Blind
The Last Gas
All You Good Good People
Dry Kids
My Weakness
You've Got To Say Yes
Come Back To What You Know
Retread
The Way I Do
I Want The World
Higher Sights
One Big Family
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Thats All Changed Forever
You've Got To Stop To Get Better
Fireworks
The Good Will Out
Danny strode out onto stage as only Danny knows how and they ripped into the
now
familiar "starter for 10!" "Blind", the crowd going bananas.
As that finished Danny began shaking his fist by his side, as he always seems
to
do, maybe he watched to many Nescafe adverts as a kid, thats what it
looks like to me, and screamed "come orrrn" with Richard pumping into
"The Last Gas."
"Dry Kids" seemed to lack that extra something tonight, oh well...
It was more than made up for by "..Weakness..", Danny, guitar in hand,
gloating with 1000 ish people shouting "Danny....Danny...."
"You gotta say yes", live? you gotta leave it out.
"Come back...." seems also to have lost that edge, maybe it's too
famliar.
"Retread" was amazing, will you fight? will Danny stay in tune? yes he
did!
Then came the moment of the gig for me, Richards first solo singing
performance is on this tour, having shaken off the nerves from the
last couple of gigs, he beautifully sang "The Way I Do". was I the only
one in the audience that knew the lyrics?
"I Want The World"....hm....another live dud (if that ain't a
contradiction in terms!) leave it out boys.
Seeing Mike pick up his brushes, I knew "Higher Sights" was next,
and bloody smooth it was too, sounds much better with strings, but oh
well...
A strange keyboard intro summoned in "One Big Family", and pardon my
French if I don't say that the mosshers, me included, went
abso-fucking-lutley ape shit!!
Carried over from there 'Glasto' appearence, which I also saw in the
flesh ;-p a hooj sodding sign "EMBRACE" lit up the stage. Also
stolen from 'Glasto' the extended version of "..Family.." which
lasted about 6-7 minutes, waaa baaabaaa baa baa, bab baa baa baahhh.
sorry.
Then they left....then they returned.
Can't say I really enjoyed "Thats all changed...", my girlfriend on my
shoulders I was a little strained, but she enjoyed it, apparently
Danny kept staring at her, made her evening, even though she fancies
Mike.
A past reviewer on the tour mentioned that their was an air of
silence when they played songs not on the album, this was so true
during "...got to stop..", it was still chuffing great though.
The beauty of Fireworks exceeds words, see them live and you'll see
why.
Then they finished with "The Good Will Out", I'm sure this song is a
mish mash of ideas they had, can't stand the bugger myself, but sang
along anyway.
Overall, not as good as December last year (Southampton Uni), but
thats probably cos the sound quality is kack at the Guildhall.
If you saw the last tour but cant make this one, dont panic, you ain't
missing much new, same old genius!
Sorry if my review seemed slighlty down, I'm just being honest, not
the kiss arse fan!
And the important info for you peeps about to go see them....
T-Shirts are ok-ish, couple of skinny fit, coulpr normal range from
13-16 quad, got some of those kinky 'ski-hat' things if that paddles
yer boat, for about 7 quid.
Support "Delakota" was alright, nothing to write home about, watch
for the lead guitarist singing though, he's much better than the
vocalist!
Towts = 15 quid, knock em down to 10.
Bootleggers, nice t-shirts, long sleeve with dates on and band name
and stuff, only #5, bought one myself!, posters, KACK!, shoddy grainy
reprints of original posters, don't buy em!
Cheers to Baj (baj@mail.athenenet.co.uk)