Gigs

Terrorvision were awesome, music knockout, venue was great as always and crowd was well behaved. Which you'd hope when the average age was mid-50s 😅

My recent Pixies tickets purchase had a pretty much 20% fee addition over the actual ticket price. For e-tickets, so no postage or anything else. It's a fucking cartel and they need taken to task for rampant price-gouging.

Don't even get me started on the vagaries of 'dynamic' ticket pricing.

Snap! Preordered a shitty cd so I could get the early release code and I don’t even have a fucking cd player! Thought we would take the kids and surprise them , log on at 8.50 ready for 9am and bam 120000 in the queue ! Fuck it. We will take them to see the tribute act Foreplay!

Anyone want a Coldplay cd? I’ll pay you

Can I suggest that the pair of you engage in some Clockwork Orange style tactics to wean the kids off Coldplay.

It’s alright they’ve got the cd for Christmas now . Sorted

Anyone have any recommendations for ear plugs? Need to protect my precious earsies. 😅

spoiler: the search did not decide to be useful.

This is the post where I asked about earplugs before so there are some replies in the few pages after that:
fontgeek.io/post/519291

(page 30 if that doesn't work well)

It's funny you mention earplugs... because I forgot mine when I went to see Melt Banana in Brighton last night, and I had to bail after 6 of their songs because it was literally ear piercing stuff!! My friend's band Lower Slaughter supported them and I was fine during their set though, so that was the main thing

Great night, Lower Slaughter were awesome, kind of a mix of stoner rock / grunge / punk, they're all 40+ so resonated well with me ha Melt Banana were fun, not my kinda thing... but fun, and really fucking loud.

That's begging to be made into a gif!

She was surprisingly good at Victorious fest last year. I wouldn't count myself as a fan, but somehow knew most of her songs.

Went to see Pond last night at Gorilla in Manchester.
Easily one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
Think they are playing Leeds tonight and its not sold out, so get yourself down there if you are close by

I wore earplugs at Sunn O))) this time around.

It didn’t sound less loud but it did feel less punishing during the heavy bits so they must’ve been doing me some good.

At the risk of losing all me street cred (that I most definitely have, thank you), Olivia Rodrigo was ace!

I didn't take my earplugs as our seats were at the back of the arena on the 3rd floor, but I had reckoned without 15,000 screaming fans being insanely loud. Jesus! Ow!

Really great show though, with tons of energy and great crowd interactions. Excellent pop concert, but also for about 20 minutes near the end a pretty damn good rock concert too. At one point there were 3 electric guitars and a bass all rocking out with full on distortion. Good all female band she's put together as well.

I very nearly went to see them in Tokyo a month or so back. Would have done if I hadn't already spent too much on tickets recently.
But if they'd asked me those questions I'd have been in trouble, as I don't think I could name one of their songs.

Maybe it's a kind of performance art piece, like that art gallery in Aus. I wouldn't put it past them.

Kinda wish I'd gone now... (not for the searching!)

I'd honestly not heard of them until that article. I'm fine with that, there are swathes of alternative rock or indie or whatever I have no knowledge of