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AFLW 2024 - Round 8 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
The View are a band that I think are actually better when playing unplugged style. The catchy melody is what they do best.Looking forward to The View (in June here in UK), who are doing a series of unplugged style gigs
Just personal taste I am not going, but I'm sure it would be good.Is anyone considering the St Vincent sidey she just announced? End of April, a little jaunt down here before her VIVID show. It's up at Howler in Brunswick. Has anyone been there before? Looks pretty geometric and like something that'll compliment her new, cubic looking stage show. Intimate looking too...
Russian Circles are amazing live I reckon.Instrumental rockers Russian Circles, next Wednesday. Saw them in 2012, hell they were loud. Should be good.
Nothing else on horizon unfortunately. Perhaps a trip to Melbourne to see Anathema later in year.
I went on the Friday night, really enjoyed it. Took me back a long time.Sunnyboys tonight. Just scored a freebie Still debating whether or not to get there in time for Huxton Creepers.
Saw him on Tuesday - sensational.seeing jeff beck tonight
I don't like your new avatar.Disclosure on Friday! If anyone here is at their show right now, a bit of a review would be nice. I hate drinking when I'm going out to things that aren't a nightclub but I think this might be worth it.
Also, my girl Sky Ferreira just quietly put a few dates out and she's playing the Prince in mid-July. Looking forward to that, her album is one of the most unfairly unheard LPs of the last few years. It'll be worth the likely lone-gigging.
I just got home from seeing Disclosure. It was basically a mixed bag in terms of everything, but still a really good night and a fine way to fill in a Friday. Worth it.
The Forum's a nice place, I'd never been before and it's pretty impressive in its scope and grandiosity. The sound isn't that good but whatever. Anyway, before the show started I just sussed out the crowd... some incredibly cool girls around and then plenty of drunken arseholes looking for a fight and to annoy whoever they could. A bit later on and this odour wafted through the place and me and my mate looked at one another and just as I was about to say something, he goes "I reckon someone's just thrown up..." Sure enough, some poor lass had painted the floor in her ciders. That put a weird vibe on the place but they managed to clean it up and they came on.
They have one of the best light shows I've seen but not much else. A few nerds like me might enjoy seeing them actually program the music right then and there, but for most people it was dull and they got bored of two guys standing behind a cache of synthesisers. And without the material to pad out a setlist, a majority of the crowd just stayed stagnant. There were periods of some head nodding and shoulder shimmies but mostly conversations and texting. Their three big singles and You & Me went down really well, but it was so dead – I just don't get how a dance band can do that. They need to up the involvement somehow because, even though people don't know all the songs (they played early and incredibly good live double A-Side Tenderly and Flow) they are a dance band and should be able to inspire that.
And the way they spoke to the crowd was phoned in. It was the "hello Melbourne!" and the old "you're the best crowd of the tour so far!" which they say to all the girls. But everyone knew it, even the kids who usually fall for it.
Latch went off and was incredibly fun, so many pogos and some good shapes and most people got up and down and enjoyed jumping around.
It was a fun show, but it seemed to lack the spirit. I still needed a Gatorade and Skittles after the show to get some water and sugar into my system but I wasn't drowned in sweat like I usually am after a show. Fair enough if you're going to see Sufjan Stevens but tonight I saw Disclosure. I want the sweat.
They'll really benefit with a couple more albums. Musically, sure, they're young guys, but it'll just fill in the setlists so much better.
A question for people that regularly go to live music in Melbourne:
What's the best and easiest way to stay up to date with who's touring? I find that I only realise a favourite band of mine is playing once they're here and tickets are already sold out.