Lana to perform at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles Oct 17 and 18

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BTD era teas.

[longtimeman 8,918]

The wig is back!!!

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Lana reminding us that her pussy tastes like pussy cola for the 1000th time now.

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Judging by the vines of the concert, her vocals are on point. https://vine.co/u/1070186261400227840

 

Also, I just realized how little of a life I have when I am sick on a Friday night. Living vicariously through Twitter Lana fans.

 

EDIT: Body Electric now.   I guess it's the same setlist from Mexico.

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So far:

 

Cruel World

Cola

Body Electric

Blue Jeans

West Coast (which I can't wait to see the full version of, judging by the vines)

Born to Die (live trip hop beats are back)

[longtimeman 8,918]

Does anyone know if this is being filmed? It would seem an obvious filler TV program for Halloween.

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I hope so!

 

Ultraviolence now.

 

Love this pic I saw on Twitter:

 

 

Edit: Old Money again

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I think it's going to be same setlist as her Mexico gig. No new songs apart from WC, OM, UV & CW

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I think it's going to be same setlist as her Mexico gig. No new songs apart from WC, OM, UV & CW

 

Yeah. She just sang acapella for a soundcheck, though, lol.

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For some reason, I thought Lana was going to do something special for this concert like announce something or play a different UV song live. So far, it seems like we are not getting that, whatever.

[longtimeman 8,918]

I was pretty much joking about the 'movie' idea, but it looks like it might not be a fever dream:

 

http://instagram.com/filmmakerfitz

 

Edit: it's clearer on his tumblr:

 

http://filmmakerfitz.tumblr.com/post/100301191417/kevin-kerslake-is-directing-a-movie-of-lana-del

 

Text: Kevin Kerslake is directing a movie of Lana Del Rey live in concert at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. 

I found myself on stage a few times with a camera in hand. There are worse ways to pay the bills.

#LDR #lanadelrey #kevinkerslake #hollywoodforever @kevinkerslake

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Jesus. Old Money (incomplete but amazing)

 

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Love this pic I saw on Twitter:

 

OMG I saw that sign!!

Yeah. She just sang acapella for a soundcheck, though, lol.

Yeah, it seemed she was having some issues with her in-ear monitor. She kept asking them to turn her up, then down, then up... then she did the sound check. She also asked to have the "house fronts" turned down, which I'm guessing were the speakers at the front of the stage pointing out towards the audience. Good thing, because they were really freaking loud at the beginning, but then got better.

Jesus. Old Money (incomplete but amazing)

 

I have the complete recording. I'll post a link as soon as I've uploaded it to YouTube.

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I was lucky enough to be there tonight. Front row. Epic. She looked gorgeous.

 

Old Money!

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Hey everyone,

We just got back from Lana's concert at Hollywood Forever on Friday, October 17. So, for whoever may be interested, here's my report on the concert.

 

Before I go farther, here's the set list:

 

Cruel World (the entire song, not just the intro)

Cola

Body Electric

Blue Jeans

West Coast

Born To Die

Ultraviolence

Old Money (my favorite of the set.. it was just gorgeous!)

Summertime Sadness

Million Dollar Man

Video Games

Ride

National Anthem

 

13 songs, and the concert lasted about 70 minutes.

First, let me say that I came away with mixed emotions. The music was great, Lana sang beautifully, and was gorgeous as always. We managed to get a spot at the front, but it was way off to the stage left side, so when Lana came down to greet people during "National Anthem," she didn't get down to where we were. That left me bummed, and I was also hoping we'd see her after the show, but that didn't happen, either. So, while I thoroughly enjoyed the show overall, I was disappointed about those two things. Perhaps I had set my expectations too high and set myself up for disappointment. But I'm not sorry we went.

Second, it has hit home that the Paradise Tour days are definitely over. As many of you may already know, I've only been an LDR fan for less than 5 months. I've been watching all of these old Paradise tour videos on YouTube from last year, and was half-expecting a repeat of those performances, including the live string quartet. Well, no live strings tonight, of course, and I've finally had to accept the fact that Lana has moved on from that era of music. While she still performs a lot of Born To Die/Paradise songs, they're performed differently now than they were back then. Makes me wish I'd been a fan 3 years ago.

Anyway, here's the rest of the report.

