16
May
2009
Don’t do this.
There’s a special place in hell reserved for people who take the complete piss at gigs by doing things like this:
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Radiohead – Nude (Live at 93 Feet East, London, 2008-01-16)
Well handled by Thom, though, I must say. Reminds me of the Autechre bootleg, Live @ Lees Palace (2008-04-12), a fantastic bootleg in quality and setlist, almost ruined by some stupid bitch who keeps screaming and talking in the left channel… Or the drunken idiots who kept coming up to the bootlegger at Aphex’s 2008 Oxegen Festival gig.
It’s more excusable in the last two cases, but even so — what do you go to a gig for? To experience, enjoy and dance to the music? Or to scream into your poor, resentful friends’ ears any banal shit that comes into your thick head?
Radiohead, Manchester, Kid A tour:
Radiohead bought their own big top so as to avoid having corporate sponsorship and advertising plastered all over the place. They only allowed in local vendors for the food stalls and refreshments and the like. I wander in and the first thing I hear is an impromptu call and response between the left and right hand sides of the crowd screaming “WASSSUPPP!!!” back and forth mimicking the incredulously moronic Budweiser campaign on the t.v. at the time.
There is no escape.