Regina Spektor - Tripod - 30/08

nervous_twitch · 04-07-2007 07:46PM #1

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 · 04-07-2007 09:14PM

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

lordgoat · 05-07-2007 12:31AM

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

JJ · 06-07-2007 12:47PM

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 · 06-07-2007 01:20PM

''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 · 06-07-2007 01:25PM

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 · 09-07-2007 03:21PM

WOO-HOO! I gots my tickets.

lordgoat · 09-07-2007 04:05PM

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 · 09-07-2007 04:12PM

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 · 10-07-2007 02:12PM

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 · 10-07-2007 03:53PM

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

Achille · 10-07-2007 04:59PM

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 · 10-07-2007 10:52PM

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

BOHS · 10-07-2007 11:45PM

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 · 17-07-2007 12:07AM

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 · 19-07-2007 02:00PM

I guess it's a pretty good venue then.

nervous_twitch · 20-07-2007 08:37PM

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 · 16-08-2007 12:03PM

I just noticed that this gig is now sold out.

calex71 · 16-08-2007 07:51PM

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

gracefulstalker · 17-08-2007 01:33PM

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

JJ · 19-08-2007 08:23AM

What the hell you on about?

Mr Rivers · 19-08-2007 09:46AM

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 · 21-08-2007 02:00PM

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 · 31-08-2007 10:26AM

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 · 31-08-2007 10:36AM

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 · 31-08-2007 12:43PM

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 · 31-08-2007 02:18PM

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 · 31-08-2007 02:29PM

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 · 05-09-2007 09:06AM

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 · 05-09-2007 02:55PM

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 · 05-09-2007 04:47PM

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

Regina Spektor - Tripod - 30/08

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