Show last night in Austin was fantastic. Nice meeting you Amy! Got to talk to Ian this time, nice dude. Got a pic with him (thanks Amy!). Talked to Dave as well, he confirmed that Megatouch was his brain child and that they're going to start playing it live again soon.
I recorded the show on my handheld Tascam if any of you want to hear it, dm me your email and I can Dropbox or Google drive it to you.
Unfortunately a bunch of dudes got too intense moshing to Atlas and messed up the recording (it paused midway through) and I was forced to move away from my vantage point and ended up next to a blaring monitor for the last 2 songs, Atlas & The Yabba, so I wasn't able to get those
. I'll try and get their full set in December.
Set list:
1. Dot Com
2. Ice Cream
3. FF Bada
4. Futura
5. Dave Banter
6. Tricentennial
7. Tyne Wear
8. Summer Simmer
9. Atlas (not recorded)
10. The Yabba (not recorded)
I've been curating as many live youtube vids as I can find of the La Di Da Di US tour, as well as interviews, official vids and all things BTTLS.
Here's the link to the playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playli..._2JtLbr_Z6jp3yCxr5DN
ps
The Webster Hall show is complete (in 3 parts)
Cool! It's weird there haven't been many video interviews this time. For Gloss Drop there were a lot.
Battles Pitchfork Paris festival show is
live streaming on Friday Oct 30 3:55 EDT
http://pitchfork.com/news/6179...streams-all-weekend/
ps
I hope someone can rip/record this off the live stream!
Schweet!
I recorded it, but there was a problem during Summer Simmer. The broadcast stopped for about 3 minutes. I don't think it was my internet connection, other sites worked. Did anyone else have this problem?
It looks like they archive the sets anyway, or at least some of them. Hopefully the Battles set will be available later to watch! It was great! Nice to have a pro-shot set from this tour.
I didn't experience technical difficulties. That's awesome you captured it though!
The set is up, archived, on Pitchfork. They'll probably eventually put it on Youtube. Here it is as a file in case you want to save it to your computer: (I re-recorded the set without technical difficulties)
Thanks Amy!
uploaded audio from the Austin set to Youtube. Enjoy!
Dot Com : https://youtu.be/_pq7syNkFEs
FF Bada : https://youtu.be/TvQ_9ZnDLlc
Tricentennial : https://youtu.be/aAdbmdhNyaQ
Tyne Wear : https://youtu.be/uhgrgdpWXB4
Summer Simmer : https://youtu.be/kvu-jV2DMrE
I thought I would share a short story from the Battles tour from when they stopped at Manchester, and why I now have a lifetime grudge against someone I haven't even seen.
So, a few songs in and everyone is digging the new songs, John pummeling Tricentennial and Dot Com sounding more perfect than ever. Atlas begins and everyone is having a good time, with dancing and drinks. problem with drinks in the crowd isn't just that some people get completely wasted, one person threw a full beer cup on stage. And where does it land? All over Ian's setup. After John brings Atlas to a short finish, it's clear that something has gone wrong. Ian has to bring the bad news, the show is gonna stop early. Dave takes the mic, and apologizes for everyone else who is capable of keeping their drinks inside of them. As Dave said "Usually, it was my teacher who said this, but I guess there's not much else for me to say. There's always one person who ruins it for everyone else", and more memorably "Whoever you are, you know who you are, fuck you". After the angry mob dies down, they finish with The Yabba to conclude an otherwise great concert. I got three things out of that night, an amazing performance, discovering Buke and Gase, and fortunately, I got Dave's broken guitar string (Which I still have kept alongside the tickets to the show). Overall, it was still a great night.
Welcome to the forum!
Battles posted on Facebook some new dates, maybe this will make up for that experience. Some more UK dates ahead:
Excited to announce our full 2016 European tour details + new La Di Da Di merch in our store today! Tickets at bttls.com/live and wares at https://battles.bleepstores.com/
3.22 – Dublin @ Button Factory http://bit.ly/1Y8w7J4
3.23 – Liverpool @ O2 Academy 1 http://bit.ly/1NIR0eh
3.24 – London @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire http://bit.ly/1YJFVeD
3.25 – Paris @ La Cigale http://bit.ly/1HhCWGa
3.26 – Riems @ La Cartonnerie http://bit.ly/1Rer8Hz
3.27 – Brussels @ Ancienne Belgique http://bit.ly/1AafBxe
3.29 – Milan @ Magazzini Generali http://bit.ly/1lB4Lzs
3.30 – Rome @ Spring Attitude Festival http://bit.ly/1lB4RqJ
3.31 – Roncade @ New Age-Roncade http://bit.ly/1OXjPAU
4.1 – Bourgoin-Jallieu @ Electrochoc Festival http://bit.ly/1Q7BusV
4.2 – Den Haag, NL @ Rewire Festival http://bit.ly/1PQ7LEn
4.5 – Lausanne, CH @ Lausanne Les Docks http://bit.ly/1IJWYcB
4.6 – Zurich, CH @ Rote Fabrik http://bit.ly/1Y8xxTX
4.8 – Berlin, DE @ Astra http://bit.ly/1mf2tpH
Liverpool, YES! My dreams have come true. Thanks for the update amy!
I wanted to film a full show, so I did last night in Houston. Here ya go! Also got to get a hug from Dave and talk to him, he was apologetic that the setlist hasn't changed yet.
Awesome!
Thanks for capturing it!
Apparently there's a live stream tonight (2/14 at 8:30pm eastern) of Battles' set on youtube?
If anyone could capture that stream, its really late here in the UK. I feel that it's weird for the main battles pages to not mention it.
I think it's a total gimmick. The Laneway festival is over. Battles it not playing again until March. When you click the link on that Youtube page to go to the live stream, it takes you to one of those paid websites. I'm not falling for it!