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Post by nocturn on Jul 2, 2011 9:55:51 GMT -5
Owen did an amazing job at Hyde Park on thursday. The crowd where I was stood were damn rude, but I managed to block them out (while also occasionally giving them dirty looks) and it was a beautiful performance. I'm glad Owen came out with Arcade Fire too, that was awesome.
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Post by Alea on Jul 3, 2011 20:50:33 GMT -5
Owen did an amazing job at Hyde Park on thursday. The crowd where I was stood were damn rude, but I managed to block them out (while also occasionally giving them dirty looks) and it was a beautiful performance. I'm glad Owen came out with Arcade Fire too, that was awesome. All the reviews I've heard of Hyde Park's show in relation to Owen's set seem to involve horrible people in the crowd. It sucks that his set was ruined by people that talk over bands they don't know. |
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Post by names on Jul 4, 2011 18:38:40 GMT -5
Mumford & Sons are the NME flavour of the month over here right now, so they bring in an awful lot of people who like the idea of music more than they actually enjoy listening to it. That seems like an awfully douchey hipster statement to make, but it's true. I went in with an open, picnic-in-the-park state of mind, but the Mumford crowd was every bit as horrible as I'd been warned.
That said, as much as I'd worried Owen's sound might be a bit lost up there, in the event, I'm glad to say my only real gripe about his set was that there wasn't more of it. The addition of the band definitely helped scale the songs up for the occasion, although I'd wonder what they'd bring to a smaller venue. Vocals were maybe a bit lower than ideal, but Hyde Park sound is never going to be perfect. Great set otherwise, and was neat to see a lot of folk won over in real time.
Anyway, preaching to the choir on this forum, but whatever - I think this makes something like my tenth Final Fantasy/ Owen Pallett set, and I was pleased to see that the guy's outstanding batting average remains unsullied. Consistently the strongest performer I can think of.
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Post by nocturn on Jul 4, 2011 20:14:14 GMT -5
The Mumford & Sons fans really were insufferable.
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Post by names on Jul 4, 2011 21:28:33 GMT -5
Was hoping they'd do us all a favour and fuck off before Arcade Fire at least, but by then it was just too packed up at the barrier to move, so we were stuck with them. Obnoxious, entitled dickheads - as slow to shut the fuck up about their mates Zaaaraaaah and Peetaaah as they were eager to chuck their elbows around at any and all opportunities. Heartening to know that a bunch of trustfund twenty-somethings in £500 jeans are just as willing to piss onto the ground in a crowd of strangers as an incontinent old Guns'n'Roses fan mashed on a few litres of warm Buckfast.
As for M&S themselves, having them play support to a live act of Arcade Fire's calibre just felt like a nasty joke at their expense. The vast gulf between those two superficially similar bands was so telling and unkind that I couldn't help picturing Win Butler holding Marcus Mumford's guitar out of his reach, just so everybody watching could cruelly laugh at his doomed, token efforts to take it back.
Still, I don't mean to go all Brooklyn Vegan on your asses. I had a beautiful day out with my friends in the park - the cheerleaders and everything were a brilliant touch - and Owen, Beirut and AF were all top notch. Any two of them would have been worth the ticket price in themselves.
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Post by ben on Jul 5, 2011 3:22:21 GMT -5
^ names, this last post has absolutely made my day |
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Post by muz on Jul 5, 2011 9:58:13 GMT -5
a bunch of trustfund twenty-somethings in £500 jeans are just as willing to piss onto the ground in a crowd of strangers as an incontinent old Guns'n'Roses fan Eww. This is why I don't go to festivals! Owen, Beirut and AF were all top notch Indeed. Looking forwards to Beirut at the Brixton Academy in September. Where hopefully there will be no pissing aside from in the facilities provided. |
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Post by names on Jul 5, 2011 12:52:04 GMT -5
I don't want to give the wrong impression though. I enjoyed myself immensely. Great bands, fine sunshine and good company, in a wonderful city. What more could anyone ask for? Was really impressed with the rounds they'd gone to make a day of it, rather than just a concert in a field, and they were nicely themed too. Cinema tent, cheerleaders, retro arcade, boardgame garden party - good stuff for a one-off show, especially.
The problem is only that I've run out of complimentary things to say about either Owen Pallett or Arcade Fire. Like I said, I can honestly say this show cemented Mr. Pallett's status as the most faultlessly awesome performer doing the rounds today, as far as I'm concerned. I've generally seen him in Whelans-size venues so it was pretty damn cool to see him step across onto a stage of that size without so much as blinking; and then to play a set as good, albeit as brief, as that.
Even cooler, in fact, than discovering Arcade Fire's brand new heart throb status among a certain styling of teenage girl. What's a Grammy compared to that, eh folks?
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Post by jules on Jul 8, 2011 2:27:08 GMT -5
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Post by Jo on Aug 21, 2011 14:25:29 GMT -5
Avec l'Arcade Fire à Manchester, Angleterre le 31 août ...?  |
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Post by Jo on Aug 21, 2011 14:34:27 GMT -5
Seeing Owen do 'Peach, Plum, Pear' live is definitely on my bucket list . |
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