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Desaparecidos at The Electric Ballroom. What did you guys think?

BMS1 [Edit] [Delete] 59 replies 23:05 February 11th, 2013

I thought that was a great gig. I was "worried" that they wouldn't be able to reproduce what they did on their album. No need to have worried. A really great gig. The Electric Ballroom's sound has improved in the last few years compared to the gigs that I went to many years ago. Overall, I'd give the gig 8.5 out of ten.

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Very much enjoyed it. Played pretty much everything.

No new suprise stuff though. But a great show. Greater Omaha and Damaged Goods we're favourites. Oh and MarriKKKopa/Backsell. Lot's of moshing down the front (I was helping hold Denver up at the end).

Johnny Foreigner were all kinds of awesome too.

NickDS | 11 Feb '13, 23:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
That was superb

Really surpassed expectations in terms of how good they were as a band. Just kept wanting to fill in the gaps with samples of snatched dialogue though...

My inner lazy rock hack kept wanting to describe them as 'the ultimate cult band' or something similar, but they're almost the opposite.

Cults require shared rituals and experiences whereas I guess this is a band thousands of us have listened to on our own without ever coming together to see before. It felt like a special gig and not one that was past its sell by date as it could so easily have been.

Kudos to Sean for his part in making it happen too.

umlaut_ampersand | 11 Feb '13, 23:23 | X | ^ This | Reply

NickDS, BMS1, and ThierryEnnui this'd this
Yeah definitely. I'm a lazy bastard and just bought tickets from

SongKick. To those guys who pledged in advance and really made it happen: well done. A sincere thank you for a great night out.

BMS1 | 11 Feb '13, 23:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
Yea, that was great

It was a nice bit of nostalgia for a period of life when I didn't feel apathetic about being pissed off with this shitty society we've crafted for ourselves.

Great to remember how much I fucking love Johnny Foreigner as well, their new stuff sounded great and a first listen of Waited Up Till It Was Light for a while soundtracked my journey home perfectly.

I think only I could manage to go see a show by a band with only one short album and have them not play my favourite song though! (They definitely didn't play What's New For Fall right? I didn't just inexplicably miss it?)

Nice to have met those of you who I met too. Great show, kudos to Songkick/Sean for pulling it off.

Antpocalypsenow | 11 Feb '13, 23:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
- no you didn't miss it, no what's new for fall
  
  Thing is it's technically a b side. It wasn't on the us edition and was bside to happiest place on earth single.
  
  But what's new was the single in UK instead with happiest place the bside (but the art was still the same) and what's new ended up added to UK album as track one.
  
  So despite it being awesome I don't know if they play it much.
  
  NickDS @Antpocalypsenow | 11 Feb '13, 23:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Ah, I had no idea about that
    
    I guess that explains it though, trust that to be my favourite track!
    
    Antpocalypsenow @NickDS | 11 Feb '13, 23:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Really good to meet you
  
  Anyone who spends his days with dan_thw and isn't a blood relative has my utmost admiration.
  
  umlaut_ampersand @Antpocalypsenow | 11 Feb '13, 23:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  ohgood and fidel_catstro this'd this
Hell of a thing

Viking lead guitarist <3

Thought it was okay... And then mañana came on and I lost it. Oberst was a bit of a preachy dick but you want that - it's like corgan.

cocodaLOL | 11 Feb '13, 23:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Also,
  
  Real good to see so many disers :) missed you guys x
  
  cocodaLOL @cocodaLOL | 11 Feb '13, 23:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - you were there?
    
    you need to be taller.
    
    fidel_catstro @cocodaLOL | 12 Feb '13, 17:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
My throat hurts

My ears ring. A++ Would see again.

That's as lively a show in the Ballroom as I've seen in years. Great version of the Happiest place on Earth.

Teepee_uk | 12 Feb '13, 00:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
i've never loved a band so much whic

alcxxk | 12 Feb '13, 00:22 | X | ^ This | Reply

ethricdouble this'd this
- grrrrr
  
  i mean:
  
  i've never loved a band so much whiilst disliking their frontman. it was a great gig (weak encore aside) and i had a fucking blast, not least beacuse of the way it brought together so many different groups of my friends. conor's a weiner and his advocacy of international rapist assange seemed a bit odd but such a great atmosphere nonetheless. the bassist seemed SO into it it was lovely.
  
  would have liked jofo to play a more "commerical" set, to win my friends who didn't know them over more, but was still pretty great
  
  alcxxk @alcxxk | 12 Feb '13, 00:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - his assange comment really put me off, shame as it was a great gig other than that
    
    ThingsThatFly @alcxxk | 12 Feb '13, 00:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Yeah. That was a daf
      
      BMS1 @ThingsThatFly | 12 Feb '13, 00:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Sorry. Yeah, his Assange comment was daft and I presume
      
      that he didn't know the situation. Just because, The USA, Britain and Sweden don't like you, it doesn't make you right. Face your charges at a very liberal country you spineless arsehole. Anyway, erm...very good gig.
      
