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Primal Scream - Screamadelica Gig

sadballadman [Edit] [Delete] 10 replies 10:03 February 26th, 2010

I didn't know anything about this until this morning when I went to book Dinosaur Jr tickets. Had to book it though. This album has so many memories attached, can't wait!

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£38.50 is taking the piss a bit though, no?

colinzealuk | 26 Feb '10, 10:11 | X | ^ This | Reply

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Hmmm... not bothered myself.

A decent record obviously, but these 'run through' shows that ATP has made famous were / are great when it's certain bands / albums and fucking dire when not. Now it seems every Tom, Dick & Harry is doing them to boost their coffers. It's this decade's equivalent of 'low key fan base gigs at small venues'.

Saw them 3 years back. No-one was dancing or enjoying themselves to 'Kill all hippies', 'Miss Lucifer', etc but the moment these old tunes came on 5,000 lagered up wankers barged in trampling on people to imitate dancing like a monkey / Bez.

I hope they'll be good shows, but there can be this stigma for me about songs that get certain bands big. Blur had it with Girls & Boys / Song 2 at the Hyde Park shows. Underworld used to have it with Born Slippy.

It's not snobbery, I just get sick of a minority ruining the majority of a gig for the 4 minutes where they can relive being a teenager / dickhead all over before fucking off home to relieve the babysitter of their duties.

vamos | 26 Feb '10, 10:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
- part of me really wants to go, I've loved this album from the day it was
  
  released, but then, you make some valid points. It will be full of dickheads and at 40 quid a ticket I'd want it to be near perfect.
  
  Ricky_Ronco @vamos | 26 Feb '10, 10:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - The thing that bothers me most
    
    Is that if these guys were doing a record they loved then fair enough. But the songs from 'Screamadelica' that they played just seemed to bore them. It was like they were going through the motions.
    
    Admittedly, with Primal Scream you never know what to get fro ma live show of theirs and I've seen great / terrible gigs by the band.
    
    I dunno. If they'd chosen 'Vanishing Point' or 'XTRMNTR' I'd be thinking they were doing it for the love of the record. But at £40 it just strikes me that it's a cash making exercise.
    
    But I could be wrong, obviously, and 'Higher than the sun' might be the most perfect live moment ever - which it quite frankly has every possibility of being.
    
    vamos @Ricky_Ronco | 26 Feb '10, 10:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - When I saw them on the XTRMNTR tour
      
      the Screamaelica songs still sounded brilliant. Hearing Higher Than The Sun as the sun was setting at Reading 2000 was one of my favorite gig moments ever.
      
      But I agree with you, this looks nothing more than a cash cow. £40 is a joke, especially given their live shows in recent years have been abysmal.
      
      roastthemonaspit @vamos | 26 Feb '10, 10:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Yeah they were good on that tour
        
        In fact, that period of their career was magical full stop, wasn't it?
        
        By the time the 'Evil Heat' dates came around, they looked so, so bored with it all though.
        
        vamos @roastthemonaspit | 26 Feb '10, 10:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - 'It will be full of dickheads'
    
    But enough about Primal Scream, what will the audience be like?
    
    I made a thread about this, it's a nice idea but I suspect it's about ten years too late. That and I have this image of them suddenly stopping in the middle of Come Together to do an interlude of Riot City Blues tracks.
    
    charliepanayi @Ricky_Ronco | 26 Feb '10, 10:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
No thanks.

Saw them at ATP and it was truly shocking. And saw them at the Emire Leicester Square immediately after Screamadelica came out, which was magnificent. I'll stick with the memory.

marfamac | 26 Feb '10, 10:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Never got the chance
  
  to see them back when the album originally came out. It appears that they are going full the full gospel choir, brass section plus Denise Johnson as well, so I'm willing to give it a go.
  £40 is a tad steep, but fingers crossed it'll be well worth it.
  On a side note, Seetickets the bastards, £2 transaction fee on the Scream tickets, £5.25 on the Dinosaur Jr. tickets, utter utter wankers.
  
  sadballadman @marfamac | 26 Feb '10, 10:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
Oops..

going for it with the full gospel choir that should read.

sadballadman | 26 Feb '10, 10:51 | X | ^ This | Reply