For PJ fans in london tonight... Pearl Jamm tribute

Apone

Pearl Jamm, the pearl jam tribute are playing tonight 19/6/18 at the borderline near tottenham court road in london this evening

Just organised 

Spiritual_Chaos

This must be the place to be at. This could be amazing for fans!!

Apone

Dont think capacity is very big, should be decent 

webbo

Thanks guys! That was a gig we won’t forget in a hurry after the sad news about Eddies voice. The audience were absolutely incredible and it sold out in an hour, which is just mind blowing. It was an insight into what it must have been like for Pearl Jam to play at the Borderline back in 92 and a memory we’ll treasure forever!  

If anyone from here was there from the forum then please send us any video footage you have to our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pearljammband 

Pearl Jam fans are the absolute best! 

Gingerlou77

We all had a ball. A great end to an otherwise rubbish day!

Apone

It was brilliant and a small consolation for the crappy day.  Imagine seeing pearl jam there in 1992 - a mind blowing thought.

lastexitlondon

Well done Webbo whoever that got sorted. What a great plan . Well executed . Good people 

lolobugg

SETLIST?

danny

it was excellent thanks

webbo

lolobugg said:

SETLIST?

We wrote it 5 mins before we went onstage, we had to cut BOJ and Ledbetter unfortunately due to time constraints

lolobugg

webbo said:

lolobugg said:

SETLIST?

We wrote it 5 mins before we went onstage, we had to cut BOJ and Ledbetter unfortunately due to time constraints

Nice set. I would've cut Sirens over Brain of JFK, though.

webbo

Cheers! Yeah BOJ is a beast of a song. The mosh pit was so wild though it was handy to have some slow ones! We left Sirens in so we had something from a recent album. Tbh they’ve got so many amazing tunes it’s difficult cutting the set down, there’s always more songs you want to add in! 

lolobugg

webbo said:

Cheers! Yeah BOJ is a beast of a song. The mosh pit was so wild though it was handy to have some slow ones! We left Sirens in so we had something from a recent album. Tbh they’ve got so many amazing tunes it’s difficult cutting the set down, there’s always more songs you want to add in! 

did you see anyone taking a piss break during "Sirens"?  

DSTRUB

Thanks for doing the gig, I didn’t know PJ played there back in 1992, makes it more special for me now! I may have been one of the dudes in the middle jumping around

dmbolp

How did you get Ed to write out the setlist?   

webbo

Haha didnt notice any toilet breaks @lolobug. Crowd was absolutely brilliant and mental throughout....first time we’ve ever had people crowd surfing in Black  

@dmpolb hahaha it was only his voice that’s knackered, his writing hand is still fine

webbo

DSTRUB said:

Thanks for doing the gig, I didn’t know PJ played there back in 1992, makes it more special for me now! I may have been one of the dudes in the middle jumping around

Awesome, thanks for making it such an awesome night. Yea in all the excitement our singer Santi forgot to mention it hahaha. 

Probably best eat we didn’t, doubt the place would have been left standing once everyone had taken some “momento’s”

webbo

lastexitlondon said:

Well done Webbo whoever that got sorted. What a great plan . Well executed . Good people  

Thanks mate! Well if interested we basically heard the news it was cancelled at 2pm, which was awful as we all had tickets. I think 10mins later we’d decided to put on a show so by 4pm we had booked The Borderline (who were amazing considering they had to get bar staff, security etc within hrs) and got a ticket link online.

At this point we weren’t sure if our drummer was available but a chap called Enzo from another PJ tribute (called Brain of J) who is an absolute legend said he could step in. We actually managed to get hold of Eddies agent (the day really couldn’t have got more surreal!) who spoke to Matt Cameron asking if he’d fancy drumming with us...he politely declined but still, we were overwhelmed he’d even been asked! 

By 5pm the gig was completely sold out! Most of us work in London but to give you an idea of the behind the scenes stuff. I had to get a tube an hour back home, grab all my gear and drive back into London, unload, find somewhere to park etc so I didn’t get to the venue until just before 8pm. We sound checked, sorted as many people out as we could with tickets who didn’t have any until it was packed, wrote set and were onstage just after 9pm, and our drummer turned up just in time. Huge props to Enzo and we asked him to play the first few songs with us, hence the swap over. 

We’re all still buzzing from the gig, we’ll put together a video from all the fan footage as a momento for people who were there. Unforgettable

Apone

It really was superb.  We were lucky enough to be tipped off the gig might be happening by a lady in All bar one in the o2, lukcy to get tickets just in time.

I also didn't realise the borderline was where Pearl Jam played in 1992.  Made it even more memorable.

Well done to all for getting organised and sorted so quickly.

JimNastics

This sounds fucking awesome... the wife and I stayed down here in Worthing when we heard the cancellation, wishing we had made the trip for this now!! Haha

EB236418

I'll echo what has been said above. Top effort lads! Arranging this salvaged the night for those lucky enough to grab tickets. Nevermind you couldn't get Matt C to drum - was absolutely excellent night anyway. The atmosphere, energy of the band, history of the venue, getting Given to Live up on stage (after being mentioned on Monday), and the general attitude of everyone in there just shows what great people Pearl Jam fans really are! My feet and throat are still ruined haha. Thanks again!

rummy

webbo said:

lolobugg said:

SETLIST?

