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• #1677
They’re playing the Saturday of Wide Awake festival in Brockwell Park on 28th of May. Not the same as seeing them at their own gig but high enough up the bill that they should probably have a longish set.
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• #1678
Ta I've put both in calendar. I'm pretty booked up with rides and stuff though but might be able to slide 'em in somewhere.
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• #1679
Ok. We've had someone in our group drop out. Any interest in a floor ticket for Tool on the 9th? Cracking seat. PM if interested.
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• #1680
Very last minute, I've two tickets to see Colin Stetson tonight at Union Chapel. https://unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/colin-stetson
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• #1681
Email from see tickets:
THIS SHOW HAS A STRICT NO PHOTO OR VIDEO RECORDING POLICY WHICH INCLUDES PHOTOS TAKEN ON MOBILE PHONES. ANYONE FOUND TAKING PHOTOS OR RECORDING THE SHOW ON ANY DEVICE, INCLUDING A MOBILE PHONE, WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE.
Never had that before. Interesting to see how this is enforced at the O2 arena. Lol
I went last night to the NEC to see them, so epic. A bunch of people were kicked out for being on phones and can see people on twitter grumbling.
Last song they give you permission to film if thats your thing.
So loud, feels pointless filming to me as it will just be horribly distorted anyway, visuals are amazing though so get why people want to capture it, was an awesome set
Also the first "half" was an 1hr40 ( no idea how they do, Danny is 60 ffs) and a bunch of people left thinking that must be it but there was a shorter second half. They started 15minutes early as well which was annoying as was still waiting for a pint
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• #1682
I’m really looking forward to it.
Definitely don’t care about taking a photo / filming.
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• #1683
Tool in manchester was a pretty damned spectacular visual feast.. the set list needed more pre 2000 stuff for me but entertaining still. (I saw a few getting chucked for taking photos as there was staff everywhere)
Brass Against supported who are worth checking out even if they feel like an indulgent novelty
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• #1684
Confidence Man were great fun in Kentish Town the other night. Much cheese. So dance.
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• #1685
Newen Afrobeat were a lot of fun last night. Really good stage presence and so much energy from the full band. I was mesmerised watching their percussionist on the hand drums several times. Was absolutely smashing the cymbals with his hands at some points.
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• #1686
The Slowdives were really good last night - had to go the whole way to Bath as that's their only scheduled UK show. Oddly, no new material, when apparently a new album is coming.
A positive thing - a really young crowd, given that I've had the impression in recent years that it's only over 40s keeping the live scene going. Although, it's a bit of a shock to think that, for these kids looking back at Slowdive's early stuff, it's like younger me looking back at early Beatles. In the time gap, at least.
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• #1687
Hoped to get Deftones tickets that went on sale today, first 'high profile' gig I've been looking at for a while and expected tickets to be tricky to get, bang on 9 when they went on sale this morning they were already sold out. Absolute joke.
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• #1688
ah man :( I managed to get tickets yesterday in the 'livenation' presale (whatever the hell that means).
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• #1689
I hadn't checked for any pre-sale so missed out on that unfortunately. Shame as it would be great to see them in a place like Kentish Town Forum.
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• #1690
And yep, tickets already up for more than double on Viagogo.
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• #1691
You know all these ticket companies release them in batches right?
Always keep trying throughout the day
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• #1692
@hippy Yeah will keep an eye on it through the day but meh, these things happen, hopefully more fans were quick off the line and got tickets rather than resellers and I'm just not one of the lucky crew.
On a side note though and unrelated to your post, is it just me or have Kentish Town Forum been getting a load of big acts recently? A bunch of gigs I've been interested in seem to be in the Forum and when chatting to my mates they always seem to mention some gig they went to at there recently. Over the 6ish years I've been in London there hasn't been any bookings that have taken me there but over the last year loads have popped up.
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• #1693
yep, lots of 'big' bands appear to be doing the KT Forum and Brixton Academy, for 1 or multiple nights instead of going for bigger venues (Wembley arena, Ally Pally etc).
I am ALL for this, both the latter venues are miserable.
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• #1694
Yeah, I assume it's because the attendance is somewhat lower and somewhat less predictable as well now and it must cost a fucking FORTUNE to book one of the bigger venues.
I didn't think Ally Pally was a particularly big venue (one of my favourite gigs was on there) and isn't the Wembley Arena the smaller of the two Wembley venues? I've been to both. My least favourite would have to be the O2 Arena.
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• #1695
Yeah Brixton has always felt like a destination venue for a lot of bands so seen a few bigger acts there. Kentish Town just suprised me recently. Makes sense as you say though with how bad any arena show in any country I've been to actually is.
Funnily enough Beck is one that I'm seeing at Kentish Town which will be two days after he'll have played Brixton Academy. Think one is an additional date. Wouldn't fancy setting up a show at one, taking it down, driving across London and setting up again.
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• #1696
IIRC wembley arena is much bigger than any of the O2 academy venues, and the stadium/The O2 are significatntly larger again
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• #1697
Oh yeah, for sure. I was just pointing out that there's bigger still. I can't really remember how big the Arena felt. It was many many midgets ago.
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• #1698
I also failed at Deftones tix. Thrice, Coheed and Touch Me Some More, Eh! announced at Brixton in Oct though. But that's probably a Brixton sized gig anyway.
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• #1699
If anyone fancies Wide Awake this weekend at Brockwell Park, tix are now £10 (!!!!) for BOTH days on the Dice app - use the code WACOMP on the code when booking. Apparently ticket sales have been dismal (I mean, Primal Scream ffs?) so they’re just giving them away.
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• #1700
Annoying that I paid the early bird price which was almost 4x that and was from when it was still only to be one day. Looking at their Instagram today is really quiet from the few wide shots they've posted, a lot of shots that are only showing stages and not crowd too. Might get a bit busier through the day as people finish work. I'm a bit worried tomorrow will be a bit of a let down with a small crowd. It's a shame beacause last years was great. Think because it was pushed back so much, a lot of the bands who were small when first booked and got bigger over the pandemic, so the stages had pretty solid bills through the whole day and it was really cheap for it. The free beer I got for holding on to my original ticket over the 2 years they couldn't host it was also a benefit for my cheapness.
It was the same A Perfect Circle a few years back at Wembley Arena, stewards were back and forth constantly early on before people gave up.