Quote from: Blastzone on May 10, 2022, 07:50:08 PMTravelled over the border to London yesterday for Tool at the O2...what a  performance . Simply stunning

Enjoyed Manchester and the first London gig, but perhaps not quite as much as I thought I might.  Third time lucky though as the second London show was the killer...Danny Carey's birthday, 7empest played as well.  Great shows, although I wonder if I'm too old to be doing multiple gigs in such a short space of time.  I am shattered.

Arcade Fire - WE

Quote from: captainkurtz on May 02, 2022, 08:33:06 AMTool tonight (and next Monday and Tuesday)
Saucerful tomorrow
Spiritualized on wed.

Can't wait.

Tool - 4/5
SOF - 4.5/5
Spiritualized- 5/5

Quote from: Nick on May 02, 2022, 12:35:06 PMJealous of you guys, the South west is a virtual gig wasteland. Very few bands travel past Bristol.

Nine Inch Nails at the Eden project?  That is a monstrous journey for me, with lots of logistical issues, but fuck it...

Tool tonight (and next Monday and Tuesday)
Saucerful tomorrow
Spiritualized on wed.

Can't wait.

Yeah add me in too please - although now I've met many of you, I will likely refrain from telling you all how good I am in the sack. 

Quote from: Slim on May 01, 2022, 12:05:00 PMOdd to me, that. I respect Gary Kemp as a songwriter but he's not a guitar player of particular renown so why's he doing that? A bit like Neil Finn being in Fleetwood Mac.

Early Floyd doesn't really require the kind of player that post Dark Side would require?

Quote from: Fishy on April 27, 2022, 04:30:34 PMNot for me .. Facebook is awful

It is...but it's handy for finding out about tours and bands and stuff.

Spiritualized - everything was beautiful

My bad, you've got a month...

Complete radio silence from Rage against the Machine about the postponed European shows in the last 2 years.  Then an announcement that they're happening in September and you've got 24 hours to ask for a refund.  24 hours...

Anyway, refund coming and I'll try for Edinburgh instead..

Quote from: Slim on April 20, 2022, 10:13:41 PMI can really relate to the section in the Grauniad piece that describes Suzanne Vega's bubble bursting in 1990.

I first heard Suzanne's music in May 1986; her single Left of Center [sic] was played on Radio 1. I remember this well, I was on a camping holiday weekend with four friends at the time. We were slightly concerned about the possibility of being caught in radioactive rain, in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster.

I bought her first album and loved it. Would eagerly tape her TV appearances (I still have some DVD transfers from my old VHS tapes). I bought her second album, the one with Tom's Diner and Luka on and liked it, but it didn't quite knock me out. By 1990 I'd just lost interest. I remember seeing ads for her third album, Days of Open Hand but to this day I've never owned it or listened to it.

I don't remember why, but I had a resurgence of interest in 2004 and I bought two of her two most recent albums then, 99.9F° and Nine Objects of Desire and really liked both of them. I remember critiquing one of them on a Vega fan forum - quite a cosy little community back then - and Suzanne herself replied to my post (I'd said that one of the tunes sounded industrial; she said that it was supposed to).

But the next album didn't grab me, and I tuned out again.

I'm not sure she's released a duff one.  Songs in Red and Grey, from around 2001ish is outstanding.  A lot if it in the aftermath to her divorce from Mitchell Froom and produced by Rupert Hine, it's well worth checking out.

I really like all of her solo records and she's always brilliant live - she tends to bring the chap who was in Bowie's band for the last decade, his name escapes me, but a brilliant player and creator of soundscapes and atmosphere...

Alex recently singled out Morse as a player he admires the most.  Seen him twice with Purple and was unimpressed, but then again, what do I know?

Quote from: Blastzone on April 20, 2022, 08:26:27 PMGot a hip replacement op done 20th March . Still hurting like buggery and getting the runaround with some health issues now linked to it.  Lack of sleep linked to above is also getting me very grumpy...

I remember you mentioning this a while back.  Hope you get back to full strength as soon as possible, chief.

Excellent chat.  I've not heard Geddy be so open about drug use - admitting they had the occasional 'bump' before an encore;  nor have I heard him use the f bomb so much...