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http://www.wegottickets.com/event/187786

Argh

Thank god I booked mine this morning...

so lucky I saw it on Songkick this morning. Can't believe it's sold out that quickly.

Wegottickets have about 30 left currently

Thanks DiS, would not have known about this otherwise.

just got two on wegottickets
says 2 more left still...

It's probably just that the Miles Of Smiles guys weren't expect such a rush and didn't throw all the available tickets up on wegottickets.

Was a bit of an impulse buy, I don't really know much Stars of the Lid but fell in love with A Winged Victory for the Sullen last year.

Um, where to start I guess?

Just booked 2.

but Refinement of the Decline is my favourite. Their show I saw last time they toured the UK 5 or so years ago is still my favourite gig ever.

bagged two tickets. massively excited!

Is still my favourite. I always recommend that one first.

Refinement is also great, and also has my favourite SOTL track on it (and my favourite song name ever) 'December Hunting For Vegetarian Fuckface'.

thx all

this is the best news I've heard for a long time.

Tickets purchased.

I don't know either of the venues, is this a good or bad thing?

Roly Porter and Anna Rose Carter confirmed as supports too.

Hmph

(not exactly that far though tbf)

kind of on a whim but I've liked what I've heard of them so far.

I'd love to see them, but I'm not sure I could see this sort of music whilst standing.. (it's probably sold out now anyway so beside the point)

I would guess that it's seated, being in a church.

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/187786

It's now at St John-at-Hackney

Pretty embarassing.

like it'll be ideal from a google image search - http://www.london.anglican.org/images/Library/Photo8724.jpg

99.99999999% certain it's seated. I don't think I've ever been to a church gig where you can stand.

in a church without seating. One of the worst gigs I've seen.

Been to a few hackney childrens theatre things there... the seats they have are just fold away ones. They may have a few out i guess but it will mostly be standing dowstairs. There is seating upstairs.

No fucking way am I standing up during this.

Emailed the promoter who confirmed it. Bah! Will have to get there early for seats

but as I'm seeing them at ATP anyway I'm not gonna shell out if it's not entirely seated.

Gah, will have to do the same.

That's what it is, he just said it'll be a mix of both.

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/187786

If anyone wants to go and hasn't booked yet.

Trying to work out a route to get to the venue, coming into London via Liverpool Street. Looks like a pig of a place to get to.
Any tips on best route?

Got to get to the fennchurch st/Southend line. If you're going to liv street then would Stratford work, that's pretty close. Any way you go it involves buses I think :-s

If everything is running okay in the afternoon you should be able to take an Greater Anglia train directly from Liverpool Street Station to Hackney Downs which is a short walk away.

The 48 bus also goes from outside Liv St right to the venue but I anticipate it taking an absolute age.

Should be easy enough!

But it's looking like I'm going to be overrunning at work tonight and won't get away. If I can manage to reallocate the tickets is anyone still looking?

message me.

That was pretty amazing, wasn't it?

Really liked Roly Porter too - great stuff.

Shouldn't leave punters in the cold for an hour.

But great venue and fantastic gig. Roly porter was good and SOTL were simply fantastic. Putting the bar in a side room would have helped, but otherwise a great night out. SOTL played some new stuff, old stuff and unplaced stuff. Lovely!

had to wait outside for 20 minutes, but got seats on the front row of the balcony. Pretty pleased.

Thought the gig itself was stunning. They absolutely nailed it. I was a bit worried it wasn't going to be loud enough, but you could feel the bass through the pews. The projections were a nice touch too.
The only thing that pissed me off a bit was the sound of people opening cans every couple of seconds. Wait until the end of the song FFS. Glad I chose to see them last night though rather than at ATP....

and it wàs lovely but definitely no comparison to last night, when the bass kicked in I felt like crying, and the projections were fantastic

Felt kind of sorry for the cameraman who smashed his camera lens at a particularly inopportune moment.

Gutted I missed the encore, as Twin Peaks Episode 30 is one my very favourites. However, hearing December Hunting For Vegetarian Fuckface live more than made up for it. Absolutely stomach wibblingly epic.

it's brilliant

sounded like something massive falling on the floor. I instinctively looked round to the projectors to make sure it wasn't one of those that had fallen to the ground

Roly Porter was superb, and SOTL too. Pretty sure they played a Dead Texan track too? it sounded JUST like one, which made me happy.

I loved how he sort of collapsed over the rail afterwards in despair, and just stayed in that position for ages.

I was particularly impressed by how good the sound was for all three acts, I know churches can often be a bit tricky from an acoustics perspective but they utilized the space perfectly.

I loved the projections as well. So very pretty.

but I just don't think church gigs are for me. Admittedly i've only been to 2 this year that have been the same style of music but it sends me to sleep. And then I wake up from a little dozey relaxing nap and then I'm irritated and can't get comfortable. AND ITS SO COLD. And the people opening their cans fucked me off.

But otherwise it was a lovely gig.

Does anyone else fall asleep? I think I can only listen to this kind of music when I'm in a bed. I did have a wonderful deep sleep last night mind.

His stuff reminded me a lot of Ben Frost. Worked really well with the churches acoustics.

Perfect gig, worth waiting years for as I have done.

Agree that the queue was a joke though, and personally I could have done with it all starting a bit earlier (then they could have played another couple of songs). The bar aspect was annoying but it was probably either that or the Union Chapel 'no drinks' policy which may have annoyed some.

Roly Porter was great too, and Anna Rose Carter was nice but seemed to only play for about ten minutes!

My favourite bit was 10 minutes into SOTL set when the bass just kept creeping up and up before hittting an obscene level which shook and rattled the entire building. If the rest of the set had stayed at that level I think the roof would've fallen in.

Aside from the quite incredible SOTL peformance the organisation of the event was nothing short of appalling. I got there as the doors were (meant to) open and had to wait 50 minutes to get in. Piss poor.

Also, did they not think that holding a gig in large church in the middle of winter would be cold? There were some radiators stuck to some of the walls but they the heating wasn't on! (I touched a couple - they were stone cold). Whoever was responsible for the organising was totally out of their depth.

Almost certainly my favourite gig this year

so so great.

aside from being a little uncomfortable on the pew it was perfect, just trying to hit that spot of `falling asleep` without quite letting yourself go entirely. Reminds me of how much I used to like falling asleep to music (years ago, my wife doesn't like it).

She enjoyed it much more than I thought though, after being in the queue for so long, I thought she was going to hold it against me forever.

I think I saw their last UK show, Holy Trinity Church in Leeds almost 5 years ago, which was and maybe remains the most incredible gig I've seen. But that was special. Really enjoyed Anna Rose Carter, as short as her set was, am very interested to hear more from her. And Roly Porter was a hugely enjoyable surprise. Girlfriend hated it. I thought it was class. Like an amazing avant-garde horror film score. The guy in front of me visibly jumped every time he set off one of those huge thumps of digital noise.
Stars Of The Lid though, that was something else. I thought I was going to cry or be sick or something during December Hunting. Didn't really know what to do with myself. I left cold but ecstatically happy.

Expensive night for him.

Not sure how anybody could've fallen asleep during that, the combination of the music and the visuals were utterly gripping. There were times where I was just frozen in my seat gawking up at the projections, unable to move. The music is beautiful but I thought the projections took them to another level.

Big, big thanks to the kindly diser who offered up their ticket. Really enjoyed it.

I wish I'd seen that.

Never listened to SOTL before, but loved that. Church was bloody cold though.