Eastpak antidote tour 2011

This year, the eastpak antidote tour came to Madrid to offer us a pretty cool  show for such a low Price.

The organization was great, there were no problems: perfect queue, cheap merchandaise,and the timetables were correct. There were no innecessary waits and they gave lots of picks, t-shirts and stuff.

The theme was mainly the hardcore music, the artists were: the skyline war, living with lions, the ghost inside and the super bands August burns red and a day to remember.

As usual in this kind of shows, there were plenty of circle and mosh pits and a pair of walls of death. People didn’t stop jumping and pushing. Security staff had work that night.

The last part of the show with A day to remember just made the night. The setlist was the same as in Barcelona, but they played “it’s complicated” instead of “monument”.

During “Homesick”, the singer, Jeremy, jumped to the public enclosed in a large plastic ball. He was right above us. Later lots of ballons were dropped from the ceiling and by the end of the show, there were so many things flying (beach balls, condoms, ballons, paper rolls) that you had to be protecting your face constantly.

In my opinion, they made a safe, beautiful and funny show even for the underaged people, making possible that everyone stop being afraid of going to hardcore gigs, they’re bombastic!
This is the song "you be tails, i'll be sonic"

Hope you all like this
@miguelpunx

The kooks 22/10/2011

                                    

To start winter as it deserves, the kooks were coming to Madrid to present their lastest work: junk of the heart.

The gig, @ La Riviera, was supposed to be way quieter than the concerts we are used to go, but the kooks have demosntrarted over all these years that they're real artists so we didn't hesitate to go. And since Nacho was in London atending to a Zebrahead show, I bought the ticks as soon as I could.

The queue kept very calm, except for the moment when Luke Pritchard came out to say hello and people went crazy.

To the show, we got front-row. At first we though the musicians were gonna have a distant and cold attitude because they looked very shy, but they weren't at all. Luke was speaking the whole time, and throwing picks, and dind't stop making people sing&dance.

Seltist

- Is it me?

- Always where I need to be

- Sofa song

- Matchbox

- Rosie

- She moves in her own way

- Killing me

- Skimo kiss

- You don't love me

- Seaside

- Tick of time

- See the sun

- How'd you like that

- Mr. Niceguy

- Ooh la

- Shine on

- Do you wanna?

- Saboteur

- Junk of the heart

- Naive

The show was not good but perfect! Luke voice is exactly as it sounds in the albums, or even better!

The setlist was a perfect mix of their three albums, they did not forget any of their best songs. The bad part of all this is that everything just flew by, all in one second! Moreover they did not expend too much time in the goodbye, just said thanks and they left (after the drummer gave a stick to Nacho). I guess Luke disappeared that fast due to the hot because he did not take off his very british jacket in all the show.

I recorded this: Killing me.

                                              

@miguelpunx