Oh Dear Royal Blood

euan

Daphne and Celeste spring to mind.

tone1

Think yourselves lucky….I had to sit through an hour of my Daughter singing along with Den’s (from Auf Wiedersehen Petl) offspring’s little band the 1900 & 75 or whatever they’re called…talk about all the gear no idea…..he started playing some great little acoustic number then stopped playing (probably to swig from the pretentious bottle of wine) but the lovely acoustic sound continued. I then noticed a real musician (complete with hipster beard) in the far distance actually doing all the heavy lifting….when Matty (Den from Auf Wiedesehen Pet’s Son) finally did play a lovely red Strat, it sounded….well let’s just say that I ain’t that bad after all…..

stickyfiddle

It's the most I've heard anyone talking about them in years - mission accomplished! 

Is their new album any good? (EDIT - album not out yet but single came out 4 days ago. Great marketing!)

fretmeister

bobacco said:

Incredibly misguided to think that they’d have crossover appeal with the other acts. That said though, just grin and bear it and get through. Not like it’s a charity gig, so probably got a fair chunk of change for doing it. 

Whilst the general indifference of the crowd wouldn’t have been all that pleasant, you have to think that any of the pop acts performing at say, Download, would have had it worse and considerably more piss-bottlely. 

Chas n Dave went down a storm at Sonisphere!

Majorscale

tone1 said:

Think yourselves lucky….I had to sit through an hour of my Daughter singing along with Den’s (from Auf Wiedersehen Petl) offspring’s little band the 1900 & 75 or whatever they’re called…talk about all the gear no idea…..he started playing some great little acoustic number then stopped playing (probably to swig from the pretentious bottle of wine) but the lovely acoustic sound continued. I then noticed a real musician (complete with hipster beard) in the far distance actually doing all the heavy lifting….when Matty (Den from Auf Wiedesehen Pet’s Son) finally did play a lovely red Strat, it sounded….well let’s just say that I ain’t that bad after all…..

But there again, Matty is banging Taylor Swift. The world’s just not fair sometimes….

bobacco

fretmeister said:

bobacco said:

Incredibly misguided to think that they’d have crossover appeal with the other acts. That said though, just grin and bear it and get through. Not like it’s a charity gig, so probably got a fair chunk of change for doing it. 

Whilst the general indifference of the crowd wouldn’t have been all that pleasant, you have to think that any of the pop acts performing at say, Download, would have had it worse and considerably more piss-bottlely. 

Chas n Dave went down a storm at Sonisphere!

And rightly so! 

theatreanchor

Never understood why people liked them anyway. 

Danny1969

Well in most of our worlds on here a faint applause gig is a paid rehearsal. I'm not a fan of them or dislike them but I find this kind of behaviour a bit rookie ... and they have been doing it too long for rookie behaviour so it's a bit cringy IMO

equalsql

munckee said:

dindude said:

A sycophantic record company exec will be telling them right now that any publicity is good publicity! 

“You can’t sing, you can’t play, you look awful.  You’ll go all the way lads!”

Lol, my best man at my wedding was the 'table'  drummer in that classic ad 

RocknRollDave

tone1 said:

Think yourselves lucky….I had to sit through an hour of my Daughter singing along with Den’s (from Auf Wiedersehen Petl) offspring’s little band the 1900 & 75 or whatever they’re called…talk about all the gear no idea…..he started playing some great little acoustic number then stopped playing (probably to swig from the pretentious bottle of wine) but the lovely acoustic sound continued. I then noticed a real musician (complete with hipster beard) in the far distance actually doing all the heavy lifting….when Matty (Den from Auf Wiedesehen Pet’s Son) finally did play a lovely red Strat, it sounded….well let’s just say that I ain’t that bad after all…..

That’s living, alright.

