duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893 
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jun 27, 2013 11:51:57 GMT
Saw the Oysterband in Kingston-upon-Thames last night, courtesy of my old boss having a spare ticket.
They played 2 sets, a short one with 6 new songs (some still works in progress), then a full-on set of old faves (including a few songs I'd never heard live before). The band have been around for decades, combining folk with a slightly punkier edge and always give a great performance.
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PurpleTreeFrog
Neko
Posts: 54
Favorite Anime: One Piece, Black Lagoon, Berserk
Favorite Manga: One Piece
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Post by PurpleTreeFrog on Jul 8, 2013 19:24:56 GMT
Going to see 30 Seconds to Mars (Support from You me at Six) in November in the Cardiff International Arena.
Saw them live a few years ago, halfway through the gig Jared sat on a ledge and started taking requests from the crowd to play on an acoustic guitar, did that for about 30 minutes before going back and performing some more (And then he grabbed a load of people from the crowd and had them sing on stage with him for a few of the songs).
Can't Wait :-D
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Post by Kirei on Jul 13, 2013 9:04:20 GMT
I remember seeing 30STM at the Give It A Name festival in ... god, must've been the early-mid 2000's. I'd never heard of them before, they'd just released The Kill as a single... they were good live, good stage presence.
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jul 14, 2013 19:27:32 GMT
Two music events in one weekend! Friday night saw us at the Camden Roundhouse for Amanda (F***ing) Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra - 3 hours of awesome burlesque/cabaret rock and roll, loads of audience interaction, AFP crowdsurfing around the venue whilst singing, random ukelele covers and finishing with AFP doing a one-off and unique performance of her very newly writted ' Dear Daily Mail' in answer to said rag's shoddy piece on her Glastonbury performance which reported solely about her wardrobe malfunction, rather than the music or show itself... which ended with AFP naked at the piano. 'kin awesome gig! And today we paid a fiver to dayprom the Royal Albert Hall for the Dr Who Prom, with assorted cast (Eleven and Five, Ms Oswald) and various characters and monsters to add a bit of fun whilst all the Dr Who music was being played. |
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Aug 19, 2013 19:48:03 GMT
Just returned from our annual jaunt down to Devon for the Beautiful Days festival. Small (20k capacity), family-friendly and always with a decent line-up, this is the 10th year we've been.
Stand-outs for me were Sinead O'Connor, Clannad (great set of their older materiel), 65daysofstatic, The Wonderstuff and Imelda May. The Levellers (who put the festi on) played a competent, if rather safe set to close on Sunday evening.
Surprise best act were The Living End, an Australian 3-piece proper rock 'n' roll band in the Green Day mould who had the main arena absolutely bouncing. Have ordered a bunch of their CDs!
'Meh' acts were Ocean Colour Scene and Primal Scream... the latter really not interacting with the crowd and just going through the motions... waste of two headline slots, if you ask me.
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Post by Kirei on Sept 6, 2013 18:29:22 GMT
Managed to procure tickets to Danny Elfman's music from the films of Tim Burton (it's ok, I didn't need that first born anyway) on October 10th. Very definitely looking forward to it and will tell you all how it was once I've moved house  |
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Oct 8, 2013 22:15:21 GMT
Last Friday I, along with a few hundred steampunks, packed the Garage for The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, with support from grindygrowlymetalists Pale Horse, punk legend Ed Tudor-Pole and assorted special guests. Pale Horse... 2 bass, drums, angry ANGRY 'vocals' and a waveform generator. ...interesting... though not in a particularly fun way >.> Ed Tudor-Pole gave us a smattering of classic Tempole Tudor (Swords of 1000 Men!) and some more recent stuff. Legend. And then The Men gave us a solid 90 minutes of steamPUNK to celebrate the release of their new double A-side single 'GIN!'/'Third Class Coffin' (we get both to raucous applause) plus a selection of tracks old and new... Margate Fhtagn, Brunel, Doing it for the Whigs, Jesus was a Cockney... top, top evening! Bar ran out of both gin and Newccy Broon all too quickly  |
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Oct 16, 2013 17:14:38 GMT
Holy sh*t!!! Neutral Milk Hotel live dates... in London.
