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  1. it's always going to be hard to engage festival audience who are purely there for the nostalgia. did anyone here really expect any different? LP are hardly a band that are relevant to most people's tastes these days, this was always going to be the case.
  2. Oli Sykes' (Bring Me The Horizon) first rock gig was LP's Manchester Apollo show in 2001, an experience which he claims lead him to want to start a rock band, having previously been only into dance and pop music. Craig Mabbitt's (Escape The Fate) first gig was LP's Arizona America West Arena show in 2002, he claims that now, every time he is onstage and makes a split second connection with a fan, that he is thinking back to a moment where Chester pointed at him during this show, and made his night memorable. Mabbitt also claimed that his ears were bleeding after the show! S: Kerrang magazine
  3. I noticed this too. most seemed to be expecting alot more Meteora.
  4. http://lplive.net/shows/db/2008/20080117 missing this - http://lp-bits.com/details.php?id=357 Source 1: Video - AUD (Unknown) Taper: Unknown Time: ? Format: DVD / 2.17 GB Comments: Incomplete, only What I've Done, Faint, Hands Held High, Given Up, Crawling, Bleed It Out, My December, A Place For My Head and One Step Closer were taped. added by Mike 6/18/2014
  5. this is why festivals rule. I think I saw those two the next day, same costumes, smelling like crap. dedication.
  6. home now, can post without masses of spelling mistakes. hahaa nice! part of me wondered if Geki had made the trip personally, was great to finally see some post-'09 songs live, it's been a long time coming! wasn't too far forward (quite a way behind the 2nd barrier) but I did get to see a guy dressed as Jesus losing his shit to BIO, so there's that.. one thing that I felt about the show was that I think Mike was really struck by what Hybrid Theory, this day, his band kind of meant to people: the flame tattoos, the fact that Oli Sykes had pretty much based his decision to start a band on the basis of LP's 2001 Manc show, and were now only 2 spots beneath them on the bill? his face the whole way through the HT section was this total look of "holy shit!", it was so great. very few people (around me at least) knew the new stuff, but that's to be expected if you hadn't been consciously keeping up with the leaks.
  7. Also, before BIO (I think it was BIO), mike was talking then stopped himself saying that he'd already talked alot so it was chester's turn to talk, Chester said he didn't mind - "you're a very nice man and you say important things"
  8. 21:05 (local time) is their advertised start
  9. Bear in mind that Chester said it would be under a false name "an assumed name" are the exact words in the little interview. We wouldn't know it was happening until some local scene-goer got online like "WTF!?"
  10. I am onsite right now. Massive THP posters on the hoardings in the arena, no tour adverts though (re: autumn tour rumours). LP's merch this cycle is awesome, but it's £25 a pop.. Tomorrow can't come soon enough, but now, it's beer o'clock EDIT: something interesting in the programme: "Bennington reveals that the band had been weighing up something far more low key [to celebrate/play HT in full], namely a run of US club dates under [a psedonym band name] in [hybrid theory's] 15th anniversary year of 2015. "That would have been so so cool" he enthuses, "but then download got in touch and it kinda felt like the universe was telling us to do something. We had to do it"."
  11. I definitely won't be on the barrier. I often find it's not worth the effort - too much shoving and snarky people. Going to get a good spot to move about in
  12. Great write-up, I'm seriously looking forward to this. My 2nd LP show, 5 years (5!) since my first in '09. So so so excited. Happy to see that they'll be offering it up for DSP(ish) download too - of all the shows to randomly appear as a DSP, it needed to be this one ..although I'm still looking forward to some good audience recordings too
  13. I seem to remember something worded similarly in Kerrang.I agree with Ducko, there mus be something else after PMA. It's far too weak to end on.
  14. this is why I'm sure there won't be anything streamed for LP at Download: it's not happened in the past for any other band (or any other LP performance there), so why would they do so now? we all have a bias towards them here, and we'd all love to see HT in full webcasted I'm sure, but in reality, the organisers see them as just another headline act. Webcasting costs so much money to pull off - camera equipment, sattelite links, server space, copyrighting, paperwork, etc. - and everyone watching it at home gets to do so for free, so a significant portion of ticket sales go towards funding others' non-contribution.. The UK's a small place, and there are lots of festivals competing for an audience, it would make poor business sense for the bigger (more expensive) festivals to webcast, particularly in these tough economic times, since it gives people a free option. I don't know why (some) European festivals are different but not webcasting forces people to be there and pay for their entertainment.
  15. mobile has a lot of features stripped out, but at least once you've read up to a page on mobile threads, the site remembers where you were when you exited the mobile thread. If I'm correct, it's to do with the fact that your mobile browser will be storing cookies specific to that device, which may not be the same as those held on your normal desktop device. It's a pain for bigger threads, but it at least keeps tabs on where you were last time. on another note- not sure if this is a glitch but, the "next show" list on the side of the home page - Download Fest is indented for some reason.
  16. no. it's likely that clips or songs from the set will be played on TV specials (Sky Arts sometimes have Download Fest summary programs) but this will not be webcasted. Download and a lot of other UK festivals simply do not do this.
  17. yes, Download's more likely, this wouldn't suprise me - it's exactly how 30STM announced their Nov. UK dates, same time last year
  18. haha nice try, might as well chuck in Step Up and Dedicated while they're there
  19. I have listened. my findings shall be published somewhere soon
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