Concerts

Okay, don't pass out or anything, but I think I actually like one of your bands.

You know Jerm, I really didn't dig their new album. It sounded very over-produced from what I had come to know of them. I could see how they could translate well live, though.

Sorry I didn't reply to your text message! My phone was on the fritz and wouldn't let me access my messages. Also, I think you should just keep pitching to the Muse guy that all you want is for them to come back to Atlanta and let us finish the story. Get some back stage passes and do an interview.

Right.

D.A.

woah this place is gettin' hostile

I liked the new snow patrol album--it's very "listener-friendly"(which can be both good and bad)
although it was a lil' distrurbing to see that it was featured on a WB show last night-always a bad sign! (i know, i know -why was i watching a WB show!?? i was home w/ a migrane OK!)

but anyway that looked like a decent venue in DC!
hopefully we can show 'em a good time here in SF
i will def try to make thier show -even though there's at least like five i wanna go to that week!! (the SF music scene is finally getting it's act together!)

snow patrol is great stuff!I cant believe that jeremy got to see them.. I would've went without sleep as well :) and ya Javann muse and sea and cake is some good junk as well... what about jeff buckley? ya ever hit that? and keats I hear ya with the radiohead...butttt why the OTHER BANDS people... haha nah some of them werent that bad buuut most of them were.. in my view point. there's too many I'm not gonna list the ones I dont like... but thats the beauty in music everyones got their own taste, but at least a few people have good taste like me!ouch lol j.k peoples

Hey yes Snowpatrol are great live. we saw them late last year when they supported another UK band called Athlete (you should also check them out www.athlete.mu)in London. And their album Final Straw is not over produced who ever said that! They are one those bands who have recieved little attention and have only been recognised from their 3rd album! Anyway, they are eyeballjuicingly good live and rarely for support had people getting up in excitement on other peoples shoulders for the irishmen. The bassist didn't cry for us though... Man you Americans know how to bring out emotion!

Hello there Meg and Soph!

I say that the new album is overproduced because listening to their older efforts, there is a certain, more personal quality to them. Final Straw, while a good album, just doesn't seem as "close" as the rest. It's a danger that all bands who are not thrown onto the radio face when they start to grow as musicians and get more mainstream. My favorite example of this is Tommy Walters (ex-Eels bassist) solo album as Abandoned Pools. Great riffs, decent lyrics, distinct voice, good marketing (I still have my robot pin) got him onto several TV show soundtracks. The album as a whole though did not sound like what he was going for musically at all. The producer threw in everything but the kitchen sink and summarilly made everything sound like it was trying to be something it wasn't.

That's how Final Straw makes me feel. I love the lyrics and instrumentation, but it just feels distant to me. That being said, I would say that the songs would translate very well live, allowing them to keep their original feel.

It's good to hear that the show went so well. That gives me hope.

D.A.

they're concert gave me goosebumps!
honestly the 1st time i heard them was right before theconcert. i trust Jeremy's input on music so i was all about going..... im so glad we went! Snow Patrol converted me to side to side head banging verses front to back ....doesn't hurt as bad :)
i will say that it is rare to see a band produce that much emotion in me at a concert.....totally a true fan now!!

oh my goondess that was just so much fun! and i got to see a friend i hadn'ts in a while. hehe. anyways

Hey there D.A.
I appreciate your opinion and yes the Eels comments did back it up very well, early Eels stuff is better and less... same-old-same-old. I was listening to Final Straw again the other day and by "over-produced" do you mean similar to everything else/nothing-new-here kinda theme? In which case I agree with you, as some of the vocals remind me of Pete Yorn and other Pete Yorn figures (late Elliot Smith, Brendan Benson...). I think Pete Yorn is great but several tracks on Final straw do have a strange similarity!

I have the latest album of Snow patrol..it's great!I love spitting games, chocolate, wow and run..once when I listened run I started to cry because the song is so beatiful and sad, it tells about goodbyes...I hope that they are going to visit here in Finland, because I would so like to see them... People go and buy the album Final straw..it's great!
Hellos to Riina...