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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: psychocub242 on September 06, 2005, 02:10:00 pm
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Just wanted to know if anone was planning on going to the Abc show this Thursday and if there is still tickets left?
Thks
Rick
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I feel confident that the show won't sell out.
I'll be there!
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okay thks..I hope it doesnt sell out..comming from Pittsburgh here and wasnt sure I could take 2 days off with my business but I am swinging it because I have to see Martin Fry and relive my 80s new wave days over again!
Rick
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<Rhett Mode>
Do you think they'll play Iesha or Playground?
</Rhett Mode>
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any chance this show will turn into a 2 for 1 special. im flat broke and too many other shows coming up. although im plenty sure the english beat is worth $25 all by themselves.
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Belive me..I wish the show was 2 for 1 special then I drag my friend along and help pay for the damn high price of gass to!!!!
Hard to get people to go to weekday shows out of town nowadays for me!
Rick
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I'm going
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This is the best show I've seen at the club in a long time...if I was rich I'd actually fly back over for it.
Wanna send your private jet over for me Seth??? I'll pay for the actual ticket and will buy a few beers in the club so you'll more than make up the cost of the flight......
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i wish these damned clubs would specify a start time. why do they make us guess? or is it the bands? so anyway, when's abc go on? not the warm-up band wmrmup band, AB friggin C!?
-real irritable today :(
if i were female i guess theyd call it bitchy or PMS'ing
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*sigh*
FAQ
Any other venue, I'd pretty much agree with you.
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English Beat is hardly a "warm up band".
9:30 always posts set times day of the show, and you can ask over in the FAQ (where you've already been directed), and you get an answer within 24 hours about 95% of the time. This is NOT the club to belly ache about.
I have a feeling this show could be tres annoying...I may prefer the "too cool for school" indie crowd to folks who go to one or two shows a year...
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Originally posted by Bags:
English Beat is hardly a "warm up band".
I was just going to post that before I saw your response.
Are people really more psyched to see ABC than The English Beat? Maybe my context is wrong, but it would seem to me that ABC should open for the Beat.
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I'm waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more psyched about ABC.
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Originally posted by Bags:
English Beat is hardly a "warm up band".
9:30 always posts set times day of the show, and you can ask over in the FAQ (where you've already been directed), and you get an answer within 24 hours about 95% of the time. This is NOT the club to belly ache about.
I have a feeling this show could be tres annoying...I may prefer the "too cool for school" indie crowd to folks who go to one or two shows a year...
Actually, I meant to refer more to the FAQ's section on the left side of the front page which gives average set times for each night of the week. But the board FAQ is even more precise, when they have the info to give. Either way, the 9:30 Club is no Velvet Lounge!!!
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Originally posted by Bags:
English Beat is hardly a "warm up band".
They were the warm up band for Bowie at Milton Keynes Bowl in 1982...(or was it 1981?)
Actually, they were the warm up band for the warm up band, Icicle Works.
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Originally posted by Arlette:
Are people really more psyched to see ABC than The English Beat? Maybe my context is wrong, but it would seem to me that ABC should open for the Beat.
My group of four is split down the middle -- two are in it for the Beat, and two for ABC.
I, myself, am ALL about ABC tonight...I've been listening all week and I am ready.
Oh O'Mankie, how I'd love to see Icicle Works. Though your story does not indicate much -- *everyone* was a warm up band at some point. I think the English Beat/ABC bill is a pretty solid co-headliner scenario.
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Bags, as I already said, this show is the best show I've seen posted at the club in a loooooooooong time. I really wish I could go.
Have fun and I expect a full report, with setlists immediately after,
:D
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Remind me why this is the best show in a loooong time?
ABC hasn't put out a new album in 8 years, and English Beat hasn't put out an album in 14 years and is down to one original member.
Not saying it will be a bad show, but BEST show?
Originally posted by O'Mankie:
Bags, as I already said, this show is the best show I've seen posted at the club in a loooooooooong time. I really wish I could go.
Have fun and I expect a full report, with setlists immediately after,
:D
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I have an extra ABC ticket that I am selling for $20. If you're interested, you can drop me an email at xsinner@gmail.com. Thanks.
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Well, Bags finally makes it back stage at the club.
This show was FANTASTICALLY fun. The folks there enjoyed the hell out of it, and it was a Thursday that felt like a Friday. Inevitably, it's an awful school night for me (I have to be in particularly early tomorrow, after staying at work until after 8:00 and nearly missing the Beat's first song). So what, I can work happily after living it up tonight.
