Oh Dear Royal Blood

Philly_Q · May 2023

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 · May 2023

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

Obvious joke is too soon...

lustycourtier · May 2023

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 · May 2023

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 I don't recall Freddie Mercury complaining on stage that they didn't like his ten-years-out-of-date music.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 · May 2023

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

borntohang · May 2023

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 · May 2023

What a big baby.

BillDL · May 2023

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 · May 2023

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 · May 2023

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?

Offset · May 2023

I like Royal Blood. They're fantastic live and I found them refreshingly different when they first came out. So the guy spat out his dummy... well 'rock stars' have done much worse at gigs. Bit of a faff about nothing, but I'm a bit mystified as to why they were playing this sort of event in the first place.

BillDL · May 2023

Offset said:

...... I'm a bit mystified as to why they were playing this sort of event in the first place.

Exactly

BlueStrat · May 2023

They’re a bit like a poppy low rent muse

To make a two piece interesting is really hard I can only think of the white stripes and 21Pilots who have got a real vibe going

euan · May 2023

Sporky said:

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?

And they did it twice of the weekend. Reading and Leeds

english_bob · May 2023

https://twitter.com/evdokios/status/1663612831688802306

Sporky · May 2023

euan said:

Sporky said:

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?

And they did it twice of the weekend. Reading and Leeds

Double hardcore.

darthed1981 · May 2023

I actually sense a bit of a disagreement between band and manage.ment or label on this one, and the band acting out being part of the fallout (though doesn't he have a bit of a history of being an egotistical pillock anyhow?)

The event is huge publicity and it's fair to say, based on the first single, they aren't aiming nearly as poppy as their last album on the new one.

Therefore the baked in audience won't come over, the label are probably insisting on some publicity work... or else...

The band could have done it very professionally, even left with an acknowledgement of them not going down too well, I'd have said "you might not have loved us, but we love you all, thanks for coming, <big smile, clap the crowd>..."

But, any publicity is good publicity... just shows how much the industry has changed and RB have been lucky to succeed the old fashioned way... you can't really imagine them getting there through youtube ("my last video didn't get many views... so fuck you all...") or tiktok ("look how wacky and self-deprecating I'm being for 30 seconds... yeeeeet! lit! Yeee! etc. etc.)

bobacco · May 2023

borntohang 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.

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.

Thanks for the correction - makes sense, actually. Still. He acted like a right bell-sniff.

bobacco · May 2023

Sporky said:

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?

Frankie Goes To Hollywood?

stickyfiddle · May 2023

Quite seriously.. who headlined and why aren't they all over the front pages for playing a blinder?

Royal Blood are on the way down after a pretty decent first record and mediocre returns since. And this is a great way to stave off that decline for a little while longer. It's all anyone's talking about. If the new music is shit it won't help long term but it'll push more streams in the first week for sure.

lustycourtier · May 2023

Offset said:

but I'm a bit mystified as to why they were playing this sort of event in the first place.

They are the most Radio 1 'rock' band in years. Their music gets used on every X factor montage and Match of the Day.

Probably more suited to the festival than the Jonas brothers.

CaseOfAce · May 2023

stickyfiddle said:

Quite seriously.. who headlined and why aren't they all over the front pages for playing a blinder?

Royal Blood are on the way down after a pretty decent first record and mediocre returns since. And this is a great way to stave off that decline for a little while longer. It's all anyone's talking about. If the new music is shit it won't help long term but it'll push more streams in the first week for sure.

Lewis Capaldi headlined. I'm not sure he needs more streams or the publicity. He seems to be doing quite well for himself.
His debut album biggest seller of 2019 and 2020 in the UK.
Playing to massive crowds world wide.
Don't believe me? Watch the netflix documentary. I had no idea about him apart that Somebody You Loved song. Turns out he's like a Scottish Ed Sheeran.

We're all on here discussing Polyphia, Bonamassa and Paul Gilbert's signature guitar

stickyfiddle · May 2023

CaseOfAce said:

stickyfiddle said:

Quite seriously.. who headlined and why aren't they all over the front pages for playing a blinder?

Royal Blood are on the way down after a pretty decent first record and mediocre returns since. And this is a great way to stave off that decline for a little while longer. It's all anyone's talking about. If the new music is shit it won't help long term but it'll push more streams in the first week for sure.

Lewis Capaldi headlined. I'm not sure he needs more streams or the publicity. He seems to be doing quite well for himself.
His debut album biggest seller of 2019 and 2020 in the UK.
Playing to massive crowds world wide.
Don't believe me? Watch the netflix documentary. I had no idea about him apart that Somebody You Loved song. Turns out he's like a Scottish Ed Sheeran.

We're all on here discussing Polyphia, Bonamassa and Paul Gilbert's signature guitar

And The 1975 apparently.

But we're not talking about either of them. (admitedlly half the internet is talking about 1975 as Taylor Swift is shagging the singer apparently), but RB haven't had this much publicity in years!

LPManic · May 2023

Everyone very naive on this forum

Sporky · May 2023

LPManic said:
Everyone very naive on this forum

I'm sorry to hear that you think you're very naive.

Probably best that you don't speak for others though.

thecolourbox · May 2023

No it was The Kooks who did Naive, different band and different era

fretmeister · May 2023

I like his pedal board and the routing options. It's well planned.
It was also quite savvy at their beginning to hide the board so "nobody" could figure out what he was doing. *

That added some mystery. But ultimately I cannot name a single song of theirs.

* took me (and no doubt other similarly afflicted bassists) an hour or 2 to work out how he was doing it. Then the Helix had a factory patch doing. I wonder if that annoyed him too.

darthed1981 · May 2023

Ah fuck it, I think Royal Blood are great.

If you had to rule out pillocks from music you like, you'd rule out half the industry.

People will be saying you can't like Bowie or Led Zep for all the underage sex next.

mrkb · May 2023

BlueStrat said:

They’re a bit like a poppy low rent muse
To make a two piece interesting is really hard I can only think of the white stripes and 21Pilots who have got a real vibe going

They’re supporting Muse on their UK tour in June.

darthed1981 · May 2023

mrkb said:

BlueStrat said:

They’re a bit like a poppy low rent muse
To make a two piece interesting is really hard I can only think of the white stripes and 21Pilots who have got a real vibe going

They’re supporting Muse on their UK tour in June.

I'm seeing them in MK

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