Currently at Bunbury Festival. This band headlined Sat nite. Pretty freaky video background all during set. Big, enthusiastic crowd, although not as large as for fun. on Fri nite.

Thet did NOT play 'Kids'!!! Their only hit (so far as I count) & they did not play it. Am pissed off & will mention it to staff.

It's not like they have a crapload of 'big' songs anyway. Sheesh!

Posted by Paul in KY on Sunday, 07/14/2013 @ 09:47am

Thet did NOT play 'Kids'!!! Their only hit (so far as I count) & they did not play it. Am pissed off & will mention it to staff.

It's not like they have a crapload of 'big' songs anyway. Sheesh!

Posted by Paul in KY on Sunday, 07.14.13 @ 09:47am
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Staff's got nothing to do w/it. That's the bands prerogative.

Best example I can give you - Sept. 1995. I get a free ticket and an invite to join a buddy, his girlfriend, and his dad (whose responsible for these freebees) at a David Bowie/NIN tour stop in Camden N.J. We get there & catch NIN (fine show).

Bowie comes on, & everyone expects the hits. I forget what he opens with (perhaps "Changes", or "Fame") & we all cheer. He does two or three old songs - and then slips in a new one from the current album. Everyone gives the polite applause you're expected to give of new material. He bounces back to something else ("Golden Years", maybe) and we all resume as though things are normal.

Then he launches into another new song, out of nowhere. O.K., we all think, he's getting the new stuff out of the way right off the bat. Novel. We all cheer. The he does another new one... and another... and another....

The booing starts. And it gets worse. And worse.

People are yelling for Tin Machine. Boomers who had no clue as to the opener start yelling for them ("that loud act that was before Bowie, bring them back!"). After a few newbies, he launches into "Rebel Rebel", and gets a big cheer. You'd think he'd get it.

He's goes right back to a new song afterwards.

It took an NIN hook-up (on maybe "China Girl" or "Modern Love" or something) to get a positive response at the end. It was my hard way of finding out that sometimes, the artist will get stubborn, & go their own way, as another famous group once said. That's rock for you, though. It's not a pre-planned "show".

btw - postscript here. A week later (perhaps) Bowie's in Allentown. Forget where I got the info, but I read a nice review of his Allentown concert - where he did "Ziggy" and "Diamond Dogs" and "Suffragette City" & everything else we came for at Camden. Glad he learned from the experience.

It's like he knew I had a free ticket...

Posted by Cheesecrop on Sunday, 07/14/2013 @ 11:52am

Cheesecrop, understand that unless it was written into contact before show that 'staff' has no control over whether or not a certain song is played by band.

The complaint is to get 'staff' (dude who paid them the money) to get with the band's agent & register his displeasure.

As a friend mentioned, it's like Don MacLean geting out of there without playing 'American Pie'.

Posted by Paul in KY on Tuesday, 07/16/2013 @ 10:19am

After Little Dark Age, it seems possible...

Posted by Michael on Tuesday, 10/30/2018 @ 23:25pm

At this point it's more than likely. Oracular Spectacular and Congratulations are quickly showing up as incredibly influential albums, and only time will tell the impact of their self titled. Despite Congratulations being panned upon release, this album has aged like fine wine and now the general consensus is that the album is not only probably their best, but also the the peak of their creative prowess. LDA seems like the nail in the coffin for their ballot, as well as the fact that their musical careers are far from over.

Posted by Bobby Alvarez on Wednesday, 01/15/2020 @ 10:25am

Seeing the dude upset at them not playing Kids makes me laugh. The only big hit, lol wut? Time to Pretend? Electric Feel? Little Dark Age (tbf wasn't out yet when he posted that)? When You Die? A band like this is way more than their hits, too. Siberian Breaks & Alien Days are modern-day psych masterpieces as far as I'm concerned. Time only does them justice from what I've seen as well, both Congratulations & self-titled become more relevant each passing year. Loss of Life already sounds very promising, these two will be sorely missed whenever they decide to hang it up. I think a couple decades from now critics will see they have an incredibly strong case for inclusion. Not a terribly large amount of current rock/pop bands left such an immediate impact as they did from record #1.

Posted by Brett on Saturday, 12/23/2023 @ 00:11am