First off, I got a reminder e-mail this morning from TicketFly, which alerted me to something that had not been made apparent before: The gates opened at 6, but Lana wasn't scheduled to come on stage until about 8. With that in mind, and since the venue *seemed* to be adamant about the "no lining up before 5 PM" rule, we left home in San Diego around noon, stopped in Huntington Beach to have lunch with a long-time friend, then continued up to LA. We arrived in the vicinity at about 4:30. Even though we had bought the on-site parking, we didn't use it because of something else in the TicketFly e-mail: They said the on-site parking wouldn't be opening until 6, and that off-site parking in another garage would be opening at 5:30. I wanted to be in line by 5:00, so we parked several blocks away and just walked to the venue. It took about 20 minutes.

As we walked up Gower St., the street that intersects Santa Monica Blvd., we saw what appeared to be the end of the line. This was at 4:50 PM. So much for no lining up before 5!  This is what it looked like at 5 PM:

 

 

Shortly after 5 PM, though, the line started moving.  I didn't know why, but it was moving and kept moving!  Finally, as we approached the cemetery's front lawn, I saw why:  Apparently, they had set up some wooden stakes with yellow "caution" tape to act as one of those switchback-like things that they use in amusement park lines (the name escapes me at the moment, as it's after 1 AM as I'm writing this), and were having people line up inside that.  We were about halfway back.  We stood there and waited until 6 PM, and then the gates opened.

 

Mayhem.

 

As soon as the gates opened, there were screams, and suddenly the entire crowd just surged towards the gate, paying no need whatsoever to the wooden stakes with their "caution" tape, simply trampling them down.  We were pretty much sucked in.  It didn't surge very far, though, as we were funneled into a single entry line, which eventually became 2.  That took about half an hour or so.  Once we were through the gates, we walked (the security guards kept yelling "DO NOT RUN!!!") down toward the lawn by the stage.  We had ended up pretty far back in the entry crowd, yet it seemed that not everyone wanted to be at the front of the stage.  A lot of people brought blankets and picnic stuff and were sitting pretty far back.  So, we actually got a spot in the front row!!  But, we were way off to the stage left side.  The viewing angle wasn't too good, as there was a column right where our view of Lana was half of the time as she moved back and forth across the stage.

 

So, we stood there from 6:45 on, and Lana came out on stage at about 8:05.  She was wearing a red, long-sleeved dress with a short skirt, showing off those beautiful legs. She came down the stairs briefly to greet the front row during "Cruel World," but only stayed down long enough to greet a few people before going back up.

 

During "West Coast," my wife said she couldn't take the noise anymore (we were very close to the speakers) and wanted to move farther back.  We moved back, but I went back and forth a couple of times between where she was, and where we had been at the front.  I stayed with her during "Ultraviolence," and then went back up for a bit.  Just in time, since the next song was "Old Money," so I could get the whole thing recorded from close up.  I stayed up there for "Summertime Sadness," then went back to where my wife was for the rest of the show until Lana announced that her next song would be "National Anthem," and that she would be coming down to greet her fans.  At that point, we both went back up to the front, though this time, we were even farther stage left than before, since someone else had taken the spots we had vacated.  Lana had earlier requested that the "house front" speakers be turned down, so it was more bearable when we went back up for "National Anthem."  Lana did come down off the stage to greet fans and take selfies, but she didn't get all the way over to where we were -- not by a longshot.  That was somewhat disappointing, since I've seen videos of previous shows where she would go from end to end.  Oh well, win some, lose some.

 

After the show was over, we hung around for a while to see if perhaps she would come out to greet the fans or sign autographs or something.  No such luck, I'm afraid; she was gone.    So, we made our way back out of the cemetery, walked 20 minutes back to our car, and made the 2.5-hour drive home in about 2.25 hours.

 

And there you have it, folks!

 

My suggestion to anyone going on Saturday:  If you want to be in front, get there at 4 PM!

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Here's my recording of her singing "Old Money."  Sorry it's kinda shaky; I was on maximum zoom.  Also, she kept disappearing behind that stupid column and the barrier at the left of the stage, but at least you can hear her the whole time.  Interesting how she changed one of the lyrics from "those summer nights" to "those Jersey nights..."

 

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Thanks a lot for the report, @ ! 

 

Hey everyone,

We just got back from Lana's concert at Hollywood Forever on Friday, October 17. So, for whoever may be interested, here's my report on the concert.

 

 

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Judging by the vines they performed some kind of rock version of National Anthem. I want it in HQ ;(

 

The third live variation after Old Money and Body Electric hat I'd kill for to have as a studio recording.

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I need West Coast in HQ! Judging by instagram it was her best performance of it ever!

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its so nice and quiet whilst she sung old money!!