Fleet Foxes

[Crisp Sandwich]

Yes, I too have come across this crap many a time, I had the misfortune to be sitting next to a completely locked group, at a Tommy Tiernan gig in Viar Street about two years ago, and it almost ruined the whole thing with the talking/shouting constantly, but I find, one can easily avoid all that bullshit. Get in early, get up front or near front, and you will find most of the people around you, do not talk constantly during the gig, as they are there to see live music, and not to talk shite.

It's something that will always be there, it's impossible to avoid completely.I enjoy a few drinks at gigs, but getting completely rat arsed while at the gig, having bought a ticket, is something which is hard to fathom. The whole "at gig" = "must get completely legless" is hard to understand. You can get langers anytine, the gig is only on once.

Agreed. I had a seated ticket though so I couldn't move away from the gobshites that were behind me.

As for drinking before and during a gig. I tend to limit myself to three before and one or two during. I like to be able to remember the gig that I've paid for.

I do sometimes get pissed afterward though

Was it just me or did it seem a little less than full to capacity last night?

 

[jojo1804]

Saw them at Picnic, only because they were on before my beloved Royksopp and I wanted to get a good place for them (got right up first row )....Fleet Foxes were so boring and overhyped, yawn. Painful to have to endure.

 

[delzer]

Saw them at Picnic, only because they were on before my beloved Royksopp and I wanted to get a good place for them (got right up first row )....Fleet Foxes were so boring and overhyped, yawn. Painful to have to endure.

agree the melodies start to sound the same is allvery boring after a couple listens

 

[Falling At Your Feet]

Agreed. I had a seated ticket though so I couldn't move away from the gobshites that were behind me.

As for drinking before and during a gig. I tend to limit myself to three before and one or two during. I like to be able to remember the gig that I've paid for.

I do sometimes get pissed afterward though

Was it just me or did it seem a little less than full to capacity last night?

Have been at Vicar Street a few times, and it was never a problem to move from a seat to standing downstairs, unless they have rejigged things. They check your tickets when you are going upstairs to the seated area, but they don't check as you are going into the standing area.

Re capacity, twas hard to see how full it was from the front row, (you had a better view of the crowd)but it didn't seem like it was as packed as I thought. Unless the guest list/free ticket crowd - stayed out in the bar

 

[Crisp Sandwich]

Have been at Vicar Street a few times, and it was never a problem to move from a seat to standing downstairs, unless they have rejigged things. They check your tickets when you are going upstairs to the seated area, but they don't check as you are going into the standing area.

Re capacity, twas hard to see how full it was from the front row, (you had a better view of the crowd)but it didn't seem like it was as packed as I thought. Unless the guest list/free ticket crowd - stayed out in the bar

In that case they really should be horsewhipped.

I've moved from seated to standing there before alright yeah. Maybe we should have done that.

 

[LiamN86]

o emperor DO have a similar sound to fleet foxes

Liam, you are fooling no one. Now hurry up, you are late for rehearsal with your band.

i rest my case: http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/20597

 

[Pow!]

i rest my case: http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/20597

I can hear certain similarities, particularly on the video on their myspace (similar vocal harmonies). The vocals are also heavily reverbed which is similar to FF. They sound good, might go see them in Cork

 

[Aphex]

New song in the link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/01/fleet-foxes-announce-new-album

Fleet Foxes announce new albumSeattle folk-rockers to release Helplessness Blues in May – and you can download the title track for free
Fleet Foxes have announced the follow-up to their 2008 self-titled album. The Seattle folk-rockers will release Helplessness Blues on 3 May, followed by North American and European tour dates.

After the unexpected success of their debut LP, Fleet Foxes show no sign of changing direction. Once again, the band recorded songs with Phil Ek, who produced their first album and both of their EPs. Once again, the music features acoustic guitars, yearning choruses and five-part vocal harmonies. And once again the cover art – this time by painter Chris Alderson, not Pieter Bruegel the Elder – evokes a homepsun nostalgia.

If the name Helplessness Blues seems almost self-mocking, there is no sign of irony in the title track streaming now at Soundcloud. But it is a song about abandoning "helplessness blues", running back to someone "some day, soon" with "tongue-tied" promises and talk of orchards. Frontman Robin Pecknold previously described the album as "a little bit less upbeat" and "less poppy" than the first record, citing the influence of Roy Harper's Stormcock and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. Yet there's no evidence of this darker side on the title track; Fleet Foxes are still more Simon and Garfunkel than Scott Walker.

