Crystal Castles, The Academy 9/10/2010 *All discussion no tickets/swaps*

banshee_bones

Just checked the academy site and its sold out! Knew I should have bought my ticket before EP! Will try scour for one now I guess!

Did anyone see them at EP? Any good? Anyone going to this?

Since the gig is sold out, no ticket sales/swaps on thread please

indiewindy

A great support act in health as well, well worth getting down there early

A V A

cant wait for this !!!

Varkov

Absolutly fantastic at EP, great set.

I'll be in China for this gig though :mad:

blubloblu

Thank god for toutless. Managed to get myself a ticket.

summerlover

Mod edit: no asking for tickets. try www.adverts.ie / www.toutless.com

Silver-Tiger

Could anybody please tell me who the promoter is for this?

indiewindy

Silver-Tiger wrote: »

Could anybody please tell me who the promoter is for this?

MCD

Joe_Dull

Delighrah AND excirah

Healium

This gig is going to be amazing!

geno

Tickets say doors at 7pm, what time do we reckon Health will come on at, 7.40ish?

La frog fairy

why all gigs i wanna go to end up being the same night !!

and now im finding out they are playing here! first news to me too..

Anyone seem them before?

worth the trip?

Healium

Will this gig be finished by around 11.15? Have to get a bus back to UCD

frank reynolds

i'd love to be going to this!! i might go last minute.

it's a pity Health are supporting though... just gonna be full to the brim of horrible hipsters and jerks.

the support act could easily play in a venue themselves, so why ruin it for genuine CC fans by adding such a mammoth support act.

sickening, but i wouldnt expect anything more from disgusting MCD.

geno

frank reynolds wrote: »

i'd love to be going to this!! i might go last minute.

it's a pity Health are supporting though... just gonna be full to the brim of horrible hipsters and jerks.

the support act could easily play in a venue themselves, so why ruin it for genuine CC fans by adding such a mammoth support act.

sickening, but i wouldnt expect anything more from disgusting MCD.

I hate MCD too, but it's a bit ridiculous to complain about them putting on a really good support band. Not exactly their fault either seeing as Health are supporting CC on most of their gigs in Europe

banshee_bones

Just a quick Q

How much were these tickets selling at face value? Just so I don't get ripped off if I end up getting one today

indiewindy

banshee_bones wrote: »

Just a quick Q

How much were these tickets selling at face value? Just so I don't get ripped off if I end up getting one today

€23 plus booking fee

Joe_Dull

Overall they were deadly and Alice certainly lived up to her reputation Reckless was the highlight, absolute tune. That said, a one hour set was fairly stingy and said set was heavy on filler (no Empathy, Vanished, Vietnam etc.)

Oh and Health were pretty painful.

Nonetheless a fine evening's entertainment :pac:

not1but4

First time seeing CC and I have been wanting to see them for years now and got tickets last minute ended up paying €30 for it. Only caught the end of Health and I thought they where pretty good.

Didnt like the way they only played for an hour as I thought it would have been for longer but had a good night.

Soby

Bit short of a gig alright but overall it was epic..And Alice is mental haha

honru

It's one reason I tend to skip gigs by relatively new acts or bands with one or two albums, especially when they pass the €20 mark. One hour of music... makes more sense to me to catch these bands at festivals.

Joe_Dull

f®eak s©enery wrote: »

It's one reason I tend to skip gigs by relatively new acts or bands with one or two albums, especially when they pass the €20 mark. One hour of music... makes more sense to me to catch these bands at festivals.

True, but it wasn't for want of material to fill the extra time. As I mentioned there were some notable omissions in the setlist, and they seemed to have a good bit of new stuff as well.

Lornen

Went with a friend who has been waiting for this gig for 5 months now. CC is one of my fave bands and his favourites all together and it was our first time to see them. Second row, centre stage and before they even got on stage a gang of total tinkers decided they would spend half an hour pulling my hair and punching me into the back of the head for NO reason. There was no way they could have gotten closer to the stage and they wouldn't let up. Security finally removed a few of them, leaving 2 or 3 friends behind who threatened to 'have us' when we left, and that they'd be waiting outside for us..

