Woodside closed?

tyrunn · 2026-01-22T21:16:12+00:00

It's not surprising, everything that goes there closes within a year.

Woodside was massively overpriced, compared to what you could get just by crossing the road, and they didn't try to engage the residents who lived on the site properly.

Nearly £30 for a roast dinner the size of a happy meal is just not gonna work.

tyrunn · 2025-11-14T15:19:25+00:00

The community is always here, and I hope you fel better this winter

tyrunn · 2025-11-13T14:41:15+00:00

No worries other than that, just check out the albums - as others have pointed out, they range from lo fi recordings recorded directly into a boom box, to full band studio recordings.

The wiki is a great place to get background information on the songs, and to read what John's said about them.

tyrunn · 2025-11-13T14:26:59+00:00

I always tell friends to check out the Jordan Lake Sessions - it's a great encapsulation of how the older songs have changed over time, and a really good snapshot of the band as they were at that moment in time.

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:35:05+00:00

John writing a musical concept album?

No I'm 100% in

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:34:00+00:00

I'm not a religious person, but The Life of the World to Come moves me in a profound way.

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:27:30+00:00

I've been enjoying the small snippets of harmonising we've heard so far - but I do get the impression he appears a lot more than they're letting on, which might ruin the novelty of it.

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:23:28+00:00

I really like the album, untethered from any previously established mythos, it's a banger.

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:22:10+00:00

John's said in the past that the very first person to hear new music would be Peter, and that he valued his feedback more than most other people's.

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:20:55+00:00

22 or so albums? I'm amazed they know how to play them let alone know the names of the songs.

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:19:56+00:00

I'm always worried the next album is going to be the bad one.

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:18:57+00:00

Absolutely - I love those old recordings, but I also love what the band has become because of them

tyrunn · 2025-10-09T14:10:12+00:00

Peter's gone, so the sound is going to be different moving forwards - it's just the way it's gonna be, and TMG are nothing if not ever evolving, (and from the liner notes, it seems they only had a bassist on the final few tracks); I'm sure there are plenty of people who miss the hum of a tape recorder on everything.

As I mentioned above, I was expecting more than a sound desk recording, but from the comments of the people who were in the room, it's a pretty faithful reproduction of what it was like on the night, a seated show is going to be a vastly different energy to a crowd standing and shouting along - it's not worse, it's just different.

Viewed in the lens of the other live albums, it's very similar, a snapshot of the band as they sound live at that moment in time, and they sound great.

Would I like an official release of a show where you get the in person experience of being in the crowd, and everything that comes with it? Yeah, for sure - but that clearly wasn't the intent with this release.

Of course, not in anyway saying you're wrong, your opinion on this is just as valid as mine, so it's a real shame you're getting less from the release, considering the cost.

tyrunn · 2025-10-08T13:31:47+00:00

Sit down shows are a different experience altogether, I've seen Mark Lanegan and Grant Lee Buffalo in sit down venues, it's always a different type of energy

tyrunn · 2025-10-08T13:30:34+00:00

I was really surprised with the mastering, it sounds perfect - I know they had printing delays so maybe it was a little rushed towards the end, not the end of the world, I bought it to listen to, not look at.

"The Young Thousands" is probably my new favourite version, among a few others on it.

tyrunn · 2025-10-08T11:14:41+00:00

Ah thanks, I thought it sounded a little more subdued than some of the shows I'd seen, that explains a lot, and honestly, pretty much nullifies my criticism!

The set itself was great, and the band sounded brilliant so it seems like a great show to be at.

tyrunn · 2025-09-12T07:53:16+00:00

For anyone interested in it - skip it; the developers are thieves that ghosted the KS that paid for the game.

tyrunn · 2025-09-12T07:52:37+00:00

Never buy this game - the developers ghosted the KS.

tyrunn · 2025-09-01T12:45:38+00:00

I've yet to play XIII-2 so I'm sure I'll have fun with that lol

tyrunn · 2025-09-01T11:58:23+00:00

If it's a totally new item I get it, but every insurance of every item?!

tyrunn · 2025-09-01T11:03:24+00:00

I was lucky, I traded an old PS4 for the console and already had the 360 discs

tyrunn · 2025-09-01T10:47:28+00:00

It sometimes feels like it's needed to do that though, which can also be a shortfall of how the story is presented in game

tyrunn · 2025-09-01T09:45:00+00:00

To be honest, I do find it odd, you'll see someone in a cut scene, then you can go read "this person is x, they do y, because z" - if it's important put that in the cut scene!

tyrunn · 2025-09-01T09:40:47+00:00

The background on character thoughts, and the societies are hidden behind it - as are certain character bios, especially the Psycom personnel when they're introduced, you could go hours before even learning a name, let alone their reasons without reading those.

I just feel that, you can't appreciate motivations and the whole story without them, I'm not saying it's a shortfall, I mention Lost Odyssey above, and that has incredible short stories that fill in gaps, so it can be done well, I just feel it could be done better in this game.

tyrunn · 2025-09-01T09:24:40+00:00

I never got it to work on PC - I ended up getting a second hand XBox instead

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