setlist?

again

it's gonna be days.

but wow, i mean, that last bit. that's a once in a lifetime experience there.

they were the only reason why I booked Beni at first. They better be good out there otherwise I'll cry about missing them playing here

...nearly killed me. it was like the sound of a plane's engine exploding during take off. on my face.

I took my earplugs out for a bit and only really had them half in anyway. My ears are in pain but it sounded incredible.

Perfect setlist. You Made Me Realise 30 minute long noise bit = the greatest 30 minutes of my life.

the last 20 minutes hurt, but it was so so so so so so so so so so so good

and the loudest gig I have ever been to,

but...

but...

but... the extreme distortion sort of ruined it at times, and as robin pointed out up there^ at times it was difficult to make out what song they were playing. MBV always used to be about making beautiful melodies out of incredible noise, and the melody part got lost tonight.

Yeah, sometimes it was a tad hard to make out what song they were playing, through all the distortion/loudness but it was so gratifying to see them play live. And Le Volume Coubre were rather good as well.

and I could see the sound guy's digital decibel meter. It read 128.9 dB during the last bit, which is apparently equivalent to a jet taking off, IN YOUR FACE!!!

i've never heard anything like the last 20mins of that set in my life. Everything was shaking with the loudness, it was beginning to cross over from being just sound.

Other people that were there tonight, please re-assure me that you now have a sound like a car alarm going off in your head! I've had ringing in my ears before, but never this...

i was actually scared from the volume stories, and this is coming from a fan of wolf eyes/lightningbolt/locust. i have to say the free ear plugs were amazing- kept pretty much all of the melody/texture, but just took the edge off of the highest overtones- my girlfriend reckoned she could hear the singing much better with them in. i actually had them out for most of it tho...they did nothing to stop the gut punching bass!

opening salvo- awesome, but blurred by excitement
next 20 mins- had to move back due to heat/strobe/crowd based panic attack issues
rest of gig- watched from near back of room and was AMAZING- the light show was really effective, especially seeing as the band were doing fuckall onstage (naturally)

youmade me realise-......like sitting on an military grade bass speaker...in a wind tunnel.....testing a jet engine...i seriously spaced out half way through, it was strange and great

o yeh, and i enjoyed the fact that all the wasted people around me were actually dancing when they played 'soon' it was like a party during a nuclear war.

ps- i applied for a job at the forbidden planet in bristol, and they rang up asking me for an interview when i was qeueing up for the gig, so overall its a pretty good day :)

i only said was the most beautiful thing ever... then came the NOISE.. it was incredible, you just stopped thinking.

the show was just something else, the holocaust eruption of noise was the icing on the cake, my ears are buzzing (its now 4:39, still awake)

had seen them several times back in the 80s and was naturally worried that they wouldn't be as great as I remembered them, but it was like they had never been away - if anything they were better

sounded fantastic from where I was standing (to the right of the stage - didn't bother with the ear plugs) ... vocals were low in the mix as always (or rather, guitars were bloody high) but could still hear them fine

setlist was pretty much perfect - highlights included, in no particular order, You Never Should, Lose My Breath, Soon, Only Shallow, Sueisfine, Realise, Kiss, etc.

oh and that ringing in our ears that we all experienced afterwards - I'm sure I always used to get that at most gigs I went to 20 years ago ... makes me wonder if bands have just got quieter over the years (more likely, I've got deafer)

really looking forward to Sunday now

the spectacle of the whole thing was immense. The last 20 mins was just a haze of survival, the noise was literally breathtaking. Ears are ringing much louder than usual, but it's the loudest thing i've ever heard...agree with the Dinosaur Jr comment!

Bobby Gillespie was soaking the noise up too.

Marvelous, and definitely with of those gigs you'll forever hark back to.

but DEAR GOD THEY WERE LOUD. I was standing a good 10-15 metres away from the speakers and I could feel my teeth vibrating. Shame about the inaudible vocals, but what an experience in any case. The Loveless songs were just something else.

scenes from the crowd:

http://www.gravenimages.org.uk/dsc00173.jpg

http://www.gravenimages.org.uk/dsc00175.jpg

i didn't take my camera, so apologies for the crappy phone-cam pics.

they had a pretty light show too:

http://www.gravenimages.org.uk/dsc00172.jpg

I WANT TO GO AGAIN

that was such an awesome night. my ears! louder than merzbow, om, dinosaur jr, sunn, everything. was deafening. the visuals were great - the best bit was when whoever was doing the visuals forgot to take the computer arrow away from the screen during the noise bit, amazing.

true about not being able to hear the vocals, but i was told that was what their live shows were like anyways.

really good mixture of a set. a few fuck ups, but that's ok, they were awesome!