Escapist Expo: Miracle Of Sound Live At MotorCo

[TimeLord]

Awwwww I wish I could have gone so much this year. Last year was absolutely amazing and this year you played some of my favourite songs!
'The Crush', 'Black Flag' (Twice!!), 'Higher Tonight', 'Halfmans Song' AND 'Dream of the Sky'? I'm sad now.

I vote for a UK MoS gig! I'd travel anywhere in the country for that!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

You put on an amazing show Gavin!!!

I have to see you live someday, I swear it.

 

[Annihilist]

Great music, but I really, really cringe at the lyrics. Nothing but gratuitous references to game culture with no real depth behind it. Listening to this, Gavin, I know you can be better than this.

'Nothing but gratuitous references' is just hyperbole when the set contains songs like 'The Crush', 'Higher Tonight', 'Dream Of The Sky' 'The New Black Gold' or 'Reclaimer' none of which contain any direct name drop or reference to the source material.

Which game in particular did you think the gratuitous references in 'The Crush' are referring to?

As for Commander Shepard, Nord Mead & the like - Bioware, Bethesda and The 5 million plus people who have viewed those two songs here & on youtube certainly don't seem to find their referencial, tongue in cheek nature a problem.

Do you feel that music is only valid when it is super serious and not made purely for some fun?

It's also important to note this gig spanned a lot of older MOS songs. The lyrical style has changed quite a bit since MOS first started. For reference listen to 'The Best Of Us', 'Digital Shadow' or 'The Day The World Died'

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/miracle-of-sound/7571-The-Day-the-World-Died-Metro-Last-Light

I'd also link you some personal songs but you wouldn't like them, they're just full of gratuitous references to my life.

Yeah, alright, perhaps I was generalising. Although Reclaimer is definitely a name drop.

That's fine if people like your style, it's just not my thing, and I didn't think it was a problem for me to point that out.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

So damn amazing.

I wish I could've been there, I wish I could just say "fuck this noise" and go to the Expo (if just for MoS).

 

[Boba Frag]

I had no idea Miracle of Sound was going to be doing a gig this year, what with the tinnitus thing...
Delighted for Gavin that he got to perform again.

Looks like an amazing time!

It's amazing, isn't it? I'm hoping for a lot more of these gigs to come.

Yeah!
I had the pleasure of seeing Gavin live at Cork's Warpcon a few years back and not only is he fantastic on stage, he's a gent to talk to as well.

We went basically mental as soon as Sovnegarde Song came up lol

Maybe I'll be able to make the next Expo!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I don't want references to your life, I want to LIVE your life! *sob*

Seriously though Gavin, You've proven to be a wonderful addition to this site and I always look forward to your songs. If I ever managed to actually make any of the movies or TV shows that keep flying around in my head, I wouldn't want anyone else to do the soundtrack.

Cheers Nice of you to say! You don't want to live my life by the way lol. Long QT Syndrome heart defect and permanent tinnitus are not something I would wish upon you, and the good stuff in my life is the result of hard work which is attainable to anyone with the drive

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

Although Reclaimer is definitely a name drop.

How Reclaimer name drop of halo? since you said that I am almost to slightly curious but not curious enough to actually look a a halo wiki for a while to figure it out.
I never played an halo game; so I don't know shit about halo. If I was not told the song about halo and never seen anything that hinted in it was halo related I would never have known it was a song based on halo at all.

 

[Annihilist]

Although Reclaimer is definitely a name drop.

How Reclaimer name drop of halo? since you said that I am almost to slightly curious but not curious enough to actually look a a halo wiki for a while to figure it out.
I never played an halo game; so I don't know shit about halo. If I was not told the song about halo and never seen anything that hinted in it was halo related I would never have known it was a song based on halo at all.

Master Chief is known by 343 Guilty Spark as the Reclaimer.

 

[Two-A]

I had no idea Miracle of Sound was going to be doing a gig this year, what with the tinnitus thing...
Delighted for Gavin that he got to perform again.

Looks like an amazing time!

It's amazing, isn't it? I'm hoping for a lot more of these gigs to come.

Yeah!
I had the pleasure of seeing Gavin live at Cork's Warpcon a few years back and not only is he fantastic on stage, he's a gent to talk to as well.

We went basically mental as soon as Sovnegarde Song came up lol

Maybe I'll be able to make the next Expo!

If (and that's a big if) I ever manage to book a trip to the US, I'll make sure to do so on the days of the Expo.

That's fine if people like your style, it's just not my thing, and I didn't think it was a problem for me to point that out.

I think the problem was the (rather condescending) tone of your post, not with you disliking the style.

 

[Annihilist]

I had no idea Miracle of Sound was going to be doing a gig this year, what with the tinnitus thing...
Delighted for Gavin that he got to perform again.

Looks like an amazing time!

It's amazing, isn't it? I'm hoping for a lot more of these gigs to come.

Yeah!
I had the pleasure of seeing Gavin live at Cork's Warpcon a few years back and not only is he fantastic on stage, he's a gent to talk to as well.

We went basically mental as soon as Sovnegarde Song came up lol

Maybe I'll be able to make the next Expo!

If (and that's a big if) I ever manage to book a trip to the US, I'll make sure to do so on the days of the Expo.

That's fine if people like your style, it's just not my thing, and I didn't think it was a problem for me to point that out.

Fair point.

I think the problem was the (rather condescending) tone of your post, not with you disliking the style.