The Roots will be joined at all shows by True Live, the Melbourne ensemble featuring RHyNO MC out front, backed by a three piece string section, drums and keys. Tickets for the tour go onsale Tuesday January 30th
it must of been last time they were here ... dj questlove from the roots did a show at honkytonks. does anyone know if he's gonna do a solo spin like that again?
z-dubya wrote:it must of been last time they were here ... dj questlove from the roots did a show at honkytonks. does anyone know if he's gonna do a solo spin like that again?
those kind of gigs at Honky's weren't advertised and the word was only spread a couple of days before
stovequeen wrote:
They are here for the Byron Bay B&R Fest
Will you be?
I'd love to. But it would be a $2,000 week for me if i did.
$400 for ticket
$500 airfare
then accom, food, booze etc.
Fucking rad line up though. I'll get there one day
I guess you are going?
I'll be there. Pretty much everyone in my office gets freebies.
Fat Freddys Drop, Roots, Arrested Development, Ozomatli, Paul Kelly, Bo Diddley, Eric Burdon (just to see House of the Rising Sun, Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood and Lowrider), Blue King Brown etc.
and i love true live, was managing their stage one time, they are the lovliest guys, the mc is great, so bouncy, and so many great instruments make for a fuckin amazing sound.
Friday wrote:wanna make it down but still undecided... i don't like the metro! much prefer it to be at the palace.
Forum would be better!
Metro ain't the greatest venue for sure, how do they rate in terms of numbers - i guess metro is biggest, then forum, then palace?
At least it ain't festival hall, never been there but heard plenty of horror stories.
forum is way way way more expensive for a promoter though...
palace is actually the biggest of the 3. pretty comparable to metro though. palace 1,880 and metro 1,850 off the top of my head. similar hire fees too so no reason to do one more than the other on that front.
i worked on a teriyaki gig at the forum many years ago...
we were there a few days doin decor, and met one of the caretakers..
he told us of how the gargoyles on the outside can be traced within to a secret room set up with pentacle in the floor, symbols everywhwere, freemason type majick room.
i want to hire it one time, just to find that room.
i recorded a concert at the forum earlier this year. jesus! its reaaaly dodgy in the backstage areas. but its all about the vibe. it looks insane on the inside! and the little theatre upstairs is nice also.
but on topic... i'm bummed i'm not goign to see the roots
Heard it was superb, two drummers are always an excellent start, and apparently no DJ.
Didn't hear back about tickets to the afterparty so my night was instead a kick ass time at Croft, then meeting up with a friend who told me everything about the Roots gig.
it sucked compared to the last time i saw them. the venue was as people predicted awful, overcrowded heaps of drunk people who just talked all the way through the gig the sound was pretty crappy and had to hang back coz of the short people in our crew and wound up upstairs behind the glass watching them because at least the sound was reasonable and people weren't barging past you all the time. the roots were lacklustre except for a couple of tracks and ?love was pretty ordinary, last time i saw him he blew me away.
the awesome hip hop medly and the seed were redeeming but without a female vocalist or rahzel or a second mc or cody chestnut they relied on over long instrumental solo's to pad out the show. pretty bummed out really had been looking forward to this for months and the show i saw at the palace a few years ago was the best live hip hop i had ever seen. think they were better given a limited time frame and with more crew on stage.
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