The 1975

[Rose-Colored Boy]

Florence is fantastic and Dream Girl Evil is born to be played on the Pyramid. Should think they appeal to different enough crowds that she could headline in the same year as Matty and Co, unlike the Arctics 

[gfa]

Forgot how much of a knob matt healy is, been seeing him all over my tiktok

[scatteredscreens]

4 hours ago, gfa said:

Forgot how much of a knob matt healy is, been seeing him all over my tiktok

it's quite incredible how much I dislike him, i watched some of the Zane Lowe interview and he somehow made himself seem worse than I thought he was. Moaning about the term nepotism baby and completely missing the point of it.

[FloorFiller]

4 hours ago, gfa said:

Forgot how much of a knob matt healy is, been seeing him all over my tiktok

He frequently flirts with coming across as being very self aware and kind of putting on an act, but then he’ll spout some bollocks and you get the impression it’s not an act and he really is just a bit of a self-congratulatory tit.

[gfa]

39 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

He frequently flirts with coming across as being very self aware and kind of putting on an act, but then he’ll spout some bollocks and you get the impression it’s not an act and he really is just a bit of a self-congratulatory tit.

generous

may as well post this, i'm sure some will have seen this youtube channel before but some definitely will not have... its quite something

 

Edited October 16, 2022 by gfa

[fightoffyour]

How To Draw or I riot

[circus92]

One of my favs from the album, and probably the most upbeat and euphoric.  Then you check out the lyrics and realise what it is about!

 

[NorthernSoul52]

I think Healy walks the line between self-aware and self-inflation a little too jerkily. But, man, the fellow captivates on a stage.

Midweek sales in - Being Funny in a Foreign Language is posting 28,509 so far, which for the sake of debate, has it tracking to match the first week efforts of their own Notes on a Conditional Form (34,245) and likely edge the first week sales of Florence and the Machine's Dance Fever (31,187). Imagine it is fairly frontloaded - will be curious to see what, if any efforts, there are to goose sales over the rest of the week.

Will have a better idea if we get a Tuesday sales flash update through end-of-Monday results and it has cracked 30,000.

[efcfanwirral]

Just watched the Live Lounge interview and session. Is he always that out of it? 

[NorthernSoul52]

Depends on the day, I think.

On 10/18/2022 at 9:50 AM, NorthernSoul52 said:

I think Healy walks the line between self-aware and self-inflation a little too jerkily. But, man, the fellow captivates on a stage.

Midweek sales in - Being Funny in a Foreign Language is posting 28,509 so far, which for the sake of debate, has it tracking to match the first week efforts of their own Notes on a Conditional Form (34,245) and likely edge the first week sales of Florence and the Machine's Dance Fever (31,187). Imagine it is fairly frontloaded - will be curious to see what, if any efforts, there are to goose sales over the rest of the week.

Will have a better idea if we get a Tuesday sales flash update through end-of-Monday results and it has cracked 30,000.

Had to wait through Wednesday, but Being Funny in a Foreign Language is up to 36,115, with two days of sales still coming. Similar tracking would get it up to around 43,000 but would imagine it ends up closer to over/under 40,000. Even so, still a marked bounce back following Notes on a Conditional Form. (Hold next week will be awful, but they can blame that on the Arctic Monkeys/Taylor Swift battle at least).

On another note, Oh Caroline looks likely to be its highest charting entry via streams. Not necessarily the one I expected to drive traffic, but appears to have been a sizable hit with the kids.

[NorthernSoul52]

Double post time, to present the OCC's twenty best-sellers...

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-1975-s-biggest-songs-on-the-official-chart-revealed__23060/

And for those not fussed to follow the link, with peaks in brackets:

1 Chocolate (19) 
2 The Sound (15)
3 Somebody Else (55) 
4 Girls (45) 
5 Sex (34)
6 It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) (46) 
7 TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME (26)
8 Robbers (166)
9 Love It If We Made It (33)
10 Love Me (20)
11 Give Yourself a Try (22)
12 The City (30)
13 UGH! (42) 
14 If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) (14)
15 Settle Down (68)
16 She's American (150)
17 A Change of Heart (127)
18 Sincerity is Scary (57)
19 Heart Out (DNC) 
20 Paris (DNC)

A couple of curveballs in there - didn't realise Girls was such a phenomenal shifter for them.

[gfa]

The 1975 would have been such a coup for the Other headline slot around 2018-2020 kind of time.

[DareToDibble]

The last couple of pages with mock setlists has got me very excited for the tour.

I 100% believe they are ready to headline the Pyramid, however I suspect they will be overlooked this year. This stuff is all about timing sometimes and it's not really worked out for them so far unfortunately

[NorthernSoul52]

Maintain in a non-pandemic world, 2021 would have been their time.

Anyway, make that five number one records - and with improved sales on their last too. Safe to say they've bounced back. Re-entries for Happiness and I'm in Love With You, plus a top-thirty entrance for Oh Caroline - which in hindsight, felt the obvious likely cut to break out, given its sound harkens back.

