Panda Bear (3 Viewers)

[worthit]

Like even the people watching was boring as all fuck.

Translation?

 

[Flux]

Peoplewatching, all one word?

 

[worthit]

Ah right. That makes a bit more sense.

 

[Lili Marlene]

or: even the people watching WERE boring as (all) fuck

 

[Flux]

It was a rum old do.

A most singular event indeed.

 

[dunderhead]

i enjoyed the show.
crowd was a bit sedated but its not as if people were gonna be doing cart wheels all around the place anyway. its panda bear playing new stuff

 

[CinnamonBoy]

Hives, you were secretly delighted with the whole thing, admit it, purely because you got to coin the phrase "Panda BORE".

 

[washingcattle]

All bands should play 60 minute sets. Am I the only person who starts to want gigs to end around the 60 minute mark regardless of how incredible the band are?

60 minutes then an encore or including encore?

I can handle 45mins to an hour without break if the band are really focussed on having the hour run like a real show. if it's an hour of playing a greatest hits show or songs which don't flow at all or one of those hey audience what should we do now "song talk song talk song talk" it gets grating really quickly. On the other hand if the "show" aspect is impersonal then it grates too. Encores are great when the band do something completely different to the preceding set of songs.
I say 45 minutes to an hour at most for a set and if you do an encore do your talking to the audience, weird covers and b-sides then leave swiftly and be polite for fuck sake I hate hearing how "great Belfast was last night" I don't turn up to my mates swanky dinner parties sit down to my soup and hor deurves and start going on about how great the dinner party was last night that would just be frowned upon.

Good Examples

Slint at Vicar street : Focussed to a silly degree but it suited what they were doing.

Sonic Youth at Brixton academy the set was the whole of sonic nurse the encore was a mini greatest hits and then a twenty five minute Expressway it felt like the set was short and broken into three seperate pieces but it was over two hours. Concise (not a word usually associated with sonic youth live)

Yo La Tengo: just in general.

The Ex: again just in general

Bad examples

Interpol: just in general

Flaming Lips: Shut up Wayne.

Sebadoh: look our equipment is shit YAY!!! Wait a few minutes there will you.

 

[Jill Hives]

Peoplewatching, all one word?

Yeah, at least with AC people are dancing and at least fun to watch when bored with the music. That gig was more like, "I see dead people."

 

[worthit]

It wasn't very dancey apart from 2 or 3 songs. There was a guy with flashing rabbit ears hanging out with a girl dressed up as a harajuku panda or something. They looked like they were really disappointed that it wasn't a big rave. I think a lot of people went to it expecting it to be like that because the Animal Collective gig was a bit like that but it's only very recently that their gigs have been kind of like a dance gig.

 

[Stan Bowles]

There was a lady at the back doing interprative dancing on her own, reckon she might have visited one of them dastardly head shops beforehand.

 

[old]

How can you mistake Richie for a lady?

 

[chutneyfarmer]

There was a lady at the back doing interprative dancing on her own, reckon she might have visited one of them dastardly head shops beforehand.

Ha ha ha ha yeah her and her boyfriend were sitting beside us. She was talking continuously while her boyfriend sat there almost motionless looking at the stage. Then Panda Bear came on and she hopped up and started busting the moves like a mad yoke. Her boyfriend still sat there motionless not looking very impressed. She packed some serious amount of wine into herself though!!! Commendable.

 

[chutneyfarmer]

There was a guy with flashing rabbit ears hanging out with a girl dressed up as a harajuku panda or something. They looked like they were really disappointed that it wasn't a big rave.

They were also complete tools. Yer man and his mate insisted on screaming down thir phone all the way through Kurt Vile.

 

[chutneyfarmer]

There was a guy with flashing rabbit ears hanging out with a girl dressed up as a harajuku panda or something. They looked like they were really disappointed that it wasn't a big rave.

They were also complete tools. Yer man and his mate insisted on screaming down their phone all the way through Kurt Vile.

 

[warcam]

They were also complete tools. Yer man and his mate insisted on screaming down their phone all the way through Kurt Vile.

Those flashing ears parked in front of me at one point. They were ruining the visual aesthetic so they were.
I shamed him into turning them off by reminding him that he couldn't see how irritating they were.

Go me.

 

[JackieFullerton]

Haha I happened to be stranded near those berks for a while. Even mentioned them at the start of my semi-review. Glad others found them an annoyance. Quirky twats.

http://batteredpizza.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/kung-fu-panda/

 

[Space]

So how was the gig on Friday?

 

[jcdonaggio]

haha, sounds the this gig was attended by some amount of mongs.

 

[Jill Hives]

Hives, you were secretly delighted with the whole thing, admit it, purely because you got to coin the phrase "Panda BORE".

Nah, I was just incredibly sober unlike you.