Today gives way to a guest blog from son...
it was so good,
The audience were so appreciative, like loved him.. he was amazed i think.. and loved them right back. was really nice to see. set was incredible. good healthy mix of everything, old, new, jam stuff, style council, all of it. The whole band was involved, at one point they were all on guitar doing an amazing acoustic wildwood, then weller would get on to piano and tambourines came out and all sorts.
Played my favourites, inc broken stones.. in the first encore.. i was chanting broken stones broken stones broken stone.. and there it was WHAM.. "like pebbles on a beach BAAAAUUMM BAAAUMM".. and i got all tingly and went a bit crazy. And then at the end of broken stones, it got a bit freestlyey and bluesy and "OH HAPPY DAYS" GOT CHUCKED IN..
SISTER ACT 2 AND BROKEN STONES.. i died a bit then.
got free cider a burger and £20 out of it too, not bad not bad at all.
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Sunday, 15 March 2009
NME BIG GIG 2009
white lies, crystal castles, franz ferdinand and THE CURE.
White lies- only caught their last song 'fears got a hold on meeee'. Really quite good, dark indie pop, good beat, good lighting, crowd seemed to like them, def going to catch them on tour this year. in comparison to seeing them at Rough Trade in 08, the band seemed to be a bit tighter and more confident. theire tunes are quite the anthems. Good work.
Crystal Castles - wasn't expecting anything from them, wasn't even bothered about catching them. But we did and, suprisingly, they almost blew me away. Can see why 'kids' like them...good dance beat in their tunes, something to bounce to. There isn't anything like them in the charts so it was quite refreshing to see, even though they are a little erm strange. The Alice girl is mental, don't know what she was on, but she was clearly having a good time. Still don't agree with NME naming her coolest person of 08...wrong! Back to the music....i always skip their songs on my ipod but somehow they sound much better live. Really together and to have such a strong precence at the 02, for a band like this, is pretty impressive.
Franz Ferdinand - have seen these guys live quite a few times. haven't listened to them in a while and I'd forgotten how good they are. Catchy psychedlic type tunes keeping my foot a tapping. Slipped my mind the number of wicked tracks they have...Michael being my favourite. was intrigued by their new stuff. with the catchy them they go with I wasn't sure how they would take this onto a second album without it sounding 'samey'. Really good though and glad they are back. You can tell they have a great group bond, are focused, and the colourful threads is the icing on the cake...I guess.
The Cure - I'm sorry to say thir perfermance was a little disappointing. Lucky for me i did see them the night before at the NME Awards where they smashed their set playing all the great hits. Tonight however, a fair bit of new stuff that i didn't know. impressively they were on for a solid 90mins and did an encore which is good to hear from such a legendary band. 02 was packed out some hardcore fans, robert wannabies/inspired/lookalikes. great mixture of people though just a shame they waited till the very end to play one or two of their top tunes. Despite not knowing many of the songs they still put out a fantastic show..the lighting, the sincerity. each member has such an individual look its refreshing in someway to see they still do after all these years. Phenominal band, impressive show, blinding sound.
White lies- only caught their last song 'fears got a hold on meeee'. Really quite good, dark indie pop, good beat, good lighting, crowd seemed to like them, def going to catch them on tour this year. in comparison to seeing them at Rough Trade in 08, the band seemed to be a bit tighter and more confident. theire tunes are quite the anthems. Good work.
Crystal Castles - wasn't expecting anything from them, wasn't even bothered about catching them. But we did and, suprisingly, they almost blew me away. Can see why 'kids' like them...good dance beat in their tunes, something to bounce to. There isn't anything like them in the charts so it was quite refreshing to see, even though they are a little erm strange. The Alice girl is mental, don't know what she was on, but she was clearly having a good time. Still don't agree with NME naming her coolest person of 08...wrong! Back to the music....i always skip their songs on my ipod but somehow they sound much better live. Really together and to have such a strong precence at the 02, for a band like this, is pretty impressive.
Franz Ferdinand - have seen these guys live quite a few times. haven't listened to them in a while and I'd forgotten how good they are. Catchy psychedlic type tunes keeping my foot a tapping. Slipped my mind the number of wicked tracks they have...Michael being my favourite. was intrigued by their new stuff. with the catchy them they go with I wasn't sure how they would take this onto a second album without it sounding 'samey'. Really good though and glad they are back. You can tell they have a great group bond, are focused, and the colourful threads is the icing on the cake...I guess.
The Cure - I'm sorry to say thir perfermance was a little disappointing. Lucky for me i did see them the night before at the NME Awards where they smashed their set playing all the great hits. Tonight however, a fair bit of new stuff that i didn't know. impressively they were on for a solid 90mins and did an encore which is good to hear from such a legendary band. 02 was packed out some hardcore fans, robert wannabies/inspired/lookalikes. great mixture of people though just a shame they waited till the very end to play one or two of their top tunes. Despite not knowing many of the songs they still put out a fantastic show..the lighting, the sincerity. each member has such an individual look its refreshing in someway to see they still do after all these years. Phenominal band, impressive show, blinding sound.
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