As the Future Days draws to a close, I wonder how successful it was for the promoters? Last night’s Vicar Street show was far from full and people told me there was free tickets being handed out left, right and centre. In fact I have 5 free tickets left for Metronomy tonight if anyone lives near D6W…
In the end, the double header of Dan Deacon and Jape relegated the crowd attendance to a distant memory. It was my third time seeing Dan and I wondered how he would cope with such a large venue. There was no need to worry as the opening Deacon-led warm-up got everybody hyped for what was to follow. The atmosphere became something more closely associated with playground antics than a concert as Dan commanded us to run circles around the venue in a swirling whirlpool of giddy bodies, human-created tunnels which spilled outside the venue and into the halls and back again. Dan played some new songs from his forthcoming album Bromst and sported a pretty impressive Jar Jar Binks t-shirt.
Jape was worried about having to follow such a display of euphoria but in his own way, he succeeded in getting the crowd going with the quality of his tunes rather than theatrics. His just released Ritual album went into number 15 in the Irish charts last week, a nice achievement for one of the soundest blokes and talented musician Ireland has to offer. The new album made up the bulk of the set with the exception of ‘Floating’. ‘I was a Man’ was superb as was ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ and the finale of ‘Phil Lynott’ had people singing along to the “Look at the fucking Moon” line. Richie even went for a crowd surf. Great stuff. Regarding the rest of the acts on the night: I missed High Places, was unperturbed by White Williams and sporadically interested in Deerhunter. I found a 52mm Canon Lens cap if anyone is missing one. We went to McGruders for Red Rum afterwards and got our collective faces melted by Kid 606 and lasers. Good times.
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
man, wish i was there for that one. dan literally is ‘the man’ for live shows.
never seen jape so hopefully soon my day will come.
see you soon nialler mate.
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Thanks, Nial
haha, i like it
When are you back Cubik?
It is a pity they couldn’t shift more tickets, Dan Deacon was worth it alone.
Maybe Dublin has a smaller indie fanbase than we thought. A lot of my friends thought I was referring to Robert DeNiro film when I told them I was going to see Deerhunter.
Deacon’s fun attack in Vicar St: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpo7uukzkFA
landing into Dublin on June 20th.
will drop you an email next week to try and meet for a pint.
That, kids, is the very definition of a pimp-ass motherfucking ‘tache.
Saw Jape play down in Waterford a week back. Richie Egan’s an awesome bloke.
Gutted, just gutted that I missed this gig having heard so much about it today and seen the video’s of the shenanigans. I will have to find a way to clone myself.
Re the ticket sales, there was Hot Chip (shockingly priced) in ALT and Mr. Scruff ( 6 hour set) in Button Factory that might have had a slight impact on crowd numbers at Vicar Street. Can’t imagine the carnage of trying to do the pyramid thing with a full house in Vicar Street though! I hear it went all the way down the jacks downstairs.
Sincerely hope the promoters made a profit.
I was at LOW in ALT on Friday and it seemed pretty full and a pretty incredibly show too. There was just too many gigs on around the same time I think… I am completely gigged out really. Dan looked like fun!
Any chance of that lens cap?
My lens has a got a bit of a baytin in the last few months..
[quote post=”1233″]Any chance of that lens cap?
My lens has a got a bit of a baytin in the last few months..[/quote]
Tell me what gigs you’re going to soon and you’re welcome to it.
Wow, I seemed to have the polar opposite experience at this gig. Thought High Places were the perfect opener and would do well to get to EP as they are the perfect festival band. Was impressed with White Williams, eclectic and fun. Was blown away by Deerhunter though, was not expecting them to be so good. Dan Deacon, arrrgggh, loved ‘The Crystal Cat’ but after that it was Butlins on speed for me, fine if you are celebrating you’re 16th birthday but way too much novelty going on there. Maybe I wasn’t pissed enough. Agree on the worryingly small crowd though.
And just for the record my highlight was hearing ‘Killing In The Name Of’ by RATM during one of the breaks……
hugger!
We’ve never met but I’d love to meet you, first off hugger.
I missed HP, White Williams were OK, hardly incendiary, Deerhunter meh, seriously not that impressive.
I understand that perhaps the Butlins thing came into it. It wasn’t that great a set from Dan that I’ve seen but the energy happening was too infectious to care otherwise. It’s not about drink, the first time I saw him I was sober as a judge. Why do people keep equating drink with a good time. Annoys the shit out of me.
Yeah I know, prefer the drugs myself.
I LOVED the Deerhunter gig. And Bradford was so nice to talk to, despite the cold he had.
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