alt-j Δ - O2 Sept 27th

Evil Sausage · 09-06-2014 3:17pm #1

MCD just tweeted that alt-j are playing September 27th.

O2 Presale starts Wednesday, general public this Friday

Peter File · 09-06-2014 3:27pm

The o2 seems a very big venue for them to play. I would expect the top tiers to be curtained off.

StickyMcGinty · 09-06-2014 3:37pm

Tickets @ 33 quid is pretty good, nice to see a reasonably priced gig in the O2 for once

Saw these in the Olympia a couple of years ago, one of my Top 5 gigs ever. Fantastic stuff. Hope it translates well to the bigger venue

Furious-Red · 09-06-2014 4:27pm

Are they big enough for the O2?

budgemook · 09-06-2014 11:12pm

Great, was raging I missed them last time

Raminahobbin · 09-06-2014 11:40pm

Fooking sweet!!! Definitely going to get to this!

karaokeman · 10-06-2014 8:08am

Furious-Red wrote: »

Are they big enough for the O2?

The same could be said about Slash, My Chemical Romance, Thirty Seconds to Mars, etc. Dublin has no good middle sized venue, so the O2 just books mid-sized acts and curtains off large sections of the seating area.

shamtastic · 10-06-2014 9:05am

Wow, how many acts have headlined the o2 with only one album? Interesting gig although can't imagine more than 7000 heading along, wonder how much they need through the door to break-even.

budgemook · 10-06-2014 6:43pm

shamtastic wrote: »

Wow, how many acts have headlined the o2 with only one album? Interesting gig although can't imagine more than 7000 heading along, wonder how much they need through the door to break-even.

I dunno, lots of bands?

StickyMcGinty · 10-06-2014 7:48pm

shamtastic wrote: »

Wow, how many acts have headlined the o2 with only one album?

That one album won the Mercury Award though!

siblers · 10-06-2014 11:26pm

I'm guessing by people's comments in this thread about them playing such a big venue, that it won't sell out straight away?

Birneybau · 11-06-2014 9:05am

siblers wrote: »

I'm guessing by people's comments in this thread about them playing such a big venue, that it won't sell out straight away?

I would be incredibly surprised.

Furious-Red · 11-06-2014 11:10am

StickyMcGinty wrote: »

That one album won the Mercury Award though!

True but that does not automatically bump you up to Arena's. Now maybe when the new album drops it will be massive and thats what they are predicting but i can see the top tier taped off

Vojera · 13-06-2014 8:54am

Aw yussssss, got my tickets! I've never seen them before so I'm really looking forward to it.

EDIT: I just went back to see what tickets I could choose from, rather than "best available" and there are no tickets on sale for the upper tier.

ConConKing · 13-06-2014 10:44am

Ticket bought! I've only heard good things about their live set!
Why does it have to be on so far in the future? God dammit!

Raminahobbin · 13-06-2014 3:13pm

Tickets bought, really looking forward to this now

IgnatiousReily · 13-06-2014 3:48pm

Saw them live twice and they weren't great. Good album though.

budgemook · 13-06-2014 5:59pm

Heard they were class in the olympia.

The KEXP video on YouTube is very good.

lc180 · 06-09-2014 3:12am

only 2 weeks away, any idea who the support is yet?

FatRat · 06-09-2014 3:08pm

lc180 wrote: »

only 2 weeks away, any idea who the support is yet?

Wondering the same thing. Got my tickets last week for standing. Checked back a day later and standing was sold out! Maybe there will be a bit of a crowd at it, we'll wait and see.

You'd think they'd have announced the supporting act long ago to help ticket sales. Probably some unknown band or none at all (I doubt they'd have no support though)

jack747 · 10-09-2014 10:27pm

Anyone no what time alt-j are starting there set at. Only seen recently they were playing but the replay of the stickball is on the same day. Would love to make both!

DiamondDave88 · 12-09-2014 9:28am

jack747 wrote: »

Anyone no what time alt-j are starting there set at. Only seen recently they were playing but the replay of the stickball is on the same day. Would love to make both!

Doors open at 6.30, i'm guessing alt-j wont be out until 8.30-9ish so plenty of time to see both!

rock whore · 14-09-2014 11:27am

full show from NYC

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/alt-j/2014/le-poisson-rouge-new-york-ny-3ce45a3.html

culline · 14-09-2014 9:29pm

rock whore wrote: »

full show from NYC

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/alt-j/2014/le-poisson-rouge-new-york-ny-3ce45a3.html

What do you make of his voice in this?

AdMMM · 15-09-2014 9:53am

culline wrote: »

What do you make of his voice in this?

They mentioned that this was their first live show since December of last year, so I'm not surprised that the vocals sound a bit suspect in places, particularly with the new material. I have no doubt that will improve as they get accustomed to playing live again and their sound engineers figure out how to balance the channels in a live setting for the new material.

culline · 15-09-2014 10:20am

AdMMM wrote: »

They mentioned that this was their first live show since December of last year, so I'm not surprised that the vocals sound a bit suspect in places, particularly with the new material. I have no doubt that will improve as they get accustomed to playing live again and their sound engineers figure out how to balance the channels in a live setting for the new material.

*wipes brow*
Here's hoping! Will be third time to see them, thought they were great both times.

lc180 · 15-09-2014 8:15pm

rock whore wrote: »

full show from NYC

Unless they have a massive production I just can't see their sound working well in an arena type venue. I hope I'm wrong though!

AdMMM · 15-09-2014 9:10pm

lc180 wrote: »

Unless they have a massive production I just can't see their sound working well in an arena type venue. I hope I'm wrong though!

Pretty sure the top half of the Three Arena is being curtained off for this, so they won't need massive production

Ugh.Im.Clashing · 18-09-2014 3:34pm

lc180 wrote: »

only 2 weeks away, any idea who the support is yet?

