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Post by summermeighan on Oct 7, 2013 19:10:00 GMT
Reading all this REALLY makes me wanna see them live. I wonder when I'll go to my first Kasabian gig  In a way you are very lucky. Because you are yet to experience the unique sensation called Kasabian Live. Take it from me - nothing matches it! Awww, but they would never come to India  I guess I'll go and see them in Europe sometime. Can't wait! |
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Post by jayfreeman on Oct 10, 2013 12:58:32 GMT
In a way you are very lucky. Because you are yet to experience the unique sensation called Kasabian Live. Take it from me - nothing matches it! Awww, but they would never come to India I guess I'll go and see them in Europe sometime. Can't wait! Anything is possible in this world. They might come to India one day, for example, Prodigy already have. But if you get a chance to catch them in UK it could be even better. I bet they play even better with home field advantage;) |
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Post by highroyds on Oct 10, 2013 19:05:23 GMT
They don't play better in the UK, they're 10 out of 10 everywhere. You can get different atmospheres everywhere, but it has nothing to do with geography. The only noticeable difference is in the type of people that turn up.
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Post by jayfreeman on Oct 11, 2013 7:44:33 GMT
They don't play better in the UK, they're 10 out of 10 everywhere. You can get different atmospheres everywhere, but it has nothing to do with geography. The only noticeable difference is in the type of people that turn up. I know, it was kind of a joke;) Talking about type of people, until now Kasabian supporters might just be the best I have experienced. What I especially appreciate is that Kasabian fans make noise at the right times, they don't keep talking through the songs, so you can just concentrate on the music and enjoy it 100%. It is also a wonderful feeling when you know all those other people came with the same intention you did and not just to pass the time randomly, if you know what i mean. In some way it makes the experience more intense. Pink Floyd fans are pretty close by the way, but again, you don't have much choice with Roger Waters;) |
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Post by Ang1 on Oct 13, 2013 20:32:52 GMT
I hadnt really thought about it before but you are right.It really pisses me off when you pay good money to go to a concert and all you hear is chatter or couples eating each others faces off.Both equally off putting when your going with the flow.Once in a Manics gig I told a couple of girls to be quiet luckily I never got verbal abuse but I did a bit with Muse at the emirates .At Kasabian I have yet to hear talking but I will just sing louder to drown them out and piss them off.At Kasabian we all just throw our arms in the air instinctively at the right time and sing or shout it back at the right times ah just pure bliss.
Also while I'm on my ranting why do people go to watch someone and spend all the night on Facebook ??.
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Post by highroyds on Oct 14, 2013 17:05:57 GMT
There's some occasional chatter during the slower songs, like Secret Alphabets or Black Whistler. I mostly hear it on live recordings, not really when I'm there because I don't pay much attention to what other people are doing. Unless they're very annoying and loud and do things like sing Fire during Thick as Thieves. A few years ago in Manchester the couple next to me left when Take Aim started because they decided it was boring.
People taking selfies during a gig is almost as irritating as clicking on a link on Twitter expecting a pic of the band and finding a selfie.
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Post by jayfreeman on Oct 15, 2013 6:52:11 GMT
There's some occasional chatter during the slower songs, like Secret Alphabets or Black Whistler. I mostly hear it on live recordings, not really when I'm there because I don't pay much attention to what other people are doing. Unless they're very annoying and loud and do things like sing Fire during Thick as Thieves. A few years ago in Manchester the couple next to me left when Take Aim started because they decided it was boring. People taking selfies during a gig is almost as irritating as clicking on a link on Twitter expecting a pic of the band and finding a selfie. Strange couple if you ask me. Take Aim is one of their best songs... |
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Post by highroyds on Oct 15, 2013 12:56:34 GMT
It is. To be fair, before I saw it live I didn't expect it to be THAT big. I thought it will be one of the more quiet ones so I should get my camera out and take pics... moshpit.
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Post by ginner on Oct 16, 2013 21:02:11 GMT
- Benicassim 2010... 2am, drenched in sweat under a starlit sky, buried in the throng at the front, me and the Spanish stranger next to me belting out Doberman.
- June 2009... Millenium Stadium. When they topped Oasis at their own gig.
- June 2009... Sheffield O2 Academy. It must have been 100+ degrees in there down the front that night. Never been in a crowd, before or since, that seemed to move and sing as one throughout a gig. And sang LSF for 20 minutes after they'd walked off stage.
- Mar 2013... Doncaster Dome. Black Whistler.
- Aug 2012... Brixton Academy. Biggest letdown (though still enjoyable). Really thought it would be a hardcore fan crowd given it was a bit of a one off. Seemed to be full of face-snogging, social media checking lightweights.
