So, Crystal Castles last night.
I went for pints with Tribune heads after work in Diceys and then went to Andrew's Lane with Mackers. There were a million (maybe less) hip kids hanging out at the gig. I felt old. But their clothes and haircuts were pretty cool, in fairness.
Andrew's Lane Theatre (or 'ALT') is a pretty cool venue. It's simple as; a dimly lit room half the size of the old Temple Bar Music Centre room (graffitied by Maser), a bar at the back, toilets upstairs and a smoking on the kerb scenario. Great location though, and brilliant to see that a performance space in the centre of town is being kept a performance space and not turned into apartments.
So the gig itself was quite like their last one in Kennedy's (but longer and on a bigger stage), I was up the front for all of it with Mackers, jumping and sweating buckets. I really enjoyed it, even if the sound was a bit muddy and it was sometimes hard to decipher what song was actually going on. I don't know how it went down down the back because the room is quite flat and I'm not sure what the views are like elsewhere other than being squished up against the stage. 'Alice Practice' got the biggest cheer.
Anyway, it was fun, self-aware, and very, very sweaty. The sole was also ripped from my shoe (my cool pointy silver shoes I bought in Malaysia, crysies) such was the energy of the jumping, dancing and stamping: Dansies took a photee of it, which hopefully I can steal from him and display here.
Was anyone else there? What did you think?
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1) i felt extraordinarily old
2) didn't think the sound was too bad. though i was quite deaf after (see point 1)
3) was about three quarters of the way back in the main room and had a pretty good view
4) while the crowd may have looked amazing (the mirror-queue in the jacks was a sight to behold), there was very little gig courtesy and pushy vicky pollard types repeatedly and violently barged past me to the front (again see point 1)
5) no encore?
6) support band (ugly megan) from my home town (waterford) was a pleasant surprise
6) all in, a good gig, a tiny bit too short but the music was ace.
I really liked Ugly Megan actually, forgot to mention that.
RE: 4) yeah, people were quite pushy. I guess that's mostly because a large part of the crowd was around 18, 19 and pretty drunk, which lessens courtesy.
I'm looking forward to more gigs at the venue though. I like the way it's just bare. Shows that you don't have to chuck a few million quid at something to make it work.
Chromatics, M83 and Why? are all playing there this week, with Times New Viking and Those Dancing Days to follow.
I was one of the drunk, pushy 18/19 year olds.
Even I felt dreadfully old and uncool (I'm normally very cool) in that crowd.
Fuckin hell like.
Dissapointed with the sound, you could barely make out what song was on half the time as you mentioned.
i felt well cool
How can a gig where you can't even make out what song is playing be good?
Are gigs not about music anymore?
Just haircuts and fashion?
Went to the gig in Cork on Monday, sounds pretty identical actually....lots of young folk(glowsticks in hand and hair!), sound way too loud(must be at the bands behest as gigs at same venue are normally grand), no encore kinda sucked, especially as gig was so short in the first place.
To be honest it was the first gig in my life I've ever felt old at, not sure if this is just the band in question or if it's time to hang up the dancing shoes, altho saw them last year and wasn't a teeny bopper in sight. Yep, overall good gig, not great, not shite, middling...
This is cool
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