Hyperblasts: Big Goth Weekend (The Cure, AFI, Outbreak x All Points East)

But we were looking forward to those shows, and both you and I, Sam, got to see The Cure for the first time.

even more crazily than that, you might say, if you have been a follower of, I don't know, this podcast, AFI Watch, let's call it, is the return, finally, of AFI, a mythical band to fans in the UK, because they did not want to go anywhere near us for a long, long time.

The return of AFI to the UK.

And it wasn't just one show, it was a whole run of of shows uh and uh i was at one show a headline show and then we also had all points east sam you managed to fit two afi headline shows in and then after that we had the all points east meets outbreak kind of crossover Event week day in London Where yes AFI were present on that as well But we also had a headlining performance there From the Deftones Along with a whole bunch of other bands Scattered throughout the bill as well So it was a very tiring weekend I certainly know you would be as well We needed a bit of a rest A bit of a calm down But looking back on it now A couple weeks after the fact Momentous occasion for all of us gathered here And even like some of our listeners Who aren't even in the same country as us but know what a big deal it is for example the afi are returning like i can't wait for when you guys get to finally talk about when those afi shows come from the uk so that is the real theme of today's episode is looking back on a weekend to remember

Yes, I mean, for me, like I said, I just think back to sitting here on Hyperblast two weeks ago, like giddy with excitement, almost like shaking and like waiting to sprint out the door and run down to Shepherd's Bush to get that first show in.

But yes, it was a monumental sort of weekend.

Again, like...

Seeing The Cure for the first time was a huge deal for me.

I've never seen them and I was like, oh my god, I'm finally seeing The Cure.

The fact that Deftones' biggest UK show ever was a bit of an afterthought for us because there was so much else going on.

And again, I don't want to sell that Deftones show short, which I'm sure we'll get into, but it was AFI again.

This has been a band I got into in 2007 and had not seen and had just been waiting and waiting.

And it finally all sort of, it came home and I got my AFI moment.

And between the three sort of sets we saw, there's so much to talk about.

And just, I mean, four of you count Mark's show as well.

We've all seen like varying sort of AFI sets of different songs.

And it was just, yeah, just what a weekend.

Yeah, I mean, even like...

I don't use Spotify anymore, but there was a...

I feel like recently, early this year, Spotify did a thing where it was like...

I'm not sure what the reasoning was, but they did something where it was like, look at your most played artists of the last 10 years, or whatever.

And supposedly, my top played artist of the last 10 years when I was using Spotify, not that that would have changed very much at all, was AFI.

So, a band who I...

Been a fan for longer than that But certainly in the last 10 years I've apparently been consistently listening to All the time More than any other And they weren't around you know they they they avoided us during during those 10 years so we it was a culmination of uh as i'm sure that you know again if you are a regular listener of our podcast over down the years um things that we didn't think were going to happen things that we were hoping would happen in the in uh the likes of the cure and even when we get to the death zone things things that A few years ago would have been unforeseeable That they have happened in the way they have happened So let us try And I don't know Reel all of our very erratic Overcome with emotion Thoughts in and try and go through This incredible sequence of events That happened with us Let us start with The Cure And then we will cover the various AFI shows Together So The Cure Like I said, doing their first run of UK headline shows for the release of their newest album, Songs for Lost World, which came out at the end of 2024.

It was very, very well liked.