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Damien Rice in Vicar Street last night
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8/31/2006 1:37 PM
    Anyone at Damien Rice in vicar st. last night? Show was good but at the start of it he said the air con was being switched off due to the sound it would make. Fair enough I thought until as the gig progressed the place started to resemble a sauna! I was literally dripping wet coming out of there and I couldnt enjoy it properly because of the unbearable heat.
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    8/31/2006 1:39 PM
    sounds like a nightmare!!
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    8/31/2006 1:44 PM
    At antony and the johnsons last year the air con was wrecking my head. This constant ticking sound up from above the balcony. They should sort it out if the only solution is to turn it off have people sweating buckets.
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    8/31/2006 1:49 PM
    Yeah it was unnatural.I was up on the balcony and it was bad, I csn only imagine what it was like in the main arena. I don't know how they could get around it though for the quieter acts other than come up with a way of making the air con quieter. Turning it off is way too drastic!
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    8/31/2006 1:50 PM
    did he ask anyone to leave for speaking ??? did he play any new stuff and was it any good ?
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    8/31/2006 1:58 PM
    Yeah he played quite a lot of new stuff. Sound pretty good, a lot heavier than his previous stuff. Yer one Vivianne did a nice cover of the Flaming Lips' Yoshimi on the organ which was an unexpected but nice surprise. Lisa Hannigan sounded quality aswell. He had some nice vocal and delay effects going on which added to a lot of the tunes i thought.
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    8/31/2006 2:03 PM
    i'm not a fan at all... however, i'm contributing to this thread to say that i was relaibly informed that most of the new stuff he played was actually old stuff (i.e. juniper)
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    8/31/2006 2:05 PM
    I read he only played 3 new songs or something!!! what the hell
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    8/31/2006 2:18 PM
    I went on Tuesday, thought he was adaquate at best.
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    8/31/2006 3:04 PM
    One of the most ludicrously overrated singer-songwriters ever to emerge from this country. Is he still dining out on 'O' as he has been for the last half-decade? Having to listen to Rice's miserable compositions in a hot, packed and air-con free Vicar Street is a thought too hellish to contemplate. I pity anyone who was at this.
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    8/31/2006 4:16 PM
    3 new songs hmmmh come on damo prove us wrong and for god sake stop being so narky !!!!! your gigs arnt mass and your not an organised religion !!!
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    8/31/2006 4:24 PM
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    3 new songs hmmmh come on damo prove us wrong and for god sake stop being so narky !!!!! your gigs arnt mass and your not an organised religion !!!
    i was at a wedding there last week and the priest kept telling eveyone to shut up! was almost like being at a gig...
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    8/31/2006 4:24 PM
    Jaysus imagine what the heat was like in the moshpit
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    8/31/2006 4:34 PM
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    i was at a wedding there last week and the priest kept telling eveyone to shut up! was almost like being at a gig...
    I was at a wedding in Portumna last year and the priest went on about true love and said to the couple "i hope you have true love and not the kind of love you see on the adult channel", the poor groom (a friend of mine) could be seen on his knees shaking trying to hold back a fit of the giggles. Nothing to do with Damian Rice, but sure what has
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    9/1/2006 12:51 PM
    Scathing review in today's Indo.
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    9/1/2006 3:50 PM
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    Originally posted by Man in a can
    I was at a wedding in Portumna last year and the priest went on about true love and said to the couple "i hope you have true love and not the kind of love you see on the adult channel", the poor groom (a friend of mine) could be seen on his knees shaking trying to hold back a fit of the giggles.
    Sounds to me like the priest had doubts
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    9/1/2006 4:11 PM
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    Scathing review in today's Indo.
    Scathingly inaccurate as well. Nine Crimes isn't a new song. I've a demo tape that's about 6 years old with a recording of that song on it.
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    9/1/2006 5:24 PM
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    Scathing review in today's Indo.
    Wouldn't say scathing now, would have been quite interested to have heard the disembodied distortion/howling segments tho', if only to see does it match the sound I hear in my head when 'cannonball' comes on the radio unexpectedly
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    9/1/2006 6:02 PM
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    Originally posted by Rev Jules would have been quite interested to have heard the disembodied distortion/howling segments tho',
    The whole review is a bit John Meagher vs The Distortion Mic isn't it? I mean, I despise Damien Rice/the Romans as much as anyone but yer man Meagher seems to have a problem with the idea of using one at all!


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