Gig & Festival Thread

[Buffalo]

Going to see Faithless in Birmingham in December, and DJ Format/Abdominal reunion in November through Newcastle

[Rocsteady]

Faithless are amazing live. Would have gotten tickets to see them at the Hydro in Glasgow but I'm out the country :'(

[Buffalo]

Really can't wait, they've been a 'bucket list' band of mine to see live for some time.

[Rocsteady]

Have a good one! I've always found We Come One destroys it more than any other track live

[Buffalo]

I saw them perform that at Glastonbury (on You Tube ). Holy gooseberry fool.

[Rocsteady]

Aw strawberry floating sweet I was just languidly looking through their site - they're playing in Brussels when I'm there in December Awesome!

New remixes album coming out next month too done by the likes of Eric Prydz and Above & Beyond, should be amazing judging by the previous remix efforts.

[Exxy]

Mate won some tickets to Reading so 3 of us went along for the first time since 2012. Actually surprised how much I enjoyed it. Camped further away from the arena and I think that made all the difference, no wankers around us made the whole thing more enjoyable.

Highlights were Kendrick Lamar (his live show is incredible, he could headline), Refused, Foals, Jamie T plus a few smaller bands like Gengahr and Alvvays.

Been a good summer for gigs. Seen a few more 'iconic' acts, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Kanye, Metallica.

Now I'm poor. Warehouse Project in October is all I've got ahead of me.

[Skippy]

November is turning into my month for gigs, already have Frank Turner and Chvrches tickets bought for consecutive days and just got tickets to see Foals at a club in Kingston for £11! Always a great gig atmosphere in there, should be ace

[Frank]

Funeral For a Friend have announced they're splitting up, and so they're doing one final tour playing two shows at every venue along the way, performing the entirety of Hours the first night, and Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation the next! Just got tickets to the Hours show at the Institute in Birmingham. Going to be amazing. Fantastic album



HYPE.

Got Chvrches (x2), Years & Years and Prides shows before the end of the year, too! It's all getting busy again.

[Buffalo]

There's a Prides joke to be made concerning you, Frank, but I'm not going to make it.

[Joer]

Funeral For a Friend have announced they're splitting up, and so they're doing one final tour playing two shows at every venue along the way, performing the entirety of Hours the first night, and Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation the next! Just got tickets to the Hours show at the Institute in Birmingham. Going to be amazing. Fantastic album



HYPE.

Got Chvrches (x2), Years & Years and Prides shows before the end of the year, too! It's all getting busy again.

Just looked at picking up tickets to the London shows for that and the tickets are all £60+ each. How much did you have to pay for yours?

[Joer]

Just found a new batch of tickets for £44.75 for both shows, but it's in Birmingham which is a massive trek for me. Not sure if I should go for it or not, especially as it means hotel costs and trains etc would need to be added to that too.

[Tragic Magic]

My oldest friend just played as support for a Funeral gig. Must've been a weird experience.

[Joer]

I'm not even that massive a fan of them, I just want to see them for nostalgia reasons really. They've got a couple of quality songs, but i've not listened to anything post-Hours so these shows would be perfect for what i'd want from them. They was the first band I ever paid to see live too. Annoyingly they played about a ten minute drive from my house a couple of weeks ago but I decided to pass on going at the time.

[Frank]

Tickets at the Institute were £25 for each night, with a combo 2-night ticket for £40. Think they were on Seetickets, if that helps.

[Frank]

Man. The new Chvrches set for this tour is great the Tufnell Park show was tremendous. I like how Lauren's got a little Ellie Goulding style set of drums to clobber now.
"That's like the first time I've played drums in front of people since 2011" *cheer* "let's not get too proud, there's only like two of them"

Highlights: Keep You On My Side, Empty Threat, Bury It, Tether and Under the Tide.

[Corazon de Leon]

I met a girl a few months back who worked for a Scottish radio station. She'd interviewed Lauren Mayberry at TITP and said she was an utter wanker. Didn't have enough bad things to say about her.

I still like Chvrches though.

[Frank]

That's basically the complete opposite to how she comes across everywhere else What happened?

[Corazon de Leon]

Stereotypical entitled musician, apparently. Snapping at people backstage, being cheeky to interviewers and whatnot. I hope she was wrong actually, I like Lauren Mayberry from other interviews I read.

[Frank]

Yeah, from how she acts on stage I'd hardly call her "entitled"... Unless she's a tremendous actress. Maybe she just caught her on a bad day.