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Welcome to the world of gigs my dude. Gorillaz is a very very strong act to see live, you're gonna struggle seeing a show as good as theirs for a while :)

Saw them at boomtown myself. Hadn't gone out of my way to listen to any of their new stuff, but their general performance was simply superb. Needless to say I was absolutely blasted, taken and drunk a lot that day. Considering the majority of the festival was heavy drum and bass, it made a nice pause, and it was great hearing everyone singing along all the classics (the theory was 1/3 of the festival was at their show, and with boomtown being a 60000 person festival... absolute scenes!) and oh my god Im fairly sure I had an outer body experience with some of the visuals and general production.

I'll try find the video I got of the sheer size of the crowd, we were about 10/15 people back from the stage and I filmed their final song before the encore before panning around, showing just how many people were in attendance for their show

Got a few more events this year coming up, Prodigy at Ally Pally, Chase & Status Printworks show and Andy C all nighter at Wembley. Set to be a large way to clean up the year!
 
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Would you recommend Boomtown? Festivals have become a bit of a meme-ified eye-roller for me here in the UK. Seems plastered with glittery face paint bent-knee selfies and ketamine addled teens just ready to cause me an aneurysm!

Last one I did was Green Man in the valleys of the Brecon Beacons and it was tremendously chilled out... until St. Vincent blew everyone away! Bit of a Radio 6 billing with a lot of unknowns playing admittedly but a helluva'n atmosphere.
toofpikk said:
Welcome to the world of gigs my dude. Gorillaz is a very very strong act to see live, you're gonna struggle seeing a show as good as theirs for a while :)

Saw them at boomtown myself. Hadn't gone out of my way to listen to any of their new stuff, but their general performance was simply superb. Needless to say I was absolutely blasted, taken and drunk a lot that day. Considering the majority of the festival was heavy drum and bass, it made a nice pause, and it was great hearing everyone singing along all the classics (the theory was 1/3 of the festival was at their show, and with boomtown being a 60000 person festival... absolute scenes!) and oh my god Im fairly sure I had an outer body experience with some of the visuals and general production.

I'll try find the video I got of the sheer size of the crowd, we were about 10/15 people back from the stage and I filmed their final song before the encore before panning around, showing just how many people were in attendance for their show

Got a few more events this year coming up, Prodigy at Ally Pally, Chase & Status Printworks show and Andy C all nighter at Wembley. Set to be a large way to clean up the year!
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Who was the support?
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The Internet was the opening band, but they also had a bunch of other artists who were featured in some of their other songs(Peven Everett for Strobelite, De La Soul for Feel Good Inc, Bootie Brown for Dirty Harry, etc.).

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Hadn't gone out of my way to listen to any of their new stuff, but their general performance was simply superb.
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Humanz is meh, but I 110% recommend The Now Now. Really solid album, if a bit shorter than some others. Don't think there's a single song on there I dislike.
 
pvnks said:
Thanks!
Would you recommend Boomtown? Festivals have become a bit of a meme-ified eye-roller for me here in the UK. Seems plastered with glittery face paint bent-knee selfies and ketamine addled teens just ready to cause me an aneurysm!
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Unfortunately, I would not recommend boomtown unless this is your sort of thing. As I said I was pretty blasted myself, wondering around wide eyed staring at pretty lights, listening to heavy basslines with a ****ing deliveroo jacket on.

If you don't like Drum and Bass, I would strongly recommend against going, as it's near impossible to escape it. There are a lot of spangled teenagers (albeit of a more mature, slightly less in your face, more minding their own business kind of group compared to the likes of V, Creamfields & RandL), and heavy bassline chases you everywhere. However the production is beyond immense, the general consensus of the crowd is very friendly (I mustve talked to beyond 50 people there) and the music, if it's your thing, is absolutely class. Everyone just vibing. Amazing.

I am a huge fan of drum and bass, and the stages were honestly so well done I'd argue their finish was greater then that of many theme parks I've been to. Their 'theming' and production is incomparable to anything else, and absolutely ****s on every festival I've done otherwise... And the line up. Kill me. Soooo good. I'm not hesitating to book a ticket for next year.

PS: Gorillaz vid from boom:
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Bailing on hanging out with @Joey (all week) cause I've got tickets for EDC Orlando <3 (third time going, would be fourth but I missed last year because I was in the Bahamas ((poor me?)) Super excited to see Tiesto for the third time (and first time since 2015) and Martin Garrix again. (Gonna try and see Alesso, Dillon Francis, Don Diablo(!), ILLENIUM (had tickets for him in May, canceled due to a hurricane), Joyryde (also canceled due to a hurricane....), and Kaskade (again)

Also holding tickets for Seven Lions in Orlando/LBV for 'The Journey 2 Tour', Saw half is set at a festival a few years ago but now I'll get a full club based set.
 
Popped over to Macau last weekend for Mariah Carey. We were quite cynically just going for a laugh, expecting her to be awful, but she was fab!

