If you had to force me at gun point to try to find a flaw in the show. Bringing on stage a young fan to experience a once in a life time up close & personal moment & to have another fan take the mic & letting him sing lead vocals on a song.Īll this including a stellar performance. Their fan/audience interaction is nothing short but icing on the cake. They played the notable favorite songs in their catalog & as well as a brand new song from the upcoming album. The weather brought an extra bonus to what was already to a fun & exciting event. I saw them before in Frankfurt a few months ago & had such a great time that I couldn’t resist to see them again in an open air venue. I had the pleasure to see them again in Saarbrücken on 13th of July. I also believe there are many musicians in that genre that haven’t gotten full credit for their musical talent. I disagree & that is all depending on the individual. But the meteoric rise of vinyl sales suggests otherwise the album is back back back, and the full album gigs are its victory lap.Even though many say the Rap/Rock era of the mid to late 90’s was music of the muscle-head uncultured swine leading to believe it’s pseudo empowering awareness of a cross genre sound to really be superficial & misogynistic in it’s execution. “I feel that it just seems a little bit cynical.” Others accuse the full album set trend of ruining festivals, killing off the greatest hits set and boring all the apparently goldfish-like culture-gobbling millennials who, we’re so often told, exist on a diet of mashed up Spotify playlists and go into anaphylactic shock if played more than one song by the same artist in a row. “I always cringe a little bit when you hear about bands going around just touring on a kind of anniversary record,” Kele Okereke told a reporter, when asked if they’d be revisiting the record live to mark the milestone. Bloc Party last year launched a fight back against these types of shows, as the 10th anniversary of their ‘Silent Alarm’ debut loomed. Naysayers call these shows money-grabbing and backwards-facing. Only this weekend, Kanye brought to life the icy sounds of his divisive ‘808s…’ in full at a show in Los Angeles, to the delight of fans for whom that’s his tender, soul-purging pinnacle. Others – Patti Smith, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Weezer, Nas – have recently been using the format to cement their greatest or most overlooked albums as solid gold classics. Some acts – Suede, The Wedding Present, The Wonder Stuff, The Cure, acts from the days when ‘indie’ was an obsessive lifestyle choice rather than a sniffy term of abuse for The Pigeon Detectives – have taken the concept a stage further and recreated virtually their entire careers in order, playing shows or tours of each album in quick succession and making the hardcore fan feel like they’re living their twenties again in fast-forward. In an age when the joy of not knowing which songs your favourite band will play has been thoroughly wilted by setlist.fm, this is a different form of live enjoyment – a time-leap to idyllic times, an appreciation of the 45-minute ‘journey’ of the album format and the relief of knowing exactly when to pop to the bog during the shit filler bits. Often, they’re a phenomenal experience – Spiritualized playing ‘Ladies And Gentlemen…’, Pixies doing ‘Doolittle’, the Manics’ ‘The Holy Bible’ tour or Magnetic Fields’ immense two-nighter of ’69 Love Songs’. Since the practice was popularised by the Don’t Look Back series of annual shows between 20, at which All Tomorrow’s Parties asked the likes of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, The Lemonheads and Belle & Sebastian to recreate seminal albums in full, the complete album gig has become the mark of the cult band with a devoted long-term fanbase. Of course, nu-metal isn’t the first genre to reel in the nostalgia dollar with artists recreating their landmark records from start to finish. Who knows, before long we might get to savour the full banquet of Limp Bizkit’s ‘Chocolate Starfish…’ served up with all the hot dog flavoured water we can drink. Last year Linkin Park performed ‘Hybrid Theory’ in its entirety at Download while Korn played their self-titled 1994 debut front to back in London in July. ![]() Yes, the trend of playing nostalgic full album gigs and tours has caught up to the sports-metal era. Dust off your baseball caps, camouflage shorts and ass-kicking boots and prepare to whine your parental dissatisfaction to the world once more: Alien Ant Farm are set to play their entire 2001 debut album ‘ANThology’ on a UK tour next year.
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