Tom Waits for Dublin (1 Viewer)

[ratmonkey]

I'm off to Mr Waits tonight. A post with appropriate bitching levels on important details will appear here tomorrow.

Being able to actually hear him over ambient noise is a pretty important detail.

 

[jcdonaggio]

woo got another ticket for tonight. savage. is he known for doing anything mad on the last night of a tour?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Being able to actually hear him over ambient noise is a pretty important detail.

It is.

I wasn't calling anyone out. Main thrust of the post still stands.

 

[shitepipe]

woo got another ticket for tonight. savage. is he known for doing anything mad on the last night of a tour?

he turns it up to 11.

which is about 8 on most people's stereos.

 

[Lolo]

Get over yourselves, ffs.
It's the performance and the music that counts. The rest is just minor details.

But the minor details do add up if there are lots of them - this is why I went to see him in a beautiful Victorian theatre instead of a tent (OK, so I was going to have to travel to see him either way, if I'd lived in Dublin I would have just liked it or lumped it).

I think the epic kvetching is justified taking the ticket prices into account. By rights I should have had Tom coming to my B&B and serenading me personally, whilst spoonfeeding me the ice cream of my choice in between songs, for the amount I paid for my ticket.

 

[mr.blueface]

or just take a spooning!

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Ah he's overrated anyway. Cookie Monster on the piano, Cookie Monster bangs some pots and pans together.

 

[jcdonaggio]

jesus christ tonight topped wednesday. amazing. i'm gonna feel very empty with no tom gigs to go to next week.

 

[Wilbert]

That was great but it was the quietest gig I've ever been to.

Is there a very severe volume limit at gigs in Phoenix Park?

 

[ronan]

Some epic fecking kvetching going on in this thread.

The seating's too plastic, too close, too far. Bar's closed, people are drunk. Tickets are this, tickets are fucking that.
Get over yourselves, ffs.
It's the performance and the music that counts. The rest is just minor details.

I read this yesterday before the gig and fully agreed with you.
"Fuck all that shit, it won't matter, it's Tom Waits!" i thought.

But it did matter.

The performance was amazing.... totally incredible.
Great song choices too.
Hoist That Rag was gloriously brilliant, Lost In The Harbour was so beautiful, about half the songs off Bone Machine completely ingeniously reinvented, surprise appearances for title tracks off both Heart of Saturday Night and Blue Valentine... and all with such amazing charisma.
What a guy!

But the sound was so fucking poxy... like someone else was saying, this was without doubt the lowest volume gig i've ever been at.
I was sitting in the front row at D (the left side, close enough so i could see everything), but i had to keep straining forward to fully try and take it in.
They needed to have some speakers at the sides.
It sounded like i was standing outside the tent.

And on top of that, i was surrounded by cunts.
Singing-along-when-they-don't-know-the-words cunts, he's-done-10-songs-now-let's-chat-about-work cunts, walking-in-and-out-constantly cunts.
Why the hell did all these people pay €140 for that??

It would've been ok if i could have stood up and walked away, but with all seating you're just stuck there.

I think i hate big gigs

 

[Jill Hives]

And on top of that, i was surrounded by cunts.
Singing-along-when-they-don't-know-the-words cunts, he's-done-10-songs-now-let's-chat-about-work cunts, walking-in-and-out-constantly cunts.
Why the hell did all these people pay €XX for that??

I think i hate big gigs

I say this at every show I go to these days. I swear, if there are annoying people, they stand / sit right next to me. I'm like a magnet for them, along with the lone crazy dancer and make-out couple.

 

[Unicron]

Setlist from last night?

Charasmatic motherfucker that Tom fella.

 

[Wilbert]

I was sitting in the front row at D (the left side, close enough so i could see everything), but i had to keep straining forward to fully try and take it in.
They needed to have some speakers at the sides.
It sounded like i was standing outside the tent.

And on top of that, i was surrounded by cunts.
Singing-along-when-they-don't-know-the-words cunts, he's-done-10-songs-now-let's-chat-about-work cunts, walking-in-and-out-constantly cunts.
Why the hell did all these people pay €140 for that??

I was sitting about 6 rows behind you so and the amount of twats who couldn't stay in their seats in my row for more than two songs was amazing. If you're going to get up and go to the bar or the toilet, do it between songs. Don't wait for the quietest moment of the quietest song and then go by everyone going "sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry" like the shithead in my row did.

People were annoying me too with their standing-ovation-for-every-song routine.

I hate people!

Except you lot in Thumped. You guys are aaaaallllllright!!!

 

[worthit]

These people are everywhere. It's best just to stay at home.

 

[shidheat]

I say this at every show I go to these days. I swear, if there are annoying people, they stand / sit right next to me. I'm like a magnet for them, along with the lone crazy dancer and make-out couple.

i hate the make out couple. pricks

 

[Wilbert]

These people are everywhere. It's best just to stay at home.

Well the gig was pretty great. It was worth enduring them. If only it was louder. I swear a gig in the Boom Boom Room would have been twice as loud as this.

 

[oh shit]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92916923&sc=emaf

 

[Wilbert]

Falling Down was the highlight of Fridays gig for me. Just amazing.

 

[Wobbler]

Don't wait for the quietest moment of the quietest song and then go by everyone going "sorrysorrysorrysorrysorrysorry" like the shithead in my row did.

At least he said he was sorry.

 

[Wilbert]

At least he said he was sorry.

True but it was in a "sorrysorrysorryyoucantgetmadbecauseimsayingsorrysorry" kind of way.

You had to be there to appreciate how irritating it became the 5th or 6th time he did it.