Gigs for 2024

Agree, very different presentation of her old stuff. While still theatrical, was less so than ive seen in her previous gigs. She more personable aswell, much more crowd interaction

Richard Dawson was excellent, a bit barmy!

Sounds really good - I really like the NCH. Unlike the 3Arena and other larger venues you aren't treated like cattle. And they have nice beers.

My brother is just out of Muireann Bradley doing a free afternoon show in Spindizzy Records. Said she was amazing. I'm up next in Whelans this evening.

Oh agreed. We parked on site, no charge, guy on duty lovely, girls checking tickets dead on, full of chat, just a general sense that people were glad to have you there, gorgeous spot, lovely pint and magic music. I'll defo be paying more attention to their schedule.

For the Pixies gigs in August in Galway and Dublin, does anyone know if the band will only be playing tracks from Bossanova and Trompe La Monde?

Any harm in asking, and this extends to other people who went to Mitski last night, what is with the young fanbase? It's not a complaint, far from it, as you had said @Arghus, the crowd was very warm to Richard Dawson and the audience was always on board with everything. I'm just curious about how such a young fanbase have embraced her really (at least going by the gigs anyway).

Tsk. Kids these days…

She's quite superb.

I believe it's to do with how popular some of her tunes became on tiktok etc during covid onwards. But I am still surprised at it.

Tik-Tok is fairly mad, in terms of the boost it can give a band. Seems a bit more random than MySpace was back in the day too.

I was surprised how young the crowd was at Slowdive, and you've 90s bands like Duster suddenly getting better streaming numbers than Pavement. Interesting enough.

They were amazing although in fairness so were the crowd and the venue worked really well for the gig (i’d only seen comedy before in Vicar). Class seeing 50 and even 60 year old ravers having a great time , great atmosphere. I think it was my 6th time seeing them and it’s now 25 years since I first saw them live in Ireland and they were just as good if not better last night . My knees are in bits from jumping up and down like a mad man.
It was a bit of stress to get free to attend but I’m glad I made the effort

Agree Orbital were super. And amazing crowd. Really got stuck in as if it was 1995 all over again.

If I was to be nit picky - the encore was a little bit of anti climax. Spicey went down like a led balloon - might just be an Irish crowd thing, not sure how it is going down in UK. Or it might be ok for two mins and then mix it out quickly. But after those bangers from the brown album and the roof practically on fire it sounded just totally out of place as a slow set. Dirty Rat is a great, great, great tune but you need to kind of mix it in and mix it out like they way they did in '23 tour. There was a ten second gap between spicey and dirty rat and it just didn't work. The other thing is that so much of the brown and green album have the thumping sound of 909 and the acid sound from the 303 - more modern produced stuff which probably sounds better on headphones doesn't actually sound better in a venue where the thump sounds brilliant and it has really got the crowd going.

Did anyone go to the after party? And how did it go?

Nadine Shah immense tonight in Whelans. Calum Easter very good too, - also on lighting for NS.

The incredible beans on toast in the grand social tonight. A fantastic lyricist who writes songs about Life, love and current affairs. He's randomly playing in cloughjordan tomorrow if anyone is around.

Yeah Baxter was excellent - sleazy and menacing. Backing vocals with the (chorus?) effects fits so perfectly to balance it out.