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Tom Semmens

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:53:30 +1200

I too have had a gutsful of Vector security and I am not alone.

I basically refuse to go to events at Vector, to the extent that I prefer to fly to Australia to see acts than go through the miserable experience of having to walk around on egg shells…

BenWilson

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:46:13 +1200

Are you really on drugs? Apparently so

If my brain is eggs, then on dubstep it's definitely scrambled eggs.

George Darroch

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:57:56 +1200

"the chills". Why your favourite music sounds so good. It's Science.

They showed that listeners' dopamine levels in pleasure centers surged during key passages of favorite music, but also just a moment before—as if the brain was anticipating the crescendo to come.

Are you really on drugs? Apparently so.

Peter Darlington

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:04:16 +1200

Dance music badly needs an injection of younger generation of DJ’s that a younger crowd can identify with. After all, the currently mighty David Guetta is 45, the fabulous Carl Cox is 50, Paul Oakenfold (who?) is 50, Pete Tong is 52, and Tiesto is 45 I think – you…

Russell Brown

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:54:55 +1200

Moby's set was pretty interesting. A bit of generic EDM at first, then the hits. And a MASSIVE production, as per your description of the way things are trending.

It was great, but I found it a bit exhausting to even watch after a while. But then I switched over…

Tom Semmens

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:30:22 +1200

I’m not sure I like the whole EDM thing, though. Just been watching Baauer DJ to a huge crowd and it seemed banal and boring.

Baauer I don’t really like. But the key thing is perhaps the generation gap. Baauer, Avicii and Shrillex are all 25 or under in age…

Russell Brown

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:28:50 +1200

Coachella temperature update. Still 26º C at 12.30am.

Christopher Dempsey

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:18:23 +1200

get out the dancing girls

Don't forget the dancing boys as well! Nothing better than good house and good dancing boys. The music not so difficult, but a really good dancing boy? Difficult to find. But oh so worth it.

Russell Brown

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:03:39 +1200

A front page story on Coachella in today’s LA Times describes scaled back sound volumes and ‘comfy chairs’ to meet the needs of concert goers. We were in that neck of the woods last weekend and shade and buckets of water seemed more appropriate,

There are a lot of people…

Geoff Lealand

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:57:53 +1200

A front page story on Coachella in today's LA Times describes scaled back sound volumes and 'comfy chairs' to meet the needs of concert goers. We were in that neck of the woods last weekend and shade and buckets of water seemed more appropriate,

Chris Waugh

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:30:31 +1200

Hope this link works for those outside the GFW: Psy has a new song.

Russell Brown

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:06:41 +1200

If you got to the Coachella website today and choose Channel 3 of the live stream, you can see the kind of production Tom's talking about.

I'm not sure I like the whole EDM thing, though. Just been watching Baauer DJ to a huge crowd and it seemed banal and…

Sofie Bribiesca

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:24:25 +1200

I've been instructed out of Dunedin that if we decide to sell, it will have to wait 'til after January. I mean, where would she sleep when her efforts to get here are part of her ticket price which she has managed every year it has bin whether in oz…

Steve Barnes

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:06:11 +1200

Meanwhile, I found security at Vector a bit stressy

I too have had a gutsful of Vector security and I am not alone.
I was refused entry to the "Arena" with a beer I had bought from the bar, can't remember who was playing, Weller I think. They made me…

JacksonP

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:42:25 +1200

I hope they can bury their demons, and turn it into something good again. I'll certainly be giving them a chance. More grass (underfoot) will certainly help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N527oBKIPMc

The National would be a good bet for next year, preferably along with Nick Cave, Bowie, The Veils... do you think they'll…

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:14:44 +1200

Meanwhile, I found security at Vector a bit stressy even when Neil Young was standing/GA on the ground floor (albeit with two classes of GA) — clearly it's worse when the place is booked as a seated show, as Robert Plant was last night. Only selling seats at a show like…

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:51:57 +1200

Rhythm & Vines, where they're happy to mix up genres

That's on NYE, when all the people who never go to gigs go to a gig. So they (and others) try and book a wide range of acts so that lots of people can notice that their favourite B&G/metal/BBQ reggae/commercial rap act…

Richard Stewart

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:46:23 +1200

I heard Wilco refereed to as Dad Rock recently, lamenting the popularity of boat shoes at their gig

Sacha

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:42:28 +1200

wouldn't want to impinge on you and Liam's DJing partnership :)

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:36:26 +1200

[From Santa Monica]. Hmmm. Aren't we getting a bit ageist here, with the references to dad rock? I can recall Jeff Tweedy sounding off about such a lazy slur recently. I cannot comprehend the appeal of dance/electronica but everyone to their own tastes...