Helplessness Blues has 12 tracks, recorded at four different studios over the course of a year. Multi-instrumentalist Morgan Henderson has officially joined the band, according to a press release, and will join them on tour this spring. Fleet Foxes will play London's Hammersmith Apollo on 31 May. Tickets go on sale at 9am this Friday.

 

[Jimmy two times]

New material from Robin Pecknold available to download for free

http://www.spin.com/articles/download-fleet-foxes-grizzly-bear-collabo

There's an Irish angle to this - one of the songs, 'Where is My Wild Rose' is a slice of gritty, social realism that name-checks misty morns in Connemara, Killarney's stony shores, Dublin's Stephen's Green, and shock, horror LONDONderry. It's a cover version though (song was written by New Zealand folk singer Chris Thompson).

 

[Jim Comic]

Harmonic Presents…
FLEET FOXES
(only ROI performance this year)
OWEN PALLETT
AGNES OBEL
Live @ the Marquee, Cork
June 26th, 2011

Tickets on sale now priced €39.20 (including booking fee) from Ticketmaster outlets nationwide 0818 719 300 - Republic of Ireland customers // 0844 277 4455 - Northern Ireland customers // 00353 1 456 9569 - International customers


Following last year’s Harmonic event at the Marquee, Cork, featuring Grizzly Bear, Midlake, Camera Obscura & Villagers we return to the same venue with an incredible triple bill for 2011, featuring acclaimed harmony-rock outfit Fleet Foxes who have just released a globally acclaimed second album Helplessness Blues, Ireland’s favourite Canadian composer & violin-manipulator Owen Pallett and sensational new Danish balladeer Agnes Obel who stole our hearts with a performance of pinpoint perfection at the Sugar Club in Dublin in April.


Helplessness Blues is the second full-length from Fleet Foxes, released on May 2nd on Bella Union. Helplessness Blues was recorded over the course of a year at Avast Recording, Bear Creek Studios, Dreamland Studios, and Reciprocal Recording. The album was recorded and mixed by Phil Ek and co-produced by Fleet Foxes and Ek. The piece that appears on the album cover was illustrated by Seattle artist Toby Liebowitz and painted by Chris Alderson. Fleet Foxes is Robin Pecknold, Skyler Skjelset, Christian Wargo, Casey Wescott, Josh Tillman and Morgan Henderson.



“This album is destined to redraw the parameters, thanks to its sheer scale and detail, its recurring themes and imagery, and its creators' refusal to settle for less than they could achieve.” MOJO *****

“With Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes triumphantly deliver on the promise of their popular debut, the album that helped establish folk-rock once again as a formidable commercial force rather than just a fringe interest.” - The Independent *****

“Helplessness Blues' analytical and inquisitive nature never tips into self-indulgence. Amidst the chaos, the record showcases the band's expanded range and successful risk-taking, while retaining what so many people fell in love with about the group in the first place. And once again, a strong sense of empathy is at the heart of what makes Fleet Foxes special.” Pitchfork Best new Music 8.8

“The result is almost laughably beautiful.” - The Guardian ****

Reviews for debut album Fleet Foxes

“The sense of wonder in Fleet Foxes' songs is matched only by the discipline and talent that created this adventurous, evocative record. One which is already shaping up as an album of the year.” - MOJO

“A landmark in American music, an instant classic.” – The Guardian

“Fleet Foxes may have a firm grasp on rock and folk history, but they never play to their record collection. Rather than revive a particular scene or re-create a lost sound, the Seattle quintet cherrypick their ideas from a broad spectrum of styles, pulling in Appalachian folk, classic rock, AM country, and SoCal pop to create a personal synthesis of the music of their peers, their parents, and even their grandparents… full and wide ranging, almost as much as the Bruegel painting that graces the album's cover…” 9.0 Pitchfork (Best New Music)

“…the Foxes stuff their free-form songs with rich, swirling melodies; billowing clouds of organs, tom-toms, bells and assorted stringed instruments cloak group vocals whose secular-gospel, suede-fringed precision owes plenty to Crosby, Stills and Nash.” – Rolling Stone