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Nov 2021
2:28pm, 14 Nov 2021
50,826 posts
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LindsD
Enjoyed The Total Stone Roses and Noasis. Was particularly impressed when the TTSR stopped playing and had a go at people who were throwing beer. Noasis were in character throughout, which really made me smile.
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Nov 2021
10:57am, 18 Nov 2021
3,979 posts
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Goofee
Went to see Skinny Lister supported by The Longest Johns last night, I'd not heard of either previously as far as I can recall. One of my step-sons mentioned we might enjoy them so we made a last-minute decision to go along. I think the last time I went to see an unknown-to-me band must have been last time I went to Reading Festival, probably over ten years ago.
The headline band obviously spent a lot of time listening the The Pogues in their formative years, the support were earnest sea-shantiers. Both went down well with the enthusiastic, maybe half-capacity crowd.
Gigs are quite a different experience for sober me, I still enjoy them but do feel a bit detached from proceedings. Not so much if I know the band well, but certainly in last night's circumstances.
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Nov 2021
11:05am, 18 Nov 2021
304 posts
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Fields
I’d be put off by a Roses tribute band these days as Ian Brown has become even more of an embarrassment
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Nov 2021
11:31am, 18 Nov 2021
11,159 posts
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Joopsy
Skinny Lister are excellent, I'm seeing them next week. I've seen them many times before.
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Nov 2021
11:36am, 18 Nov 2021
64,455 posts
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Diogenes
Funnily enough, I was listening to The Longest Johns on Tuesday when I was searching YouTube for a song I sang at school when young. I didn't particularly like their version. I may also have seen Skinny Lister supporting someone I took my eldest to see.
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Nov 2021
11:38am, 18 Nov 2021
64,456 posts
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Diogenes
Scrap that, the band I saw were called Skinny Living.
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Nov 2021
11:53am, 18 Nov 2021
3,981 posts
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Goofee
Skinny Lister are excellent, I'm seeing them next week. I've seen them many times before.
Skinny Lister are excellent, I'm seeing them next week. I've seen them many times before.
They're definitely a 'get down the front and get involved' type band, I can see that would be great fun. Being sober (and currently a dodgy knee) prevents me from doing that, something I know doesn't seem to hold you back, Joopsy! 
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Nov 2021
12:30pm, 18 Nov 2021
11,160 posts
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Joopsy
I find gigs are so much better sober Goofee, its so much easier.
Yes, Ive seen them support Frank Turner and I usually feel like Ive run a marathon after watching them both.
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Nov 2021
12:31am, 19 Nov 2021
20,130 posts
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flanker
The only problem with being sober* at gigs is I have far less tolerance for the drunks, the idiots watching it through their phone, and the ones who've paid a lot of money to struggle to have a chat over the inconvenient noise the band are making. Other than that, or at places with a good crowd, I agree they're better sober.
* it might also have something to do with getting old and grumpy.
At one James gig Tim Booth had a guy thrown out by security for throwing beer. He warned him once that "we don't do that at James gigs" and when he did it again he had him ejected. To great appluase iirc.
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Nov 2021
8:50am, 19 Nov 2021
2,512 posts
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Fitz
Love a James gig, Tim really doesn't put up with any nonsense.
Tonight, I'm seeing the mighty Dreadzone for the gazillionth time, at Islington Assembly Hall, a tidy little venue that reeks of 1970s trade-union meetings and sit-down protests. Sadly my boozer of choice across the road died in the plague so I'm going for a pre-match snifter at the Hope & Anchor, itself reeking of 1970s keg beer and punk-sweat.
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