E D I T O R S

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The band so cool they went for all caps AND l e t t e r   s p a c e s played in our place last night.  Had a bit of a walk around just before doors and surveyed the stage for cool warez:



Monitor World



IEM World



Freshly laundered mics



MIDI/Playback (?) world...

Support bands have the dopest rugs.



I'm a fan of this guitar/amp/light up sign... Even the green lead is alluring...


For a guy who only seems to use one FX pedal, the guitarist has an impressive WWF figurine collection.


Dimmer City

I, too, would play a Rick or Gretsch before a Gibson....if I had the dollar...




FoH


Oh yeah, and the show looked like this:



Never really got into Editors past hearing the odd tune on the radio.  Saw them support R.E.M. in Manc a few years back, and they were good.  Last night's show shows they've matured into a more electronic sounding monster, featuring keyboards, samplers, electronic drums and backing tracks.  I liked it!  They certainly have the skills to create an atmosphere, even if the lead singer does sound a BIT like a biology lecturer... I was also going to show the guitarist the 'time' control on his delay pedal - there's a whole world outside the 'slapback' region!!  But seriously, they make a great sound and I may have to think about getting hold of a few of their records.

The highlight of the day for me was when they decided to fly the smallest stack I've ever seen flown:


I count 6 x boxes per side.  Roffle.  Well they paid for a rigger; may as well use him.....

Pit Life.

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Rise To Remain 'rock' the crowd.

Trivia:  Rise To Remain lead singer's Dad is Bruce Dickinson, lead singer and all-around legend of Iron Maiden fame, and was standing right behind me as I snapped this pic....perks!!

Trivium

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The best thing about playing host to metal rockers 'Trivium' was getting to hear the live encore version of this song:



Altogether now - "BOAT!! RUDDER!! STRANGE MOUNTAIN!!!!"

Magic Trolley Ride

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Sometimes during the course of my work day, I get to play with new toys:


This is one of those days when I'm really grateful that I get to wear blue jeans to work and mess about...

Going Global

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It's not all rock & roll in our venue (more's the pity, sometimes...).

'Go Global', a week of events for International Students, culminates in a day-long event called 'Global Village', showcasing the cream of the international crop.  Most of the 'performances' however look something like this:


......or this....



It's a good show, all in all, but there's far too much faffing backstage from societies that don't have a clue what's going on, and the air is usually thick with more than just anticipation - any comments that the event should be renamed 'Go BObal' are purely coincidental....

Valve Soundsystem

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Purportedly the world's loudest PA, the Valve Sound System visited us a few weeks ago.  It was certainly powerful.  They'd obviously put a lot of work into reproducing deep lush bass frequencies (just look at the ratio of bottoms to mids to tops.....), and at 96kW it's not your average Dave's Mobile Disco:



4Music did a short documentary on the system:



Junglist Massif.

The Maccabees

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No, not some sort of weird collaboration between Paul McCartney and indie rockers The Bees, although that would be cool.....



Quite a good show.  Although not enjoyed quite as much as their smaller show towards the end of last year. They're undeniably a good band, some might even say great. I remember them being first on the bill at an NME Tour show only a couple of years ago, so it's good to see years of hard graft finally starting to pay off for them.  

And now they have brassmonkeys:


The Drums

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Good.  But I don't think they have a bass player....?!!

The Blackout

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The Blackout are from Merthyr Tydfil.























Pretty awful music, but a pretty impressive visual spectacle.  There's a whole lot of mic swinging going down.

Babyshambles - 12/12/09

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Pete Doherty: "Is anyone here local?"
Me: "...uh, yeah?"
PD: "Know where I can get any rocks?"
Me: "...have you tried HomeBase??" 


true story.  Later, Pete and his 'boys' would reduce an IKEA table I'd built only months previously to matchsticks:



Cock.

White Lies - 4/12/2009

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These guys had an 8 x 16 parcan wall.  This vexed me slightly as it was basically what I wanted for my band's world tour (currently scheduled for May 2020...).  They didn't seem to utilize it to the full extent that I want to, though - I envisage a setup so dense that you could program shapes, letters etc onto it, rather than just 'Welcome Wagon' chases... still, it looked cool...

The business end could have done with some sort of tomato sauce and meatballs - I think there was a family of hedgehogs in it at one point during the afternoon...


 

Why set up a speaker stand when two flimsy load straps will suffice?  This is one of the more humorously flagrant breaches of standard H&S practice I've ever seen.  When questioned, the noise boys (hum scum...) responsible retorted '...well we did it in Norwich.....'.



"Take it down or we're not opening the doors. Thankyouuuuuuu."


7/10.

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