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[Mouse]

I heard about this, pretty disgraceful. It can only take a minority to give everyone a bad rep.

At least with Nickelback a few years ago it was understandable

[Skacel]

in the whole i thought it was an alright gig although i had low expectations anyway since im not a massive bloc party fan i was expecting the sound to be shit as per usual but didnt think it was too bad.

with regards to the coin throwing incident why the fuck would anyone do that? couldnt make any sense of it. u expect stuff like that at festivals not at a gig of about 2,000 capacity
morons.

[daveofficer]

i thought their set length was just fine. not too long and not too short. just right. the lights were good overall but the big white lights that were aiming straight out at the crowd were fucking annoying. meh. strange gig but i think bloc party did okay out of it even if they could've handled the 'incident' a little better. i hope wheover threw the coin got their comeuppance.

[cow tipper]

Originally Posted by Chris

Bit strange. I reckon someone at NME.com reads the Drowned In Sound message boards as someone linked to this thread from there earlier on.

They do. It has thousands of lurkers. I keep forgetting that the people posting aren't just the ones reading.

Tis on FakeDiY too (apologies in advance if this has noticed later as i have clearly not read the rest of this thread yet)
Coin Throwing Halts Bloc Party Gig: Bloc Party News on This Is Fake DIY

[Larsen B]

Originally Posted by kirsten

Nope, afraid not

Also, isn't Kele supposed to be vaguely rock n roll. He shoulda thrown the coin back! Or ripped it up a bit and tried to track down the idiot who threw it.

It always confuses me why people throw things at bands they like... what's up with that?

I seem to distinctly remember Kele denouncing the merits of the whole concept of "rock n' roll" in several interviews in the past.

[Camie]

I would've thought that a group of people would've seen the culprit and after they walked off, been angry enough to engage in some form of violent punishment to the person.

see this?

ab-music in the big league

NME.COM - News - Bloc Party gig halted after crowd incident

[Camie]

Originally Posted by nature_1

see this?

ab-music in the big league

NME.COM - News - Bloc Party gig halted after crowd incident

If it wasn't for NME and they're "acting like a cunt and saying it's rock and roll is cool" ethos then it's more than likely that the incident wouldn't have happened.

[GTFthemuse]

I had been waiting to see Bloc Party for ages and for the gig to be spoiled by some numpty with no brain was a huge disapontment. When the band returened they just did't look up for it. Feilds were good but the sound quaility was dyer, will probably put me off going to the music hall unless its a gig i really want to see. Anyway... hope this whole thing dose'nt put off other bands in the future, i have a feeling it will be a long time before we see bloc party again!

[Lester Burnham]

This was a gig I was so close to buying a ticket for but then decided against it.
Reasons:

1) The music hall sound is terrible and I simply don’t want to go again unless it’s one of my favourite bands – that I can’t see anywhere else.
2) Audiences at, “big gigs”… especially in Aberdeen where every moron and his wife seems to show up for the spectacle of a big band… complete with camera phone, no respect for the people around them and a pissed up, “let’s jump around and use the shoulders of strangers as a platform for us to jump around so much that we can’t possibly be paying any attention to the band” attitude.

Bit of a rant there but my more recent experiences of big gigs in Aberdeen have really putting me off attending them outright.

By the sound of things I was perhaps wise not to go to this in the end... which is a shame because Bloc Party are a great band and I would really like to see them perform live. The few spoil it for the many. etc. etc.