.

[moscowhite]

The Farm are playing a Hillsborough justice benefit at the Ritz in Manchester tonight.

The special surprise support band has turned out to be The Stone Roses.

[gazurtoids]

Eh! They kept that impressively quiet.

What's the word then? Are they shit?

[moscowhite]

Eh! They kept that impressively quiet.

What's the word then? Are they shit?

Refreshingly, people seem to be concentrating on enjoying themselves rather than tweeting constantly about it. A few photos are knocking about though:

[Man Called Sun]

I hope they played Love Is The Law.

[Templar White]

For anyone who missed it and wants to see what they were lucky to avoid!

I heard that Loutallica was bad but never thought it could be that bad

Agree that Moon was THE best, one I would have loved to hear live was Ginger Baker, seemed like he knew his way round a drum kit.

[Man Called Sun]

Off to see Kasabian at Notts tonight. Looking forward to it, even though I realise I haven't really properly listened to their new album yet, so a lot of it will be foreign to me.

Saw them outdoors when they supported Oasis at Heaton Park the other year (the gig where the power kept cutting out on Noel and co) and, to be fair, they stole the show for me.

How was it then MightyWhite? Who supported?

[MightyWhite]

Off to see Kasabian at Notts tonight. Looking forward to it, even though I realise I haven't really properly listened to their new album yet, so a lot of it will be foreign to me.

Saw them outdoors when they supported Oasis at Heaton Park the other year (the gig where the power kept cutting out on Noel and co) and, to be fair, they stole the show for me.

How was it then MightyWhite? Who supported?

Didn't see the support, got embroiled in the mulled cider and currywurst at the xmas market on slab square I believe support was Miles Kane though. Not really fussed about seeing him to be honest.

Kasabian were fantastic. We were in the seats parallel with the stage so got a great view of the band and also the crowd on the floor. Place went absolutely ape shit when Club Foot, Vlad the Impaler and Fast Fuse came on. Quite a few slow bits(inc. Take Aim and Green Fairy) to calm every down, so it was a very well paced show.

Serge is an absolute legend. He stayed on stage at least 5 minutes after the rest of the band at the end soaking it all in. Turned to my mate at that point and said "do you think he regrets not making it as a footballer?". Proper rock star.

Would definitely recommend to anyone.

[Oheddieeddie]

So the first concert I ever went to as a teen was Big Country in Manchester at the Apollo. We thought we were fucking cool me and the 5 mates I went with from school. There we were posing in our drainpipe pin-striped jeans and our lumberjack shirts as we quaffed the 2 Litre bottle of Tizer one of the lads mums had provided.

It was probably 1984, the album Steeltown had just been released, and we thought we had discovered the band as we had been talking about them for a good 6-8 months. Yeah we werent the new plastic fans because we'd been watching them (on TV) when they were still promoting their first album "The Crossing" Well like I said we were fooking cool werent we? Nobody else in school had been to a proper concert in another city. One of the lads even called it a gig as we travelled there luxuriously on a Cavendish travel coach. We all tried to sound blase aout it as though we did this all the time, but you could see by looking at the other lads that the sense of anticipation was immense. None of us were prepared for the level of moshing, the wall of noise, and the sheer energy in that room, all the hope, the youth, especially the hope, always.

Anything was possible and the lyrics seemed so fucking beautiful it was untrue. "Come up screaming, right after everything you ever might have wanted" OR "The beating heart will never die, the house on fire holds no shame, I will be coming home again, Four hundred miles without a word until you smile, four hundred miles of fields on fire.". You came away wanting to be a poet, wanting to be a genius, a musician craftsman, you came away wanting to be Stuart Adamson.

I probably saw them at least a dozen times over the years till 2002, along with other bands who became favourites for a fleeting time, like the Alarm, like Simple Minds, of course U2, Del Amitri and even "Then Jerico" (dont ask) but although it was possibly never so special again I would see Big Country on many more times and twice on the "Final Fling" tour in 2002. Its funny but as I aged that youthful enthusiasm and hope when watching them that first night dissipated with each event. The words that were so promising within the lyrics were somehow masked by the the darker lyrics that had always been present like those of Chance: "Oh Lord, I never felt so low, Oh lord where feeling go.

It was shortly after that news that Stuart Adamson had killed himself in a hotel room far, far from home and all alone, he had quickly spiralled into alcoholism unsure if he was loved or even respected after the group finished that last tour. What a fucking travesty that this amazing man ended in that abyss. What a tragedy that we would never hear his most tecnichal & beautifully crafted music performed again.

Of course the 3 remaining band members tried a tour but by all accounts it wasnt great the energy had departed.

So when I heard of this years tour I wasnt sure if it could work without Stuart, but then I heard that Mike Peters of the Alarm ( a freind of Stuart & the band) had been recruited and was taking the vocals, and knowing that an immense human being he is for the way he treats people, and overcoming his health battles against cancer with dignity and character I thought it was worth a try, so I booked to see them on Thurs at the o2 Acad in Leeds.

I have to report that it was a wonderful gig which played that first album in full (The Crossing) , and some other hits on the 30th Anniversary of its release. Mike was energetic, respectfull, you might even say reverential. It felt like Stuart Adamson was being celebrated, loved, respected, but more than that it felt inspiring again. Current. Most of the people there looked like me 40 and marginally overweight but also there was something else. There was energy, it felt like the hope was back. It was great to have that youthful idealism again, just because. A signpost explaining how to find what has been lost. Energy energy energy.

In a Big Country, dreams stay with you.

[Man Called Sun]

Any of you fucking wankers gunning for Radiohead tickets then? I fancy it, been a couple of years since I've seen em, but may be beyond my means in these baby-induced-skintness times. And it'll be an arena. Most probably in Manchester. So 2-0 down from the off.

[Proud to be Leeds]

Always hated Radiohead.

But I am looking forward to seeing Submotion Orchestra next Wednesday at The Wardrobe.

[eric olthwaite]

Booked the family (and a bunch of other families) into Camp Bestival this summer. Fucking loathe camping with a passion these days, but we never do owt like this so we thought we'd give it a go. Not really fussed about any of the music (well, OK, the LTJ Bukem DJ set might be a laugh) but sneakily looking forward to the Sat night headline cheese feast: Earth, Wind & Fire, Chic and Kool And The Gang. Or what's left of them.

I harbour a fantasy that the kids will off and run wild, the wives will fuck off and join the knitting circle or summat and I, and t'other dads, will be free to drink ourselves into a three day dawn-to-dusk stupor.

Bet it doesn't work out that way, mind.

[Blackwhite]

Not really fussed about any of the music (well, OK, the LTJ Bukem DJ set might be a laugh)

Fucking yourself before you even pack. Looks like some half-decent music to be listened to there, bit colour supplement maybe, but not wank. Dig in.

Might make you feel your age a bit, but what doesn't?

Besides, Chas'n'Dave are playing - problem solvéd

[eric olthwaite]

Not really fussed about any of the music (well, OK, the LTJ Bukem DJ set might be a laugh)

Fucking yourself before you even pack. Looks like some half-decent music to be listened to there, bit colour supplement maybe, but not wank. Dig in.

Might make you feel your age a bit, but what doesn't?

Besides, Chas'n'Dave are playing - problem solvéd

Chas'n"Dave, Adam Ant and Mr Tumble.

Yee to the muthafuckin' hah.