Members Gig Reviews

Great reviews Crustry & Trixie - agree with the pair of you. The audience & atmosphere was a LOT better for The Who the same week, so it does matter! Saw BellX1 yest & Malahide Castle (although absolutely freezing) is a great venue!!

Not a gig review but I have to share this with you. L was going out on the p*** last Friday, I mean to a social event at work. So rather than go home to an empty house I decided to take an early Friday and go to the cinema. I watched "la vie en rose" at the Screen. What a great movie - €7 was great value. After watching some of the crap that passes for a movie these days it was breath of fresh air. However, bring your tissues. It is a bit of a weepie. Can't wait to get the soundtrack.

Black Russian,

Went to see Ozzy myself last night. Highlights were definitely 'Crazy Train', 'War Pigs' and of course 'Paranoid'. Would be familiar enough with his solo stuff and agree about 'Suicide Solution'. The only thing was he sang opener 'Bark at the Moon' completely out of key. Thankfully it improved after that...

Ozzy is a one off. He must be pushing 60 now, but has clearly lost none of his enthusiam despite years of addiction. I must admit to being uncomfortable with the whole MTV thing - I hate reality TV, but good look to Ozzy.

The best tribute I can say to a gig is that if the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, then its a great sign. I think 'Paranoid' may have done just that. Its 36 years old, but still sounds great after all that time.

 

 

Good reviews guys-nice to see how gigs go that I missed...

BR-knew you'd get good pics-well done.

Still got your camera P?!!

R.E.M Live Rehearsal 5 nights at the Olympia

Last time I saw R.E.M was in Slane. Not a big R.EM fan but I like a lot of their stuff. At Slane Michael Stipe hardly talked to the crowd a few words here and there and probably introduced the next song and that was about it, last night he was full of chat and laughing and joking with audience.

This was my first time at a gig in the Olympia and I was surprised at how small and intimate a venue it is. It was fab. Before REM came on there was a support act who name eludes me now(Wasn't really that interested in them).

Before R.E.M came on the words "THIS IS NOT A SHOW" was projected on to the stage backdrop. R.E.M came on stage and Mike Mills announce that This is not a show and the crowd just laughed. Michael Stipe thank everyone for coming and explained why they were here playing the Olympia. They wanted to "get out of the studio and practice some new songs in front of a live crowd and where better to do it than the Olympia Theatre in Dublin" he also promise that "They will play 11 new songs but will play some old songs that they haven't played in 15-20 years live"
I didn't know any of the new songs that they played and worse I didn't even know any of the old songs they were old album tracks of their first few albums.
From the start they rocked. The new songs sound really really good live and were very rock orientated like old R.E.M. Michael Stipe had his laptop with his lyrics on it and some sheets paper with lyrics. While he was singing and performing he was writing down changes and adding notes to his lyrics. During the set Stipe would start talking about the older songs that they started to rediscover and the meaning of the lyrics behind them now and some songs that didn't have any meaning behind them.
Overall I have to say it was a great gig enjoyed by the crowd and the band seem to enjoy it to. I think it might have  converted me to a fully pledged R.E.M fan

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Thanks X
I think there are tickets on sale at 4pm today for tonights show too. I am so tempted to go

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Great Pics & Reviews - Have to say chap from REM looks a hell of a lot better than poor old OZZY.  Well done

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No I didn't went to see Die Hard though... Anyone want a review of that ???

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whippersnapper wrote: Sister1 wrote: Its 36 years old, but still sounds great after all that time. Like meself then! Good reviews guys - thought about going to see Ozzie and just couldn't get round to forcing myself to make a decision, hence didn't go. Starting to look like a bad move based on the reviews.  Wouldn't know much of his solo stuff, but love most of the Sabbath stuff. How the man keeps going is beyond me - that was probably my big fear that he wouldn't be able to create the atmosphere, but there's life in the auld dog yet seemingly!

just for anyone that missed Ozzy here's a little clip to keep ya going.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=dfKKVCZTa9Q