If anyone happens to be in the San Diego area, my band The Rightovers is playing a Bunnymen cover set TONIGHT at the Soda Bar Halloween thing. Our set is:

Rescue The Puppet Do it Clean Bring on the Dancing Horses My Kingdom Killing Moon Lips Like Sugar

We’ll be filming it too.

found out about this track by another new wave adjacent artist, anthony moore (slapp happy, henry cow, wrote for pink floyd etc) which features Ian on vocals, it's pretty great! thought fellow echo and the bunnymen fans might be into or appreciate its existence:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2c5hQRZ1Gw2lOMMnkkXEoB?si=ZFIva2zkRNqYsu97592HJw

I picked up a copy of Reverberation at a local junk shop for a couple of bucks. When it first came out, I picked up a cassette and lost it at some point between various moves. When this came out, I liked it. Even though it was the same band name, I viewed it as a band going in a different direction. I know it gets a ton of hate but it’s definitely a chill vibe recording. I was under the impression that the album was buried but noticed that it’s on Spotify.

Given it’s been like 30+ years since its release, what are your thoughts on this album? Is it something you’d revisit or just mark up to a move that didn’t work out?

Grew up listening to Echo and the Bunneymen with my father, over the past two years the are my most listened to artists by a landslide. I’ve listened to everything of theirs on Apple music a million times through. I will get some hate for ranking The Killing Moon 9th but I truly don’t believe its one of their absolute best songs.

10: Rust 9: The Killing Moon 8: Crystal Days 7: The Back of Love 6: Seven Seas 5: Never Stop 4: Silver 3: Rescue 2: The Cutter 1: My Kingdom (live in London)

I was wondering if you had something to suggest, almost usable in a """disco""" contest, that can be danced on

the version of pictures on my wall from crocodiles on spotify is the single version and not the album one. i checked youtube and that's not the case! i still do love the single version though, probably more than the akbum one

So excited! This is a make up show for last year’s cancelled show. Please please please make this a good show! 2 hours till showtime!

haters can be gone now

I have two tickets for tonight's show, unfortunately I can't make it. Giving them away to the first person that contacts me. I know it's late but if you're local, there's still time to make it. I would rather they go to someone that will enjoy it.

They were better at the Mountain Winery last year but I still enjoyed last night's show. I didn't care so much that I couldn't understand Ian's in between songs drunken ramblings. I actually found it funny. Yes he can't hit some highs at times like he used to but overall he was good and Will was great as always. I can't blame Ian for the intermission knowing he has a back problem. I wish they played more songs from their non-80s albums. My onky other nitpick is that I'm not a fan of audience sing alongs and there were too many last night whereas there were none I can recall last year. But overall it was a good show and the band was tight.

I went into this one thinking that it was guaranteed to at least be better than the Fox Oakland nightmare from 2 years ago. But I’m not sure that was the case. This was pretty bad.

All of the same problems as last time: not hitting the notes; barely singing some songs; terrible lighting that not only didn’t add anything but was downright hostile; weird song selection and pacing; etc.

At least this time Ian was standing and the medicine table was a little back on the stage instead of up front, next to him. But the Warfield was ridiculously hot (at least up in the balcony where I was) and it just wasn’t a good time when it came down to it. The capper was when Ian stopped Ocean Rain after the first verse and walked off the stage, followed by the rest of the band. If they left the show with that it would have ranked as one of the biggest FU’s I’ve ever experienced at a show but thankfully they came back out and pulled it off, mostly.

So I don’t know; the show was pretty bad but the songs are so good it almost didn’t matter. I appreciated the quality singing by the crowd - that was fun. But after seeing this band 5 or 6 times since 1985 I think I’m done. It’s clear to me now that these aren’t just off nights; this is what it is and it’s not getting better, only worse.

EATB is one of my favorite bands and I figured I'd do a quick post. The band came out right on time. Will's guitar work was just as tight and amazing as ever. Mac's voice sounded great and the entire band was firing on all cylinders. I thoroughly enjoyed the show even if at times it felt rushed and on auto pilot.

A few criticisms:

I was curious to see if their intermission would detract from the show and it most definitely did. I can see needing an intermission for a 30 song set but we're talking about 18 songs, some of them very short in length. To do an intermission after only 8 songs feels unnecessary.

I went with some friends who had never seen them live. Their main complaint was the backlighting, with one of them saying "we came to SEE the band, not silhouettes. I told them that's how they've been doing it for 40 years but IMO it's a fair criticism.

I personally like when bands do different versions of their songs live for their fans. My friends who are casual fans were especially looking forward to hearing Lips Like Sugar. What they got was one verse of Lips Like Sugar that morphed into a completely different song that nobody recognized. This wasn't a surprise to me, but to them it was disappointing.

It's well-known that it's difficult to understand Mac when he speaks to the crowd, but would it kill him to at least speak loudly into the mic so people aren't straining their ears to not only understand but hear what he's saying?

I'd like to see them do a tour where they perform songs from all albums, and that includes The Fountain. They have so many great songs that get completely ignored.

Great show overall from one of my favorite bands ever.

For anyone that's been to a recent show: is there a gig poster being sold?