      BMS1 @ThingsThatFly | 12 Feb '13, 01:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - maybe but i'd be surprised if he didnt know the situation, I think most assange supporters know the situation, they just let their political views blind them to the fact the man clearly has a case to answer
        
        ThingsThatFly @BMS1 | 12 Feb '13, 01:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Didn't he make a tit of himself at a Bright Eyes gig 6 or so years back?
        
        TheoGB @ThingsThatFly | 12 Feb '13, 15:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Yeah probably the Glastonbury John peel disrespecting, I think this is worse
        
        ThingsThatFly @TheoGB | 12 Feb '13, 16:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Oh yeah, that was it.
        
        TheoGB @ThingsThatFly | 12 Feb '13, 16:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        this was fucking awful
        
        he's def my biggest differential between love for songs / hate for signer
        
        fidel_catstro @ThingsThatFly | 12 Feb '13, 17:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Antpocalypsenow this'd this
Great stuff. Was a bit worried when they came out and sounded a bit soft rock,

but then it all kicked off and it was great. The most boisterous crowd I've seen at the Electric Ballroom since Mudhoney a few years ago.

marckee | 12 Feb '13, 00:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
Thought they were amazing, really tight for a band who aren't really a band these days

and haven't been for a while. So fucking happy that I can now say I've heard Greater Omaha performed live.

Little annoyed they didn't play What's New For Fall, an annoyance exacerbated by the fact that they played a cover- sure, bands can do what they want but that's always a pet peeve for me, particularly when your opportunities to see that band are very limited. But small details. They were brilliant.

DanielKelly | 12 Feb '13, 08:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
- That breakdown before the "woo!" in Greater Omaha
  
  is one of the my all time favourite gig moments - so joyously heavy
  
  oxygenthief @DanielKelly | 12 Feb '13, 09:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  fidel_catstro this'd this
- what was the cover?
  
  guntrip @DanielKelly | 12 Feb '13, 09:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Spanish Bombs by The Clash
    
    BMS1 @guntrip | 12 Feb '13, 10:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - oh, I heard about them sometimes covering that
      
      this was the Glasgow setlist, I assume London was basically the same + that? http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/desaparecidos/2013/the-arches-glasgow-scotland-2bdbccfa.html
      
      guntrip @BMS1 | 12 Feb '13, 10:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Yeah the same but in a different order
        
        they opened with Left is Right then Happiest Place, encore was Spanish Bombs then Hole in One.
        
        NickDS @guntrip | 12 Feb '13, 10:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
Really, really great show.

Just song I loved after song I loved, played by a super tight band with a really appreciative crowd.

I liked his Assange comment. It wouldn't be Conor without mouthing off about something that makes people wince.

And was night to meet some new and old Dissers too - cheers Sean for arranging the beers.

hip_young_gunslinger | 12 Feb '13, 09:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
I thought they was good indeed

Everything off the album = awesome o 5000.

Everything else = ok, but I didn't really know it....

Conor's Assange comment was a bit silly and cringey.

Hardcore IPA on a monday night is a RUINER.

As predicted, I didn't brave the DiS basement - hope you all had fun though. If you saw a progressively drunker looking chap with tattoos and wearing Future of the left Robocop shirt, that was me being unsociable.

To the folks that said they'd rather buy online than at the show I have a few posters left online £20 inc. postage and packaging to UK. www.needsmoresnakes.bigcartel.com (realise they were cheaper at the show - but that wasn't my decision, innit, i thought they were underpriced really compared to rest of merch - £20 t-shirts WOWZERS - is that a real thing?)

Gashwrecker | 12 Feb '13, 11:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
- They were under priced!
  
  Bought one of each last night and miraculously managed to get them home on the tube without ruining them.
  
  Hope they sell out, they're really cool.
  
  pehdtsckjmba @Gashwrecker | 12 Feb '13, 11:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - yup....
    
    Thanks for purchasing though, you are indirectly helping to pay for our family holiday this year and I salute you.
    
    I was a little bit dissapointed really - to see a pretty OK T-shirt apparently worth double a hand-drawn/designed-hand-printed-limited-piece of artwork that I spent a whole day sweating over in the studio*....ah well....At least they sold super quick but meant I made 1/2 as much £££...
    
    Capitalism sucks, or something.
    
    (*salesmanship, right there my friends)
    
    Gashwrecker @pehdtsckjmba | 12 Feb '13, 11:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - With hindsight...and less of a hangover....
      
      this reads back a lot more moany than I intended, and I'm a pretty moany fucker. Oops.
      
      Ignore me even more than usual please, thanks.
      
