London Show - November 7th?

[BH]

I suppose that it's too much to hope that someone taped the show? I looked at the review from The Guardian and it sounded like it would have been a great show to hear.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/08/my-morning-jacket-review?newsfeed=true

Great write up!

so the modern MMJ are an unpredictable evolution of psychedelic Americana whose wildly winding journey you would be best to blindly follow

I resemble that remark!

[sweatboard]

So, this is what you get for not following Victory Dance with Circuital.   

[dragonboy]

So, this is what you get for not following Victory Dance with Circuital.   

;D

Another excellent show! It's tough not hearing anything/so little from the earlier albums & so much from the new one but I guess you just have to accept that the Jacket are a different beast these days. Like I said, still an excellent show.

[Beat Poet]

They had mic's on the audience, and a large mic suspended above Patrick. I'm thinking the band may have recorded it themselves.

The one above Patrick is a drum overhead and the ones on the crowd are for their in-ear monitors, though like most bands they probably have a vault of recordings!

[justnoah]

What a great time! 

Met up before the show with laststop at the Enterprise Pub across the road.  Plowed through 4 beers and headed over to try and get a good spot shortly after the doors opened.  Was pleasantly surprised to be able to walk all the way up to the 2nd row and take a seat on the floor while waiting for Head and the Heart to start.  What a beautiful room!  The only other time I'd been in the Roundhouse was for the Royal Institute of British Architects annual awards show a few years back and didn't get a feeling for the space.  Great venue for a gig though.

While waiting I met some people from their fan community and the guy who was traveling with them selling merchandise.  Nice people.  Their set was good -- hard being an opening band but people seemed engaged and were liking it. 

Thought the MMJ show was excellent.  Yes, it was great to NOT hear Circuital right after Victory Dance :) -- a good sign of things to come.  It was nice being so relatively intimate compared to the large MMJ shows I've seen in North America -- especially being up in the front row.  Great to meet Kajsa and SaraBananaBear; we spent the time outside in the rain together.  I was pretty annoyed by the fire alarm because the communication from the venue was so bad.  Also, with the way they let people back in -- those of us who had devoted the time to get good spots were a bit out of luck with other people who had taken our spaces.  Eventually got a good spot but had to fight for it.  But once the show started up it didn't matter and the whole rest of the show was top notch.  Kudos to the band for picking up right where they'd left off.  I also have to hand it to the sound -- really excellent -- and despite being up close my ears were not ringing when I left. 

All in all a GREAT night and I'm really happy I was able to be there.  Thanks to all of you for making it such a good night. 

[@dawn]

"fire alarm due to some w**ker smoking in the gents"

is this really true?

great show though - thanks for posting all the pictures