| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 17:00:35
it was awesome. kim pulled the guitar lead out of joey's guitar during vamos, i think because he was carrying on with his solo too much and kim wanted to go back into the song (she played a bit of the bass before realising no one else joined in). then, joey, with his awesome effects, realised he could still create some cool noises by touching the end of the guitar lead, and really worked the crowd doing that.
setlist... oh shit... erm...
opened with wave of mutilation uk surf
ended with wave of mutilation normal
did the whole encore do-you-wanna-do-that-song? gigantic
did a cool thing by slotting in something against you in the middle of isla de encanta.
bossanova & trompe songs are always worth highligthing. blown away, stormy weather, planet of sound, subbacultcha... can't remember really... (will when reminded of course). winterlong.
i was right at the front and to the right (more or less infront of kim). during gigantic they did the goodnight thing.
some mental portugese dude next to me got pulled out because he was bashing people about and got warned loads.
got a call from CHEESEMAN! when i was making my way back, but couldn't really hear properly (hearing probably fucked from gig). 50 pence shouted awesome and i think cheeseman asked if it was him, but then the call got cut off, dunno if on purpose or bad signal or whatever.... anyway, hope you enjoyed it (sitting in a tre, k i s s i n g)
got a £10 bootleg t-shirt which was spotted for £5 later on :(
 Oh let it linger |
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| Carl |
Posted - 11/12/2005 : 01:37:23
http://www.broadcastbuyer.tv/publish/article_6171.shtml
“This is Direct Television from Alexandra Palace” - Ally Pally Celebrates TV’s Platinum Anniversary
3rd November, 2005
Next year Alexandra Palace will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of the first ever TV broadcast which came direct from the historic venue.
In 1936 Elizabeth Cowell uttered the immortal words, “This is direct television from Alexandra Palace”, since then television has become one of modern society’s most significant technological breakthroughs and the BBC’s occupation of the Palace in the 1930’s for early experiments and actual production was key to its development. Alexandra Palace is truly the birthplace of television and its anniversary will be celebrated throughout 2006.
Ally Pally is currently one of the UK’s most popular and versatile venues; hosting dozens of exhibitions from The Knitting and Stitching show to the London Motorcycle exhibition. The Palace has in recent times leapt into prominence as London’s busiest major music venue, with Rock acts including Razorlite, Kasabian, Franz Ferdinand, The White Stripes, Stereophonics, Faithless, The Pixies, Embrace, Nic Cave and Paul Weller all featuring in this year’s schedule.
Weblinks: http://www.alexandrapalace.com |
| Carl |
Posted - 09/18/2005 : 18:44:50
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/hamhigh/postbag/story.aspx?brand=northlondon24&category=postbaghamhigh&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=postbaghamhigh&itemid=WeED15%20Sep%202005%2016%3A20%3A34%3A740
Long may the Ally Pally gigs continue
editorial@hamhigh.co.uk
16 September 2005
As an enthusiastic unpaid supporter of Alexandra Palace, I can offer an unbiased opinion on the report of the recent Pixies concert in the Great Hall (Ally Pally sounds like a good idea, H&H Rock and Pop, September 9).
I was not in attendance, but I am disappointed that your reviewer, Andrew Brightwell, found the acoustics of the hall not to his liking.
The original Great Hall was built as a concert hall mainly for the organ concerts, and I have never heard any criticism of the acoustics when I organised organ concerts, even with the rebuilt hall after the 1980 fire.
I applaud the Palace trustees for having the initiative to promote pop concerts to bring in much needed income, and attract young people to the wonderful building.
The Royal Albert Hall has also had acoustic problems, and I am sure that with professional advice, the problem at Alexander Palace can be solved.
What is not acceptable is that the toilets and bar services are inadequate, and paid management must sort this out immediately.
Once again the old red herring about lack of transport rears its ugly head.
Bus services run to the Palace, it has its own railway station and is not that far from Wood Green and Highgate tube stations.
It has a free car park, and cab services are available. Often free coaches are provided from Wood Green so where is the problem ?
The Great Hall is, in the main, an exhibition centre, and I do not believe that the Palace has ever suggested that it is a rock venue.
Long may the concerts continue.
