Gigs

Yes, yes grandad I'm sure you did. Now sit down and watch the telly until dinner time 😂

Very jealous of that, how long did they play Transatlanticism for?

It had such a good vibe, just so happy to see it live given I was 15 when it came out!

Fuck Oasis into the fucking sun. Cunts.

Want a ticket if I can get one Danno? Reckon you’d be ‘mad fer it’

New Order (from my bedroom)

Apparently 3 miles away, it was that fuckin loud. Gutted I missed it.

Fine Time/10

Lovely article from the Guardian about what made Oasis so special at their peak. I obsessed over the band during the early/mid 90s, and would kill to get tickets to the reunion tour if I wasn't living the other side of the world. Even though my music tastes have since moved on many times over, those first two albums will always bring me back to my youth and give me a buzz of energy and excitement.

I was an Oasis fan from their first album and out of some dumb loyalty still continued to buy each of their subsequent records as they were released. They’ve been in the loft for quite a few years though

Did see them live in Manchester once and thought they were pretty poor as Liam could barely sing, he’d cut off every line early because his vocal chords were knackered

Not interested in actually attending a comeback gig but despite that I’m super invested in the whole story of it, hopefully they are filming everything that goes on and will release a documentary at a later date

Damn! now that's a gig. Always loved his voice.

Went to All Points East on Friday, LCD Soundsystem headlining but for me Pixies were the draw. As always, they were excellent and focussed mainly on the classics (including both versions of Wave of Mutilation). It was the first time I'd seen them since Emma joined on bass, and she brought plenty of energy and fits in well. I'm less of a fan of the last few albums, but they always put on a great show and I will be going to see them as long as they are playing.

Off to End of the Road on Thursday, so hopefully will get to see some new bands I don't know.

As for Oasis. I was a student in Manchester 94-98 but just never got into them. Was far more interested in DnB at the time so didn't get swept up in the mania and looking back, whilst they have some OK tracks, they really aren't anything special (IMO) and it doesn't help that the brothers (especially Liam) are massive twats. Saw them headline Glastonbury in 2004 and it didn't change my mind.

It was a long time ago, but I seem to remember that when I saw The Pixies their voices weren't holding up that well. But it didn't really matter that much because I was just happy to see them live and jump around to some of the classic tunes.

Oh crikey. Ocean Colour Scene at Belladrum festival. Just like when I saw them a couple of weeks ago - Oscar solid as always on the drums, hired hands on bass and keys absolutely fine, Steve Craddock a perfectly tasteful guitarist holding it all together. But Simon Fowler has lost a LOT of his vocals and now I can hear it pro-mixed, I don’t think it’s just a monitoring situation. He was truly great in his youth and was very, very good as close as last December, but I almost feel sorry for him here. Sounds like he might need some vocal nodes lasering out at times. Such a shame with the excellently played music behind him. Hope he can get it back.

Oh really? What’s the demographic and behaviour like at a Blur concert these days?

I do find in general that people’s behaviour at gigs is getting worse and worse - Hozier was the last one where people didn’t piss me off and that was ages ago. And you’d expect that of Hozier.

Having said that, he was loud as f*ck, which surprised me. I wonder whether a lot of the stuff where you now get pissed off at people treating it like being at Wetherspoon and talking/shouting over gigs is because of a modern drive to reduce volume.

We must go to very different gigs, took me 4 days to get my hearing back fully after my last one.