MGMT olympia sat october 19th

davywalsh7

http://www.mcd.ie/home/fn.php?c=7967896&ar=mgmt

MGMTea

Woo

Dr. Bre

tickets on sale friday

DC10555

Just picked up my ticket there now (MCD pre-sale was still valid) I've been wanting to see MGMT for a while now so looking forward to this one!

weser777

got my ticket on pre-sale, as I was afraid they'd sell out right away...to my surprise, its still not sold out!

lc180

Do these guys still play the hits? I remember seeing them on tv after Celebration came out and they weren't too interested & looked pissed off about playing the big ones from the first album!

Shane St.

Any1 listen to the new album?

StickyMcGinty

Shane St. wrote: »

Any1 listen to the new album?

Not out till next week?

Thought I saw a preview on Rdio though

Edit: Full album here

Caonima

'Kids' is great

weser777

Shane St. wrote: »

Any1 listen to the new album?

downloaded it today - absolutely ****e!

DC10555

Ugh.. I didn't realize they had a new album on the way, mainly looking forward to the classics here.

Dr. Bre

any idea what the setlist will be on sat?

CFC007

Dr. Bre wrote: »

any idea what the setlist will be on sat?

Set list here from Glasgow 2 nights ago

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/mgmt/2013/o2-abc-glasgow-scotland-13c72149.html

bobsnob

playing n cork for free sunday

Shane St.

weser777 wrote: »

downloaded it today - absolutely ****e!

It's good. Give it a chance

StickyMcGinty

Setlist looks solid, looking forward to this

Dr. Bre

alien days is a class song

Carroller

What did people think of this?

Pretty much a dead crowd apart from the three main songs, my girlfriend said she felt like falling asleep but then again I knew before we went she wouldn't like them :P

I took a video of kids which makes the athmosphere look to be better than it actually was http://youtu.be/mZaFWrLnzlY

DC10555

Carroller wrote: »

What did people think of this?

Pretty much a dead crowd apart from the three main songs, my girlfriend said she felt like falling asleep but then again I knew before we went she wouldn't like them :P

I took a video of kids which makes the athmosphere look to be better than it actually was http://youtu.be/mZaFWrLnzlY

The crowd seemed to be really enjoying the tunes from Oracular Spectacular, I tried getting into the new album all week but It just didn't jell with me at all, Personally I think some of it is just badly mixed and it's quite off putting, I find that there is a lack of clarity in Andrews vocals throughout the album compared to that of Oracular Spectacular. Maybe that's just me though.. :eek:

Either way I thought It was a good gig and I enjoyed it, I managed to get into the pit for the 1st time at the Olympia which was a miracle since I was running late, I can see where you're coming from though, I did notice a few people staring at the stage bored out of their minds..

jungleland86

Thought that the band might have lost the "Kids" brigade by now especially with only 1 show in the Olympia on this tour compared to 3 on the Congratulations tour but that was not the case.

Band themselves were excellent but the crowd were (barring the 400 or so people out of about 1600 who were actually there to enjoy non Oracular Spectacular songs) disgraceful. As with the 3 other times I've seen this band, and has happened at a lot of Irish gigs in the last few years it was just FULL of people talking loudly to the point where you can't hear the music, not facing the stage, barging in and out to get pints. A crowd whose attitude was I'm only here for 3 songs so I don't care if I ruin the rest of the set for other people. This attitude summed up by the fact that about 1/4 of the crowd left before the encore after kids had been played.

MGMT can't seem to shake the image that they are a pop-dance novelty act (when they're a weird psych indie band) and for the most part attract an audience which is as ignorant about the bands own catalogue as it is about gig etiquette. I look forward to the day when I can see this great band in smaller venue with a few hundred like minded people.

lertsnim

I thought they said that they would never play Kids again. When I saw them a few years ago I thought it was a bit pointless to have Kids on the setlist as it was just the band dancing to a backing track. Maybe they actually play it live now.