I haven’t seen the stories but I remember Geoff saying not too long ago it would be nearly impossible and disadvantageous for Island to ever repress it.
Island refuses to sell album but also won't give Thursday the masters. Wild. I assume they liked the money they made re-pressing WATT. Surely it could move some units.
I mean they said before the tour that a vinyl press of Signals V3 was coming so I would put money on that before ACBTLD re-press.
Okay look this band doesn’t owe me anything and I know that but I’m sorry I’m a little pissed now. This tour was marketed as being ACBTLD focused (along with ND and FC sure) and as kind of a here’s-your-only-chance to see those songs live thing. They’re only playing a handful of songs from that record (and they aren’t the ones I’d pick, not even close), but they’re doing a full play through in NY? Between that and Conley I’m probably gonna try to sell my ticket idk man
Yeah same setlist on the tour every night with four songs from City, two of which are Counting and At This Velocity so not exactly deep cuts. If anyone wants a ticket to the STL show for face value hit me up
This is exactly why I decided not to go. They're dope live, but life is expensive now and I could not care less about hearing Full Collapse songs live again. No Autumn Leaves in the setlist (and only getting a handful of City songs like you said) made my decision pretty easy. I do wonder what the turnout in Birmingham was like though.
If they played 4-5 songs from FC and a full album performance of City or ND I can't imagine ticket sales would be any lower. Casual fans just want to hear Understanding and long time fans would love to hear deep cuts. Why always stay committed to playing "Wind-Up" at every anniversary show?
This is the central problem I have with most nostalgia-heavy sets, and I always think about it in the context of underoath (aside from Thursday). Exactly as you said, the casuals want literally like 2-4 songs, nobody is skipping the tour if you leave out the 5th or 6th or 10th most popular song on the classic record but you’re losing people not playing the 2nd favorite on a less classic record. I basically just repeated what you said but I felt validated lol.
I can’t think of the last time Thursday played an 18 song setlist so I’m pretty stoked after the show tonight
Looks like they dropped How Long is the Night from the FC portion and added Other Side of the Crash to the City. I know the thread hates on them a lot and I do too. Got to the show during the last Conley song (fuck him) and it was packed. This was my 10th time seeing Thursday and it's the most packed show I've seen for them since the mid 00's. I was surprised. Was wearing a Hopesfall shirt and a guy complimented me on it and were talking about how it seemed like the entire crowd was made up of 40 something year olds. And he says to me, "As soon as I saw they were playing Full Collapse songs I had to come." I was like you didn't see the last 3 tours for it? Nope. Opening with No Dev is the right choice. Besides Turnpike those songs just don't go that hard live. Soon as Counting starting the crowd was into it. Every single song from City goes so hard live. Seeing Sugar in the Sacrament was a highlight. almost makes me want to pay dumb money to fly to see them on the boat. As soon as the FC portion started the crowd lost it. It was so obvious that the majority of people were there for that. Can't remember the last time I was at Thursday show with that much moshing and crowd surfing. I love this band (even with their missteps) and encourage any of you to go check out this show if you are on the ledge.
That rocks, but also such a bummer that everyone is still there for FC. Makes it harder to blame the band on coasting for it so much.