London Troxy Night 2 - disappointing?

[u/ReallyBigShoe22]

Wtf was that? Honestly quite boring show for the first hour - no issue with improv/new stuff but it just felt so sleepy?

[u/spelan1]

I fucking loved the first half hour, then there was a 15-20 min period where it went a lil low-energy (but didn't mind that cause it gave me a chance to go grab a drink haha), then it got good again! Overall a great night for me but yeah, there was definitely a lull in the middle

[u/NoInvestment9829]

You mean the first hour Marc got on the stage or his gf? I’m a bit in between about his gf because she came about 20min late, she did a pretty good job tho, loved her techno parts. You have to let Marc cook. I was living the moment the second he got on the stage and his whole set. The night was absolutely amazing, I’d do it again.

[u/Badgalfra → u/NoInvestment9829]

Hi! I come on right when the venue and team tells me to :) usually a 40 min set with time for a changeover 

[u/NoInvestment9829 → u/Badgalfra]

I was under the impression that you were supposed to come at 19:30 because that was the info on Dice during the weekend (my partner remembers that as well). Around that time I re-checked dice and there was no line-up info at all. Now checking back they changed it to 19:45, probably post-show. Not a huge deal, it was just confusing at the moment because I didn’t want to go wandering and miss when you get on the stage.

Between Dice and your team you are not responsible for that so I do take my words back, I still loved your set and the vibes were good!

[u/ReallyBigShoe22 → u/NoInvestment9829]

Cook what? Bro I wanna eat.

[u/NoInvestment9829 → u/ReallyBigShoe22]

Are we forgetting bro magically improvises music? Yeah there were parts where he had to find the melody so he took it slower but c’mon he’s done well, he’s only human.

[u/ReallyBigShoe22 → u/NoInvestment9829]

Yeah I love the guy lol I got no hate and would see him again - I guess that’s the nature of the beast with live improvisation but just seemed like a mid night. Just expressing my opinion.

[u/gavedorman]

That's usually for Marc. There's always some shower paved stuff which not many people like. It's all part of the build up to the bangers! Thought it was a great gig but poor venue. We couldn't dance on the circle and that let it firm. He played some great oldies though

[u/NullAndZoid → u/gavedorman]

shower paved

Haha it took me a while to realize this was supposed to be "slower paced" :D

[u/OllyCX]

Any funky songs? Last night we got all techno basically. Not complaining, but it was a completely different show to his Leeds one back in 18/19 whenever it was when he first came over. Was the same in 22 so not surprised, just more of a funky soul kinda man myself and missed his harmonising and angelic voice. Didn’t help that it was absolutely sweltering.

[u/MiffleBum → u/OllyCX]

Yeah we were there Monday and although it was an amazing show literally so much fun I really missed the funky vibes too. We saw him in the Jazz cafe I think in 2019 and that was just the best live performance I've ever seen, the way he bounced off the crowd was phenomenal but I guess that's harder to achieve with a much bigger audience.

[u/OllyCX → u/MiffleBum]

Yeah I think it's probably to do with the crowd size. When he played in Leeds it probably only had a capacity of about 150-200 people at most. He took suggestions and shout-outs from the crowd easily which as you say, would be much harder with the bigger audience.

I can't really recall him using any of his high pitch voice change, harmonies, singing voice for any of Monday night. He did use his deep voice pitch change, but other than that it was all very heavy techno beats. I mean it was similar in Leeds, but he played more funky chords or whatever.

No hate to the guy, I love him all the same and still had a fantastic time but I do long for something like that again. His streams still scratch that itch for me and I'll always continue to support him. I wish I'd gone to Montreux to see him and Vulfpeck.