I am so there!
NMH are something of an acquired taste... Jeff's voice is pretty... umm... unique. But his songwriting is awesome.
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Post by Kirei on Nov 2, 2013 8:35:01 GMT
I've not heard NMH in AAAAGES! That's really cool though  Danny Elfman show was AMAZING - The way he performs really harks back to his Oingo Boingo days which filled me with a joy I really wasn't expecting |
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Dec 16, 2013 16:20:28 GMT
Couple of recent gigs: The Men (That will not, etc) - acoustic set as part of the Steampunks in Space evening do in Leicester - splendidly shambolic, much mucking about and a gloriously wrong reggae version of Margate Fhtagn New Model Army (#129) at the Forum - first time hearing the new album live... most of it works, some of it doesn't. But plenty of dusted off old faves more than made up for that. New Model Army (#130) - Nottingham Rock City. 2-set show, now something of a Xmas tradition. Even more old faves (they opened with No Greater Love ) Took a battering in the pit, gave a battering back and we all then hit the aftershow for beer, music and friends until the wee small hours. Also got Placebo tonight and the Mission/Fields of the Nephilim on Wednesday |
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Dec 17, 2013 22:26:58 GMT
Placebo, Brixton Academy 16 Dec 2013
Support from Toys, who had a rather nice Loop-esque post-rock thing going on.
Placebo played for about 100 minutes, drawing heavily from the new album Loud Like Love and also Meds (had at least half of both albums) along with a smattering of older songs (Special K, Every You Every Me and the cover of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill). Lovely crisp sound and a capacity crowd.
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Jan 16, 2014 16:28:50 GMT
Oops.. forgot to review the gothtastic Mish/Nephs gig before Xmas... Missed most of the Mission (someone kept buying me strange beers in the Craft Beer Co place in Brixton) but made it in for the last 3 song of their set - sound was definitely off and chief blouson Wayne Hussey seemed rather pissed off at something. The Fields of the Nephilim on the other hand... EPIC! Huge, perfect sound, correct number of guitars, the classic songs, hats, clouds of swirling dry ice... as good as any Nephs gig I've been to (which is quite a few). Couple of upcoming gigs I've just booked: I Like Trains - Jazz Cafe, London (niiiiice!) 12 Feb Andrew O'Neill's History of Heavy Metal - Reading South Street 4 April New Model Army (#131) - Oxford Academy 23rd April |
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duoinchains
kami
Posts: 893
Favorite Anime: 5cm/s, Garden of Words, Time of Eve, Girls und Panzer, Kids on t'Slope, Usagi Drop
Favorite Manga: Banana Fish, Bunny Drop, 5cm/s, Two of Hearts, Seven Days, Kurosagi CDS
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Post by duoinchains on Apr 17, 2014 22:57:49 GMT
British Sea Power - Reading Sub 89 17 Apr 2014 Solid set from BSP, covering old and new (and including a couple of tracks from their Man of Aran soundtrack album). Local crowd (predictably there for the 'hits') Oh and Andrew O'Neill's History of Heavy Metal at South Street earlier this month - superbly funny, took the pee out of all the big metal bands (Megadeath especially  )with lots of riffs and perfectly observed humour.
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Post by Kirei on Apr 19, 2014 6:40:58 GMT
MC Lars this time next month. Can't wait!
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Post by MIBlackburn on May 7, 2014 13:57:48 GMT
Yes: Newcastle City Hall - 3rd of May.
They played three full albums back to back, Closer to the Edge, Going for the One and then the Yes Album plus an encore of the classic Roundabout (now featured as the ending theme for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure).
No Jon Anderson or Rick Wakeman but the singer was a very good replacement and keyboards were taken over by Geoff Downes of the Buggles and Asia. Excellent gig even if one of the guitar pedals screwed up part way through one song muting Steve Howe's part.
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)with lots of riffs and perfectly observed humour.
