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Pixies - Nov 18th, Olympia Theatre
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Was in the Upper Circle last night, and the sound was awful at times
For some songs we could hear only Joey Santiago and the thumping of the bass drum and the murmer of everything else beneath it. TBH by the end of the gig my ears were 'tired' in the way eyes get after squinting too long to try see something 
Which sounds like a crazy thing to say!
That being said they belted out the tracks non stop (though literally without a single word spoken) crowd was great, as was the selection of songs. For me personally 'Where is my Mind' was the transcendental moment of the night and I think I'll always feel those goose bumps and see those yellow lights again each time I hear it from now on.0 -
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Was in the Upper Circle last night, and the sound was awful at times For some songs we could hear only Joey Santiago and the thumping of the bass drum and the murmer of everything else beneath it. TBH by the end of the gig my ears were 'tired' in the way eyes get after squinting too long to try see something Which sounds like a crazy thing to say!.
Thank feck someone else said this, I thought I was the only one, felt like a complete traitor complaining about the sound. Was on the first floor seats but right at the front - the centre speaker stack was directly in front about 30 feet away. Sound started out fine but about 4 songs in Joey's guitar got cranked up and he was all you could hear. Been to some seriously loud gigs before but this was nuts loud. Stayed like that and in the end I ended up moving to the back - couldn't see the band but sounded spot on.
Kinda ruined the gig for me which was a shame cause it was a cracking set, wasn't expecting much from the new songs but they were savage.0 -
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Last night was about the fifth time I'd seen the Pixies since the early 90's and I thought they'd lost nothing, despite the fact that Kim Deal wasn't there, although you do miss her silly yapping between songs. Shattuck did fine though, but her mike needed turning up.
I was down the front and the sound was pretty good from there, even if Joey's guitar was overloaded at times. But I had to take a piss during one of the songs and from the back, it sounded quite bad.
I'm glad someone else thought it was loud, I figured that I was just getting old.
Great gig all the same and a long one too, felt close to 2 hours.
'Tony's Theme', best song of the night... I wonder why that was...
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Last night was about the fifth time I'd seen the Pixies since the early 90's and I thought they'd lost nothing, despite the fact that Kim Deal wasn't there, although you do miss her silly yapping between songs. Shattuck did fine though, but her mike needed turning up.
I was down the front and the sound was pretty good from there, even if Joey's guitar was overloaded at times. But I had to take a piss during one of the songs and from the back, it sounded quite bad.
I'm glad someone else thought it was loud, I figured that I was just getting old.
Great gig all the same and a long one too, felt close to 2 hours.
'Tony's Theme', best song of the night... I wonder why that was...
I find in the Olympia that the sound gets kind of tinny and shrill towards the back.
Is it because the balcony is blocking the sound from the two stacks of
speakers?
I think the best area for sound in the Olympia is if you are central and behind the barrier for the pit, where when you look up behind you, you can see the front row of the circle area0 -
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