Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:36 am  

SFW wrote:

How is their new album? Haven't got around to listening yet, their third album was awful I thought and didn;t like the single from this new one. They are pretty average live too IMO.

I prefer it to Day and Age but oviously it's nowhere near the standard of Hot Fuss and Sam's Town. If you don't like the single then I'd imagine you probably wouldn't like the album.

I've seen them live before and loved it, each to their own I suppose!

[Wanderer]

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:05 am  

citywolf wrote:

Skin have done a few gigs over the last few years, I've been to watch them several times.

Possibly the beat was Skin with Thunder supporting. Just an amazing throw back to my youth.... Also a lesson to any young band in how to work a crowd.

There were some great British rock bands around in the early / mid 90's, a time when it wasn't uncommon for me to do 2 or 3 gigs a month ... Thunder, Magnum, Little Angels, Gun, Skin did the rounds regularly in those days either as support acts at City Hall / Arena type venues or as headliners at smaller venues ... good times.

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Sat Nov 10, 2012 2:35 pm  

oli30045 wrote:

I prefer it to Day and Age but oviously it's nowhere near the standard of Hot Fuss and Sam's Town. If you don't like the single then I'd imagine you probably wouldn't like the album.

I've seen them live before and loved it, each to their own I suppose!

I saw The Killers at Sheffield on Thursday and thought they were excellent.

Yes i think they have mellowed a little musically, probably down to growing older and have money in the bank which led them to experiment on Days & Age like they did.

But they did a cracking set..they even made the older members of the crowd jump about like teenagers

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Sat Nov 10, 2012 9:56 pm  

duke street 10 wrote:

I saw The Killers at Sheffield on Thursday and thought they were excellent.

Yes i think they have mellowed a little musically, probably down to growing older and have money in the bank which led them to experiment on Days & Age like they did.

But they did a cracking set..they even made the older members of the crowd jump about like teenagers

I've just seen the setlist from last night at Liverpool, looks great! After more listens of their new album I am liking it more than I did at first when I thought it was quite average.

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:40 pm  

went to see Deaf Havana last night, were fantastic!

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Sun Nov 11, 2012 1:19 pm  

In fairness I thought they were good live when they were touring around the time of Sam's Town and the b-side album. I've seen them a couple of times since though and the new stuff just does nothing for me and is probably affecting my opinion of how good they are live.

[Matt_Horton]

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:58 pm  

SirStan wrote:

Got Stone Roses tickets for Finsbury Park next June. Also got tickets for The Buzzcocks at Welly in Hull.

I saw the Inspiral Carpets at the Welly Club in Hull. The sound was shocking. Wasn't a good night at all.

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Tue Nov 13, 2012 12:16 pm  

Wire In The Final wrote:

went to see Deaf Havana last night, were fantastic!

I still can't get a grip on post Ryan Deaf Havana. There are some good tracks, but they don't have that same edge they did in 2009.

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:49 pm  

Bought Deftones tickets for next year tonight. New record 'Koi No Yokan' is very good!

Re: Gig Gossip (I'm going to see, I've been to see ...) : Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:45 pm  

Well I was going to see the Killers tomorrow anyway! Got to hope that it is on now after they went off after 4 songs tonight because of Brandon Flowers' throat.