Bad Ambassador wrote:The Arcade Fire vinyl is a pretty little package, with the etched fourth side. Sounds better than the CD again. They're touring in the UK in the Autumn but they're playing enormo-sheds with awful sound, so I think I'll give them a miss.
That's what I felt, but I was so pissed off about not going to see them down in the road in Southwold at Latitude in July I thought I'd take a look, and was very happy to see they were on at Ally Pally, which I went to for Franz F in '05 and liked a lot (people slag it off, but the sound was fine, for them anyway, and it was big enough to feel like an exciting event without feeling at all arena-ish. Good on them for not playing Wembley, Earls Court or 02, and the tickets were £24 (+ £4 booking, of course), which is a pretty good price these days. So I'm going. Roll on November. More than happy for my only London gig of the year to be this.
You seem to be doing lots of duplicate buying in vinyl. Aficionado! I'm jealous.
I'm playing John Martyn's One World again. Fabulous record. Couldn't Love You More - what a song. Really happy I checked this out.
I'm gonna check out that Wilco CD.