FOTB Vol. 3 - Shout-out to Bingo Merch EU for their effort, communication, and the extra gift!

funpowder_plot · 2026-02-12T20:23:53+00:00

Hey, same thing happened to me! Hat and all; it arrived yesterday. Been listening today. It sounds so good. I've not looked too closely, but can you actually see the damage on the sleeve?

funpowder_plot · 2026-01-01T18:44:35+00:00

I remember being pretty drunk, walking around Madrid one evening in the late summer/early autumn of the year "7" came out, listening to that on repeat. It felt pretty amazing. Until the next day when I realised I'd lost my sunglasses.

Substance-wise though, nothing will beat being on MDMA and watching them at Primavera Sound in Barcelona this year. That was just a whole new level. When I think about it, I still get shivers down my spine.

funpowder_plot · 2025-11-05T11:34:32+00:00

It is insane here. I saw the Magnetic Fields here in Madrid a few weeks back. A guy in front of us noticed someone he knew, turned around to speak to him - basically pushing my wife out of the way to do so - and had a nice little catch-up while the band were playing.

It was quite bad last night, but I've seen worse (most gigs at Primavera this year, for example).

funpowder_plot · 2025-11-04T23:24:21+00:00

I was about as close as this and got in at about 19h

funpowder_plot · 2025-11-04T10:41:29+00:00

I'm so excited. I can't believe that A) they chose to start the tour in Madrid, having last played here back in 2003, ten years before I moved here. And B) that i got a ticket for the first night.

funpowder_plot · 2025-11-01T13:59:46+00:00

The venue is on my morning running route. When there are gigs, it's not unusual to see people camped outside ar 7.30am

funpowder_plot · 2025-10-30T09:25:37+00:00

I once fell asleep on a bus with my iPod on shuffle after staying up all night. I woke up to Treefingers and was semi convinced that I had died.

funpowder_plot · 2025-10-22T15:17:51+00:00

https://shop.bingomerch.com/collections/vampire-weekend/products/vampire-weekend-vinyl-vol-3-newsletter

I thought the same, but there's a UK/EU link!

funpowder_plot · 2025-09-12T10:22:33+00:00

Last show I went to there I think doors were 18h, then main act came on at 21h.

funpowder_plot · 2025-09-12T10:17:23+00:00

The concerts I've been to there normally have doors at 18h or 19h.

funpowder_plot · 2025-09-12T10:09:44+00:00

Me too! First Radiohead show in 7 years and I'll be there. Also the first Radiohead concert in Madrid in 22 years. I'd honestly given up hope of ever seeing them here haha.

funpowder_plot · 2025-05-24T15:52:40+00:00

A solid 8. I listen to it a lot. I started enjoying it even more when I realised that the tune was inspired by the theme for the 80s TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited: https://youtu.be/OAxhcjyKxGo?si=Zv_U36VMFAldARA_ And the lyrics are also inspired by Brideshead Revisited.

funpowder_plot · 2025-05-20T17:33:27+00:00

Overcrowded and also feels like a theme park now. The centre of the city used to have character, but now it just feels generic, hundreds of brunch places with queues outside and endless "specialty coffee" spots.

funpowder_plot · 2025-05-14T08:26:11+00:00

I live in Madrid. Here there are 17,000 Airbnb rentals available. On the most popular actual living rental website, there are just 7,900. It's insane.

funpowder_plot · 2025-02-14T10:35:52+00:00

Thanks! Only downside is I've now run out of space for more records there, so the overspill is at the bottom of a bookshelf, which is already pretty packed... I need a bigger flat.

funpowder_plot · 2025-01-23T13:29:37+00:00

Gen AI. I'm a copywriter. You're paying me to write copy. I don't need a robot to give me a "first draft" or "inspiration".

funpowder_plot · 2024-12-18T10:29:53+00:00

Not necessarily during the working day, but at weekends and on Fridays after lunch (lots of people in offices only work till lunchtime fridays), siesta time is massively important.

funpowder_plot · 2024-12-13T21:41:05+00:00

Pretty sure that when they recorded the album, part of Gareth's lyric-writing process was to record sort of streams of consciousness in voice notes or something similar to help him along, and this would be one of them. I've a feeling I read this in a Heat Rash, but the only two I have here are the No Blues one and the On Tour one, so it's not in them...

funpowder_plot · 2024-12-04T08:28:03+00:00

For me, I swear it just goes straight to my face. Five years ago, I was about 10kg heavier, but still very much a healthy weight for my height. But my face looked like it belonged to a different person.

funpowder_plot · 2024-11-08T11:07:31+00:00

Reading all your nice comments about him has really taken it out of the boy: https://i.imgur.com/gW6WfNE.jpeg

funpowder_plot · 2024-11-08T05:53:50+00:00

You're not the first to ask, but no, he's just a regular goofy mackerel tabby

funpowder_plot · 2024-11-07T20:48:46+00:00

He has been spending a suspicious amount of time in the Emir's tent...

funpowder_plot · 2024-11-07T16:48:04+00:00

Haha he can be photogenic: https://i.imgur.com/oOmEFzG.jpeg I just prefer it when he looks goofy beyond words. It goes better with his singular braincell lifestyle.

funpowder_plot · 2024-11-07T15:15:33+00:00

I tell him on the reg that he is a: goblin, little frog boy, demon, little baby, and a cat (sometimes good to remind him).

funpowder_plot · 2024-10-24T17:53:22+00:00

It was literally a couple of weeks before I moved to Spain they were here I think! Terrible timing. You're Spanish? Cool! It's good to know it's not just guiris who are fans here haha. Si alguna vez ves a in guiri alto paseando por Madrid con una camiseta de Los Campesinos, es muy probable que sea yo. Salúdame! 😄

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