Super Furry Animals, Olympia, December 1st

Birneybau

Pre sale today, code is Fuzzy Logic. General sale Friday.

I picked up 2 standing, €32 each, this morning not including that ticket handling b.s.

Playing first 2 albums in their entirety.

Sugarlumps

Presale must of sold out super quick?

Killer band live. Standing in the Olympia always feels overcrowded though.

cruhoortwunk

Seemed to be sold out within a few mins. Got circle tickets at about 9:03. No way to know how many tickets were allocated to the presale though.

cruhoortwunk

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Presale must of sold out super quick?

Killer band live. Standing in the Olympia always feels overcrowded though.

Get a pit pass, well worth it, lots of standing room up there. Just show up when doors open and get a pass if you're in the first 100, then leave via the smoking area out back.
Come back a few hrs later when they are due on and stroll right up the front

Sugarlumps

cruhoortwunk wrote: »

Get a pit pass, well worth it, lots of standing room up there.

Cheers, I'll sort something out. No way am I missing this.

flasher0030

This is not a wind-up post.

But I remember buying Fuzzy Logic about 20 years ago, and trying my best to get into it. That, along with another album from the '90s - American Music Club consumed so many hours from my life. I just gave up after about 20 listens. Couldn't get either album.

Are the SFAs as good as they seem to be portrayed in the Media. Or are they a band that has many middle of the road albums, like a 6 out of 10, but are consistent.

I am definitely open to the suggestion that my musical tastes were not all they should be back then. Going to give it another few spins to see if it hits me in a different way.

Anyway, sorry for straying off the topic of the gig.

cruhoortwunk

flasher0030 wrote: »

This is not a wind-up post.

But I remember buying Fuzzy Logic about 20 years ago, and trying my best to get into it. That, along with another album from the '90s - American Music Club consumed so many hours from my life. I just gave up after about 20 listens. Couldn't get either album.

Are the SFAs as good as they seem to be portrayed in the Media. Or are they a band that has many middle of the road albums, like a 6 out of 10, but are consistent.

I am definitely open to the suggestion that my musical tastes were not all they should be back then. Going to give it another few spins to see if it hits me in a different way.

Anyway, sorry for straying off the topic of the gig.

Fuzzy Logic isn't their best album, but you could try the next 3-4 of them. On Spotify, the top 10 songs is a good place to start to get a feel for a band

grudgehugger

flasher0030 wrote: »

Are the SFAs as good as they seem to be portrayed in the Media.

Depends to what extent they're your type of thing or not, and also possibly what stage of your life you were at when Fuzzy Logic was released.

For me, it's probably the last album (& band) that totally gripped me when I was in college - so for me, yes they are good as they seem to be portrayed in the Media.

For me, they've perhaps been on a downward trend ever since Fuzzy Logic - so I love Radiator, love Ice Hockey Hair like Guerilla and can take or leave most of their albums since then.

I realise this is quite different from a previous poster - like most such questions, it's very much a matter of opinion. (Mine being the right one, of course)

cruhoortwunk

Yeah for me Fuzzy Logic was decent but they hadn't found their sound.
They got more experimental and psychedelic from Radiator on.
My favourites in order of preference:

Phantom Power
Radiator
MWNG
Rings Around The World
Guerilla
Love Kraft
Fuzzy Logic
Hey Venus
Dark Days

Arghus

flasher0030 wrote: »

This is not a wind-up post.

But I remember buying Fuzzy Logic about 20 years ago, and trying my best to get into it. That, along with another album from the '90s - American Music Club consumed so many hours from my life. I just gave up after about 20 listens. Couldn't get either album.

Are the SFAs as good as they seem to be portrayed in the Media. Or are they a band that has many middle of the road albums, like a 6 out of 10, but are consistent.

Super Furry Animals are fantastic. My introduction to them was their Songbook compliation album. It collected all their singles up to that point - 2004. That is one quality album. I pushed it onto a lot of people and everyone I gave it too found something to like about it. You can't deny the SFA.

They seem to be incapable of putting together an album that isn't full of catchy hooks and choruses. And their one of the most melodically gifted and satisfying bands to listen to. They are so tuneful; they are a very accessible band. Listening to The Super Furries for me is a lot of my pleasure centres going, awww yisssss .Sometimes the thought, "why aren't these fellas global superstars?" will come into my head while listening to them.

Add to that a wonderful strain of eccentric experimentation throughout their back catalogue that always stays on the right side of putting the song first and keeping it all weird, fun and welcoming.

Love this tune myself. The electro intro, Then the guitars, cowbells and harmonies kick in, giving way to that sleepy but hypnotic chorus and then a further techno breakdown. You go on a journey with this one - larger than life but childlike and wonderful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQZijUI9I3E

WindmillWarrior

My favourite band of all time! This is gonna be marvellous. Marvellous I say

Sam Hain

flasher0030 wrote: »

This is not a wind-up post.

But I remember buying Fuzzy Logic about 20 years ago, and trying my best to get into it. That, along with another album from the '90s - American Music Club consumed so many hours from my life. I just gave up after about 20 listens. Couldn't get either album.