So, Neil Young was tremendous in Wellington,…

Richard Stewart

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:25:10 +1200

I don't know about lasers and dancing girls – I prefer my dance music dirty and grimy at 3am in a poorly lit dive – but a DJ can sure work on a regular festival stage without a sweaty tent.
I was lucky to see DJ Click at Womad last…

Alan Perrott

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:12:09 +1200

mate, sounds like we need to get a band together...

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:00:45 +1200

I don’t know about this. The days of walling off the doof doof crowd with their it-isn’t-really-music-is-it from the rest are well and truly over. Put them on the main stage, get out the dancing girls, fireworks, lasers and a fuck-off light show and the crowd would go bananas over…

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:56:52 +1200

Big stages in big fields need big crowds, and given a kind of collective taste is becoming less and less common, acts who’ll appeal to a younger crowd & pull massive crowds may not be simple.

It works at the level of Rhythm & Vines, where they're happy to mix up genres.…

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:51:11 +1200

Well, a younger crowd would – I got the distinct impression that by the time of the final tragic BDO the promoter had no real idea anymore what anyone under 40 might want to see.

I quite enjoyed that day, tragic as it was. Checked out Nero while all the…

Barnard

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:23:04 +1200

You're probably right, but I doubt they could sell the festival on the back of that sort of thing. It'll be interesting to see how much they try and change the whole dynamic.
Big stages in big fields need big crowds, and given a kind of collective taste is becoming…

Sacha

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:17:30 +1200

I'd also like to see a programme that busted out of the standard 4/4 riffarama and white boy rock

Amen

Sacha

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:17:07 +1200

Put them on the main stage

Yes

Alan Perrott

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:27:37 +1200

I'm liking the notion of a BDO within walking distance, but I really hope it isn't targetted at boomers and early doors Gen Xers. I quite like using events like that as a tasting plate of new sounds – especially if curated by people who's taste I can trust -…

bob daktari

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:13:16 +1200

I think the major failing for the electronic/dance fraternity was the need to put that shit under a (tent) roof – electronic music lives & breathes as much outdoors as in, party lights and dancing girls or not (personal preference is for the not, but I is old)

Tom Semmens

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:59:23 +1200

But imagine if there was, like, a little deep house tent for grown-ups …

Tom Semmens

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:47:33 +1200

No, none whatsoever.

The integration of "live stage" with "DJ" at Ultra was great to see. In particular, seeing what treating the visual mixing as an integral – and live – part of the performance brings to a show was a real eye opener.

Watching the best visual mixers in…

Rob Stowell

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:40:53 +1200

Coalminers Song has The. Best. Riff. And variations. And the rest.
Well deserved Gordons- classic in the very best sense.

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:38:31 +1200

The BDO organisers have consistently crapped on that genre compared with any flavour of rawk. Putting Fatboy Slim in a tiny tent next to the supertop is but one example.

A notorious misjudgement, but that was years ago. Dance music 's actually had a good run — huge Boiler Room…

diversitynz

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:35:59 +1200

Definitely stoked to have BDO right down the road in 2014. Hopefully I may even be able to just sit on the deck and soak up the sounds, depending on the wind direction.

Sacha

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:23:54 +1200

There is so much dance music talent at the moment in the US you want to cry at its lack of presence here

The BDO organisers have consistently crapped on that genre compared with any flavour of rawk. Putting Fatboy Slim in a tiny tent next to the supertop is…

Russell Brown

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:21:36 +1200

If they want it to be something different from the Big Day Out, then re-launching and calling it the Big Day Out is a bit silly.

I know what you mean, but i think there's still some value in the brand. "The Big Day Out is coming back" got them…

Tom Semmens

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:16:13 +1200

If they want it to be something different from the Big Day Out, then re-launching and calling it the Big Day Out is a bit silly.

My guess would be that C3 are the ones behind this? Having just got back from the WMC in Miami and seen what was…

Steve Barnes

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:48:46 +1200

handbag techno Damn, another genre I hadn't heard of.

Martin Lindberg

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:34:04 +1200

Walking distance

Stumbling distance even...

Public Address

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:34:03 +1200

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