1 CHICAGO, IL Aragon Ballroom On sale 21st March 10am 6 GEORGE, WA Sasquatch! Festival On sale now 8 VANCOUVER, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre On sale 21st March 10am 11 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium On sale 21st March 10am 13 LOS ANGELES, CA Greek Theatre On sale 5th April 10am
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1 CHICAGO, IL Aragon Ballroom On sale 21st March 10am 6 GEORGE, WA Sasquatch! Festival On sale now 8 VANCOUVER, BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre On sale 21st March 10am 11 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium On sale 21st March 10am 13 LOS ANGELES, CA Greek Theatre On sale 5th April 10am
Sheesh -- they know they have to fly over the eastern two-thirds of America anyway, right?
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I would love to see them again and have traveled in the past to do so. I love seeing new venues and seeing the band, since every show I've seen had something special. The timing this trip just does not work for me. If only Chicago came after LA then I would be set. Alas, hopefully another strong showing in the seats will encourage them to return again to the eastern portion of the country later in 2014 or early in 2015 with perhaps the much ballyhooed new music released. To all you lot lucky enough to go, enjoy it and live in the moment!!
Well, methinks I will make a visit to Chicago. Never been there, but would be a cool city to visit and of course party with all you Vikings!
So recording new stuff will be put back to September when the kids go back to school then.Again.
Bill wrote: So recording new stuff will be put back to September when the kids go back to school then.Again.
Barney quoted saying 7 tracks (vocals and all) in the can.
Pyrtwist wrote: Two tix for Chicago. I hope nothing fucks it up....again.
I've never had a New Order concert cancelled. Just Electronic and Bad Lieutenant!
Andy wrote:
Pyrtwist wrote: Two tix for Chicago. I hope nothing fucks it up....again.
I've never had a New Order concert cancelled. Just Electronic and Bad Lieutenant!
Not cancellations that fuck it up, cars taking $1000 shits the day before, Wifey booking the wrong flight, birth of my second child. Minor issues![:eek]
Mr_D1sco wrote: Surprise surprise another festival payday!! 💀
New Order has played festivals throughout their career. What's your point?
Yeah! Back in town! Will be wearing my Vikings polo courtesy of the crew from about 10 yrs back.
It was just announced by Summerfest that New Order are going to be the headliner on July 3rd: http://summerfest.com/Grounds/BMO.aspx
Not much activity in this thread considering the tour begins this evening. I'm disappointed that there's not been the usual setlist debates and meetup discussions. Have we become lackadaisical due to their more frequent outings?
I, for one, still get excited.
Hope everyone has a great time, sorry I can't be with you this time.
Am sure some of the travelling Vikings will want to meet up when the tour rolls around to California.
JG wrote: Hope everyone has a great time, sorry I can't be with you this time.
This is disappointing. Hopefully we'll see you next time around.
Andy wrote: Not much activity in this thread considering the tour begins this evening. I'm disappointed that there's not been the usual setlist debates and meetup discussions. Have we become lackadaisical due to their more frequent outings?
I, for one, still get excited.
If it's any consolation, I'm very excited! Only doing San Fran and LA gigs mind. I'm meeting the others when they fly down from Vancouver and a few of the LA based fans.
Anyone else from here at those gigs? Particularly excited about the Greek Theatre (but not happy about sitting down).
I'll be at the San Francisco gig.
The venue is nothing special, just a big auditorium. It's double the capacity of the Fox Theatre in Oakland, which explains why tickets are still available.
It's close to many hotels, restaurants, bars and the BART so I'm pleased that they've moved to across the Bay.
Andy wrote:
JG wrote: Hope everyone has a great time, sorry I can't be with you this time.
This is disappointing. Hopefully we'll see you next time around.
For me too, but have work commitments that have made it difficult this time around. Like, making sure I continue to have work commitments!
I'm sure the travelling Vikings will be up for a few drinks, before, during & after the show.
Someone needs to suggest a bar near the venue for a meet.
JG wrote:
Andy wrote:
JG wrote: Hope everyone has a great time, sorry I can't be with you this time.
This is disappointing. Hopefully we'll see you next time around.
For me too, but have work commitments that have made it difficult this time around. Like, making sure I continue to have work commitments!
I'm sure the travelling Vikings will be up for a few drinks, before, during & after the show.
Someone needs to suggest a bar near the venue for a meet.
Any suggestions for a meeting place on Friday?
Andy wrote: Any suggestions for a meeting place on Friday?
I was going to ask the same question. I'm expecting someone local to suggest a place for a pre-gig meetup.
