the 1975

We clearly chose the wrong London night to go to but having (deliberately) not read anything about the show in advance I was pretty much blown away by it. The stretch from fallingforyou through When We Are Together was perfect.

Was able to watch their concert on Amazon Prime this last weekend. Loved the second half with all their hits.

They also just released one song from that same show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Lj4qt3lCc

his band mate was like nope not tonight pic.twitter.com/PF0Zri8R4W

— sippin on that (@vivafalastin) January 25, 2023

lol, that's a bit, he did it at the Chicago show too.

only thing i can say is that 1975 was a good year for music.

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-1975/2023/gorilla-manchester-england-3bd25e7.html

yo

wow! they need to do this in new york…

yeah if they do that anywhere within a state of me ill go

wow

My only complaint with that setlist is all the A+ songs the band had to remove to make room for the debut.

if this band ever gets to a Wilco-style stage where they play 5 nights somewhere with no repeats, i'm so there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKD2WfNtWeQ

here's the full debut album show

It took me until now to notice that in "Wintering" Matty rhymes "old" with "old," which either means it's skillfully done or I'm exceptionally slow.

I love how Matty plays the guitar as if he just noticed it strapped to his shoulder.

i know this is a well-worn sentiment at this point - and to each their own and all that - but i can't believe someone stood at that spot at that show and filmed for 90 minutes. i feel sad for them, if i'm honest.

surprised this revive wasn’t about that podcast thing (which I have not listened to)

doesn't sound great!

https://consequence.net/2023/02/matty-healy-mocks-yungblud-for-calling-him-a-privileged-white-dude/

this edgelord phase is exhausting and embarrassing

listening now these guys are all stupid assholes wow

is this still about cumtown

he's beefing with yungblud because yungblud took issue with the cumtown appearance and it's deeply embarrassing

oh c’mon the video he posted of yungblud sitting on a toilet onstage while reading a book w/ the caption “i feel partly responsible for this” was pretty funny

i pointedly ignore matty’s amateur podcasting career & i would suggest everyone joins me. that having been said, i can see why yungblud speaking out against him rankles him in particular and you can see matty’s argument as to why in the video, even if it’s childish on the surface

yes, I ignore all of Matty's extracurriculars and all of yungblud's everything, it's worked out well so far

Knowing more about Yungblud than Cum Town is not the high ground you think it is haha

not sure who you're talking to here but I assure you I don't give a shit about which ground I'm on here

why ignore who this guy really is? I have no idea who Yungblud is.

About You (from the last album) is the best song I’ve ever heard by them. Hope whatsisnuts doesn’t turn into Russell Brand.

he's got that big ego + semi-smart + huge cult following, high risk factors

the part of the podcast where they yuk it up to a "sowwwy" racist "asian accent" was pretty vile

wasn’t gonna post these but fuck it, these were taken around 24 hours before that garbage podcast episode went up. matty healy how can you go about being nice & friendly to my face and then turn around the next day to join your bros and laugh along racist remarks of my identity? pic.twitter.com/SihF9SP4mP

— 𝚍𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊 🌻 (@LOVEINTHEGLASS) February 12, 2023

yeah I remember a Healy complaint along the lines of “rappers are the only stars who are allowed to be masculine these days” and it felt like a little reactionary tremor

good but kinda weird show tonight. they didn't have the set with the house (i assume logistical constraints) and matty began by explaining that the show was not the "at their very best" show as advertised and was instead "a theatrical performance of an intimate moment" (i think?) and opened with "be my mistake" alone before doing the whole drinking/smoking routine he'd been doing in the middle of the "at their very best" show except he didn't even try to maintain character, seemed to be some weird meta-commentary on the previous tour legs?

then they did "looking for somebody (to love)" and it was just a regular show with no further gimmicks. setlist sequencing was kinda all over the place & i wish they did more from the last two albums - they didn't even do "part of the band" or the new "the 1975" & they played more from abiior than bfiafl. we at least got "tonight" (which sounded wonderful) as well as "if you're too shy" from notes, but other shows recently got "me & you together song", "roadkill" and "the birthday party" too so i'm a little disappointed there. they've really levelled up as a live band with the expanded lineup at least - the new "paris" arrangement is gorgeous and they've finally figured out how to play "ugh!" properly live (previous live recordings i'd heard never seemed to do it justice).

unfortunately felt a bit too reminiscent of their show from the abiior tour overall at times with how many they played from that album, & most of the same old hits as before.

some top tier stage banter from matty too: apparently there's a meme going around comparing him to 'the rat from flushed away' so he revealed that his godfather co-wrote flushed away & actually somewhat based that character on him?

I couldn’t care less who Matty is dating but it does concern me that the band will continue to be in Jack Antonoff’s sphere for the ongoing future

not inclined to put a lot of stock in that story until there's solid evidence given false rumours of them dating were already a thing in the press like a decade ago, before they'd even met lol

he was apparently at her show in Nashville last night

I thought this was pretty good:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/05/who-is-matty-healy

yeah that's a good piece though i kinda wish it'd gotten more out of him re: the podcast

he definitely underestimated swifties though with this though lol:

But it doesn’t actually matter. Nobody is sitting there at night slumped at their computer, and their boyfriend comes over and goes, ‘What’s wrong, darling?’ and they go, ‘It’s just this thing with Matty Healy.’ That doesn’t happen.

lol Azealia Banks has now gotten involved in whatever's going on via IG stories (as usual)

James Mercer has gotten dragged into this! or i got fooled by someone's photoshop job...

https://www.tmz.com/2023/06/05/taylor-swift-matty-healy-break-up-split/

noooo

longest three weeks of my life

I won't sleep tonight

I guess she was just too controversial for him.

really looking forward to all of Matty's future lyrics about being cancelled by swifties

"Give Myself a Try" (audio verite mix)

the next 1975 album is gonna be so good

"Give Myself a Try"

he no doubt has

potentially walking into a minefield here but can someone sum up his appearance on the podcast fka as Cum Town which I will never listen to and lmk why everyone (Swifties and a lot of non-Swifties too) think he's racist

just a summary thx

iirc he made jokes at the expense of Ice Spice and attempted to mimic a few accents he really shouldn't have mimicked. but I've never listened to that podcast, either. Plus his current persona is just general all-around edgelord asshat, so he's been inviting pushback/misunderstanding/controversy. In other words, the joke is on us, maaaaaaaaaan.

I wonder what the 1975 would be like with a more conventional frontman

completely different!