Colin Richell
Grenoble Gardens
Palmers Green, N13 |
| Carl |
Posted - 09/15/2005 : 08:33:14
http://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/content/islington/gazette/whatson/story.aspx?brand=ISLGOnline&category=whatsontheatre&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=whatsonislg&itemid=WeED14%20Sep%202005%2014%3A27%3A48%3A093
The Critics
nlnews@archant.co.uk
14 September 2005
THE PIXIES
Alexandra Palace, N10
ALEXANDRA Palace swelled with pride as it welcomed The Pixies to the Great Hall, the best loved alt-rock band from Boston whose reputation almost certainly remains indestructible.
There is not much you can say to a die-hard fan about The Pixies. It's The Pixies, then full stop.
No one sounded like The Pixies before and no one has really emulated them since. They scorched the earth for practically every guitar band under the sun since the late 1980s and despite their overwhelming draw, have strangely managed to stay bobbing the right side of the underground ever since.
They are possibly the biggest stadium band that never was.
Following an 11-year absence, which has only managed to reinforce their power like a dead film star, The Pixies are on a comeback kick. But just how hard are they kicking these days?
There was little evidence of fresh material on show at Ally Pally and the show essentially served the function of a greatest hits parade, from Is She Weird to Caribou, Chained and Debaser.
But the crowd lapped up every slice of noise, each tune perfectly honed and almost even homogenised. Their trademark hushed vocals and breakthrough punk noise was orchestrated to perfection.
They sounded as fresh and relevant as they always did, and provided a useful antidote to the high fashion infection suffered by so much of today's music scene.
The Pixies may have not been wearing any frills at the Palace but sometimes things don't require much dressing up. Some things are best left as they are. -
ALISON CAMPSIE
Notice they call Hey 'Chained'!
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| Carl |
Posted - 09/10/2005 : 07:25:43
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/content/camden/hamhigh/whatson/story.aspx?brand=NorthLondon24&category=whatsonmisc&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=whatson&itemid=WeED09%20Sep%202005%2013%3A07%3A16%3A537
Ally Pally sounds like a good idea…
editorial@islingtonexpress.co.uk
09 September 2005
PIXIES
Alexandra Palace
HHHII
It is time for the bosses at Alexandra Palace to accept defeat. The massive former home of BBC TV just does not cut it as a concert venue, any more than it would make a comfy home for a family of four.
Given some of the bands that have made their way to the "people's palace" over the past two years, you would expect any problems with sound or management now to be distant memories.
Sadly, they aren't. Last week the Pixies, one of the best and most practised bands currently touring, made Ally Pally their temporary home for two nights.
Tickets for the gigs cost £27.50 plus booking fee.
The Pixies began in Boston in 1986 and split in 1991. Since reforming in 2004, they have had the chance to set up their instruments and sound check in hundreds of venues and, frankly, if anyone could cut it in this cavernous place, they could.
Brilliant as ever they reeled off such a dizzying list of hits they were able to keep the audience of mostly 30-somethings engaged, despite a less than satisfying volume and excessive echo.
All the old favourites were there -and each time the audience stumbled upon a classic there were resounding cheers.
Debaser and Where Is My Mind? are just as exhilarating as ever, but some of their less well-known numbers seemed a bit forced. But there was no hint of any sourness between Black Francis, aka Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV and Kim Deal, whose famous split led to the dissolution of the band.
She fondly addressed the lead singer throughout by his Christian name Charles, before wishing him and the audience good night.
At one point, Deal, the Pixies bass player, quipped that it was a pretty venue. Well, yes, pretty certainly, but engaging, atmospheric and comfortable? No.
Wandering around you can't help thinking you are in a conference centre.
Trying to get a drink is tough and often queues for toilets or, in the past, even to get into the venue, are too long.
It couldn't be more of a shame. You could dry dock the QE2 in the Great Hall. If the place actually lent itself to big concerts then it would be one of the greatest venues anywhere, not just in the UK.
It makes Brixton Academy, for example, look like a grotty little pub venue. But while Brixton, an old cinema within spitting distance of the tube, has atmosphere and acoustics, Ally Pally has neither.
It is also plonked on the top of a hill. Great for early radio and TV transmissions, but a bugger for public transport late at night.
You suspect that the Pixies, who sold out Brixton Academy last year, felt a bigger venue was needed this time. They were right, but the problem is that if any of the 7,000 odd crowd were not die-hard fans they might not come back to see them when they next return to these shores.
Admittedly, bands playing venues this big have limited options and few rely on their live performances to keep or attract audiences.
But still, it isn't fair on the band or fans that Alexandra Palace pretends it is a rock venue. It just isn't. |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 09/07/2005 : 13:48:59
The first night at Ally Pally was great, for all the playfulness of the band onstage.
