Like you say time to seek out smaller stuff
The windmill in Brixton is good for ‘up and coming’ bands
when i lived in London it was fairly easy. loads of places still did live music back then but i’m in the middle of nowhere. Norwich is probably closest and i think the university has some decent live music nights.
otherwise local to me is some farmer singing oasis at an open mic night
Tickets for Wolf Eyes in June at White Hotel were £16, Matthew Halsall £25 night after at New Century Hall which I’m fine with as both decent venues.
Manchester & the surrounding areas have a pretty good selection of venues (inc Golden Lion in Todmorden) that seem to be generally fairly priced, the big arenas still crazy money though.
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It feels like it’s getting more expensive for foreign bands to tour the UK and as a result, bands have to charge more. Thing is, that makes sense if you’re an independent band, but it’s the larger, major label bands that seem to be taking the piss.
Do Blink 182 really need to be charging £100+ for a ticket?
Most established independent bands seem to be pushing £30+ these days. Fucked Up was £25, Sparta was £30, Godspeed was £30, Jawbox was £30. Mars Volta was nearly £70
Say you’re a parent and you want to take your teenager kid and their friend to a concert, be it Taylor Swift or Blink 182, you’re looking at like £300-£400 for one event
Exactly. One visa used to do the job for all of Europe, and now that there’s a separate one for the UK, a lot of bands aren’t bothering. A fairly big band I know who travel with their own backline now have one for the UK and one for mainland Europe, so they have to change trucks when they cross the channel, which adds a massive amount of time and money to any tour.
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Bigger bands want more for their time as it’s not about the music/exposure anymore they just want to get paid. Which is fair enough, people will pay and people will moan. They will also moan when the band are a poor version of their memory.
I don’t think there is any point in seeing long gone bands unless you know what you’re getting yourself into.
I reckon you’d feel the cash grab vibe onstage, not many bands look like they’re having fun, unless you see a band relishing their unexpected nostalgia rebirth.
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yeah this 100%. loads of rock/metal bands talking about how much harder it is to tour in the UK now. literally having one set of trucks for europe and then having to change it all for the UK due to stupid brexit paperwork crap.
i’ve noticed a lot of bands are just skipping us entirely from their euro tours. i jumped on a eurostar to Northern France last year for this exact reason. wasn’t even that pricey and made for a nice city break
You’re also not getting 10 date tours anymore. Bands are doing 3 or 4 dates at places they know they’ll sell out. London, Manchester, Cardiff. Maybe Bristol or Leeds if you’re lucky. Or a one off date to coincide with a festival.
apparently loads of festivals now have contracts where bands can’t tour in the country within a specific time frame (or else it would take away the draw of having that band on the festival lineup).
i noticed a fair few bands playing Download last year who were touring in Europe and only playing that festival in the UK. might be a coincidence or might add some truth to it. would suck if so, i hate festivals for seeing bands i actually wanna see
Big Train was the tits
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I get that this won’t be everyone’s cup o’tea but I’m kinda stoked that Dill started doing these again.
My mate has pulled his finger out and set up a Spotify account for our project we did a couple of years ago. There’s way more songs than this but they’re mostly lost due to a laptop and portable hard drive theft from his apartment in Haiphong. The whole project was what I’d call a lampooning of Americana, parodying things like evangelicalism, satanic panic, Bigfoot, Cold War conspiracy theories and eventually “the best bits of the Torah mixed with Lovecraft.” Basically this harks back to one of the funnest periods of my life.
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Morgan Khan talks to Hugh Laurie about the Street Sounds comps, in 1986
(feat some embarrassing political takes from Morgan)
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couldnt find the hip-hop thread - my thread finding skills are increasingly weak, ha
Black Thought from The Roots mimicking a slew of legendary MCs - Guru, Kool G, Busta…
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Outstanding. His Pete Rock is perfect.
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I think its been killed!!! Been unable to find it myself 
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i wonder if when a forum member focuses
their account, the threads they made get stomped too
Segregating hip-hop from the music thread always felt weird to me.
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