Are the SFAs as good as they seem to be portrayed in the Media. Or are they a band that has many middle of the road albums, like a 6 out of 10, but are consistent.

I am definitely open to the suggestion that my musical tastes were not all they should be back then. Going to give it another few spins to see if it hits me in a different way.

Anyway, sorry for straying off the topic of the gig.

SFA are average at best, there is just something missing in all their albums.

Zardoz

Second night added now for Dec 6th

Sugarlumps

Zardoz wrote: »

Second night added now for Dec 2nd.

Any idea when these will go on sale?

Zardoz

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Any idea when these will go on sale?

They are on sale now

Sugarlumps

Zardoz wrote: »

They are on sale now

Isn't showing on Ticketmaster?

Zardoz

Sugarlumps wrote: »

Isn't showing on Ticketmaster?

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/ocean-colour-scene-dublin-12-06-2016/event/180050E6BA54BEC7?artistid=750020&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1

Lotus Flower

Um, that's Ocean Colour Scene...

The Olympia is in use on both the Friday and Saturday nights after the gig

Zardoz

Lotus Flower wrote: »

Um, that's Ocean Colour Scene...

The Olympia is in use on both the Friday and Saturday nights after the gig

lol
I need some coffee .
Sorry folks

Lotus Flower

Can't wait for this, haven't seen them since their 2007 Vicar St gig!

loyatemu

I've only seen them once, at the Ambassador where I made the mistake of getting balcony tickets. Being a former cinema, the balcony in the Ambassador is angled for looking at the back wall of the stage so I could only really see the drummer... Radiator is their best album and Fuzzy Logic is also pretty great so this should be a cracking gig.

seachto7

Looks like this is sold out?

Lotus Flower

seachto7 wrote: »

Looks like this is sold out?

Standing sold out on the morning they went on sale

Arne_Saknussem

Long shot but if anyone knows of a Standing ticket with no home can they send me a PM. Thanks.

WindmillWarrior

SFA take the stage 20:30, no support. Lookin forward to this very much

Birneybau

Arne_Saknussem wrote: »

Long shot but if anyone knows of a Standing ticket with no home can they send me a PM. Thanks.

Still looking?

Birneybau

Gone

Arghus

Tonight!

They played close to thirty tunes in Belfast last night.

WindmillWarrior

Arghus wrote: »

Tonight!

They played close to thirty tunes in Belfast last night.

Ah, so we're getting an encore after the 2 albums then, sweet! I was wondering about that

(Edit - I don't wanna know what the encore is!! )

Birneybau

WindmillWarrior wrote: »

Arghus wrote: »

Tonight!

They played close to thirty tunes in Belfast last night.

Ah, so we're getting an encore after the 2 albums then, sweet! I was wondering about that

(Edit - I don't wanna know what the encore is!! )

The encore is generally the bit at the end 😜

seachto7

What a gig. You could hear the difference in quality between the 2 albums. While the first album is decent, it might be not as well known as Radiator.
A lot of people chatting during the first album, but Radiator got some response.
Cool light show, and the perfect encore.
A pity ice hockey hair didn't get a blast.
3rd time seeing them. Each time I got something different.

loyatemu

great gig - I'd agree re: the 2 albums. Fuzzy Logic is good, but there's a few lacklustre tunes on it. Radiator is end-to-end fantastic, you could see the band were enjoying playing it more and the light show only really got going for that section (a Radiator/Guerilla gig would have been incredible).

"International Language of Screaming" and "Hermann Loves Pauline" were two highlights for me. They just did an extended version of "TMDGAF" as an encore (wasn't really an encore as they never all left the stage). Good crowd too, really into the music and knew the songs.

seachto7

loyatemu wrote: »

(a Radiator/Guerilla gig would have been incredible).
.

Guerilla and or Phantom Power from start to finish would be brilliant!

WindmillWarrior

loyatemu wrote: »

). Good crowd too, really into the music and knew the songs.

Strongly agree with that. Really happy crowd too. Happy music I guess. Just an all round top quality gig.

Was kinda hoping they'd throw something different into the encore like one or 2 old b side favourites, don't be a fool Billy or arnofio but f*ck it, SFA OK!

Arghus

Great gig. I wasn't expecting such an eyepopping lights show.

It's a small complaint, but there wasn't much if any interaction with the crowd, just totally focused on moving onto the next song.

loyatemu

Arghus wrote: »

Great gig. I wasn't expecting such an eyepopping lights show.

It's a small complaint, but there wasn't much if any interaction with the crowd, just totally focused on moving onto the next song.

Well, they had their signs...

WindmillWarrior

Arghus wrote: »

Great gig. I wasn't expecting such an eyepopping lights show.

It's a small complaint, but there wasn't much if any interaction with the crowd, just totally focused on moving onto the next song.

They're always a bit like that I find. Which is strange as they're obviously very playful blokes. You'd think they'd like a bit of craic with the crowd.

(Edit, as loyatemu said there were the signs!)