I noted how young much of the crowd was, I'm only 19 and we were surrounded by a great many people no older than me. Some of these reviews seem to have been written by people who weren't even at the show. LOL. |
| hibster |
Posted - 09/07/2005 : 05:20:47
sorry to continue with the dissent, but i rather agree with these reviews.
the brixton shows were awesome (especially the second one) but the first night at ally pally did smack of a band going through the motions somewhat.
this is why events unerve me |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 09:56:40
That was the 1st September gig surely? "Started with Bone Machine"? They opened with WOM(UK) when I was there.
How's that for a slice of fried gold? |
| pudmeister |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 09:31:36
What a toss!! That for me was the best out of 8 pixies gigs!!!!(2004)
I hate critics, sad fools.
"Looking through the eye of a pig I see it all" - Cypress Hill |
| 50 Pence |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 08:29:11
What a knobcheese, though i can maybe just a little bit get what he is talking about. Me being 18 missed out when the pixies were at their peak, and so when they reformed i was extrmemly happy to have the chance to finally see them live, and i loved them(I went to this gig, and saw them at reading festival). However for someone who whitnessed them in their prime, maybe this reunion, in some aspects, was not up to the same standard of the late 80's and early 90's. But frankly seeing them perform live was infinately better than listen to the already brilliant albums, and for that reason alone i reckon the reunion was a good thing.
Blats |
| Carl |
Posted - 09/06/2005 : 07:47:41
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article310452.ece
Pixies, Alexandra Palace, London
2 out of 5 stars
Debasing themselves
By Ben Walsh
Published: 05 September 2005
"Outside there's a box car waiting/ outside the family stew/ out by the fire breathing/ outside we wait 'til face turns blue." These words of agreeable drivel, from arguably the Pixies' most accessible song, "Here Comes Your Man", swirled around my head all night, in my sleep. So, I must have had a decent time. I must have soaked up and wallowed in the unadulterated nostalgia. I must have bowed down before this celebrated Boston quartet - the singer Francis Black (born Charles Thompson), the bassist Kim Deal, the guitarist Joey Santiago and the drummer David Lovering. Except it didn't quite work out that way.
The gushing wave of critical enthusiasm is gradually dying down since this apparently unreformable band (relations between Black and Deal turned notoriously sour, and in the end Black was rumoured to have informed the band by fax that they were splitting up) reformed and played the Brixton Academy to hysterically favourable reviews last year. A year on from the massive hype, they are still around, however, still churning out the same material, in pretty much the same order. Still cashing in (and why not?) on their back-catalogue of classics from their most heady period, 1987 and 1993.
Tonight they're at Ally Pally. The palace is an unusual venue for a rock band (it feels like you're in an aircraft hangar), and the acoustics are rather unforgiving. The Pixies shuffled on stage, not to an explosion of screams, but to an appreciative wail or two. The crowd, mostly men in their early to mid-thirties, seemed quietly confident, smug even. Complacent? They knew exactly what they were going to receive tonight. No nasty surprises here. And, of course, there weren't.
The rock veterans began with their grisly ode to molestation, "Bone Machine", which is full of their trademark demented lyrics - "Our love is rice and beans and horses' lard". Then rat-a-tat-tat-style, the Pixies cascaded through their material at a scorching pace. They don't take breaks, apart from 12-year ones, of course (boom boom). We are then bombarded by some less well-known tracks, "Dead", "Alec Eiffel" and "Crackity Jones", delivered in blistering succession.
It quickly became clear, however, that neither Black, who, from a distance, bears an uncanny resemblance to Michael Chiklis's demented cop on The Shield, nor the iconic Deal (who is woefully underused tonight - particularly her delicious vocals) was going to engage with the audience. No banter, no frippery, no "hello, the People's Palace, we're back and here's something new for y'all". Indeed, there was little new material; mainly the golden oldies, including the wonderfully deranged "Nimrod's Son" (a song memorably parodied by Chris Morris in "Motherbanger". It got one of the best audience responses of the evening).
The four-piece marched relentlessly on through their "standards" - "In Heaven", "Vamos", "Holiday" and the superb "Where Is My Mind?". It was all head-spinningly impressive in its drive and the Pixies' wall (or wail) of sound is still awesomely furious. Except the spark, the thing that made them once peerless and somewhat magical (and, funnily enough, Lovering is now an accomplished stage magician), is fading. The more they perform, the more their mysterious appeal and Black's increasingly croaky voice fades to a gasp. Like The Clash and Hüsker Dü, the Pixies weren't really meant to be brought back from the dead. Some of their fans, maybe just this one, were secretly happy they remained "sleeping". No point flogging a dead pixie. Never a good thing.
