What time did Daft Punk go on?

10:45

how was White Williams?

He wasn't white enough.

White Williams were good. They had some guy dress up in a cheesy red suit with a giant balloon for a head which was pretty stupid. Other than that they were solid. Battles killed it.

White Williams was good. They had some guy dress up in a cheesy red suit with a giant balloon for a head which was pretty stupid. Other than that they were solid. Battles killed it.

Was Daft Punk really there? I like their music and would be disappointed to have missed them. Saw them play this past summer and thought they put on a good show.

How can anyone think Battles is good? Terrible seems to be a better description.

battles live=amazing. white williams live=not so amazing. a place to bury strangers live=amazing but the vocals need to be turned up. great show all around. battles puts on a brilliant live set. they absolutely give it their all. this was they're final show of the tour so it was really special. white williams set get majorly drowned out by the heavy bass. a place to bury stranger's set was better at bowery when they opened up for the black angels. their vocals get a little murky and nondescript but maybe that was also the crappy sound at webster hall, though it's probably a combination of the two. also webster didn't let them use their usual visuals which are killer. i really missed the visuals, it's so much a part of their set.

whats up with the sound at webster hall? i was a staunch hater of it, having been to many shows where i thought the bass was going to collapse my chest. but when i saw animal collective there on 10/1 the sound was great.

I wonder why the variability? maybe AC was a unique instance since they had sound issues the night before, and made special arrangements to correct everything? whatever the reason, the hit-or-miss nature is disappointing...i always thought a sub-par sound system was the issue, but it seems like the bad sound at webster hall is caused by human error.

thoughts?

the horrible thing about webster hall is that you can hear the bass from the club below. it happened at jens lekman AND at menomena. jens even asked the audience to clap along to the beat of the bass, it was so heavy that it was vibrating the floor. i wish bowery presents wouldn't schedule dates at webster, but it's all about making money isn't it? also the drink prices at webster are an insane rip off.

tragic news: blonde redhead show just announced for terminal 5. the sound at terminal 5 is horrible too. sight lines are horrible. i'd never see a show there again. bowery presents are just getting greedy.

Does Blonde Redhead/their booking agent really think they're big enough to fill up even half that place?

they had to cancel their starland ballroom show a couple of months ago due to poor ticket sales, and terminal 5 is even bigger.

blonde redhead is awesome. but why terminal 5? what a disaster. that shows gonna be shite, and i love blonde redhead. stupid move. stupid stupid move. they should be playing a beautiful space like united palace or radio city, not some crappy vacuous cave like former club space with terrible acoustics. majorly disappointing.

A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS is the fucking truth. i wish they would stop opening shows at huge places for bands they are superior to.

but i think battles are rad. it's just that rooms any bigger than bowery are really a drag, esp. webster hall.

webster hall is shite.

Battles fucking KILLED IT. Absolutely devastating.

White Williams were pleasant, not great.

A Place to Bury Strangers - couldn't hear anything but the bass feedback. I couldn't even hear the drums.

I think your main problem is that so many bands that seem small or are new are more popular than they would've been in the past. Five years ago for a band like Battles to headline and sell out Bowery Ballroom would've been a big deal. Bigger venues suck - they're less intimate, more expensive and sound worse. Irving Plaza is a bit smaller, and is also pretty crappy compared to smaller places. It's just the nature of being a large space in a very expensive and dense city like New York. Terminal 5 is problematic, but compare it to other venues of similar sizes - Roseland, Hammerstein - where would you rather see a show?

Most bands can't afford to play multiple nights at smaller places, or don't want to. And if they play one night at a small place, either tickets have to be super expensive (shitty) or they're reasonably priced and people on Craigslist sell them for a fortune (equally shitty).