Regina Spektor - Tripod - 30/08

nervous_twitch

Regina Spektor to play Tripod on the 30th August; tix in and around €25 - on sale Monday. Meant to be a good show, and I missed her last year.

Fad

yeah i just saw it on ticketmaster, have to get id to get in though GRRRRR,
really want to see her live though

lordgoat

Good chance she'll be at EP then on the sat or sunday...

JJ

I'm there. I've been getting into Begin to Hope lately. I hope the gig won't be full of talk-through-the-show posers who go just because they heard Hotel Song on the Vodafone ad.

Fad

''they made a statue of us'':D
im lucky enough to have heard of her well before the vodafone ad,
now, to get id, (im presuming tripod is strict)

Awayindahils

For going out i think so, but I dont remember being id last time i went there to a gig.

(and Im 19 and get id'd quite a bit so...)

JJ

WOO-HOO! I gots my tickets.

lordgoat

JJ wrote:

I'm there. I've been getting into Begin to Hope lately. I hope the gig won't be full of talk-through-the-show posers who go just because they heard Hotel Song on the Vodafone ad.

I hope the show isn't full of annoying fanboy, i heard her way before you did shhuusshhers. The worst kind of poser.

Awayindahils

lordgoat wrote:

I hope the show isn't full of annoying fanboy, i heard her way before you did shhuusshhers. The worst kind of poser.

The person im going with is bound to do that. Ah well I'm going to enjoy the show. Yay!!!

*crosses fingers that she'll play EP too*

JJ

I don't care when people heard of an artist. Newcomers are always welcome to the fan club. But if you pay to go to a gig, you should listen to the music and not talk through the whole thing.

lordgoat

Unless they only know the song from the vodafone ad...

Achille

She did a great show last Feb in Whelans.

It's very unlikely she'll be at the Picnic as well. Aiken wouldn't book her the day before the festival and add her to the bill. She's in Scotland on the Sunday. Clever play by the Aiken guys though, it'll be sure to rope in a lot of pre-Picnic partyers, like myself, on the 30th.

nervous_twitch

Got my tix, anyone know what Tripod is like as a venue? Goin to see a few people there around this time!

BOHS

As long as you dont have people shouting looking for the Vodafone song to be played throughout the whole gig I dont see why people should have any problem with new fans going.Some of the best gigs ive ever seen were from people who I have only heard a couple of songs of before going.

joenailface

nervous_twitch wrote:

Got my tix, anyone know what Tripod is like as a venue? Goin to see a few people there around this time!

tripod is amazing ive been there 4 or 5 times and its just amazing, i imagine itll be perfect for her too, very intimate room, very big sound! the venue itself is lovely, the sound is second to no venue ive ever been in in ireland, you WILL get asked for id though so unless you have a full beard or something id recommend not going (if your underage that is :P) should be a fantastic show though, like 6 days after battles...man i love tripod

JJ

I guess it's a pretty good venue then.

nervous_twitch

joenailface wrote:

tripod is amazing ive been there 4 or 5 times and its just amazing, i imagine itll be perfect for her too, very intimate room, very big sound! the venue itself is lovely, the sound is second to no venue ive ever been in in ireland, you WILL get asked for id though so unless you have a full beard or something id recommend not going (if your underage that is :P) should be a fantastic show though, like 6 days after battles...man i love tripod

Excellent I'm goin to see loads of people there over the next few months, so its good to know..! And thankfully age is no longer an issue; cant say I'll miss the days of blaggin my way into gigs on a library card.

JJ

I just noticed that this gig is now sold out.

calex71

just noticed that i have a seating ticket , what is balcony seating like at Tripod?

gracefulstalker

EDIT: Should've read the rules before I posted!! Don't delete the thread...

JJ

What the hell you on about?

Mr Rivers

calex71 wrote:

just noticed that i have a seating ticket , what is balcony seating like at Tripod?

Very good seating in Tripod and you're free to go downstairs into the standing area too

JJ

That's very much different to places like Vicar St. Anyhoo, I've been to Crawdaddy and I've technically been to Tripod back in its Red Box days but haven't seen it in its new incarnation.

nervous_twitch

Man, that was great.. she had me pinned from 'The Flowers' She's so tiny. Tripod was actually a lovely venue I thought.

Driver 8

Quality gig alright, even if the place was the mother of all sweatboxes (you know it's bad when the air conditioner gets a cheer)

She's a very endearing performer, and the between song banter was priceless.