As the revival night neared its conclusion, things turned refreshingly silly. There was a mini-stage invasion (well, one person tried to clamber on) during the anthemic "Debaser", and Lovering playfully lobbed Santiago a drumstick, which he used to get noise from his guitar. Ultimately, however, it was with mild relief that they signed off with "Gigantic". There was no need to go through the motions any more.
"Outside there's a box car waiting/ outside the family stew/ out by the fire breathing/ outside we wait 'til face turns blue." These words of agreeable drivel, from arguably the Pixies' most accessible song, "Here Comes Your Man", swirled around my head all night, in my sleep. So, I must have had a decent time. I must have soaked up and wallowed in the unadulterated nostalgia. I must have bowed down before this celebrated Boston quartet - the singer Francis Black (born Charles Thompson), the bassist Kim Deal, the guitarist Joey Santiago and the drummer David Lovering. Except it didn't quite work out that way.
The gushing wave of critical enthusiasm is gradually dying down since this apparently unreformable band (relations between Black and Deal turned notoriously sour, and in the end Black was rumoured to have informed the band by fax that they were splitting up) reformed and played the Brixton Academy to hysterically favourable reviews last year. A year on from the massive hype, they are still around, however, still churning out the same material, in pretty much the same order. Still cashing in (and why not?) on their back-catalogue of classics from their most heady period, 1987 and 1993.
Tonight they're at Ally Pally. The palace is an unusual venue for a rock band (it feels like you're in an aircraft hangar), and the acoustics are rather unforgiving. The Pixies shuffled on stage, not to an explosion of screams, but to an appreciative wail or two. The crowd, mostly men in their early to mid-thirties, seemed quietly confident, smug even. Complacent? They knew exactly what they were going to receive tonight. No nasty surprises here. And, of course, there weren't.
The rock veterans began with their grisly ode to molestation, "Bone Machine", which is full of their trademark demented lyrics - "Our love is rice and beans and horses' lard". Then rat-a-tat-tat-style, the Pixies cascaded through their material at a scorching pace. They don't take breaks, apart from 12-year ones, of course (boom boom). We are then bombarded by some less well-known tracks, "Dead", "Alec Eiffel" and "Crackity Jones", delivered in blistering succession.
It quickly became clear, however, that neither Black, who, from a distance, bears an uncanny resemblance to Michael Chiklis's demented cop on The Shield, nor the iconic Deal (who is woefully underused tonight - particularly her delicious vocals) was going to engage with the audience. No banter, no frippery, no "hello, the People's Palace, we're back and here's something new for y'all". Indeed, there was little new material; mainly the golden oldies, including the wonderfully deranged "Nimrod's Son" (a song memorably parodied by Chris Morris in "Motherbanger". It got one of the best audience responses of the evening).
The four-piece marched relentlessly on through their "standards" - "In Heaven", "Vamos", "Holiday" and the superb "Where Is My Mind?". It was all head-spinningly impressive in its drive and the Pixies' wall (or wail) of sound is still awesomely furious. Except the spark, the thing that made them once peerless and somewhat magical (and, funnily enough, Lovering is now an accomplished stage magician), is fading. The more they perform, the more their mysterious appeal and Black's increasingly croaky voice fades to a gasp. Like The Clash and Hüsker Dü, the Pixies weren't really meant to be brought back from the dead. Some of their fans, maybe just this one, were secretly happy they remained "sleeping". No point flogging a dead pixie. Never a good thing.
As the revival night neared its conclusion, things turned refreshingly silly. There was a mini-stage invasion (well, one person tried to clamber on) during the anthemic "Debaser", and Lovering playfully lobbed Santiago a drumstick, which he used to get noise from his guitar. Ultimately, however, it was with mild relief that they signed off with "Gigantic". There was no need to go through the motions any more. |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 09/03/2005 : 09:21:43
Yeah lol now he did miss a beat! I'm sentimentalising already! |
| 50 Pence |
Posted - 09/03/2005 : 07:30:00
heh, both joey and dave it it flawlessly at reading.
Blats |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/03/2005 : 07:26:16
Chances are he wasn't even there: I've never known David to catch the drumstick yet. That review is lame.
