Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I don’t qualified to write a review of this awesome gig but I need to give it a shot.
Seeing U2 play live is always going to be a treat but with their most recent album receiving mixed reviews, this maybe POPmart revisted. Their choice of openning track, Breathe was an interesting one, but after seeing it performed – all doubts are removed. It’s an excellent choice – full of intelligent lyrics and energy provided buy a drum-groove and a half from Larry and another killer riff from The Edge.
The tunes that open the night are all from the new album No Line on the Horizon, which I love and will defend to the hilt but not for its sing-along qualities and this probably gave the show a slow start and considering Glasvegas were the warm-up we were already at a snails pace! The new songs do sound incredible live and are complimented by great graphics from the huge screen that is wrapped around the 360 degree stage.
Once U2 got into playing their classics the crowd went suitably crazy, I watched from the stands and really wished I was down on the pitch to really get a feel for the atmosphere. The band managed to mix in some of their newer and older songs between the now classic songs from All That You Can’t Leave Behind and How To Dismantle and Atomic Bomb. Hearing Unforgettable Fire was a real treat and it was interesting to see how similar to the songs from the new album it sounded.
Their 2 hour set flew by, and was wrapped up with a 3 track encore. All in all a great night.
PS You can read another nice fan-review here
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Whilst trawling the interweb I noticed one of my friends has started a new blog. Nothing too exciting there except that he is using blogspot in place of myspace, and that his music is AWESOME.
Check it out.
http://gavinmart.blogspot.com/
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
My favourite blog/site and podcast is at http://www.skinnermike.com/
This is the blog of Mike Skinner, from the Streets. The blog is an interesting read into the life of a gigging (giggling?) musician. The videos and audio content are second to none.
I love listening to the podcasts in the gym, they often represent what I am into at a specific time.
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
I have just had the awesome chance to listen to this album all the way through, this collection of storming, guitar driven electronica is designed to be moved to, I sweated through a 50 minute workout with this blaring out through my Sennheiser PX200s 
(which are 100% awesome headphones).
Invaders Must Die
isn’t a return to form as Prodigy haven’t been off form (“dont call it a comeback” Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned
is an awesome album, with one of the best titles ever!). Invaders… sounds like Prodigy’s first album (Experience
) but written in 2009, which is awesome for me. Although it lacks the underground cool of Music for the Jilted Generation
, Invaders… really rocks – hard!
I am not going to attempt to really talk in depth about the tracks, all I have to say is that if you think Pendulum are a good band, have a listen too this album and see who they learnt their art from!
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