      Gashwrecker @Gashwrecker | 13 Feb '13, 11:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
- If it's the same merch as Belfast
  
  then the tshirts were indeed £20 and they only had one pretty bland type. They were charging 15 or 20 for the LP too.
  Pro tips: Banquet are doing the LP + bonus 7" for £10.99 and I ordered better tees from saddle creek for cheaper (even when shipping was factored in):
  http://saddle-creek.com/store/481#
  http://saddle-creek.com/store/189
  
  thesewoodenideas @Gashwrecker | 12 Feb '13, 12:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
Worst gig I've ever been to

(I didn't go and haven't a clue who they are. Everyone stop talking about them please I feel left out)

Royter-Hatfood | 12 Feb '13, 11:34 | X | ^ This | Reply

andyvine this'd this
Such a great gig, I had never heard Johnny Foreigner and they blew me away, maybe even more than Desa.
Also soundwise, Desaparecidos sounded a little more muddy/less defined than Johnny who were noisy as fuck but you could hear every instrument very clearly.
Didn't get to dance much in the first rows cause it was packed as hell and the pushing squished us all the time.
The money throw fail was hilarious and disappointing at the same time.
Apparently Denver was crowd surfing at the end and I missed that somehow :D
I wish I knew the lyrics more apart from mall/greater cause the real fun comes from hollering along as you know : )

davidfregoli | 12 Feb '13, 12:35 | X | ^ This | Reply

davidfregoli this'd this
- Yeah the money throw was great in its shitness :D
  
  cocodaLOL @davidfregoli | 12 Feb '13, 12:44 | X | ^ This | Reply
My voice is completely ruined today so I must've enjoyed it

Shame about them not playing What's New For Fall but Spanish Bombs was fun.

(JoFo are properly rubbish btw).

badmanreturns | 12 Feb '13, 13:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Nah JoFo were amazing and were easiler equal to Desa in performace stakes.
  
  NickDS @badmanreturns | 12 Feb '13, 13:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - yes they were great, amazing skill display without being pompous, loud as fuck and tight as hell
    
    davidfregoli @NickDS | 12 Feb '13, 13:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - But they have rubbish songs
    
    They are equal on lead-male rubbish haircuts, I'll give you that.
    
    badmanreturns @NickDS | 12 Feb '13, 13:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Was the first time I'd seen JoFo as a four piece,
  
  and I'm not really sure what it adds.
  
  I still love them, and the new material sounded ace, but I feel like I've seen them tighter before.
  
  hip_young_gunslinger @badmanreturns | 12 Feb '13, 13:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - anyone know what Jonny Foreigner were 'fucking embarrassed' about towards the end of their set?
    
    I caught 'what the fuck is wrong with you people' but not the rest.
    
    Absolute pleasure to see Desaparecidos, it's a been a long wait. Well done Songkick, Sean and all of you who voted!
    
    marke @hip_young_gunslinger | 12 Feb '13, 15:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - They were complaining about how Ocean Colour Scene managed to sell out 3 nights there
      
      And how they're so indie that they were 'fucking embarrassed' for Camden as a whole.
      
      badmanreturns @marke | 12 Feb '13, 15:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - They were embarressed as they are also a Birmingham band.
        
        NickDS @badmanreturns | 12 Feb '13, 15:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - proper tunes
        
        proper haircuts
        
        Gashwrecker @badmanreturns | 12 Feb '13, 15:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
Oh my

every time I think of the money throw/assange bit I facepalm so effing hard

Best night in general though

JustJay | 12 Feb '13, 16:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
What was this money throw all about then?

I'm too short to be able to actually see anything at shows, what happened?

Antpocalypsenow | 12 Feb '13, 16:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- I can't remember what he said
  
  something about having your money back maybe? It was just before $$$ so that's why.
  
  NickDS @Antpocalypsenow | 12 Feb '13, 17:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
- great mega-weedy indie throw as well
  
  fidel_catstro @Antpocalypsenow | 12 Feb '13, 17:43 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  NickDS this'd this
this was bloody lovely

and I'm so pleased I managed to chip in and make it happen.
Bunch of dudes in front of us were going nuts. People had waited a *long* time to hear these songs.

fidel_catstro | 12 Feb '13, 17:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
unusual pro-rape stance taken

by Permatool Oberst though

fidel_catstro | 12 Feb '13, 17:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
So this was fricking awesome.

I spied loads of Dissers, but didn't get the chance to say hello.

oojimaflop | 12 Feb '13, 19:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
- also, I didnt hear his Assange comments properly,
  
  But i thought the tone sounded like he was disillusioned with him (in the vein of Jemima khan last week). did I miss the drift?
  
  oojimaflop @oojimaflop | 13 Feb '13, 10:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - yep
    
    he was totally pro.
    
    fidel_catstro @oojimaflop | 13 Feb '13, 10:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - ah okay.
      
      Not surprised to be honest.
      
      oojimaflop @fidel_catstro | 13 Feb '13, 11:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
Am I allowed to post this?

Cos this is what I thought.

http://www.thrashhits.com/2013/02/live-desaparecidos-camden-electric-ballroom-11-february-2013/

-Raz- | 13 Feb '13, 00:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Pretty much spot on.
  
  oojimaflop @-Raz- | 13 Feb '13, 10:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Bright Eyes 'not cathartic'
  
  Hmm.
  
  badmanreturns @-Raz- | 13 Feb '13, 10:39 | X | ^ This | Reply