Kuuso on 17/1/2011 at 10:19
I'm really gutted I missed their Further show last summer, I just simply didn't have the money for it. It was pre-show for a festival I attended.
Briareos H on 17/1/2011 at 12:39
Yeah I wish I could have attended the Further tour too. The new tour is pretty different, with a setlist spanning nicely their entire discography - probably their best setlist to date in fact.
Starting with their most accessible and house-like tracks was an ace idea, blasting everyone off and leaving room for a slow buildup towards more atmospheric and 'chemical' songs. As usual, the visual show was great. It's obvious that the chems have been toying with multimodal perception and synaesthesia more and more, as demonstrated by the way Further was released along with the visuals for the whole album. They're still not completely there yet, lacking a general visual cohesiveness or progression across the whole performance, but what there is already is greatly enrapturing.
Setlist:
* Tomorrow Never Knows intro
* Galvanize
* Do It Again (+ Get Yourself High vocals)
* Horse Power
* Chemical Beats
* Swoon
* Star Guitar
* Hey Boy, Hey Girl
* Don't Think
* Out of Control
* Setting Sun (+ It Doesn't Matter vocals)
* Saturate
* Believe
* Escape Velocity (+ The Golden Path vocals)
* Super Flash (awesome new track)
* Leave Home
* Block Rockin' Beats
The encore was incredible:
* Snow
* Surface to Air (+ Snow vocals)
* Hoops
* Dissolve (chord only)
* The Private Psychedelic Reel
If they ever wanted to record a live album, this tour would be the time to do it.
Scots Taffer on 12/1/2012 at 01:50
Fleet Foxes - (
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/fleet-foxes/2012/the-tivoli-brisbane-australia-bd165ee.html) setlist.
Great gig though two factors nearly scuttled it:
- an utterly awful soloist supporting act that nearly sucked the energy from the entire night by playing the most bland, prosaic and sedated version of Fleet Foxes' style.
- the stifling heat, we're currently going through a bit of a heatwave and the aircon units couldn't cope with hundreds of people packed into an old brick theater, so much so that a woman fainted twice towards the end of the set.
But back to the gig itself, superb. The balance could have been better on some tracks where the guitars and drums drowned out the harmonies - but oh man, those harmonies were
sublime - but for the most part they were brilliant renditions of the songs I knew and loved (and some I didn't, B-sides from the debut).
Didn't like the jazz breakdown any more live than when I first heard it.
No idea about the next one... missed the chance to see Foster the People. :(
Aja on 12/1/2012 at 02:02
I've always wanted to see them but they never come anywhere near here. I'm surprised they do the jazz breakdown at all—I saw a performance where they just skipped that part altogether and ended the song earlier.
Vernon on 12/1/2012 at 04:06
Bonnie Prince Billy, Kurt Wagner, Lambchop, Cort, and Feist all coming up in the next couple of months. :smug:
Shakey-Lo on 12/1/2012 at 14:15
i take it you went to wednesday's gig scots. I went to Tuesday's and it was good but very hot as you mentioned. at the suggestion of a crowd member they did a (partial) cover of eye of the tiger :D
and now i just got back from seeing beirut which was AWESOME. love the music and the sound was really really good.
Scots Taffer on 12/1/2012 at 23:07
Correct. A mate of mine was at Beirut too, I know the band but I can't recall any songs offhand.
Vernon on 13/1/2012 at 03:28
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Fleet Foxes
Did they ask for the best place in town to get a totally kickin' bowl of tofu? lollllll
