Maximo Park, Pip Blom – Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
The first time I’ve been to the Roundhouse since I saw Lush here in 2016. And that really doesn’t feel like 6½ years ago!
Nothing has changed except their ticket system which has done from “reasonably nice physical ticket” to “worst e-ticket system ever”. I suppose it’s good for security and to beat touts – I seem to see less and less touts at gigs now – but they’re just sooo ugly. The QR cod is constantly changing which is weird too. To be fair we didn’t have any problems getting in.

Got there in time for Pip Blom, who I’d interviewed at Standon in 2018. Not sure the venue’s acoustics did them justice.
This was my first Maximo Park gig since I caught them at their album launch gig for Too MUch Information at the Sebright Arms in 2014, although I’d seen them at a couple of festivals since. In keeping with my usual tradition at Maximo Park gigs I had a terrible view. To be honest I wasn’t really in the mood for it – but sometimes you realise how great the songs are and how good a show they put on too, and then you start wondering whether you’re right about anything. TLDR – it was great.
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Maximo Park setlist:
- All Of Me
- The Night I Lost My Head
- Leave This Island
- Hips and Lips
- Baby, Sleep
- The National Health
- Karaoke Plays
- I Want You To Stay
- Questing, Not Coasting
- Great Art
- Get High (No, I Don’t)
- Our Velocity
- What Equals Love?
- The Kids Are Sick Again
- Going Missing
- Books From Boxes
- Versions of You
- Apply Some Pressure
Encore:
- The Undercurrents
- Girls Who Play Guitars
- Graffiti
Pip Blom setlist:
- Tinfoil
- Easy
- Faces
- Tired
- School
- Come Home
- Keep It Together
- Daddy Issues
Friday 7 October 2022, 10743 views
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Gigs
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- Gigantic Indie All Dayer – Marble Factory, Bristol
- HMS Morris, Pictish Trail – Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham
- The Others – The 100 Club, Soho
- Stray Tracks: White Gates Band, Mystery Team, Basharan, SNM, Monumental – Pink Toothbrush, Rayleigh
- Franz Ferdinand, Master Peace, Great Leslie – Empire, Shepherd’s Bush
- Melys, Yr Anghysur – Neuadd Ogwen, Bethesda
- Ynys, Sybs, Lafant – Y Cwps, Aberystwyth
- Sultans of Ping FC – Saint Luke’s & The Winged Ox, Glasgow
- Franz Ferdinand, Permanent (Joy) – Grand Central Hall, Liverpool
- Half Happy, em koko – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
- My Life Story – The Quarry, Liverpool
- Melys, Osgled – Y Cwps, Aberystwyth
- They Might Be Giants – The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
- Darling Buds, Simon Love and the Loves – 229, Great Portland Street, London
- Fightmilk, Tugboat Captain – Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney
- Bugeye, Lucky Number You – The Victoria, Birmingham
- Art Brut – The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham
- Sultans of Ping FC, Meryl Streek – The Ritz, Manchester
- Chroma, Baby Brave, Lila Zing – Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham
- Melin Melyn, Ynys, Pys Melyn – Town Hall, Llangollen
- Antarctic Monkeys – The Buttermarket, Shrewsbury
- Bloc Party – The Institute, Digbeth, Birmingham
- Urdd Gobaith Cymru: Achlysurol, HMS Morris, Llareggub Brass Band – Mathrafal Field, Meifod
- Echobelly, Camens – Live 45, Kidderminster
- Futureheads, Adult Play – Shrewsbury Castle, Shrewsbury
- Adwaith – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
- Melys, Pys Melyn, Sophie Kilburn – Neuadd Ogwen, Bethesda
- Sea Power, Callum Easter – Town Hall, Birmingham
- Dydd Miwsig Cymru: Morgan Elwy, Tew Tew Tennau, Mynadd – Y Institwt, Llanfair Caereinion
- Bikini Beach Band – The White Hart, Stoke Newington
- Pacifica, House of Women – Academy 2, Islington
- Fonda 500, Bugeye, Hurtling, Colossus – Amersham Arms, New Cross
- Snow Coats, Toodles and the Hectic Pity – Signature Brew, Haggerston
- Snow Coats – Tunbridge Wells Forum
- Darling Buds, Keeley – The Thunderbolt, Bristol
- Fightmilk, Feeble Strength – Signature Brew, Haggerston
- Thousand Yard Stare – The Lexington, Islington
- Thousand Yard Stare – Prince Albert, Brighton
- Be Your Own Pet – Rough Trade East, Whitechapel
- Brian Butterfield – Bush Hall, Shepherd’s Bush
- Pulp – Apollo, Hammersmith
- Blur, Self Esteem – Wembley Stadium, Wembley
- Blur, Wu Lu – City Hall, Newcastle
- Salad, Repetitive John – Arts Club, West Hampstead, London
- Salad – The Hope and Ruin, Brighton
- The Others – The Garage, Highbury
- Fightmilk – Signature Brew, Haggerston
- Ynys, Gillie – The Victoria, Dalston
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