plaid What are plaid like live?

  On 8/22/2010 at 6:43 AM, sirch said:

  On 8/22/2010 at 6:34 AM, Awepittance said:

the only time i saw plaid live it was just them playing tracks verbatim from their albums, and using a robotic arm with a camera attached to film them behind the stage and project it behind them. unfortunately there was nothing to film, watching someone tweak an EQ on a mackie mixer from a robotic arm operated camera for 1 hour was to put it mildly, a little disappointing.

 

the robo arm was to show that they're actually doing some live tweaking/mixing up there, and not just pressing play on a laptop and wanking themselves off behind it, while pounding their chests and smoking a fat cigar (full of weed, of course), cos anything else just wouldn't be cool or 'IDM' enough.. lol

where do you live, awepittance? maybe there wasn't much of a crowd to impress that night.

or maybe it was show 29 of 33 an they just couldn't be arsed. or maybe they were drunk. lol

i dunno.

Have to say, they were pretty fucking great. Sound engineers fucked up royally though. There was a bit of stopping and starting.

  On 8/22/2010 at 6:54 AM, sirch said:

  On 8/22/2010 at 6:43 AM, sirch said:

  On 8/22/2010 at 6:34 AM, Awepittance said:

the only time i saw plaid live it was just them playing tracks verbatim from their albums, and using a robotic arm with a camera attached to film them behind the stage and project it behind them. unfortunately there was nothing to film, watching someone tweak an EQ on a mackie mixer from a robotic arm operated camera for 1 hour was to put it mildly, a little disappointing.

 

the robo arm was to show that they're actually doing some live tweaking/mixing up there, and not just pressing play on a laptop and wanking themselves off behind it, while pounding their chests and smoking a fat cigar (full of weed, of course), cos anything else just wouldn't be cool or 'IDM' enough.. lol

 

where do you live, awepittance? maybe there wasn't much of a crowd to impress that night.

or maybe it was show 29 of 33 an they just couldn't be arsed. or maybe they were drunk. lol

i dunno.

it was a pretty big show at the mezzanine in san francisco. maybe i was too drunk? i dont know i just remember that the robotic arm camera showed nothing that appeared to be making live electronic music, i only saw DJ style antics happening. they got pretty much upstaged by Clark though who put on an amazing set right before

I saw them on the US tour for double figure. It was awesome. One of the best electronic shows I've seen. The sound was on point and their energy was great. THe stage was kind of small despite it being a (i think) 600 person capacity. Which btw it was almost sold out, quite full in there for them to be headliners, this made me very happy. Anyway, the small stage cramped their visual equipment a bit, but it worked out okay. The visuals were very good and captivating. I'll never look at a mackie mixer the same way ever again. They were constantly tweaking pots the whole time as if the good of the song depended on it!

The only crap thing was during "New Family" which was the obvious peak of the show, right at the big peak of the song where it builds up and then goes "now now now now" (or whatever it says) 1 of their laptops crashed and everything went silent :(. But they rebooted and picked right back up, sadly though they didn't do new family over, which would've been nice. The way the camera zooms in during the video, on the "captions" or phrases (in yellow?) seemed to have everyone obsessed with staring at the screen.

Great feedback from the crowd throughout the show, almost like it was a rock show. I was very happy to see people interested that intensely in electronic music like plaids, and it gave me hope for my own future playing live. The end of the show was great and everyone seemed to be quite pleased, lots of buzzing about "how did they do all that, what were they using, that was awesome, i've never heard anything like that before".

Sadly, the only time I've ever seen them, as it's the only time they've come anywhere remotely near to where I've been living. I love plaid and would very much like to see them many more times.

  On 8/30/2010 at 2:24 AM, Brandi_B said:

1 of their laptops crashed and everything went silent :(

that sorta thing used to happen quite regularly during their US shows in the early 00's, i think.

so much so that they decided to have a backing track of noise at the ready for when the sound (inevitably) cut out in some places.

it doesn't seem to happen anymore (?). that curse seems to have been lifted. or they've just gotten better faster stronger gear now. :)

Yeah I was really kind of schoked they didn't have some backup to prevent the uncomfortable 2.5 minutes silence while rebooting. They just smiled these huge embarassed grins and threw their hands up and of course the whole crowd went. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. But everyone laughed and they rocked it the rest of the show. I actually made a note myself then and there to always have an mp3 player hooked directly to the mixer feeding the PA anytime I played live, just in case that happened. But I've never had it happen luckily *fingers crossed*.

  On 8/30/2010 at 2:56 AM, sirch said:

  On 8/30/2010 at 2:24 AM, Brandi_B said:

1 of their laptops crashed and everything went silent :(

 

that sorta thing used to happen quite regularly during their US shows in the early 00's, i think.

so much so that they decided to have a backing track of noise at the ready for when the sound (inevitably) cut out in some places.

it doesn't seem to happen anymore (?). that curse seems to have been lifted. or they've just gotten better faster stronger gear now. :)

Nope, that happened at the gig we were at. One of the laptops was to quite or something. They still had to stop the music.

There was silence and then someone just shouted "Pffft Mac's mate, you should use a PC" and they just laughed.

hhmmmm, maybe it was just a shite soundsystem.... or maybe their new/live stuff in general is just too much for their laptops sometimes.

probably a bit of both. they do rinse it to the (cru) max !!

  On 8/31/2010 at 11:07 PM, sirch said:

hhmmmm, maybe it was just a shite soundsystem.... or maybe their new/live stuff in general is just too much for their laptops sometimes.

probably a bit of both. they do rinse it to the (cru) max !!

Could have been the sound engineers fault.

The bass was fucking massive the whole way through. Hurt my ears at stages.