At the Drive-In european tour
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give a shit
Shut up
i loved that band but......
at the cash-point, basically.
Hmm looks like a win-win situation to me
Band want to make money - win
Public want to see band - win
the only loser appears to be you.
i'm uncomfortable with the thought that i may be part-financing a mars volta release
I can get on board with that theory
hahaha
wow you need to cheer the fuck up...
People have been asking for their tour for years.
Why on earth would you be uncomfortable with that?
Musicians making money to fund other music they want to make. No harm done. People want to see At The Drive-In, people want to hear Mars Volta. It's a good solution to be fair.
but the mars volta are an abortion unto music
no they're not
so cheer up
I don't really like them but they are hardly that...
Let's be fair here, there is a lot more guff out there than Mars Volta.
What do we reckon then?
Three nights at the Albert Hall?
*Ally Pally
* The Windmill
goodship
yes, give a big shit!
Cardiff is owed.
Brixton, three nights
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
Is this actually true
or are you just guessing because I can't see it anywhere.
jfc
It'll be The Forum....
I'd love to see them
but if their shows have become as bad as the full on cheesefest that is their marketing, I'll give up caring
Barrowlands would be fantastic
Can see it being a London only thing though : (
Announcement could be festival dates? Reading / Leeds is probably a stick on.
Be surprised if they didn't play Reading
And maybe somewhere like the Forum or something.
Where do you reckon they'd go on the bill?
One below main stage headliner, but billed as joint headline?
no way
more likely to be a tent headliner / joint-headliner
They had better play Cardiff
I still have my ticket ffs.
be happy if
they play primavera & a date in Manchester, if not Id tavel to london rather than get a day ticket to leeds
What size venue did they play 'back in the day' then?
I remember seeing them at Dingwalls and a bar in Lyon with about 40 people there, both gigs being post ROC. Had no idea they had become so popular. What happened?
they played the cockpit in Leeds in 2000
Headlined a tent at Leeds Fest.. played on Jools holland.. front page of the NME.. really not sure how to judge the size/popularity of a band though
They didn't headline at Reading, they played at about 5.30pm on Saturday in the tent I can't remember the name of
Album charted at no. 33 or something. One place higher than Richard Blackwood's debut. They had a 2001 tour scheduled - sample venue Cardiff Uni (I had tickets)
yea they def
didnt headline, i remeber watching them at reading in that tent it was packed and it was def daytime.
I saw them at Electric Ballroom at their peak.
Although, saying that, it sold out near instantly if I recall and tickets were going for over £100 outside - so they probably could have played a bigger venue at the time.
Yeah scrub Dingwalls, I meant (had forgotten) Electric Ballroom.
I was at that gig too.
It was free!
They've been a band a lot of people have
discovered post-hiatus, and have been generally influential to a lot of rock bands that have cropped up in the past 10 years. They could easily sell out Brixton now.
*Academy rather than Windmill..
They played an NME gig at the Astoria
just before they went on hiatus, which I believe was their biggest and last ever UK gig. Went to that and the gig at the Ballroom. Astoria was awful, they looked exhausted and constantly berating the audience for moshing. The Ballroom gig still ranks as one of my faves though.
it has to be said that i'd rather see mars volta than at the drive-in
despite loving at the drive-in. it won't be the same 10-15 years later no matter how much they try. ah well.
at least no matter what it'll be better than Sparta.
Seeing TMV do De-loused in full at a small venue in Portsmouth in 2003 is still my favourite gig ever <3
saw them twice:
once on the bedlam tour in glasgow, shit sound but i got drunk and it was very fun.
another time in edinburgh, loaded with the cold, and driving, but with medulla and my mate. :) it was excellent.
I saw them for the first time in 2003.
At the Fleece in Bristol. It was stunning.
sat down for two hours listening to dub at the astoria.
Then they come in and blow my tiny little mind.
It's in the top 5 gigs of my life. Ruined alot of other music for me.
they
are playign Bennacism
D':
they are
headlining Benicassim
Same level as Florence and stone roses? really??
Same $$$
this saddens
me as if they do play over here its only going to be mega massive outdoor headline slots which they wont suit , and any indoors they play will be in massive hangar sized venues :( luckily ive seen them before but still, gutted
$$$$
Is the sole reason they've reformed. Have been holding out for years. Slowly promoters upped the fees they offered them. They're now paying them so much they have to be near the top of these bills. Incredible really. Can't see them going down that well to a huge audience.
Saw them afternoon 2nd stage Reading years ago. Incredible band. Almost guaranteed they headline it this year.
second stage? wasn't it the Carling Premier tent?
I think that's where they were originally billed, but because of the hype they got bumped up at the last minute.
ok, that would make sense
i know they moved the Strokes to the main stage the next year, but had forgotten they bumped ATDi
Wow...
Can't remember. I was definitely drunk and moshing. I recollect it as being 2nd. But I wouldn't take that as being the truth!
aren't you thinking of Queens of the Stone Age?
they got bumped to the middle tent from the small one
i still have
my qotsa box of matches from that gig :)
i definitely saw them in the premier tent
following a performance from Marilyn Manson proteges Orgy. lolz.
did Orgy play Blue Monday?
yep, looped for about 30-45 minutes I believe
Nah, definitely Carling Premier Tent.
Managed to get there early to catch them. They opened with Chanbara I think. It was awesome.
I'm fairly certain reading 2000 was third stage
I couldn't get anywhere near the front and just saw glimpses of hair and mica flailing about, it was before roc came out so I doubt they would have been bumped, I went to see them because every band I saw said you must see them
*mics
*Mika
THIS IS GRADE A
BULLSHIT
benicassim lol
grab that cash!
benicashim i mean
benicashin
This station is now operational
standby for transmission
I wish they would announce the actual dates in that pretentious way.
May: standby, the leopard will enter the benicas cosmos, you'll see
Or something like that. And people have trouble figuring out where or when the gig is. THAT'S WHAT THEY WOULD DO IF THEY WERENT JUST IN IT FOR THE MONEY!
soooo the wrong festival for this band
was really hoping they'd play Primavera
It's ok they have just been added to the Slayer day of ATP!!
http://pitchfork.com/news/45509-at-the-drive-in-added-to-ATP-May-lineup/
Is this true? If it is...I'll soil myself with excitement.
Yeah, it's true.
I understand Pitchfork have had to take down ^that link for legal reasons though as they published their story before it has been made 'official'.
I really hope
they don't do the one date in the UK at Reading/Leeds festival. Got a baddd feeling about this.
Don't get a bad feeling
we all know it's going to be exactly this. Accept it.
they would sound great in the Radio 1 tent
but if they are on the main stage it will be woeful
All about money
Something about "dancing on the corpse's ashes".
I got an email from songkick about this today:
http://www.last.fm/event/3247656+At+the+Drive-In+at+Barrowland+Ballroom+on+17+August+2012
Can't find anything else to go on, anyone heard anything?
april fools!