by Soozy » 12/6/2003, 11:07 am
Thanks Rob

he was right over other side of the stage so I couldn't see so well other than the leaping about.
This week I saw 3 shows:
Tuesday - Blur. They were loads of fun. As soon as they played Girls and Boys (about 3 songs in) the whole place went crazy. Damon had this big smile on his face almost the whole time. I didn't really like Think Tank, but the songs sounded better live and they played so much great old stuff too (though they didn't play Parklife

)
Wednesday - Belle & Sebastian. Again, lots of fun. They started with Expectations and if I'd had to leave right after that I'd still have got my money's worth it was so great. They played for 2 hours with lots of old stuff and lots of new stuff. And Stuart and Stevie were so funny chatting away between the songs. They even played a tv theme tune (from Minder) and they got a girl from the audience to sing Lazy Line Painter Jane with them in the encore.
Friday - The Darkness. Hilarious. Somehow they managed to make a 40 minute album last an hour and a half (with a few other songs added in) - Justin was jumping around like crazy and making us sing and shout and clap along. They got a children's choir out to sing their Christmas song with them, and there were fireworks and fake snow and they threw loads of crackers into the crowd. And at one point Justin got onto the shoulders of a couple of security guards and they carried him all through the crowd while he was still playing guitar.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.