by Hannah » 20th Jan 07, 20:24
Memorable moments from last night...
Jon's excellent set with the God Damn Whores, despite his very obvious chest infection that was making him feel crap - he even turned down a free beer! No surprises or new songs in their setlist, but tight and energetic as always.
Robochrist was as nuts and superb as ever - apparently it was the last tour that Chris is going to do as Robochrist, so if you possibly can, get yourself along to the next few gigs to see him. Seemed to go down really well with most of the crowd as well.
Ginger seemed to enjoy everyone singing along to Black Windows (understandably, seeing as it's been on myspace for a few months) but his look of bemusement as everyone sang along to 'When She Comes' was a picture. More than a few people seemed to have the album already, despite it not even being available at the gig.
Great to have a good mix of new, WH and SG5 songs - Brain Sugar always sounds fantastic live, and the crowd singalong turned up the notch even more in the packed out room. When they played 'Can't Drink You Pretty' (which Rich filmed, and will hopefully be going up on Google Video in the next few days) Ginger explained that it was one of his favourites from Yoni to play live, and they definitely enjoyed it despite Jon forgetting the words! Oh, and Ginger covered Jase's eyes with his hands for Jase's fantastic guitar solo - which he still pulled off perfectly.
Apparently, 'Why Can't You Be Normal All The Time' was written because "girls are beautiful, and we love them, but they're fucking weird like the Americans". Ginger logic for you!
My repeated shouts of 'Night I Was Born Again' got it added to the setlist, and Pooley's crazy bass solo sounded just as good live as on the record.
They didn't go off stage for the encore as it was running late, instead just staying on and playing through. Answering Machine had two starts after Ginger came in on the wrong line and then forgot the third line anyway; eventually, it was Ginger and Jon leading the whole crowd in shouts of 'beefy, beefy' throughout the chorus in homage to Robochrist. Crowd sang the first verse of 29x the Pain, the last songs, before Ginger and co bowed off stage . Denzil's drumming was just as good as Ginger's been reporting, and Ginger, Jon and Jase were just as brilliant as we've come to expect.
Oh, and the Xmess vs. The Wildhearts t-shirts were on sale for those who missed out at Wolvo.
Phew!
xxx
, unfortunately I'm also flying solo this time and driving from Derby - so no drinking for me.