As soon as the lights went and CC came on stage I got several elbows into the back of the head. Ended up having to leave the second row because we were actually afraid we'd get glassed or stabbed.
Got screamed at that people like us shouldn't go to gigs? I don't get it, we were only looking to have a good night. I didn't respond as I really didn't want to be thrown out either but it was safe to say, despite how great the performance was, my night was completely ruined.

Such a shame.

bodhrandude

Sorry to hear that Lornen, the Electric Picnic performance in comparison was amazing, they are more a kind of festival atmosphere band. Apart from loads of pints gettin thrown about the place (on the increase at the Picnic, Im afraid to say) there was still quite a bit of space in the Electric Arena. Saying that for both the LCD Soundsystem and Bloody Beetroots gigs I had to watch at the side of the tent as the pushing at the front was mental and quite stifling too.

I reviewed a bit of their gig in my blog, check it out, they played on the Saturday.
http://niallmcquaid.wordpress.com/gig-reviews/

Lornen

Yeah, 3 hour trek from Sligo to see them and I spend the night getting my hair dragged off my head for no reason. Total pity.
I'd like to go again though, hopefully with less tools.

Healium

Lornen wrote: »

Went with a friend who has been waiting for this gig for 5 months now. CC is one of my fave bands and his favourites all together and it was our first time to see them. Second row, centre stage and before they even got on stage a gang of total tinkers decided they would spend half an hour pulling my hair and punching me into the back of the head for NO reason. There was no way they could have gotten closer to the stage and they wouldn't let up. Security finally removed a few of them, leaving 2 or 3 friends behind who threatened to 'have us' when we left, and that they'd be waiting outside for us..

As soon as the lights went and CC came on stage I got several elbows into the back of the head. Ended up having to leave the second row because we were actually afraid we'd get glassed or stabbed.
Got screamed at that people like us shouldn't go to gigs? I don't get it, we were only looking to have a good night. I didn't respond as I really didn't want to be thrown out either but it was safe to say, despite how great the performance was, my night was completely ruined.

Such a shame.

The black-haired bulldog with the pink bow?

A V A

no need for the name callin dude


i was shocked at the amount of twats there was at this, a lad kept reefin my mates hair out and i push him and then i got " started on" and "see you out side " , 2 of my favorite bands this year had dirtbags at their concerts :rolleyes::rolleyes: feck sake

blubloblu

Lornen wrote: »

Went with a friend who has been waiting for this gig for 5 months now. CC is one of my fave bands and his favourites all together and it was our first time to see them. Second row, centre stage and before they even got on stage a gang of total tinkers decided they would spend half an hour pulling my hair and punching me into the back of the head for NO reason. There was no way they could have gotten closer to the stage and they wouldn't let up. Security finally removed a few of them, leaving 2 or 3 friends behind who threatened to 'have us' when we left, and that they'd be waiting outside for us..

As soon as the lights went and CC came on stage I got several elbows into the back of the head. Ended up having to leave the second row because we were actually afraid we'd get glassed or stabbed.
Got screamed at that people like us shouldn't go to gigs? I don't get it, we were only looking to have a good night. I didn't respond as I really didn't want to be thrown out either but it was safe to say, despite how great the performance was, my night was completely ruined.

Such a shame.

There must have been a group of them there. One of them bit me in the arm! I've never had that at a concert, some people just come to cause trouble.

Healium

A V A wrote: »

no need for the name callin dude


i was shocked at the amount of twats there was at this, a lad kept reefin my mates hair out and i push him and then i got " started on" and "see you out side " , 2 of my favorite bands this year had dirtbags at their concerts :rolleyes::rolleyes: feck sake

No need for the name calling

Sorry, but this girl caused nothing but trouble. She was behind us, grabbed the hair of the girl beside me for NO reason, and wouldn't let go

A V A

emmm i wasnt targeting an actual person or user here on boards??? nd to use better words , there were people causing trouble and acting the boll*x there !!!

