dan531c-
The only not glowing observation I can make is that you could see it hadn't been fully rehearsed as a band living in the same city would have done.
Having said that, I didn't feel it did any harm to the songs and if anything added to a very personable sense of earnestness about the whole thing which I think is at the heart of a lot of it. It was a tribute to the music of Grandaddy and the masterpiece that is the Sophtware Slump at least as much as it was a Grandaddy gig.
So many of the songs were always very "orchestral", just with loft synth arpeggiators and string machine instead of actual musicians, and worked very well.
I loved it and it was further proof I didn't need to confirm Jason Lytle and Grandaddy as one of the best things in music for me as it has been since picking up on them 22 years ago...! Was chatting with the guy sat next to me about how this could be a last hurrah and if it was to be that, it was a great way to go.
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alex_s
Good*. This pisses me off bigtime. Last week at Fontaines DC, I could barely see the stage for the first few songs because of the sea of phones. Seems to have got much worse post-lockdown too. Was this close >< to starting confiscating phones till the end of the night.
Also Grandaddy tonight doing Sophtware Slump at Palladium - very much looking forward to this one.
*but it won't be enforced in any way, so...