Went to Placebo on Monday night in old Dublin town. They boys out on a great show. Loud and noisy. Only bummer was they didn’t do any of the older stuff but that’s a minor quibble.
Shout by Tears for Fears was the first encore. Was epic.
Oh FFS!!
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The modern day Sun City?
Queue Little Steven covers…
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I know musicians love touring until the end of time but I hope this tour’ like Celine Dion’s will be her last (for a good while) so they can focus on their health….last thing we need is see anymore tragic news with iconic pop stars 
poor labrie @Nikola , imagine him singing alongside devin
He goes in hard with “D”, “O” and “V”
Two for the price of one ! Both a cinematic and a musical masterpiece here ; Scott Walker’s re-telling of Ingmar Bergman’s classic film , The Seventh Seal.
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https://twitter.com/BLABBERMOUTHNET/status/1676931081193553921
Has anyone seen @anon27364116 recently? This will hit him hard, please let me know if he’s OK.
My main question is why a ‘Long Goodbye’? A short one would’ve done it.
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A farewell tour for each member? I think there’s only Don Henley left from the original band now.
A bit like The Drifters… They were always changing group members.
Towards the end there wasn’t one original member… A guy I worked with went to see them performing at a nightclub - he said they had morphed into 5 Chinese guys…! :0)
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It’s a bit like the Ship of Theseus. At what point does it become a new entity?
I have this hypothesis that old bands that keep on going eventually turn into tribute acts of themselves. Except the “real” tribute acts tend to be better with younger, often more accomplished, if not original, musicians.
I’m in Scotland at the moment and the local village hall where we used to live are advertising Pink Floyd, Rod Stewart and Elvis. Unlike the originals, they are still talking to each other, capable of singing their biggest hits as we remember them, and not actually dead.
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At the Theatre Antique we’re going to have ‘Queen’ the lead singer is a dead ringer for Freddie Mercury (on the pamphlet).
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I like the ingenuity in the names some of the tribute acts come up with… They are Brilliant 
Meet Loaf…
Malt Loaf…
Peat Loaf…
Beat Loaf…
Meat Loud…
Deadringer For Meat…
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Sorry late, but you look at that list, compare it with the pop one and it’s night and day imo. And even then you could expand this list a long long way.
Wtf has gone wrong? Or is it me?
Every generation has music for kids that their parents hate. It’s the circle of life.
Rock n roll
Punk
Disco
Rap
Whatever the fuck the autotune bullshit that passes for music these days is.
Somebody, somewhere hated all of these
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Also, it’s a myth that music was necessarily better in years gone by. It’s simply that the 99% of utter garbage is forgotten.
Nostalgia is a great curator.