A V A

blubloblu wrote: »

There must have been a group of them there. One of them bit me in the arm! I've never had that at a concert, some people just come to cause trouble.

and that ruins it for everyone !!!!

Healium

Mr.S wrote: »

Sadly, gigs like these (and mostly in general) attract a lot of twats, add in alcohol and an act like CC and its even worse.

You should have said something to the security lads at the front, thats what they're there for. Or even people around you just to **** these people out.

Don't think i've ever been to a gig where there hasn't be one person that hasn't pissed me off tbh. It comes with the experience

The security were doing nothing. That girl with the bow was pissing a lot of people off, and they all told security. I think they finally went after her after about half an hour of her acting the dick, but she ran off

A V A

what was she doing?? the typicall moan at a gig, pushing back, throwing elbows:P:D i hate moans that act like the victim at gigs but start trouble , what was she doing

frank reynolds

all this talk of bashing into people in the crowd and all is RIDICULOUS!

this is what i was moaning about when i predicted the type of crowd that would be there.... silly girls that think it's cool to like the band even when they dont actually, that then dont realise they are going to a punk gig where there's DEFINITELY going to be moshing. idiots. i saw a LOT of idiots at that gig that shouldnt have been there.

if they knew the first thing about Crystal Castles, they would have known to expect moshing at the front of the crowd. AAAGH!

A V A

i couldnt care about people moshing,i did/do it myself at gigs!!!!!if someone bumped into me , i wouldnt care , so what im at a gig , what else did i expect :P and some just look at you n just say sorry man or give you a nod but didnt like my mates hair being pulled out of her head more than 4 times !!!! i know hair gets pulled if your a girl but these guys were jumping (so were we) and literally holding on her her hair :rolleyes::rolleyes::mad::mad:

frank reynolds

A V A wrote: »

i couldnt care about people moshing,i did/do it myself at gigs!!!!!if someone bumped into me , i wouldnt care , so what im at a gig , what else did i expect :P and some just look at you n just say sorry man or give you a nod but didnt like my mates hair being pulled out of her head more than 4 times !!!! i know hair gets pulled if your a girl but these guys were jumping (so were we) and literally holding on her her hair :rolleyes::rolleyes::mad::mad:

ah that's a bit bad...

are you sure she wasnt a hipster from D4 who made the whole thing up just for attention?

A V A

frank reynolds wrote: »

ah that's a bit bad...

are you sure she wasnt a hipster from D4 who made the whole thing up just for attention?

what ???? she was my best mate,standing right beside me , and i could see the lads doing it infront of me, ?? and she didnt dress/act like most of the saps that were there and trying to be "hipsters"

frank reynolds

ah dont mind me, im only looking for a reaction, but yeah it's terrible that it happened... i mean, all fair enough if it were another woman pulling the hair, but blokes doing it?

why didnt you just mill them out of it? set them on fire? kick the backs of their knees so they keep nearly collapsing?

i know for one, if it were my mate and her hair was being pulled by blokes, those blokes would have regretted it. scum

A V A

i just got back at him with out causing a scene and getting fcuked out like , i just gave him the odd knee to the back and punch to the back of the head , wasn going to let him ruin it for me sap!!!!! the place had the odd bit of trouble everywhere

frank reynolds

A V A wrote: »

i just got back at him with out causing a scene and getting fcuked out like , i just gave him the odd knee to the back and punch to the back of the head , wasn going to let him ruin it for me sap!!!!! the place had the odd bit of trouble everywhere

excellent! well, that's better than just doing nothing!

i blame the song "Doe deer".... it sends everyone a bit mental when it comes on!!!

A V A

frank reynolds wrote: »

excellent! well, that's better than just doing nothing!

i blame the song "Doe deer".... it sends everyone a bit mental when it comes on!!!

ye i know but some people just dont have a bit of respect when it comes to actually hurting someone :P:d


good gig all the same, just a bit short tbh,and is it just me but were those lights a bit bright :P