*** Leeds Fanviews Here 7/8/14 ***

LBC

Three days, and I feel the same. I keep re-living it. Hugely emotional.

A truly epic show.

hostis

Words cannot describe. Its 21 years since I first saw them and this gig truly outshone the Brixton 93 one. I never, ever thought PJ could have topped that night but they did.
My wife and I were seated in the front row, directly in front of Mike and the view, sound, energy and attitude of the band was simply awe-inspiring.
The crowd were immense as well. We did our bit, in particular carrying on singing Sirens and Black way after they band stopped playing.
I apologise to the people who were behind me that wanted to sit and watch but I just had to get up, dance and sing along. (the couple next to my wife sat and watched for pretty much ALL of the gig.... huh? what gives?!!! )

So many memorable events from the night and I have finally come down. From the amazing set list that was full of obscure songs (gimme no lip, push me pull me, ghost, fatal, all or none etc etc), the lack of Ten songs until the end (apart from once and evenflow), Jeff, Mike and Stone swinging the lights, the "sit down interlude", Matt's son (I guess that was his son) playing on stage, the band saying thankyou to their employees, Fernando, the fans phone etc (I could go on and on) it was just a special special night.
Thank you thank you thank you Pearl Jam. You inspire me.....
cant wait for the boot.

Idlewild

Here are some videos I took. Excuse me for the shakiness.
Pearl Jam - Smile- Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20wx7JQvfDU
Pearl Jam - Alive - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjr0ZpME55w
Pearl Jam - Jeremy - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBq8tnavqQ
Pearl Jam - Leaving Here - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_d1LXAwsE
Pearl Jam - All Along the Watchtower - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKXwdfFHaLo
Pearl Jam - Porch - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH0QRLzRGYA
Pearl Jam - Fatal - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR023zv0Mt0
Pearl Jam - All or None - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZFWx9n_6GM
Pearl Jam - Setting Forth / Rearviewmirror - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StnIP8SjzdQ
Pearl Jam - Present Tense - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucBDz-vd2g
Pearl Jam - Ghost - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhTGSWFLC8
Pearl Jam - Tremor Christ / Wishlist - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr7-LW7AJlw
Pearl Jam - Mind Your Manners - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJfiH76Kyfw
Pearl Jam - Baba O'Riley - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK9bW1V1KwA
Pearl Jam - Don't Gimme No Lip - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czbqUS9UNjM
Pearl Jam - Push Me, Pull Me - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgF_PgWDv0
Pearl Jam - Sirens - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDI_YU14tcY

wolfamongwolves

Spags said:

Leeds. Rain and cheap beer. Queuing for wristbands while wife grabs merch. Owl t-shirt and sticker up there with the Berlin bear. Bump into Peasant Tents and Stef, great queuing companions. Sunshine and cheap beer. NFL chat, fuck the World Cup. Pillows in the alleyway. Dump umbrella. GOING IN! Mike side three rows from the rail. This is going to be Prague '12 good. Brazilian girls sneak in, check out Solamore on Flickr. HERE THEY COME! Mike with the violin string. We all scream 'Hello'. Place sounds incredible. Club vibe on the floor. Hail hailing the lucky ones in front, yeah. Getting rowdy, Mind Your Manners perfect timing. Ed's got jokes. Spirits are high. Guitar plectrums rain down, Peasant Tents is in like a hawk. Stone is grooving. Ed nicks a phone from the crowd. Selfies. Messing up songs and trying to delay the bootleg! Nudity encouragement. Mike cross dresser. Basketballs. Middle name laughs. Stone Carpenter Gossard? Eddie Jerome Vedder, What Time Is It? Setlist is building to something special. Microphone thrown into crowd instead of mobilephone. Let Stone Sing! Oh shit, Stone sings! Stone steals the show. Fuck it, Let Jeff Sing. No chance. Oh Fernando, we'll sing anything. Non-festival joy. RVM build-up, Jeff's heavy bass. 'HEEEEEEEEE' is an Eddie Vedder lyric! Mike leaping. Euphoria. Encore breather. Emotional Man Of The Hour. Faces melt during All Or None. Jaws drop during Fatal. The Who possession. Pearl Jam Live At Leeds. The party is back on. Mike smashes a hole in his green globe like a total boss. Ed pays us a visit. Globe-cam swinging on the big screens. Birthday celebrations. Ed tries to get a pregnant photographer drunk on champaign. Ed mimes banter infront of an empty mic stand. Ed's got jokes! Keep going. Guitar switch for Smile. Smile sums up the whole show. Jeff kills the solo. Leaving Here, but not yet. Bass solo. Drum solo. Keep going! Beautiful faces speech during Black. Jeff ends it with a clunk but nails Jeremy. Bass harmonics. Mike taking Polaroids. Ed collecting flags. Busting down the pretext. Alive, oh no, keep going!! Tambourine bait storms the front. Bad parenting. Mike handles it with class. Mike plays a Who riff, Ed sings Fernando. Ed falls, carries it off like a veteran. IT'S ON-LY TEEN-AGE WASTELAND. Raw. Phone thrown back into the throng. Matt's kid is going to break hearts. Indifference gently pulls the crowd back to earth. All good things must come to an end. Great things will stay with you forever.