We wrote it 5 mins before we went onstage, we had to cut BOJ and Ledbetter unfortunately due to time constraints

Can you share this setlist with the band? I'm still a-ok with a hits show and would love this in Seattle!

(Maybe play Immortality instead of Sirens)

webbo

Apone said:

It really was superb.  We were lucky enough to be tipped off the gig might be happening by a lady in All bar one in the o2, lukcy to get tickets just in time.

I also didn't realise the borderline was where Pearl Jam played in 1992.  Made it even more memorable.

Well done to all for getting organised and sorted so quickly.

Awesome thanks mate, glad you managed to get tickets. We initially asked the Indigo at the O2 but they said it was too short notice so yay for The Borderline. Plus it’s great to have played where they did there first London gig! A night we’ll never forget for sure. 

We’re thinking of getting a tour poster done to celebrate the night! 

webbo

JimNastics said:

This sounds fucking awesome... the wife and I stayed down here in Worthing when we heard the cancellation, wishing we had made the trip for this now!! Haha

Cheers! Ah shame there’s a few people who travel from Brighton for our London shows! We’re playing Brighton November 17th at Sticky Mikes, I think that’s as close to Worthing as we get (this year!)

mcgruff10

webbo said:

Apone said:

It really was superb.  We were lucky enough to be tipped off the gig might be happening by a lady in All bar one in the o2, lukcy to get tickets just in time.

I also didn't realise the borderline was where Pearl Jam played in 1992.  Made it even more memorable.

Well done to all for getting organised and sorted so quickly.

Awesome thanks mate, glad you managed to get tickets. We initially asked the Indigo at the O2 but they said it was too short notice so yay for The Borderline. Plus it’s great to have played where they did there first London gig! A night we’ll never forget for sure. 

We’re thinking of getting a tour poster done to celebrate the night! 

how exhausted were you guys after porch into rvm?!  i'm digging were even flow was placed.  nice setlist guys!

webbo

EB236418 said:

I'll echo what has been said above. Top effort lads! Arranging this salvaged the night for those lucky enough to grab tickets. Nevermind you couldn't get Matt C to drum - was absolutely excellent night anyway. The atmosphere, energy of the band, history of the venue, getting Given to Live up on stage (after being mentioned on Monday), and the general attitude of everyone in there just shows what great people Pearl Jam fans really are! My feet and throat are still ruined haha. Thanks again!

Thanks mate! Yea our singer is covered in bruises too, he's feeling it today haha

webbo

rummy said:

webbo said:

lolobugg said:

SETLIST?

We wrote it 5 mins before we went onstage, we had to cut BOJ and Ledbetter unfortunately due to time constraints

Can you share this setlist with the band? I'm still a-ok with a hits show and would love this in Seattle!

(Maybe play Immortality instead of Sirens)

Well we never get responses to tweets and things which is completely understandable, the fact the agent spoke to Matt for us was in exceptional circumstances i guess but that's the beauty of being a tribute, you get to hear a lot of the faves! 

webbo

mcgruff10 said:

webbo said:

Apone said:

It really was superb.  We were lucky enough to be tipped off the gig might be happening by a lady in All bar one in the o2, lukcy to get tickets just in time.

I also didn't realise the borderline was where Pearl Jam played in 1992.  Made it even more memorable.

Well done to all for getting organised and sorted so quickly.

Awesome thanks mate, glad you managed to get tickets. We initially asked the Indigo at the O2 but they said it was too short notice so yay for The Borderline. Plus it’s great to have played where they did there first London gig! A night we’ll never forget for sure. 

We’re thinking of getting a tour poster done to celebrate the night! 

how exhausted were you guys after porch into rvm?!  i'm digging were even flow was placed.  nice setlist guys!

thanks mate! we were running on adrenaline all night tbh, it was a shame we couldn't have started earlier or we'd have kept going! We've got a wide repetoire so could easily have done another 30-45 mins. 

Initially we thought about doing the same set they had played there, maybe we'll do that one in the future! 

ConorKavanagh

This is awesome. I was nowhere near London but a friend of mine travelled over and was gutted that the show was cancelled. I don't know if he made it to this show or anything but talk about making the absolute best of one of the worst possible situations that could happen to a Pearl Jam fan. Congratulations to all involved for getting this whole thing together on such short notice. That is real fighting spirit if ever there was!

webbo

ConorKavanagh said:

This is awesome. I was nowhere near London but a friend of mine travelled over and was gutted that the show was cancelled. I don't know if he made it to this show or anything but talk about making the absolute best of one of the worst possible situations that could happen to a Pearl Jam fan. Congratulations to all involved for getting this whole thing together on such short notice. That is real fighting spirit if ever there was!

Thanks Conor, The Borderline staff were amazing (they all thought they had the night off until about 3pm the day of our gig!) 

We were just as disappointed as everyone else, couldn't believe the show was cancelled, but totally the right thing for Eddie to do. Singers throats are complicated instruments and need looking after! 

Looking forward to them announcing the date they'll reschedule in July now - really hope i can make the date!! 

webbo

Still buzzing! Really hope I can make their rescheduled date.