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

slimjamie86 said:

Last night proved that Pearl Jam are not human.

Unbelievably great set

Agreed

Still thinking over this show... Still quite shocked at the greatness of it...
It was my 23rd show and I got 5 new songs... Just stunning.... Like I say, I'm kind of sitting around just trying to work it out... What a band. They get better and better... Thanks so much PJ - I've had a tough couple of Years with my Uncle and both parents passing but I can honestly say you brought pure joy back to me with that show last night. Berlin started that for me but Leeds took me beyond myself again last night...
That may not make sense so I apologise if I'm getting too deep!!

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.

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.

Spags - that sums it all up perfectly ! So well written and great recollections ! Until next time :-)

I think "I was at Leeds 2014" t-shirts are in order...

..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...

I am still speechless. Despite only getting 4 hours sleep, I have been on a high at work all day. No other band can do that.

strummers said:

Oh, and can I also just say that the feeling of love between (almost!) everyone afterwards was incredible! You always get a similar mutual feeling of euphoria after a PJ gig, but last night was something else!

We got so many hugs from people (both friends and strangers) coming out of the gig and in the street afterwards. My other half also got a hug from one of the security guys who told him he was so pleased as he seemed to be into it so much!! How often does that happen!?!

Speechless...would like to have been there...i admit it...I'm a little jealous ! Thank you everybody here in this thread for sharing your experience !
:x

What a fuckin' setlist!!!! You guys have been so lucky!!!! I love it... I should have been there... Argh!!!!

I haven't been to as many shows as alot of you guys (I am a teacher - no pass outs in term time which is pretty much when every Euro tour has happened and the summer tour of 09 I had just had a baby!!) but I went to my first in 96 and been to some pretty awesome PJ shows since and honestly didn't think anything could beat Dublin/Astoria from 06. How wrong I was! Last night destroyed them. It destroyed me! I don't think I will ever see a show like that again ever!

Feel so lucky to have managed to get 10C tickets thanks to some awesome guys on here, as I had stupidly let my membership lapse (joined in 95, really hate myself for forgetting to renew!) and had missed out on general sale too.

Highlights for me - managing to see Eddie for most of the show, and have fleeting glimpses of Stone and Jeff. I am short, this venue was pretty amazing for managing to get some sort of view! The guys seeming so overwhelmed by the show, hadn't seen that kind of feeling since Astoria in 06. The No Code songs - one of my favourite albums, so I was pretty much in heaven! State of love & trust! The crowd!

Would have liked more from Avocado (I know there are mixed feelings on this album; it is another of my favourites though) and was desperate for Crown of Thorns and Thin Air, both have special meaning!

Can't wait for the boot!