Brilliant, Spags! That's the show, right there! And I smell what The Rock is cooking too...

And this is brilliant! I know that feeling...

GosiaGold said:

..so after Black I go crazy to Jeremy and I look at my partner who is trying to withdraw his tears and he simply can't.. so he just stands there.. letting it go... I ask him...'what?', 'why?'.... and he replyes... 'coz this is it... this is us 20 years ago listening to the first album, this was our beginning'... never ever I have seen this man cry before! His first ever show!
Thank you Pearl Jam.. only your music has the power to open up people in the most loving way...

moonandstars

Idlewild said:

Here are some videos I took. Excuse me for the shakiness.
Pearl Jam - Smile- Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20wx7JQvfDU
Pearl Jam - Alive - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjr0ZpME55w
Pearl Jam - Jeremy - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rBq8tnavqQ
Pearl Jam - Leaving Here - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_d1LXAwsE
Pearl Jam - All Along the Watchtower - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKXwdfFHaLo
Pearl Jam - Porch - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH0QRLzRGYA
Pearl Jam - Fatal - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR023zv0Mt0
Pearl Jam - All or None - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZFWx9n_6GM
Pearl Jam - Setting Forth / Rearviewmirror - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StnIP8SjzdQ
Pearl Jam - Present Tense - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pucBDz-vd2g
Pearl Jam - Ghost - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhhTGSWFLC8
Pearl Jam - Tremor Christ / Wishlist - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr7-LW7AJlw
Pearl Jam - Mind Your Manners - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJfiH76Kyfw
Pearl Jam - Baba O'Riley - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK9bW1V1KwA
Pearl Jam - Don't Gimme No Lip - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czbqUS9UNjM
Pearl Jam - Push Me, Pull Me - Leeds First Direct Arena 8th July 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNgF_PgWDv0
Pearl Jam - Sirens - Ziggo Dome Amsterdam 17th June 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Thanks for these and for the many others. Your YouTube channel has been my favourite one for a long time. Even better than the channel full of songs that get my 1 year old son to fall asleep in the car!

wolfamongwolves

So here's my promised video of Ed on the rail in Porch...

http://youtu.be/ECfqPAj5bkc

And while we're at it, here's Fatal...

http://youtu.be/n-MZjg3esSQ

Sorry they're so shaky. And for my off-key singing...

Idlewild

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Peasant Tents

wolfamongwolves said:

So here's my promised video of Ed on the rail in Porch...

http://youtu.be/ECfqPAj5bkc

And while we're at it, here's Fatal...

http://youtu.be/n-MZjg3esSQ

Sorry they're so shaky. And for my off-key singing...

Amazing!! - thanks for posting... I was a fair way towards Mike from you ! Great videos!

FATAL.....

wolfamongwolves

Thanks, PT!

Brandesman

Amazing show. Thanks so much to those people that got me there. Jammil YOU ARE A STAR. The set list was incredible and as for the Who songs...WOW!!!

Thanks guys, the fatigue is well worth it.

CharlieP

It was an absolutely amazing show. Instant classic. The band was relaxed and Ed was in his humorous spirits. The place was great, the sound was great, the setlist is sick and the crowd really delivered. All of this made it the best Pearl Jam show I´ve ever seen.
I can´t believe that after 21 shows I got to hear 9 songs I´ve never heard live before. What other band comes even close to that????

So many songs I never thought I was gonna hear live. And the band was on stage from 8.24 to around 11.50, insane!