She's definitely got the best sound engineer in the business. She was clearly singing most stuff live (probably around 90%), but the really high notes were obviously not, but they were mixed in pretty seamlessly.
 
Went to see Slayer last night at Wembley Arena! They were excellent! They had three support bands! Obituary opened who were good. Anthrax, who are my favourite metal band followed and were excellent as usual! Last up were Lamb of God, who I did not enjoy.
 
My concert going for this year has finished I think, so the round up of what I've managed this year;

Started off in March with the former frontman of Mansun (who'd I'd seen back in the brief-day when they were a big thing) starting to build a
little solo-career of his own Paul Draper - and he played my fave Mansun album in full, so that was good.



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Not long after that I happened to be in the pub with one of my pals who is a bit of a fan of Barenaked Ladies, and I'd noticed (whilst at the
Paul Draper concert) that they were playing 'soon', so pub-based decisions were made and off we went to see them in April.



That was OK, but not really a fan of them but was entertaining enough.

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Now a band I do really like (who you'll probably never have heard of) are Wax Fang, who are this little psychedelic/prog-rock group out
of Louisville, KY who I had discovered originally from THIS episode of American Dad (which they scored).
Anyway have liked them a lot for a few years and rather unexpectedly they were doing a few little gigs in the UK. They weren't even the
headline act at the gig, that was another band who I'd never heard of (Low Cut Connie).

Gig was in a tiny little club in Manchester and there was barely anyone there (maybe 60 people?) so perhaps no-one has heard of any of these
bands?

But Wax Fang were absolutely brilliant - not kidding but that was one of my favourite gig-going things ever.


The headliners weren't bad either - all kinda divebar rock'n'roll. To illustrate how not-busy the place was, the singer of the band went around
the entire audience hugging them. Fair play they still put their heart into it all. Really good night that was.



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Another blast from the past was next up a few weeks later, The Bluetones - who I liked (particularly a fan of their 'Return to the
Last Chance Saloon' album). This was a bit of a early-albums type tour, so they played all the good tunes (could tell that they really
are sick of their big hit 'Slight Return' now though)



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A few days later was the legendary Svalbard, who need no introduction...



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My experience of the Foo Fighters is a bit odd - when they first came out I recall getting their debut album and liking it at the
time, but for some reason then I had not bothered with any of the subsequent ones. Years (decades?) passed and I started listening to them
again and went back and picked up all their old stuff which I had been ignoring for no good reason.

Anyway they were on at the local football stadium, and they were really good - played for ages and really on form. Wolf Alice were the support
and they were good too (but not a band I'm familiar with)



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I've been a big Floyd fan all my life, and seen their main-man Roger Waters a fair few times now too (I even trekked to Berlin to
see him do The Wall back in 1990). So when he plays at my local arena, it would be rude not to - even if there was an England World Cup game
on at the same time (Columbia - was a bit tense checking scores during the gig)

Concert was a bit epic - highly political of course, lot of anti-Trump stuff, great fun.





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I'd actually bought a ticket for the next concert before the previous one, but a few days later I went to see Rog again, this time in
Hyde Park. Was better in the arena, but got a couple of interesting support acts (Squeeze, Richard Ashcroft (who I've seen a couple of times))
and then got to watch the next England World Cup match (Sweden) the next day at a brewery in London (Beavertown) which was a bit surreal.





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That was it for quite a while, then the other week I spotted that Greta Van Fleet were playing Manchester for the second time this
year - they had played a small venue at the University back in March that I had considered going to (had sold out so would've been a tout job)
but didn't go in the end so it was a bit of a surprise when they were playing the bigger venue in November (also sold out of course).

Risked a Viagogo e-ticket for a stupid amount of money (risk as someone could presumably have sold it multiple times and you would not
know until they scan it on the gate - but they didn't even scan it, just looked at it and let me in - pah)



This was really good, bit weird watching these American kids play Led Zep rock music, but they were technically very good and very
impressive live.



The support act I'd never heard of 'Goodbye June' - they were good too.

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Got nothing planned yet for next year though - boo.
 
Saw Christine and the queens and it was ****ing incredible. Easily the most exciting/important artist in pop right now.
 
That sounds fab! Really enjoyed the new album too. One thing...
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Saw Christine and the queens and it was :emoji_zipper_mouth:ing incredible. Easily the most exciting/important artist in pop right now.
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I saw her too yesterday, GREAT show.

Although I do have to agree with jayjay, Janelle's show was slightly better.
 
davidm said:
My concert going for this year has finished I think...
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Spoke a bit too soon it seems. :)

Went to see Fish last night in Manchester - ~28 years since I'd last seen him live (saw him a couple of times just after he left Marillion, but gave up on him a bit after that). But he was playing all of Clutching at Straws on this tour (and that's still a very fine album) so thought I'd indulge.
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and it was really very good indeed. He did look a bit old (and fat) to be sure, but still pretty energetic and heartfelt delivery - really enjoyed it anyway.
 