How's that for a slice of fried gold? |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 09/03/2005 : 05:38:40
could be marilyn manson or emineminem? grunge revival? behave!
thats one awful review |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 09/03/2005 : 05:18:58
he did miss a beat funnily enough :D
 |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 09/03/2005 : 03:07:30
Not a lot of thought went into that review, by the looks of things. The usual reviewer was busy at the Stooges concert that night! |
| Carl |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 21:44:08
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1560120,00.html
The Pixies
3 out of 5 stars Manchester Apollo
Dave Simpson
Thursday September 1, 2005
The Guardian
We're in the middle of a grunge era revival. The film Last Days recreates the life and death of a Kurt Cobain-like artist; meanwhile the reformed Dinosaur Jr trudge around the festivals. Most visibly, the Pixies have ended an 11-year absence for a world tour which is doing enormous business. The Boston quartet once sang about a Wave of Mutilation; this is a wave of superannuation. Money is being liberated from the pockets of people who have seen them before and at least as many who haven't. None the less, this 80-minute show demonstrates the full spectrum of their influence. When the crowd cheer the line, "If man is five, then the devil is six," it could be Marilyn Manson. Similarly, it's hard to hear chants of "motherfucker" without thinking of Eminem.
While the Pixies' dementia and self-harm-obsessed songs will never sound as three-dimensional as Nirvana's, they opened the doors for every other guitar band who make similarly off-kilter yet popular music. Their odder songs - the turbulent Debaser, the spooky Where is My Mind? - sound unsettling and fresh where later, poppier material feels dated.
Something has been lost, whether to middle age or a year on the road, and Black Francis's famous scream has withered to a well-intentioned croak. However, barely illuminated by a spotlight, it's somehow now even more remarkable that the frontman - who resembles a deranged businessman about to ransack the golf course - became an international rock star. As for bassist Kim Deal, she is still clearly the stuff of male fantasies despite swapping heroin needles for knitting needles.
There's no new material, but one development. Joey Santiago catches a drumstick and, using it to "play" noise from his guitar, hurls it back to drummer David Lovering, who doesn't miss a beat. Pixies go showbiz? They wouldn't have thought up that one in 1990.
· At Alexandra Palace, London N22 (0870 400 0700), tonight.
Related article
20.08.2005: Laura Barton talks to 1980s mavericks the Pixies
(Songs not 'as three-dimensional as Nirvana?' His allusion to FB as 'a deranged business man about to ransack the golf course' is funny, but the crack about Deal is a bit uncalled for. I'm not sure the journalist is certain what he's on about in that review.) |
| Carl |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 17:02:42
They went into Something Against You during Isla?! And they did Blown Away?! Fuck, man, I hope they tour again after they've fulfilled all their commitments, and maybe start playing the 'rarer' songs more regularly. |
| brock_disaster |
Posted - 09/02/2005 : 00:01:08
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
Hm. I hazily recall they did that for a split second sometime in 04, can't remember where.
So it wasn't significant parts of each song?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
they did this last year at the irvine, CA show. except it was
isla/crackity jones/isla and they did it with nimrods son (fast)/holiday song/nimrods son (slow). it was awesome |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 17:54:45
it wouldn't have been cheesy if i didn't
Oh let it linger |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 17:45:03
It's a good job you italicised that I might not have got it otherwise... |
| PixieSteve |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 17:21:55
ok, enough of the cheesy lines.
Oh let it linger |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 17:17:24
I slightly don't believe people didn't think that was amazing, were we even at the same gig? Maybe I'm just really easily pleased but I was blown -right-the-fuck-away- by the pixies last night. I loved how they made that gentle start and then by the end of it were all fire and yell, it was a beautiful build up. I was a happy bunny. I still grin. Widely.
Also, pixiesteve, as pleased as I am that you pronounce my name in the manner in which it should be pronounced I still feel moved to say...
Pervert! |
| a guy in a rover |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 11:45:36
Howdy Chumps.
Hows it goin? Just posted exactly the same thing on Pixiesmusic.com but what the hey, just wanted to come and check out some more Frank oriented responses to the gig. What did everyone think? Fucking amazing? Me and my brother were right near the front, just right of centre. The gig was amazing, probably the best I've ever been to.
Cant believe we were treated to such rare treats as Is She Wierd, Subbacultcha and Stormy Weather. The band were spot on as usual, and you could really feel just how much the crowd apprectiated them. The pit was madness, especially those Hispanic dwarves who kept arsing around during the Futureheads. Me and my bro were just behind them and I wanted to punch them all in the back of the head.