Philly_Q

I don't know much about Royal Blood, I've seen their name a lot over the last few years and heard a couple of tracks, but they seem to fall into that category of being sort of rock, but not rock enough for my tastes.  I've no strong opinions on this incident, but they do seem to play a lot of very mainstream festivals rather than rock ones, so perhaps they're almost courting indifference?

darthed1981

Crikey, he's a musician having a bad day.

Obvious joke is too soon...

lustycourtier

bobacco said:

Incredibly misguided to think that they’d have crossover appeal with the other acts. That said though, just grin and bear it and get through. Not like it’s a charity gig, so probably got a fair chunk of change for doing it. 

Whilst the general indifference of the crowd wouldn’t have been all that pleasant, you have to think that any of the pop acts performing at say, Download, would have had it worse and considerably more piss-bottlely. 

there was a mosh pit on the footage, and accounts from being in the audience are everyone was enjoying and cheering. For whatever reason, he was trying to be edgy and failed in spectacular fashion.  

english_bob

It's a bit bloody rich to be as utterly fucking bang average as Royal Blood and then complain that people are indifferent to your indifferent music.

Most of the Live Aid crowd weren't there to see Queen. I don't recall Freddie Mercury complaining on stage that they didn't like his ten-years-out-of-date music. 

axisus

Interesting band from what I've heard, but the guy seems like a grade A knob. 

borntohang

bobacco said:

Incredibly misguided to think that they’d have crossover appeal with the other acts. That said though, just grin and bear it and get through. Not like it’s a charity gig, so probably got a fair chunk of change for doing it. 

Whilst the general indifference of the crowd wouldn’t have been all that pleasant, you have to think that any of the pop acts performing at say, Download, would have had it worse and considerably more piss-bottlely. 

Side note, but Big Weekend doesn't actually pay artists. Like Glastonbury you're expected to sink the costs in return for heavy R1 playlisting either side of the event and your full set on iPlayer, which IS actually worth taking the famous exposure dollars for once.

NothingOnTheTele

What a big baby. 

BillDL

I could have understood the tantrum had people been booing or shuffling away in dozens but, from what I can see of the audience's reaction and participation in the following video of one song, over 30% of the audience in the main centre-stage cluster were bopping, clapping, waving their arms, and seemed to be moving to the music and participating in the event.  They were still very densely packed, so it wasn't as though they all wandered off to the toilet pending the next act.  I would say that the audience participation was quite respectible given that it was a mixed style event.

For what it's worth I found it boring and it's not the kind of music I would deliberately choose to listen to, but they are skilled at what they do - including whining.  I would probably have preferred to be watching the Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling event at Brockworth.

Sporky

euan said:

Daphne and Celeste spring to mind.

Daphne and Celeste were hardcore. How many other artists would have done their entire festival set with a crowd throwing bottles full of urine at them?

CaseOfAce

BillDL said:

I could have understood the tantrum had people been booing or shuffling away in dozens but, from what I can see of the audience's reaction and participation in the following video of one song, over 30% of the audience in the main centre-stage cluster were bopping, clapping, waving their arms, and seemed to be moving to the music and participating in the event.  They were still very densely packed, so it wasn't as though they all wandered off to the toilet pending the next act.  I would say that the audience participation was quite respectible given that it was a mixed style event.

For what it's worth I found it boring and it's not the kind of music I would deliberately choose to listen to, but they are skilled at what they do - including whining.  I would probably have preferred to be watching the Gloucestershire Cheese Rolling event at Brockworth.

Watching that vid it's not like the whole audience are sat on their hands? It's a packed crowd and a large segment are clapping along. What's he expecting? Limp Bizkit style audience surfing on torn off festival fencing a la Woodstock '99?!!?

I quite enjoyed it though - it's different - and the sounds he's getting from a bass into that secret sauce rig (harmonizers, POGs etc) is different. 
I had no idea they'd added a keyboard player these days - but the stage still looks depressingly empty visually.
I'm not sure if they were they playing to track as well?