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Last night I saw a trio of Finnish metal bands play at a small-ish venue in Islington. It was amazing. The first band was Trollfest who I only listened to a little bit prior to the gig. Vocals weren't my cup of tea but the band had a great fun vibe, they all wore silly costumes and I think they handed out some balloons before I got there. Oh and the conga line through the venue was one of the most amusing things I've seen at a gig, just utter chaos.

Turisas were my main reason for buying a ticket as I think they're amazing, this was my third time seeing them live. They had a temp violinist for the tour as their main one had to drop out, she was incredible though and just made it all look so effortless. The sound mix was a bit terrible in this venue as yet again the vocals got drowned out by everything else. Still had an incredible time and it's always a fun when they play Rasputin.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100137145698869248


Korpiklaani were the headliners, I haven't listened to them as much but I really like their blend of metal and folk, it works so well. There was quite an insane mosh pit during the fiddle solo which was quite amusing/surreal. I was also amused when they played a slow song and the mosh pit stopped, formed a huge circle and several people waltzed in the middle. Just a really cool vibe throughout the whole crowd the entire evening. The night ended on a great high when Trollfest came back on stage to perform "beer beer" with Korpiklaani and then the band followed it up with "vodka".

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100178991833591808

 
peep said:
Last night I saw a trio of Finnish metal bands play at a small-ish venue in Islington. It was amazing. The first band was Trollfest who I only listened to a little bit prior to the gig. Vocals weren't my cup of tea but the band had a great fun vibe, they all wore silly costumes and I think they handed out some balloons before I got there. Oh and the conga line through the venue was one of the most amusing things I've seen at a gig, just utter chaos.

Turisas were my main reason for buying a ticket as I think they're amazing, this was my third time seeing them live. They had a temp violinist for the tour as their main one had to drop out, she was incredible though and just made it all look so effortless. The sound mix was a bit terrible in this venue as yet again the vocals got drowned out by everything else. Still had an incredible time and it's always a fun when they play Rasputin.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100137145698869248


Korpiklaani were the headliners, I haven't listened to them as much but I really like their blend of metal and folk, it works so well. There was quite an insane mosh pit during the fiddle solo which was quite amusing/surreal. I was also amused when they played a slow song and the mosh pit stopped, formed a huge circle and several people waltzed in the middle. Just a really cool vibe throughout the whole crowd the entire evening. The night ended on a great high when Trollfest came back on stage to perform "beer beer" with Korpiklaani and then the band followed it up with "vodka".

https://twitter.com/x/status/1100178991833591808

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Solid selection of bands, don’t doubt for a moment it was a very fun and jolly gig. Was a little tempted to come along to this, but after already seeing Korpiklaani 3 times and Turisas twice in recent years I decided to give this one a miss (other gigs and coaster trips to pay for haha.)
 
Bought tickets to see Viagra Boys in May.

No, it's not a male stripper troupe but a Swedish post-punk band that's absolutely killing it lately.

Super stoked and thought I'd share in case someone else catches the bug and fancies seeing 'em.

Impossible to describe so give 'em a spin.



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Went to see Rammstein last night in Milton Keynes. Loads of fuego and it's great to hear these huge anthems in a stadium setting. It's also really amusing having a load of Brits singing along in German without really knowing what it's about, such a fun gig.

I spent the night at the campsite at Gullivers, it was so frustrating sleeping within a stones throw of a +3 and knowing I wasn't allowed to pop in and ride them in the morning!
 
Also saw Rammstein in Milton Keynes on Sat! Absolutely incredible night. This was my third time seeing them and they just get better, so glad I managed to get a ticket.

The support act was an interesting choice and one that didn't seem to go down too well with the overall crowd. Basically two classically trained pianists playing Rammstein songs. Did get a couple of nice singalong moments though and it was nice to see them come back out to be included in the main show for what was quite a wonderful moment.

The sheer intensity of the fire was ridiculous, having no roof to worry about meant they just went bigger in every way - who needs to sunbathe when you can just get cooked alive at a Rammstein gig. The first firework bang at the start scared the jebus out of me and I think pretty much everyone, felt like the stadium exploded.

I love how they had all the cool gimmicks and scenes that they've perfected over the years and somehow made them still feel fresh and fun, the line fireworks and following explosions at the start of Du Hast had me in awe (expected but it is just so darn amazing). The weird history of dance music with the led costumes was an interlude that came out of nowhere and was amusing if a little long.

The amount of confetti used was insane, felt like I had to wade through the remmnants when trying to exit at the end. The evil baby thing was pure nightmare fuel and probably the most hilarious Rammstein creation I've ever seen.

I found a phone recording that shows the absolutely ridiculous scale...


This was by far the best live show I've ever seen, they sounded awesome, the set was impressive, the audience were lively and just having a joyous time. Argh, I just want to do it all over again!
 
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