sureshot
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SFA - a plea
Aug 19, 2008, 10:40
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I love SFA - I happily buy up all their releases (paying actual money rather than copying/donwloading etc cos I really want to support them), see them on practically every tour and rave about how wonderful they are to SFA virgins as I think the world would be a better place if say SFA were listened to by more people and they ruled the charts rather than some of the pap that floats about. I would say they are one of the best bands in the UK.
But, please, give your live perfomances a rejig - change the setlist, interact with the crowd (or even just acknowledge them!), they seem so BORED on stage and there is so much goodwill and love for this band but a live performance gives nothing back and doesn't, as with so many other bands, feed off this energy and total love of the band from the crowd.
I'd say 'maybe it's just me' but the serious disappointment from so many fellow fans following the performance on Saturday who had stuck it through the mud and rain to see their favourite band suggests it's not. I could be wrong but....well, it is just SFA OK at the moment but it would be great to SFA AMAZING again.
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Maoster
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Re: SFA - a plea
Aug 19, 2008, 11:45
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Agree with the sentiment, although still thought the set was one of the highlights of the weekend. Funnily enough their set at End Of the Road last Year was alo a bit perfunctory but then saw them at the Roundhouse in Camden and they were amazing - is it perhaps that open air stuff doesn't agree with them?
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NatalieL
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Re: SFA - a plea
Aug 19, 2008, 11:51
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I totally agree with Maoster. I still think their set was an amzing highlight for me. I too, saw them at the Roundhouse and they were absolutely superb, so this set wasn't quite as good. It sounds cheesy, but the music does it for me and I don't need SFA to interact with the crowd a great deal, although perhaps, yes the set would be even more amazing if they did. I saw Gruff with some friends the next afternoon and he was so exuberant and chatty with them, I found it difficult to put that with the person I see on stage. However, I refuse to criticise them when they have given me 3 great performances and hours of entertainment with their CDs.
I was quite disappointed they didn't do an encoure, I think the stage manager must be very strivt. We were shouting for one (which I normally don't do) and I said to the girl next to me 'I don't think they are going to do an encore', to which she replied, 'Oh, of course they will....oh maybe they aren't'.
But still, loving SFA.
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Bunf
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Re: SFA - a plea
Aug 19, 2008, 12:00
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Don't know if you needed to be at the front to notice - we were and did.
Bunf was a mess.
I think they were glad to stumble through the set and get their fee and get off without their lead guitarist falling headfirst into a monitor or something...
Gruff was constantly monitoring his progress and had to take over with Bunf's special wobbly hand on head song thing they always do - as Bunf couldn't get coherent words out of his gob.
A lot of the time he wasn't playing or singing & the stage crew had to staple gun the correct guitars onto him and fetch him some rolled cigarrette type stuff to keep him going.
He did, sometimes, burst into life but his effects pedals did seem to stump him some of the time - he just gazed confused at them a bit.... Likewise the knobs on his guitar seemed to be rewired and surprising to him....
Didn't detract from them being really good fun & they *did* interact with the audience. Eye contact is sometimes hard from behind a Power Ranger Helmet.
Seen SFA a lot and might've been a bit disappointed if it was a run-of-the-mill type affair. But it definitely wasn't. It was a car crash waiting to happen and, thankfully, the rest of the band's care-in-the-community approach did get them through it.
We had the feeling that Bunf would wake-up on Sunday and be determined to play having forgotten he'd been on stage at all.
10/10
V. Funny
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scoop
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Re: SFA - a plea
Aug 19, 2008, 12:08
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I was really looking forward to seeing SFA this year, especially in the glorious surrounding that is Green Man. I was with a large group of friends (some of whom hadn't seen them before and some who had seen them 5+ times) and we were all up for it. So did I enjoy it? Yeah, I really did. Thought they played a great set (receptacle for the repectable, mdgaf and the last song Keep the cosmic trigger happy all stood out for me) but I felt a bit short changed that they didn't do an encoure like most people around me. Their set was quite similiar to the last gig I saw them do in Oxford in october and if I'm honest I was expecting a bit of green man magic.
I am a big fan tho, so it was interesting to hear the views of my friends who hadn't seen them before - they all enjoyed it but felt it lacked something. I know they couldn't do a mdgaf techno freak out but maybe the furry outfits would of given the performance a lift.
Still one of my highlights. SFAOK
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sureshot
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Re: SFA - a plea
Aug 19, 2008, 12:24
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Maybe I have had SFA live overkill (I never thought I would say that) having seen them 30+ times over the years.
I can imagine if it was the first time it would be fab but knowing they can make it magical it just seems they're looking a little non-plussed by it all and that really comes across.
Will stick to the records for a while before seeing them again live.
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Liability_B
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Re: SFA - a plea
Aug 20, 2008, 21:34
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THey did interact with the audience. They got everybody to do antlers :P
And Bunf was definately out of it. I thought he was just very pleased to see everybody. But now you mention it that was an out of it grin. Hahahahaa.
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peridot
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Re: SFA - a plea
Aug 20, 2008, 21:49
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Liability_B wrote: .. They got everybody to do antlers...
Not everybody :-)
I'm into audience participation as much as anyone but I stop short of some things.
Did love the gig though - used to wonder if they geniuses or insane - now I know it's both.
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pettypretty
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Re: SFA - a plea
Aug 28, 2008, 13:40
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i agree,
seen them at least 10 times now and love them but the last few gigs i have seen seem to have all been the same set list (like a best of) they need to mix it up a bit for me and do some of their more obscure songs :-)
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