Will keep an eye out for sales on the record. Hopefully it cracked the 40,000 mark.

[DareToDibble]

5 minutes ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Maintain in a non-pandemic world, 2021 would have been their time.

Anyway, make that five number one records - and with improved sales on their last too. Safe to say they've bounced back. Re-entries for Happiness and I'm in Love With You, plus a top-thirty entrance for Oh Caroline - which in hindsight, felt the obvious likely cut to break out, given its sound harkens back.

Will keep an eye out for sales on the record. Hopefully it cracked the 40,000 mark.

Completely agree. Such a shame. 

Can still live in hope it'll happen but I worry there are too many other huge acts to fit in over the next couple of years.

[sisco]

I formed quite the hatred for The 1975 mainly due to the frontman, however I’ve now listened to all 3 of the big releases over the past week (Arctics, Taylor and The 1975)…. I cannot believe I’m saying it but The 1975 is IMO the best of the lot by a way.

[FloorFiller]

48 minutes ago, gfa said:

The 1975 would have been such a coup for the Other headline slot around 2018-2020 kind of time.

The fallows year + Covid properly fucked then in a steady progression up the lineup. In another timeline, they might’ve had a pretty decent slot in 2018 (Other headliner? Pyramid sub?) and then almost definitely would’ve been headlining in 2021, but alas it wasn’t to be. Maybe there’s still a chance for them on the next album depending on who else is around at the time… but wouldn’t surprise me to see them return as a sub instead and that be their ceiling. 

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, FloorFiller said:

The fallows year + Covid properly fucked then in a steady progression up the lineup. In another timeline, they might’ve had a pretty decent slot in 2018 (Other headliner? Pyramid sub?) and then almost definitely would’ve been headlining in 2021, but alas it wasn’t to be. Maybe there’s still a chance for them on the next album depending on who else is around at the time… but wouldn’t surprise me to see them return as a sub instead and that be their ceiling. 

Don't think they were touring in 2018 so that wouldn't have happened but agree that they probably would have headlined in 2021. I still think they're a headliner or nothing for the foreseeable though. Doesn't necessarily mean it'll happen, mind.

[NorthernSoul52]

3 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Will keep an eye out for sales on the record. Hopefully it cracked the 40,000 mark.

Sales in - Being Funny in a Foreign Language posts 40,962 in first week consumption, including a whopping 15,255 on vinyl and 4,283 on cassettes. Would love to know how those metrics break down next to their last record - that is an outrageously good yield for vintage formats. (Total physicals come in at 31,662.) By my calculation, it also gives them the fifth-highest first-week sales for a number one record this year, behind Harry Styles, Liam Gallagher, Muse and George Ezra.

Those figures will get comparatively slaughtered this week by Arctic Monkeys and Taylor Swift, of course, if we're talking super-size headline stakes on quantification and comparison, but aye. Back on the up!

[Zacko]

Did anyone else listen to Matty on Radio 1 the other night picking some of his favourite tunes?

He picked this and mentioned how he heard it in Ibiza around the time they got big and had a bit of a moment. I'd never heard it before and I fucking love it!

 

[Rose-Colored Boy]

8 hours ago, NorthernSoul52 said:

Sales in - Being Funny in a Foreign Language posts 40,962 in first week consumption, including a whopping 15,255 on vinyl and 4,283 on cassettes. Would love to know how those metrics break down next to their last record - that is an outrageously good yield for vintage formats. (Total physicals come in at 31,662.) By my calculation, it also gives them the fifth-highest first-week sales for a number one record this year, behind Harry Styles, Liam Gallagher, Muse and George Ezra.

Those figures will get comparatively slaughtered this week by Arctic Monkeys and Taylor Swift, of course, if we're talking super-size headline stakes on quantification and comparison, but aye. Back on the up!

Quite incredible that 4,283 people still own cassette players. Even in horrifically dated cars. 

[NorthernSoul52]

1 hour ago, Rose-Colored Boy said:

Quite incredible that 4,283 people still own cassette players. Even in horrifically dated cars. 

In all fairness, it is probably the first album by The 1975 that would fit onto a single cassette.

[emi10]

On 10/16/2022 at 4:21 PM, gfa said:

generous

may as well post this, i'm sure some will have seen this youtube channel before but some definitely will not have... its quite something

 

chicken shop date is written by amelia, not a legit interview.

[Padjeq]

Matty's confirmed on twitter they'll be taking to the stage at 8:30 every night. Probably 2 hours and 15 minutes of tunes, nice nice.

[Rose-Colored Boy]

2 minutes ago, Padjeq said:

Matty's confirmed on twitter they'll be taking to the stage at 8:30 every night. Probably 2 hours and 15 minutes of tunes, nice nice.

Over an hour of old stuff would be excellent. Scenes when they play Lostmyhead and Having No Head in full every night.