#62

Probably the straw that broke the camel’s back.

#63

Great Gig

#65

christ

#67

I think this says a lot about the audience Glastonbury pulls now days.

#68

That’s so gutting. No band deserves that. No wonder they called it a day.

#69

Was this when live music was still in the shitter? Because I do think it’s got so much better. In recent years.

#71

Around 1990, I went to see The JBs play a club in Birmingham. It really was the JBs: at least three of Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, PeeWee Ellis and Bobby Byrd. And fewer than ten people attended.

They were really professional, everyone there danced like crazy, and they thanked us for being a ‘wonderful audience’. Weird.

#72

Negura Bungut in the black country somewhere played to about 5 people other than the 4 of us who went…thought it would be packed but no no no. Was a big room also - but the venue seemed to be mainly for covers bands. They played well but it lacked the required atmosphere.

Pallbearer at the Rainbow in Brum - more than that ^ but still, shockingly few considering it was post Sorrow & Extinction.

Been plenty of others - few at the medicine bar in brum where no one went. I think Cursed may have been pretty quiet (attendance wise, not the band!) but could be confusing them.

#73

Preston School of Industry only filled about 10% of the Manchester Academy 2 (when it was MDH) on their first tour after Pavement split. It was a great record and I thought they’d have carried over some of the popularity from the Pavement fanbase, but sadly not. Less than 100 people there I think.

Probably didn’t help that Spiritualized were playing 50 yards down the road that same night.

#74

the use of MDH has taken me back. Saw some good shit there.

#75

No way. Why the heck wasn’t the place full? That would have been incredible.

#76

I always kick myself about that Nils Frahm gig. I should have gone to. No idea why I didn’t properly something lame like being a bit tired. Poor effort.

#77

I saw Efterklang in Reading Town Hall. Think there were about 30 people there, and it was amazing. Such a great venue too.

#78

I was one of the 30. I saw the bedroom community (Ben Frost, Sam Amidon etc) gig around the same time (?) at the same venue. Same kind of numbers.

#79

Such a great show though, and I remember the venue being really lovely.

#80

Hell yeah, reckon I spent most of my late teens and early/mid 20s in there and the smaller one upstairs (Hop & Grape?)

#81

ikr

I think it was poorly publicised. It was in a nightclub way out of the centre iirc, and the only publicity we saw/heard was one of those pirate radio ads, which I guess was the club’s usual way of advertising.

Even so, we couldn’t believe the sparse attendance and, until they came on, were half-expecting it to not be yer actual JBs.

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#83

Felt more full than the only other time I saw a headliner on the Other stage, which was Massive Attack in 2014, but maybe more LCD fans were concerned with getting down the front and it was thinner at the back?

And while we’re on the subject; why choose Coldplay over Grimes? Over Earth Wind And Fire? Over Cyndi Lauper? I mean I quite like a lot of Coldplay singles, and would like to go and see their big expensive lasers and flashing wristbands, but not when there’s competition like that.

#84

Massive attack was rammed