Pete & the Pirates - Forum

Two Door Cinema club are ace and it always helps having a ginger frontman!
Foals are a bit folk-ey if i remember right? they're surely a good live band anyway!

Mine would've been exile parade last night but i couldnt make it.

My last gig was Reverend and the Makers at Academy 2, Manchester.
Starting with the supports, the Pangs were brilliant! They had great rocky songs but they had a keyboard, a synth and a keytar which seemed a bit too much All in all great voice, great tunes and they somehow managed not to make it too electro.

Cosmo Jarvis were second, not a band just one guy with a band helping him. I was captivated by his ingenuitive song ideas and lyrics. Examples of which include "speaking of jacking i was doing 8 a day but then i quit so i'd last longer and you wouldnt laugh at me" the song "gay pirate" and the song about his dad being some kind of sex offender. Near the end of the set his guitar broke so he told us what you call a cow with parkinsons ... "milkshake" I booed this and he seemed offended as he only played one more song. Greatly impressed us!

R&TM give it a fucking good go! Reverend attacked the set like a goat with bloodlust, i was stood in front of the girl, who danced like her shoes were made of fire and it was actually very scary at some points! Rev was certainly fantastic, it's great to have an Anti-BNP song so i can annoy someone who's a member who goes to my college and Rev was nice enough to come outside afterwards and play us a secret acoustic set. Fantastic gig.

Have to say The Maccabees were brilliant last night. Real Class. Great fun in the mosh and great atmosphere. Wow it really was "proper". Get a bit fed up with the lead singer's voice on record on some songs but have to hold my hands up, there's no doubting that they're not only one of the very best around (with P&TP ofcourse) but surpass alot of past "names" from the genre too.

oh man I am jealous
would love to see the maccabebies again

LMT gig was pretty good was a bit nervous before they came out thinking it was going to be awful but actually they surprised me
bit sad to see them go as they clearly love being on stage but I get the impression they made far too many enemies
think it would have been even better if I was a huge fan
crowd were good venue is alright and Sheffield I loved

the cribs in leeds was better
well it was when I found the proper pit was amusing to look up at one point to see a load of huge men looking down at me like woah hold up when did the girl arrive
strangely I felt safer in the midst of that than I had anywhere else in the crowd
city of bugs left me so elated any higher and I would have thought I could have flown out of there
looking forward to southampton now and esp forum

we said that when Shrag were on (first support) by golly the sound is pretty crap
very bass heavy
missed a bit of adam green just cos I wasnt in the mood
was a on a low yesterday so spent the cribs set at the back
however I bloody loved it which is unusual for me as I prefer gigs in the thick of it all
came away with a new admiration for Gary
and City of Bugs there is no other song like it live
honestly feel like I could fly

I was at the Goldheart Assembly gig too.  Not quite my cup of tea either but I thought they were jolly good.  Great sound, good songs and lovely harmonies...very enjoyable set.  Impressed me enough to look forward to their album release. Only heard the end of The Molotovs and was focusing on getting a beer rather than the music so can't really comment on them.

Was a bit braindead that night...although did see Steve Lemacq as he was standing very near to me so he is clearly a bit of a fan.

I went to see Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop from Travis play a (mostly) acoustic set on Thurs night. The show took place in a downtown Austin church. I wasn't sure what to expect since I'd never set foot in that church. It was almost like going to church as the seating was in the pews. It was very relaxed though with a few humorous comments related to being in the church setting. There was a projection screen set up for slides which assisted Fran in telling lots of great stories behind the songs. Andy mostly kept to playing guitar and piano. He sang 1 song himself but otherwise Fran did most of the talking. And boy, can he talk ! But with the kind of show they were doing, it was very fitting. It felt like a living room show - very laidback and gosh darn it, Fran is just so charming . Although there was plenty of storytelling, there was no lack of songs as the show ran for over 2 hours .

Green Day last night was pure cabaret. Haven't been to a big venue extravaganza for many years so it was an interesting experience. Kids were pulled out of the crowd to sing Dookie classics and there was a rock classics cover version medley (Michael Jackson etc). Oh my gawd, I'd not paid my 50 quid for that sort of fayre. Much of the post Dookie stuff is pretty inane too actually but when the band did knock out the quality tracks they did sound awesome. "Good Riddance" to finish was immense. I never dreamt that Green Day would end up being family entertainment but you couldn't help enjoy the fact that so many people seemed to have such a great time.

oh fantastic
I loved Ash when I saw them
you must have been waiting with ants in your pants for these gigs to come around

last night saw The Automatic in Wrexham with support from Straight Lines
I now adore Straight Lines and want to see them again soon but at their own show with an influx of their own fans
their songs are too good to stand still to
I want to jump around and go nuts but I dont think even I could keep up a mosh by myself

Auto went down a treat loved their set
really like most of the new songs as well
although the next single isnt doing it for me so much
I like the rockier stuff
we ended up on merch as their merch guy had over slept so ended up with a free tee as well
ace night looking forward to catching them again soon I hope

ok that sounds odd
and rather squished
bet it made for a very memorable night though

The Pons in Downtown Houston at The Mink. A right David Lynch movie type venue with, erm, no heating in about 3-4 degrees. Spot the Brit, I think I was the only one there in just a shirt (albeit with a T underneath). Place really was a hole but perfectly atmospheric. So coats on all night for everyone else and a 1am departure for me, earlier than I would've out of choice, due to all things hypothermia related. I mainly went down to said joint as they've done a song I really like called "Giant". All very Pixies-ish which can't be bad but admittedly one or two dull tunes too. Potential definately there. Embarrassed myself brilliantly by asking the lead singer, in a slightly irritated tone, why the feck they didn't play "Giant" as really, that's why I was there. He kept his composure quite brilliantly in informing me, without the mereist hint of a smirk or untold frustration, that they had in fact bashed it out "2 or 3 in". This seems impossible to me though I did go downstairs for what I perceived to be only a few minutes or so, truth be told . Was chatting too much too. Doh!
Few days before caught Fanfarlo at Walter's. Didn't realise they were a UK outfit. Tight, quirky, eclectic, good at what they do, (though not as well as Arcade Fire who they are very much like).  Ultimately really very very dull indeed. Shame.

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