Bring on the boot!!!

swervedriver

Still on a high today! What a show and what a setlist for my 20th show. What a band

ikiT

Pingfah said:

the tiki bomb said:

I was right behind these two, I mean directly behind them. One had a Sex Pistols tattoo on his neck. It did get quite rough down there.

Yep, that's the exact ones I am talking about, I saw the tattoo also. That means you were standing next to me for most of the gig! I had glasses on, and I was constantly worried they were going to break them because they kept bashing me in the face. I actually backed off a few rows about half way through because they were so awful to be next to. I am quite happy to have moshers around, but these guys took it way beyond a good time.

I believe at one point I put my hand up to temporarily stop the inappropriate overhand clapping from repeatedly hitting your the side of your face..."some people..."

I understand it's a rock show and I could have dealt most all of it off with a shrug, but these 2 were douches, just complete douches.

There were some super rarities Fatal, (a second time for me (in only 7 shows !!) BUT it replaced Parting Ways and some other song I can't decipher on the playlist), Push Me, Pull Me (one of my Faves from Yield, but difficult for the above mentioned douches not to take super literally when they're already wound up), Zero Backspacer (although I do like that record), and again, Don't Gimme No Lip. I can't stress how much I love that song.

still waiting on an Oceans and Deep, and a Satan's Bed for that matter...

No MK for me, back home now.

The Big Cheese

Thanks Idlewild for posting the footage, tried in vain yesterday to find RVM on u tube, so glad to re live that moment, as for All Or None just WOW! Mike McFuckin McCready's solo, i have no words even Eds in awe. Some how some way this need to be put together as a DVD ]

groovyf

Loving this comment from the Burnley Express review:
"You’d have more luck predicting the weekend’s Lottery numbers than guessing a Pearl Jam setlist such is the depth of the well they draw from." - so, so true!

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/what-s-on/gigs-music/review-pearl-jam-live-1-6720706

The Big Cheese

cheers for the review, fuckin epic!

YoxallManchester

I've been annoyed by idiots playing drums behind their head in the past, and nowadays its people filming the gig and blocking my view, but when all is said and done, its a rock concert. Surely we all expect it not to be like Sunday School?

We moved halfway through and stood near some students. They were rowdy and annoying, and the girl must have hit me in the face about 5 times, but its a rock concert.

I dunno, I feel your pain and all that, but there are plenty of places with good views to stand if you want completely uninterrupted personal space

I guess its a trade off. Lifes too short.

wolfamongwolves

YoxallManchester said:

I've been annoyed by idiots playing drums behind their head in the past, and nowadays its people filming the gig and blocking my view.

I get where you're coming from, and as much as I hate the idea of watching their camera screens & thinking about how it'll look later instead of watching it with their eyes and relishing it now, I'm guilty of it too - obviously from my videos above. But I am glad I took the very few I did, I focused on the show rather than on the screen when filming (which is probably evident from the shakiness...), and I tried not to hold my camera up where it would block anyone's view (easier to do when you're at the front). So I hope I'm forgiven...

steve73

What is there to say that hasn't been said already ! GREAT NIGHT ! My fifth show and the best one yet. Was my mates first PJ show and was such a special one to take him to. He has always been into them so when he said he was up for leeds i gave him all the albums along with lost dogs (he only had ten and yield) which helped make it a great night for him as he never realy know to much apart from ten,yield and the odd other single . As said a night for true fans !

Pingfah

the tiki bomb said:

I believe at one point I put my hand up to temporarily stop the inappropriate overhand clapping from repeatedly hitting your the side of your face..."some people..."

Ahaha, thanks, that was you, yes I remember!

YoxallManchester said:

I've been annoyed by idiots playing drums behind their head in the past, and nowadays its people filming the gig and blocking my view, but when all is said and done, its a rock concert. Surely we all expect it not to be like Sunday School?

We moved halfway through and stood near some students. They were rowdy and annoying, and the girl must have hit me in the face about 5 times, but its a rock concert.

I dunno, I feel your pain and all that, but there are plenty of places with good views to stand if you want completely uninterrupted personal space

I guess its a trade off. Lifes too short.

Yes well thanks for the bullshit patronising attitude, but you weren't next to them. I'm not some fragile whiner, I just did 4 nights at Sonisphere on my way to the Pearl Jam gig. I was in a mosh at a fucking Anthrax gig on Friday, Iron Maiden on Saturday, and Metallica on Sunday, so you'd better believe me when I tell you these guys were unnecessarily aggressive.