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[Sam L4]

Originally Posted by kirsten

First I Fly Spitfires night at the Tunnels?

Nah we weren't playing that. 3 of us were there though, for Right Hand Left.

[Wax]

Unfortunately, we went to the Retro Rooms for our Snafu night out. Bloc Party DJ's were shit, dropping a Kelly Clarkson remix amongst other obvious tunes. Wish we'd gone to Exodus instead.

Didn't realise the afterparty was advertised as Block Party - brilliant!

[kirsten]

...Who were the third band on then? Ahaha, I've been under the impression it was you lot since August! Fiction Action, RHL, ????, FMM...

I didn't notice the Block Party thing until a friend pointed it out. On the flyers there was a bit of black tape over the K on every one, so when you peeled it back, the K was revealed. Good times.

[Sam L4]

Originally Posted by kirsten

...Who were the third band on then? Ahaha, I've been under the impression it was you lot since August! Fiction Action, RHL, ????, FMM...

I didn't notice the Block Party thing until a friend pointed it out. On the flyers there was a bit of black tape over the K on every one, so when you peeled it back, the K was revealed. Good times.

The 2-piece from Norwich? Played keyboards, dont think i can remember there name. Kinda reminded me of Copy Haho, but with keyboards.

[Chris]

through the wonders of the search facility the answer is revealed:
http://www.aberdeen-music.com/forums...th-august.html

[kirsten]

Ah, cheers Chris. I just presumed that'd be you lot onstage 'cos there were flyers with your myspace address going around. Wow... That's weird...

[Sam L4]

Originally Posted by kirsten

Ah, cheers Chris. I just presumed that'd be you lot onstage 'cos there were flyers with your myspace address going around. Wow... That's weird...

Found them, that was a band called Grand Prix 86. Yeah we were flyering our demo that we had just finished recording.

[kirsten]

Well... that's you lot now off my Bands I've Seen Live list. How misleading

I'll get back on topic: ...Bloc Party... yeah.

[idol_wild]

"Nobody throws coins at me"

He didn't need to say that, or in the tone that he did. But I do agree that they were within their rights to walk off, I must say.

I fully expected someone to throw another coin immediately after they came back on.

My feelings of the gig are very mixed - the sound was absolutely awful; I can only assume it's due to the venue. The guitars were largely lost, and the xylophone intro to "Waiting For The 7:18" was barely audible. Kele's vocals were largely weak. There was just too much natural reverb in the Music Hall, given that they are a band who use plenty of reverb and delay in their sound set up anyway. I'm sure they played very well, but it was kind of hard to tell.

The lights, however, were fucking spectacular.

[The Kernel Loaf]

A pretty damn good gig all in all. We got there about 9 so we missed the support unfortunately but we weren't too bothered.

I thought Bloc Party handled the coin situation really badly. Of course, coin throwing is anything but acceptable (especially if you are paying £15 or more for going to a sold out gig), but for fuck sake, Kele didn't have to storm off in a big huff after saying "nobody throws coins at me", and getting someone else to announce that if one more coin was thrown they'd stop playing was fairly pathetic. Could he not just announce it himself?

Set-wise, some nice tunes. I wasn't keen on the slower tunes that much, especially Sunday and This Modern Love, and I would have liked them to have played Price of Gas and Luno instead of those. I was unfortunate enough to be stuck right in the middle of the jumping crowd at the front during Helicopter. The main gripe I had about the set was that they went on too early and they didn't play long enough. An extra 15 minutes wouldn't have been too hard for them to play.

The lighting was excellent, but an epileptic's worst nightmare. The strobe effects during Uniform was the highlight, when there were strobes simultaneous to Kele's strumming and the fade to black towards the end, then a warm lighting behind them so you can only see them as a shadow. Top notch.

The sound could have been better. I was more to the right of the crowd so I couldn't hear much of Russel's lead parts, but I expected that seeing as it's the Music Hall.

I can't believe there were football chants. I was disgusted and embarrassed.

Whoever invented camera and video phones needs a fucking smack.

The flyers for Retro Rooms was hilarious, especially them trying to disguise the additional 'K' with some black tape. The person who made the error must have had fun doing each individual flyer.


Then I went off to Drummonds to catch the rest of the Snake Temple King's set (400% better than the gig at the Moorings, much clearer sound) and Gerry Jablonski who was bloody mental.

All in all, a great night.