Gotta love "Baby Jesus" too

JJ

Lovely venue yes if the air conditioner worked. That's what inspired me to write the weight loss post on here last night. People were fanning themselves all over the place and moving to the back to get some fresh air. They also opened most of the emergency exits to get some air.

Anyhoo, it didn't ruin what was definitely a great gig. Before the gig I thought she might have a backing band but she can easily carry a show all by herself. Her mistakes banter before Real Love was funny though I wouldn't have noticed any mistakes at all.

film_gonzo

I thought that Regina played really well (so glad she played Samson) and her between song awkwardness was endearing but I thought the crowd at the gig were the most disrespectful crowd I have ever watched an artist with.

The entire back of the standing area and a large portion of upstairs didn't shut up. The girl next to me might as well have stayed at home cause she seemed to be trying to compete with Regina Spektor in the volume stakes (not so much in the talent stakes) and the endless whooping in the middle of quiet, intimate songs grew vey old very fast.

I was also disappointed at the venue for turning on the AC during one of the songs. I appreciate that the place was like a boiler room. I was melting also. But 15 mins more wouldn't have killed me.

JJ

I didn't hear much talking through the songs at all. Maybe it's because I was on the ground floor halfway between the front and the back, but I thought the crowd were very good at shutting up and listening to the songs. I've been at "quiet" gigs that were 10,000,000 worse as far as talking goes. I only remember a few whoops here and there in the middle of the quieter songs.

I also welcomed the big blast of a/c at the beginning of the encore. It felt like a godsend until it stopped and we all started sweating again. The a/c should be a number priority at every gig venue.

Out Of Order

Very enjoyable gig, as mentioned very endearing performer.
Didn't notice the crowd being loud where I was either.
Did anyone catch the name of the first support band? (the two guys playing acoustic similar to Rod y Gab)

Driver 8

Tucan Music. Bored the arse off me, but then again, so does that whole sub genre. They seemed to be nice fellas, to be fair though.

fluke

hey anyone take any pics from that gig?! great gig though pity about the air con.

Driver 8

Check youtube...

JJ

Just noticed that You Tube has a good few videos from that gig. I missed the first opening act though the second guy didn't have me running off to buy his CD.

panda100

I dont know what all the fuss is about with Regina Specktor.When she sings its sounds like she's hiccupting. Comppletly overrated......and since she sold her soul to vodafone her voice just iriitates me.

Achille

fluke i took loads of pictures, i have a couple of them up on my flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/kdamo

it was pretty good gig, not the best I've seen her.
and it was a bit annoying how every song from Begin to Hope was karaoke time for every girl in the place.

Driver 8

Singing along!? At a concert! What has the world come to?

yevveh

Driver 8 wrote:

Tucan Music. Bored the arse off me, but then again, so does that whole sub genre. They seemed to be nice fellas, to be fair though.

Saw them busking on Grafton St once, though they were pretty good, but have to admit Rodrigo y Gabriela have already done it pretty much exactly as these guys are trying to do it (as mentioned previously). I'd have to hear their recordings.

Redegg

They turn the aircon off to get people drinking more. Well known fact!

Driver 8

Heard that the same situation with the air-conditioning is common enough, to be fair, it's loud enough, and could drown out many of the kinds of acts they get there, to an extent.

JJ

Well, I decided to write to the management about this anyhoo and I thought I'd share my email on here. Maybe it's OTT and maybe you are meant to sweat a wee bit at gigs but the RS gig at Tripod was unbearably hot:

I am writing in relation to the recent Regina Spektor gig at your venue. I was in attendance at this gig with my wife and we found the lack of air conditioning completely unacceptable. Everyone that I have talked to about this gig agreed that the heat made standing inside your venue extremely uncomfortable. My wife and many other people had to leave the main standing area and move to the foyer area due to the heat. Lack of air conditioning seems to be a problem at a lot of Dublin venues and I thought that since Tripod was recently renovated this wouldn't be a problem but this was not the case.

My wife spoke to another member of the audience and she said that she talked to the manager on the night and was informed that the health inspector ordered that the air conditioning be turned off. I fail to see the logic in this decision and I would say that it is more of a health hazard to turn the air conditioning off as it can cause people to faint and possibly get seriously injured. I hope you will take this into consideration for future gigs and ensure that the temperature in your venue is kept at an acceptable level. Gig goers pay a lot of money these days for tickets and we do not expect to have to endure unbearably hot conditions in order to enjoy the music we love. Thank you very much for your consideration.