There's a meet in Showdown on 6th from 5pm. The Happy One informs me.
Will you take your place at the showdown? (sorry).
JG wrote: There's a meet in Showdown on 6th from 5pm. The Happy One informs me.
Will you take your place at the showdown? (sorry).
Showdown? Sounds like a trap! You're not even on the continent yet you're pulling the strings like a wily puppet master.
Arrived in town too late for the meetup after all (traffic woes driving up the coast).
Glad I didn't miss any of the show. Final encore was a cover of Scott McKenzie's "If You're Going to San Francisco". They played the whole track and it actually sounded well rehearsed! Bizarre.
Happy to catch up with some of the Vikings afterwards. Will the L.A. show be unique as well?
The San Francisco night was very entertaining and regrettably the only date I managed to make on this tour. The band gave their usual solid performance and a special mention for Bernard's vocals as he sung really well for most of the set; Your Silent Face in particular (and the accompanying video) was a highlight. I enjoyed Singularity (first time I've heard it in the flesh) and Plastic also; looking forward to the studio versions as they've certainly got a fresh sound far removed from the more guitar driven stuff of the past decade and a half. I'm not sure if the ambiguous lyrics of Plastic are aimed at anyone "famous" in particular but I guess some fans will already be chewing them over.
As mentioned the now famous second encore nearly took the roof off the place as literally no-one was expecting the Scott McKenzie cover version which the band belted out very convincingly. A lovely touch and shows they're having a good time touring I.e. making little efforts for local crowds. Would have loved to chat more with the US Vikings but unfortunately we had to be out of our accommodation quite early the next morning and so duly called it a night. Shout outs to the usual suspects who were a pleasure to drink with over the previous nights in SF; Thursday evening in particular.
Only lowlight of the evening was some of the crowd on the right side being overly aggressive - ironically while openly smoking weed - caused a few of us to move back. This guy in a Hawaiian shirt seemed intent on having a ruck with someone early on in the night but gave up after his girlfriend seemed to calm him down. Venue was fine, if a little soulless. I was disappointed not being able to make the final night in LA simply because the venue (Greek Theatre) looked amazing and a special place to see one of your favourite bands play. Have yet to hear reports of that night from people on the ground.
I've got to say since I went to my first NO gig in 2001 I have never (personally) seen the band play so much of PC&L, two new unreleased songs plus a one-off cover version ever. It's a different vibe these days and three years since this line-up began touring they still very much have a look of people enjoying themselves so er... roll on the new record really.
Now back to my jet lag...
NotAMod wrote:
Now back to my jet lag...
Didn't know you were there. It would have been nice to say hello to you. As it was, I only chatted briefly afterwards with Nick, Dave and Sam. And experienced the soft sensuous touch of Jemma's luxuriant lips (ok, it was only a peck on the cheek. But I have a vivid imagination).
Next time around...
I'm presuming you were all able to catch the World Cup Final a few hours before the gig, right? Would have been midday Los Angeles time (4pm in Rio) when the game started?
NotAMod wrote:
Only lowlight of the evening was some of the crowd on the right side being overly aggressive - ironically while openly smoking weed - caused a few of us to move back. This guy in a Hawaiian shirt seemed intent on having a ruck with someone early on in the night but gave up after his girlfriend seemed to calm him down
We were stood right by him and ended up moving to the back so we could dance about. It was also due to some girl who, despite the space, was pushing right up against us all through the first half of the gig, did our nut in. Lots of elbowing backwards and she still didn't move. Apart from that, really enjoyed the gig 😄
Nice to meet you Andy.
Met Steve and Gillian in Amoeba Records on the morning of the LA gig. That one was also great, what an amazing venue. Just wish I'd had standing tickets as people were a bit slow to stand up.
Oh and thanks to Andy Robinson for securing me the set list from the LA gig, and passes to the Aftershow with drinks for us all. Andy and Whitney Fierce (from Hercules and The Love Affair) were DJ's and played some amazing stuff, including a random Kid Creole number - we were dancing all night.
Back to reality now and eating jam butties for the foreseeable.
was out of the N.O. loop for a while but then kind of got back into it all a few weeks ago (maybe a month by this point) and damn somehow the fact that they were playing in San Francisco completely went under my radar, i arrived there literally a day after their concert for a trip/my own personal gig early the next week and my god i was disappointed/incredulous well, at the very least at least those 2 new songs (both of which i was reeal pleasantly surprised/enthralled with) point to a possible new release/tour after, just hoping they include us in the leg again