Cant be arsed writing much more, I stayed up till about 3am drinking value lager .
PS Does anyone else find Honeycomb, to be missing a little something, that they cant quite put their finger on? Dont get me wrong, I'm not one of these haters of all of Franks work post Pixies, in fact I think Frank made some of the best music of his career both with the Catholics and on his own. Im just not really 'feeling' honeycomb.
Also, does anyone else agree that the Pixies should now go there seperate ways. The comeback shows have been amazing but there is only so many times they can tour the world without getting stagnant, and I dont think recording an new album is a good idea either. Frank wrote those songs 20 years ago and he has matured significantly as a songwriter since then, recording new material would mean he would have to revert back to 1986 and I just dont think it would work, Frank would almost become a caricature of himself. Know what I mean?
Anyway, Peace.
I need some sleep.
"You are the son of a mother fucker"
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| hibster |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 10:40:25
i disagree, i think this was the worse i have ever seen them.
(2nd night at brixton last year, birmingham hummingbird on doolittle tour & birmingham burberries on throwing muses support slot being the best)
frank didn't seem up for it all until tame, after tame (with the exception of monkey which i still don't rate) they were back to their best but before then they seemed really flat, like they were going through the motions.
having said that was great to see they all reacted to each other at the end - though what was with frank calling kim kellie?
this is why events unerve me |
| kathryn |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 10:10:14
Wow! In their entirety. I misunderstood you. Thanks. Wish I'd seen that. Damn.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 09:49:15
not sure what you mean by that, but they were both played in their entirety, except isla de enctana was in two parts :)
Oh let it linger |
| kathryn |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 09:45:01
Hm. I hazily recall they did that for a split second sometime in 04, can't remember where.
So it wasn't significant parts of each song?
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| PixieSteve |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 09:42:16
i think after the second lot of me voys they started something against you, then after that, rejoined isla de enctanta where they left it ("nuestro propio animal.."). not sure though.
Oh let it linger |
| kathryn |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 09:21:16
quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
‘Isla De Encanta’/’Something Against You’/’Isla De Encanta’
Yeah, what is this? I wanna discuss this.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| 50 Pence |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 05:46:33
best gig i've ever been to, so euphoric.....
Blats |
| Broken Face |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 05:34:37
wow. i'd love to hear that something against you sandwich inside of isla bread.
-Brian
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| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 04:43:14
Set list (according to NME.com)
‘Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)’
‘In Heaven’/’Where Is My Mind?’
‘La La Love You’
‘Here Comes Your Man’
‘Blown Away’
‘The Holiday Song’
‘Vamos’
‘Winterlong’
‘Into The White’
‘Subbacultcha’
‘Is She Weird?’
‘Ed Is Dead’
‘Planet Of Sound’
‘Cactus’
‘Tame’
‘Hey’
‘Caribou’
‘Stormy Weather’
‘Isla De Encanta’/’Something Against You’/’Isla De Encanta’
‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’
‘Gouge Away’
‘Bone Machine’
‘Debaser’
‘Wave Of Mutilation’
‘Gigantic’
How's that for a slice of fried gold? |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 03:36:01
Setlist, not exactly in order
Wave (Surf)
In Heaven
Where is My Mind
La la love you
here comes your man
blown away
holiday song
winterlong
vamos
into the white
And then, the 'electric set'...
Subbacultcha
Is She Weird
Caribou
Bone Machine
Ed is Dead
Cactus
Planet of Sound
Stormy Weather
Isla - Something Against You - Isla
Tame
Hey
Gouge
Monkey
Debaser
Wave
Gigantic
As Frank was playing the intro to Caribou, something was thrown onto the stage and appeared to land at Joey's feet. He stopped playing, kicked it away, and resumed without missing a beat.
Joey's new interpretation of 'lead guitar' was masterful! 'Vamos' was the best version I've heard.
A great many of the songs sounded even stronger than last year. Frank and Kim seemed to be having a few problems with their instruments, on several occasions gesturing at the sound guys to alter the balance or suchlike.
Frank looks very 'Teenager of the Year' like with his hair growing back.
Was right down at the front, though even further to right than PixieSteve must have been. The crowd seemed to be really enjoying the show, yet pushing/shoving was minimal, thankfully.
The idiot Portuguese guys were out the back after the show, berating the security guards.
Am going again tonight, hoping for 'Sad Punk'!
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 09/01/2005 : 03:30:11
pixies pixies pixies pixies pixies!
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