For those who were wondering, English Beat had a bigger crowd (and it's true, they're not even listed on the ticket). But, the ABC crowd wasn't small, and it was super excited, dancing, singing, blah blah.
More tomorrow, I need to get to sleep.....
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Originally posted by Yutaka Fukufuji, Japanese Goalie:
Remind me why this is the best show in a loooong time?
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Have you seen the shit they've been putting on stage at the club recently?
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Opening with "I Confess", Dave Wakeling had the crowd dancing up a storm. I hadn't seen the Beat before, but i was sure glad i turned out for this. only complaint, they started a bit later then posted, and i was hoping for a longer set. it was by far a great time, lots of dancing, the front towards the stage had lots of skanking. was nice to hear the mix of songs including general public songs. dave sure likes to talk a bunch, and listening him go on about maggie was entertaining. other songs, (and i cant remember a good chunk off the top of my head), stand down margaret, save it for later, i confess, mirror in the bathroom, tears of a clown, and others.
ABC was a disappointment. i left after 6 songs, and there were a bunch of others who had already left. for some reason, ABC just didnt seem to have the same energy as the english beat. perhaps dave had such a frenzy going on, there was nowhere else to go. English Beat by far should have been headlining.
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xneverwherex -- I don't disagree with anything you've said, though I wasn't at all disappointed with ABC, but I love them and have listened to those songs SO much.
I was actually worried with "I Confess" because I thought it dragged a bit and was overly 'loungy,' so I thought the show might be a disappointment overall. But they picked up with "Rough Rider" and then blew the house away with "Best Friend", which was my favorite song of the night. I also loved the General Public tunes.
I also agree that English Beat should have headlined, just because of the energy of the band's catalog versus that of ABC. I agree that their frenzy is really hard to follow. They certainly had more people in the audience than ABC ended up with...
Wakeling's rambling went on a bit too much to me -- he came off as pretty damn goofy, but I do prefer that to the stoicism of some artist, so I should just shut my piehole. How fun, though, to have a guy on one side of us in a pork pie hat (if that's what it's called) and on the other in a white dinner jacket doing those ska moves!
I loved ABC, but again, I've listened so much. For an encore they did a song that I'd never heard, and they did "Poison Arrow" a second time -- that was weird. But, I was giddy and had a couple fits of full on laughter for no reason except that I was having so much fun, so no complaints from me.
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bags...glad to hear you enjoyed it. i actually was looking forward to seeing ABC, even more so than the english beat. but i realized i hadnt heard abc's stuff in so long (not that i listen to english beat often enough either).
dave did ramble on a bit much, but like you said it was goofy and entertaining. and its nice to hear banter once in awhile vs the bands who say "thank you DC" .... blah blah DC.. it gets old quickly :)
funny to hear they played poison arrow again as the encore. i kept picturing them on that "hit me baby one more time" TV show, and i couldnt help but laugh.
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"I Confess" has got to be one of the greatest songs of all time. I even have it on one of my spinning class cd's and the students love it.
Wakeling was there huh? When The Beat (not the English Beat :roll: ) Played Cork last year it was Ranking Roger. Have those two kissed and made up or do they both now go under the name The Beat? Wakeling used to go under "General Public"
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Actually I thought the Beat was pretty bad. I've seen them before, with and without Rankin Roger, and one awesome and wonderful show of The Special Beat at the old 9:30, and I gotta say, I was really disappointed at last night's show. I can't really describe it, but the phrase "English Beat Lite" comes to mind. No soul, no passion, and fer godsakes please someone get them a real live horn section!
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While Dave was the co-leader of the Beat it was Ranking Roger and Saxa which gave the bands its edge. Dave has a great voice but....
Yup there is bad blood between Dave and Roger... It erupted again after the Bands Reunited show on the English Beat. It comes down who can use what name to tour under in the US. It's called Dave Wakeling's "English Beat" or "General Public" for a reason. Same group of backing musicians different name depending on the booking.
Roger wants to tour the US with his version of The English Beat, etc. Wakeling's tried to get a solo career going with little sucess.
The Bands Reunited show was a bit bogus in that Mojo or some other English magazine had managed a couple years ago to reunite most of the band for a show.
So was the bass player of Kajagoogoo playing with ABC? He was playing with Martin of late... Another one of those stretching of the truth instances on Band Reunited.
So did ABC do any of the latter "Hits" i.e. When Smokey Sings, One Better World, Vanity Kills, etc? or was primarily Lexicon of Love material. The repeating of the hit during the encore was something they did on that first and maybe only prior tour of the US.