Hot Chip warm up gig Birmingham 20th Feb

[bamber]

And Yes they are finishing with Dancing in the Dark!

[bamber]

I Love this Band, right down to every note, every flick, every nuance. Not one can be faulted.

[briddj]

20 days to the West Holts party!

[Winslow Leach]

I think Need You Now might be my favourite thing they've ever done.

[Wooderson]

They mine similar emotional veins to LCD Soundsystem. The wistfulness and melancholy in their Springsteen cover encapsulates this.

[bennyhana22]

They mine similar emotional veins to LCD Soundsystem. The wistfulness and melancholy in their Springsteen cover encapsulates this.

Whilst I agree with you, Mr W, ironically I really don't like the Springsteen cover. But then I like <0.01% of ALL covers. I'm not sure why, but I've just never liked cover versions. Possibly because I tend to develop slightly excessively obsessed interest in bands I like. So if I see them live, I get a bit cross if they 'waste' one of the songs in the set with someone else's tune! I honestly can't bring to mind a situation whereby I would hope for a band to include a cover in their set. But then again, I'm an idiot and there are probably loads...

Ben

[FuzzyDunlop]

Hot Chip vs SFA is a gutting clash.

One of them should have been sunday.

[Homer]

I'd be much happier if I was seeing Chems Friday and Hot Chip Sunday. At least this way I've got an easy way into Shangri La on Friday night.

[briddj]

I'd be much happier if I was seeing Chems Friday and Hot Chip Sunday. At least this way I've got an easy way into Shangri La on Friday night.

Nah, Hot Chip are DJing up at Stonebridge right after so that is the sane place to be rather than being crushed in Shangri La on Friday.

[LondonTom]

I honestly can't bring to mind a situation whereby I would hope for a band to include a cover in their set. But then again, I'm an idiot and there are probably loads...

Jimi Hendrix hologram/resurrection doing All Along The Watchtower?

[willsnewman]

Well these are awesome.

 

http://hotchipstore.sandbaghq.com/home/vintage-white-hot-chip-vs-tsptr-peanuts-sweatshirt.html

[Matt42]

Every cloud has a silver lining... see you on friday guys!!

[willsnewman]

I've just got my fingers crossed that Foos aren't replaced with someone I really want to see. It's unlikely to top Caribou -> Hot Chip though...

[LondonTom]

Well these are awesome.

 

http://hotchipstore.sandbaghq.com/home/vintage-white-hot-chip-vs-tsptr-peanuts-sweatshirt.html

Ah I couldn't find them from their news piece/in the store directly!...Ace as they are £65 is a bit steep!

 

Every cloud has a silver lining... see you on friday guys!!

Indeed Matt! As silver linings go, this is rather great! Since the leg break, I've seen it as I'll get to see Hot Chip headline West Holts and Foo Fighters on the Pyramid next year! It helps alot!

[Matt42]

Hot Chip are one of my favourites, was gutted they were clashing with foos!

[willsnewman]

Ace as they are £65 is a bit steep!

 

This is definitely a post Glastonbury purchase for me when I get paid! Hopefully they'll still be in stock.

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

There are already too many good bands on the Friday that I will be missing for Hot Chip so I'm kinda hoping the Foos replacement will be someone shit!

[Anderson19]

Not sure how to do that embed tweet thingy.

But the latest hot chip tweet is brilliant.

[kingcrawler]

Not sure how to do that embed tweet thingy.

But the latest hot chip tweet is brilliant.

 

This Dave Grohl pulling out of Glasto thing. Fabricated because they were bricking it about going up against us on Friday night. Clearly.

— Hot Chip (@Hot_Chip)

June 16, 2015

 

Yes I've watched the video footage of him "breaking" his "leg". How naive do they think we are? All done on computer. Like the moon landing.

— Hot Chip (@Hot_Chip)

June 16, 2015

Edited June 16, 2015 by kingcrawler

[hurdy]

This is definitely a post Glastonbury purchase for me when I get paid! Hopefully they'll still be in stock.

Think they're all out of stock... Goes to back order when you try and purchase

[HotChipWillBreakYourLegs]

Top Night in Amsterdam on Tuesday.

 

Hot Chip are for all intents, a 7 piece now; you can listen to any one of them individually and isolate what they are are doing; each contributing individually to the Wall of Sound, each playing their part in making the whole manifest. Or listen to the whole thing , if you can get your head around it, there is an awful lot going on up there.

 

I will single out Sarah Jones again though. Each time she hits her drum kit. you know that she does so with passion, every single note. Her whole body pulsates with the underlying rhythm, while she syncopates and fills with profound creativity. I notice that she spends quite a bit of her time on stage grinning earnestly, beautifully  with a candour that can only be explained by a huge and justified confidence in her own ability.  She really is a very, very good drummer, and she knows it, but not in a bad way.

 

Best live band this decade, no doubt.

 

Her first drum kit:

 

Edited June 16, 2015 by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs

[LondonTom]

 

I believe them

[Thearg]

Really?,that's not good form but laughed anyway,we all know/knew where the good times are Friday night.

[al_coholic]

Problem is, if they bump Flo, then the expected crowd for Foos will disperse, which means loads more people watching Hot Chip, WH will be rammed and will need to get there earlier

[Untz]

Problem is, if they bump Flo, then the expected crowd for Foos will disperse, which means loads more people watching Hot Chip, WH will be rammed and will need to get there earlier

 

If Hot Chip are uncomfortably busy I might just leave it. Their recent setlists aren't doing it for me, but then I'm sure the songs I like will be amazing... oh, I don't know.

Edited June 17, 2015 by Untz