Spiritualized Live

Fair comment by Mark Grout though

This is the response I feared. I was hoping they might have stuff that non-fans might like better than LAGWAFIS (which I listened to extensively when it came out, and a couple of times more recently - it wasn't just a casual listen, I really did give it a fair chance.)

Jesus, I was there and have never felt more pi$$ed off at the end of it than with any other gigs (Baxendale excepted, natch) THat was a terrible gig, really awful, no atmossphere whatsoever.

Don't expect them to be like RAH, in the fall they were touring with
(I think)just six in the band. Look out for "Run" (a highlight) and "Take your time" (One of my least favs from from LGM) as well as a couple others from that album. From Pure Phase they've been playing "Medication" and sometimes "Electric Mainline" & "All of my Tears".
At least six were from the new album, and from LAG they played "Cop Shoot Cop" and "Come Together".

ALso worth checking out is "Walking with Jesus" a classic they've been
playing from J's S3 days. You can see the video for that at Drug Music Webcast, but the slower album version of WWJ is a must here.

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Also, Snrub is totally OTM with Fucked Up Inside eats Royal Albert Hall for breakfast.

I couldn't help myself. Am now going to LAGWAFIS show at Radio City on July 30th.

Don't worry, it'll be great.

Happy Valentine's, LA

http://goldenvoice.com/shows/details/?id=247067

http://www.acehotel.com/calendar/losangeles/spiritualized

I have my finger on the trigger ready for Wednesday. I can't wait.

Saw the band Friday night in Austin, my first show since before the pandemic and my first time seeing the band since... 2010? Whenever the Acoustic Mainline tour was. It was a relaxed evening and it felt good to be out and about with a friend, free of responsibilities for a night.

The band and the show was just okay. The only pre Amazing Grace song they played was Shine A Light and there were quite a few songs that seemed very samey. All those songs that sound like Electricity, and garage rock Spiritualized is my least favorite Spiritualized. I think they played almost all of the songs from the new album that hasn't been released yet. It was an outside venue in a neighborhood so the volume was limited and the sound wasn't very good. The bass player was center stage and his playing was too busy and the guitars were mixed waaaay too low. Does anybody go see Spiritualized in hopes of seeing a bass player noodling? There were three guitarists onstage but it was often difficult to make them out or understand why three of them were necessary. A saxophone would have been nice. The backup singers were very good.

There were multiple times when a song would start and I thought "oh, they're playing that great song!" but it would be a newer song that sounded very similar to an older song but was not as good.

I think Jason needs a collaborator or something to get him out of his rut. I like what I've heard of the new album but seeing them was kind of a bummer.

! Hope everyone is OK. NYC gig cancelled too.
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/spiritualized-cancel-tonights-jersey-city-show-after-medical-emergency-in-philly-on-thursday/

Spz bringing the Pure Phase anniversary vibes: shows in late September in NYC and LA. Tickets on sale over the next couple of days.

Oh man, that would be amazing.

Often my favorite album of theirs.