Just Announced

azaghal1981 wrote:
Done with the album shows. Bob Mould was a good note to end on for me. Unless of course The Catherine Wheel decides to tour Ferment or something.

so you're done unless its an album you really like….

ok then!

I'd see the Breeders do Last Splash (my favorite of theirs even though I realize Pod is the critics' darling).. but I'd see them if they came through town anyways… absence makes the heart grow fonder and its been like 15 years since I saw the Amps at the 930. I should not have missed the Breeders last time they came through…

I think that's the only one.


And doubt it will ever happen.

I think the appeal of playing one album is when a band has a bunch of albums but all but one sucks.  You know that they will be playing their best stuff. 

I guess Stone Roses is a band I could see doing one album. 

I have only been to one show that a band did an album.  The Pixies doing Doolittle. Which is their best ablum but I think they would have been better of skipping the b-sides and doing more songs from other albums. 

atomicfront wrote:
I think the appeal of playing one album is when a band has a bunch of albums but all but one sucks.  You know that they will be playing their best stuff. 

I guess Stone Roses is a band I could see doing one album.  Teenage Fanclub doing "Bandwagonesque".  Primal Scream doing "Screamadilica" …wait a second I already saw that show back in 1992.

I have only been to one show that a band did an album.  The Pixies doing Doolittle. Which is their best ablum but I think they would have been better of skipping the b-sides and doing more songs from other albums. 

you know . . . you could have just added that to your first post.

I'd see just about any band do entire albums.. I like the concept..

I don't get people that object to it.. as if playing songs from different albums is any more original or spontaneous than playing songs from a single album… If the album is great what is the problem?

Breeders TK is also a really good album.. I don't have Mountain Battles yet…

hutch wrote:
I'd see just about any band do entire albums.. I like the concept..

I don't get people that object to it.. as if playing songs from different albums is any more original or spontaneous than playing songs from a single album… If the album is great what is the problem?

Breeders TK is also a really good album.. I don't have Mountain Battles yet…

You know the setlist going in and the element of surprise is spoiled.
Plus, it is obviously a ploy to sell tickets.

but what if the breeders played the entire album in the style of matisyahu?  that would be interesting.  oops, sorry sweetcell.

azaghal1981 wrote:

hutch wrote:
I'd see just about any band do entire albums.. I like the concept..

I don't get people that object to it.. as if playing songs from different albums is any more original or spontaneous than playing songs from a single album… If the album is great what is the problem?

Breeders TK is also a really good album.. I don't have Mountain Battles yet…

You know the setlist going in and the element of surprise is spoiled.
Plus, it is obviously a ploy to sell tickets.

Spoken like a true hipster.

Ploy to sell tickets? The horror.

Trust me.. there is plenty more surprise and pleasure in hearing all the deep tracks on these albums- most of which were never performed live back in the day- than in hearing the standard tunes most bands play night after night (the 2 hits from this album, 3 hits from that, 3 hits from that, one deep track, a cover in the encore, the HUGE "hit",  done)

I think encores should be scrapped if that helps.
My respect for a band grows a little bit when they leave the stage the first time and the house music comes on.


And where exactly is the surprise if you know that they are going to play x album going in assuming you know the order of x album?

Nostalgia trip, sure. Surprise? Not really.

I have seen some good full album shows (Burma, Mould, Devo right off the top of my head) but throughout all those album sets, I thought "OK hurry up and finish the LP so you can play some other stuff." If you want to hear an album in full, just kick back and put it on.

Some albums are better meant to be played in a certain order, like a concept album like NIN's The Downward Spiral would be awesome to see live from start to finish.

betao wrote:
Some albums are better meant to be played in a certain order, like a concept album like NIN's The Downward Spiral would be awesome to see live from start to finish.

he got most of it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/NJay783/videos?query=wave+goodbye

azaghal1981 wrote:
I think encores should be scrapped if that helps.
My respect for a band grows a little bit when they leave the stage the first time and the house music comes on.


And where exactly is the surprise if you know that they are going to play x album going in assuming you know the order of x album?

Nostalgia trip, sure. Surprise? Not really.

I have seen some good full album shows (Burma, Mould, Devo right off the top of my head) but throughout all those album sets, I thought "OK hurry up and finish the LP so you can play some other stuff." If you want to hear an album in full, just kick back and put it on.

The surprise is in hearing the song that you never in a million years expected to hear live because it was never done live before the tour in question.

It is more of a surprise than hearing the same songs they always play, no?

Of course one can put on the album but to hear them performing the song live is very different.

Even with non-album set lists you can also look on setlist.fm and burn yourself a CD of the setlist of the show you will see…

I guess you need to delude yourself into thinking you are seeing something "spontaneous".. something that was never rehearsed.. something they didn't do exactly the same the night before in Philly will do the next night in NYC…

ok folks..enough off topic commentary


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betao wrote:
because not everyone on the board lives in the DC area, and some of us do go to shows at the NorVa from time to time.

exactly. we've been posting shows to NorVA, Charlottesville and Richmond for some time…I promote  in this area for shows throughout DC/VA/MD even sometimes those in DE. People commute to shows all the time. It's not pushing it to post outside metro in MD/VA shows…NY, PA, etc., yes. I like to know who's performing closeby – plus, it helps my vision and Sethy wish list abilities to see where other shows are at. I'd rather read VA show announcement/commentary than other minor comments in this thread. I make side comments at times too, but complaining about NorVA announcements instead is silly. If they weren't posted what else would be in this thread? I was 15 pages behind and probably only read three show announcements which I already knew about.

The Norva is 3 hours, 15 minutes (195 miles) from the 9:30 Club. Should we post any show within 200 miles of the 9:30 Club?

Let us try again.

Plenty of threads for non-DC area shows… here is one:

http://forum.930.com/index.php?topic=19285.0

Just use them guys.  I mean what is the problem??? Just use a different thread!  You'll still have your shows announced! If you don't like the above thread make a new one! Look in the archives for a different one..It will actually be better for you.. if you're interested in Norfolk or Richmond shows you won't have to wade through the DC shows! You'll know when you open the appropriate thread that the shows are ones you'll be more interested in.

I think the regular Just Announced thread is fine for Baltimore shows.. after all its only like 40 miles away.. but come on! Norfolk? Even Richmond shouldn't be on this thread. Its 110 miles from DC and quite an undertaking to get to a Richmond show from DC with 95 traffic.

The Club whose board we are on is in DC.

Obviously it great to have people from Richmond, Norfolk , San Francisco or wherever on this board but just keep the Just Announced thread for DC area shows. There are many reasons for this.. off the top of my tired head:

1. If you post Norfolk, Richmond, Charlottesville, etc. shows you're crowding out the shows an overwhelming amount of us on this board are interested in.

2. Its deflating to open this thread and see some band we'd like to see only to find out its at the frickin' NORVA.  Just the frickin' gas to get to the Norva makes it unrealistic.. I mean , yeah, let me spend $50 bucks just to get to the show and back???

If the argument is that there aren't enough shows in DC being announced then for pete's sake announce some… DC has 22 pages of shows  in DC area listed on Pollstar… only a tiny fraction have been mentioned on this thread. There isn't a lack of DC shows necessitating we post Norfolk shows on this thread because we aint' got any action in DC!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are there a few people- like 4 professional concertgoers? who drive to shows everywhere  and therefore would like them all in this thread? I'm sure but for 99% of us Norfolk is just not realistic.