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With having to be up early for the Cup final the next day, I may have to give Franti & Spearhead a miss - seems every time I go to a gig now, I end up having what my boss calls "another one of your dirty stopout nights" :o

Primal Scream were the business, hadn't seen them since the Point gig in 2000, and with the Olympia being a better venue both for Primal Scream, and in general, it was class. Great to see a band who are on the go for so long still able to turn out a performance like that, could teach a thing or two to some younger bands around. Had tickets for the Upper Cirle but just went downstairs anyway. :) Not a big fan of all the trancy Screamadelica ********, so was happy to see them playing Moving On Up as an opener, and then getting stuck into the serious business of Vanishing Point and Xterminator.

The support act, the View were fairly handy too. They are going to be very big very soon. They have the drummer towards the front almost level with the other two. Strange.

Going to Weller on Saturday night. Recently bought the live album Catch - Flame and its great so looking forward to seeing him for the first time in 11 years.

You will have a great nite. He is a master. When he plays A Town Called Malice think of me and my ongoing hangover from that song! Enjoy!

Fantastic gig. Live at least, he hasn't lost it. You can see that he, Craddock, Minchella and Stevie White really get on and enjoy playing and I doubt there is a group of as technically gifted musicians playing together anywhere right now. It was a stonking set that included three Jam numbers - Thick as Thieves, Running on the Spot and Town Called Malice. He played a lot of stuff off the first Solo album and Stanley Road. Minor gripes maybe not enough tracks off Wildwood (I'd have liked to have heard the title track and Sunflower, maybe the Weaver or Shadow of the Sun) and no Style Council numbers. Other than that I couldn't rate the gig highly enough. By the time Malice brought the Encore to a climax the crowd in the Gallery were on their feat dancing and singing along, hands in the air. Fantastic stuff.

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Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub

21st Nov Paul Buchanan / The Blue Nile

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Did you ever just surrender your body to wave after wave of goose-bumps for an hour and a half?

I've just been to one of the best gigs EVER and I make absolutely no apologies for feeling the need to gush. I thought they were outstanding at the Electric Picnic but tonight was special. They're a band that inspires one of two reactions - either you've heard them and are a devotee or you've just never heard them full stop. There is no in-between.

Just sitting there, in an intimate setting, captivated by a man with a unique voice, so at ease in his own skin that he can do self-deprecation to the point of putting on his specs to check the lyrics of the next song.
"That was a new song."
"What's it called?"
"Oh I couldn't commit myself to that."

One moment, luscious keyboards washing over you, the next, an exquisite observation of everyday life on Main St., Anywhere that dangles you on a knife-edge of tingling intensity. Love, hurt, passion, the man could make a poem out of going down the shop to buy the evening paper of a summer's evening.

My soul did cartwheels tonight. And then they went and finished the night with "Strangers In The Night" and I just surrendered and let tears of bliss course down my cheeks.

They're playing again tomorrow night and I believe there's tickets going. Go, people.

Franti was frickin fantastic! Gutted didnt get to buy the DVD of his time in Iraq but will try get it. They were sold out by the time I got to the Kiosk!

Been listening to Yell Fire cd since coz its just fab.

Anyone else go?? Did u make it Dr??

Nah, there was something on Sunday I had to be up early for... :(

Aw yeah....think u would have been better off going to the gig!

I am looking forward to the first studio album from ROXY MUSIC since 1982.. due out I think early next year.