Marika Hackman

rock whore · 23-09-2014 9:22am

I'm enjoying the new album. Not long to get to know the songs before the show but the setlist seems to be set in stone, drawing heavily from both albums

Beamish101 · 23-09-2014 9:29pm

Hi,

Does anyone have a spare stading ticket for Alt J? Or know anybody who doesn't want one anymore?

rock whore · 23-09-2014 9:38pm

Beamish101 wrote: »

Hi,

Does anyone have a spare stading ticket for Alt J? Or know anybody who doesn't want one anymore?

you could just buy one

edit: oh I see, only seated ones left *facepalm*

Casshern88 · 25-09-2014 9:22am

i emailed three yesterday asking for a time breakdown of the gig, they said door 6:30, show is from 8:30 to 10:30 aprox.

Duff · 26-09-2014 11:19am

Raging I didn't get tickets for this sooner. Really don't wanna have to sit.

fishtastico · 26-09-2014 12:38pm

Any word on whether there's a support act yet?

lc180 · 26-09-2014 10:38pm

fishtastico wrote: »

Any word on whether there's a support act yet?

It was mentioned back a page.

Ugh.Im.Clashing wrote: »

Marika Hackman

Ken Shamrock · 27-09-2014 1:16pm

Any idea what time they will come on stage at?

ste · 27-09-2014 3:55pm

Looking for 1 standing if any1 has a spare. Obv will pay full price. Plz PM

rock whore · 27-09-2014 7:50pm

I did not expect it to be this full!

Vojera · 27-09-2014 10:10pm

Me neither, they obviously put the upper tiers on sale at some stage.

Raminahobbin · 27-09-2014 10:46pm

Great gig, really enjoyed it

Very surprised at how full the venue was. The lights and atmosphere were deadly, and the sound /vocals perfect!

Fierce happy, so I am!

lc180 · 28-09-2014 12:06am

I commented a few times about how I thought it was a bad venue but.... holy **** it was packed tonight! I love a good Saturday gig and I think everyone else did too cos tonight was great. good vibe, good crowd, good atmosphere which is hard to come by. my main concern was that they wudnt have a proper arena light show but it was def up to standard.

im going to bed happy,bolloxd but happy! Great night

CoDy1 · 28-09-2014 2:44am

**** me that was some gig! The crowd was class and you could see the band were impressed, Some vocal performance from the crowd too!

Conor Bourke · 28-09-2014 7:43am

CoDy1 wrote: »

**** me that was some gig! The crowd was class and you could see the band were impressed, Some vocal performance from the crowd too!

Biggest gig they've ever played he said! I couldn't believe the size of the crowd either and had a bad feeling going in that I'd spend half the night "shhhhhing" people who were yapping through songs... Not a bit of it. Everyone around me seemed enthralled, as was I. Bloodflood was a teeny tiny bit off at the beginning I thought, but hey! It's live music, he recovered well and everything else was note perfect. Lights were fantastic too. Had a wonderful night

Vojera · 28-09-2014 10:52am

I really enjoyed it. A few bum notes here and there but nothing major. The lights were class, really well done.

Didn't enjoy being seated, though. There were still people being shown to their seats until during the 5th (!) song, and with the bar open there was constant movement of people in and out and up and down the stairs, which was pretty distracting.

Lovely Bloke · 28-09-2014 11:04am

Great gig, and I too thought it would be too big a venue for them, but they were brilliant.

Best gig this year, better than Arcade Fire.

Lovely Bloke · 28-09-2014 11:05am

Vojera wrote: »

I really enjoyed it. A few bum notes here and there but nothing major. The lights were class, really well done.

Didn't enjoy being seated, though. There were still people being shown to their seats until during the 5th (!) song, and with the bar open there was constant movement of people in and out and up and down the stairs, which was pretty distracting.

I had a ticket for Block M, but just went out the door beside the door to the toilets and headed downstairs to the standing area. No bother.

Vojera · 28-09-2014 11:26am

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

I had a ticket for Block M, but just went out the door beside the door to the toilets and headed downstairs to the standing area. No bother.

Dammit! Maybe next time! :P

FatRat · 28-09-2014 4:14pm

Best gig I've been to , to date! Was a bit apprehensive after watching their live show in Manchester. I thought the vocals would be a bit weak but my God was I wrong!!! They absolutely nailed every song. The first 3 songs were absolutely immense. Hunger of the pine is a great opening song and straight in fitzpleasure after was just fantastic. I had shivers down my spine for most of the gig, particularly for Nara, which is my new favourite song from TIAY.

They were simply immense and the light show topped it off. The lights were an amazing spectacle to compliment an amazing performance from an amazing band. I'm also so glad they played pretty much all of An Awesome Wave.

flasher0030 · 29-09-2014 9:19am

Sorry this post does not relate to the gig.

I purchased their first album - An awesome wave. I've only listened to it twice. But I don't really get it. I am pretty open when it comes to music, and will give it several more listens. It has got amazing reviews, won several awards so there must be serious quality to it. But most of what I hear is the singer just making up random noises. Haven't a clue as to what he is saying.

I'm hoping that it's one of those albums (like Wild Beasts, or Future Islands) that grows on you after several listens. Is that the general experience?

symbolic · 29-09-2014 9:33am

flasher0030 wrote: »

Is that the general experience?

My experience.. Saw them support Ghostpoet in Whelans and thought, these guys are great. Had a song stuck in my head the next day and with some YouTubeing found out it was breezeblocks. So it was love at first sight for me!

Didn't head to the O2 at the weekend, shocked at the size of the crowd from the pictures. Fairplay to them!

alt-j Δ - O2 Sept 27th

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