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Two Door Cinema Club

Paradiso
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

17th November 2012 (2012-11-17)


RECORDING:

Type: Audience master, recorded 3 metres in front of the left PA stack.

Source: Factory-matched pair of Schoeps CCM 41V microphones (DINa mounted) ->
Marantz PMD661 recorder with Oade Concert Mod
(-18 dB gain/44.1 kHz/24 bit WAV)

Lineage: Audacity 2.0.2
* normalised to 0 dB
* applied a minor amount of variable amplification for consistency
across recording
* added fades
* split tracks
* converted to 16 bit
-> FLAC (compression level 8) [libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917]

Taper: Ian Macdonald (ianmacd)


SET LIST:

01. [01:02] [intro]
02. [04:01] Sleep Alone
03. [03:06] Undercover Martyn
04. [03:28] Do You Want It All?
05. [03:43] This Is The Life
06. [03:59] Wake Up
07. [03:34] You're Not Stubborn
08. [03:22] Sun
09. [03:04] Pyramid
10. [03:40] I Can Talk
11. [03:46] Costume Party
12. [03:56] The World Is Watching
13. [04:32] Next Year
14. [03:07] Something Good Can Work
15. [03:36] Handshake
16. [01:00] [banter]
17. [03:29] Eat That Up, It's Good For You
18. [02:42] [encore break]
19. [03:44] Someday
20. [03:34] Come Back Home
21. [00:24] [banter]
22. [04:57] What You Know

Total running time: 71:45


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NOTES:

Tonight is an unabashed celebration of pop, furnished by Northern Ireland's
finest, Two Door Cinema Club. The event sold out long ago and the place is
packed with a predictable crowd of mobile-phone-touting teenagers and early
twenty-somethings.

alt-J are up first. I saw them headline the Melkweg three days ago at their
own sold-out show, but tonight they're playing second fiddle. There's clearly
less interest in the band from the assembled throng and many opt to talk
through their set, rather than listen.

Again, after witnessing the band for a second time, the critical praise for
alt-J strikes me as rather overblown. They're inoffensive, but a little bit
bland; and Joe Newman's voice grates on my nerves during 'Matilda'.

And then it's the turn of the headliners, who do a great job of whipping up
the level of energy in the hall with their finely crafted pop songs, the
majority of which are propped full of mellifluous hooks and satisfying riffs.

Alex Trimble really is a silver-voiced young devil and this evening proves
that he can easily withstand the rigours of a live performance.

The overwhelming impression is of a band with a much longer CV than the two
albums they have thus far released. Their performance polish recalls Franz
Ferdinand at the same stage in their career and suggests older, wiser heads on
those surprisingly young shoulders.

The recording is excellent. The band played so loudly that I had to record
with the input level of the microphones turned down a long way. This, in turn,
served to lower the volume of the audience to such an extent that no manual
attenuation was required in post-processing.

As always, samples are provided to help you decide whether this is worth the
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