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Post by cuttoff on Oct 16, 2013 22:44:32 GMT
Ooh Benicassim sounds amazing, it's one of my favourite bootlegs and the best ever version of Reason Is Treason/Mothman. They played the Fast Fuse outro, and The Doberman from there is so beautiful.
Doncaster was special, although a bit rough at the barrier, I've never seen more crowdsurfers in my life.
I was at the barrier for Brixton 2012 and the crowd was quite ok around me, although the best crowd was at Brixton 2010, everybody singing together so beautifully.
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Post by highroyds on Oct 17, 2013 14:43:09 GMT
Here are some more:
- The original Fairy blackout in Liverpool. If you watch it back, it happened at such a perfect moment, it almost looked intentional. It was kind of lovely, because instead of panicking and firing the light department they were like wow that was cool, let's always do this now.
- Finally hearing Black Whistler. It's one of my favourites and for years I always used to miss it by a day, they would always play it either the gig before or after the ones I went to. Eventually I caught it in Brussels.
- Also getting British Legion at TCT. I never expected it to come back. It's very reassuring that it did though, because it gives me hope for other forgotten songs.
- Being at the gig in Wolverhampton in June 2011 and waiting for the band to come on while the album title and tracklist were announced on the radio, our friend texted us everything. Hearing the studio version of Switchblade Smiles for the first time at 3am in a hotel room.
- Even the cancelled Berlin gig last year ended up being fun because Belakiss, their support band, organised a gig somewhere else, and about eight of us went there and watched them play in a restaurant/bar/venue just for us.
- Experiencing the evolution of songs, in a way. They're always adding new bits and longer intros and different outros, which I find terribly exciting. The new I.D. intro, the Fast Fuse outro coming and going and eventually being replaced by Misirlou, Praise You being added to LSF, then everything sounding different again with Tim, things like that.
- Going to Hurricane Festival 2011 on my own after vowing for years that I would never go to a festival, and then I did two in one week. Took my big masked man flag for emotional support and then got it out at some point because I don't know, attention-seeking. I thought it would be nice for them to see that I was there just for them and not to pass the time before Kaiser Chiefs. Tom liked it.
- When Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime came back this year. I missed it in 2012 and then hearing them soundcheck it in Bridlington with the new guitar ending made for an emotional moment in the venue foyer.
- Everything being shrouded in white at HRC after a lifetime of black. Backdrop going up, backdrop falling down.
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Post by cuttoff on Oct 20, 2013 12:38:15 GMT
- Experiencing the evolution of songs, in a way. They're always adding new bits and longer intros and different outros, which I find terribly exciting. The new I.D. intro, the Fast Fuse outro coming and going and eventually being replaced by Misirlou, Praise You being added to LSF, then everything sounding different again with Tim, things like that. YES. This is so special, I love how Take Aim is evolving and every tour is making it prettier and prettier. It was already a mindblowing song live without anything, but it gets decorated with various intros and outros and instrumental little bridges in the middle. Each time I think it can't get any better but it does. My one very unrealistic dream is to hear Tom singing it with Serge. LSF evolution has been so interesting as well and I really love Praise You as an intro, but still still doesn't make up for the lack of proper singalong ending. I'm still planning what to post in this thread, there are too many memories, all of them special but I guess I'll probably will end up writing how they played Cutt Off in Berlin 2010 or Sheffield 2011 and they were the most perfect moment ever. |
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Post by highroyds on Oct 27, 2013 22:59:34 GMT
I just remembered something - a guy right behind me proposed to his girlfriend during Goodbye Kiss in Berlin last year. It was kind of random and definitely not the right song, but suddenly everyone was applauding. I think that was the most random thing I've ever seen during a gig.
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Post by donkeykongjr on Oct 31, 2013 19:39:34 GMT
My son has grown up listening to them in the car and now has his own Kasabian playlist - he's asking to go and I reckon he'll be old enough next tour, obviously dad will have to go to keep an eye on him  I'd love it to be a small venue, but that ain't gonna happen now! |
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Post by highroyds on Nov 1, 2013 14:25:36 GMT
Does anyone else who has been to lots of gigs ever get weird reactions? I've found that it's a total conversation stopper. People ask how many times it is now and I don't even want to say the real number, I just mumble something. "Oh, only four times this year... so far..." Especially as a female, I always feel the need to add a disclaimer that I'm not a groupie or anything, I swear, I just really love them... wait where are you going. I was talking to someone once who was like "Aww, was it your first time seeing them?" I said no, the 14th (long time ago.) She never spoke to me again.
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I guess I'll go and see them in Europe sometime. Can't wait!
I'd love it to be a small venue, but that ain't gonna happen now!