Went to see Elbow on thursday and thoroughly enjoyed a great show. The band had effortless grace and charm through the faultless sound and technique, but also the wonderful connection they made with the audience. What lovely young men, lol. I genuinely felt I had left 'An Audience WIth Elbow', like I'd just made friends with 5 guys and the 3 wonderful girlie strings players... mmmmmm... string musicians .
Then last night a mixed bag of metal, indie and results. A mate had an acoustic set at Scruffy's in town so I said I'd join the guy for the show, there were a few compadres doing the promoting and the wonderful Half Day Closing were playing to and I'm a bit of a fan. Although I did miss their set, I felt terrible, sort of.
The acoustic set was a solo guitar type thing that The War Room manager does called Sexy Results. He says solo acoustic guitar shows pretty much guarantee sexy results, nobody could argue, so the name stuck, lol. Following this fantastic set of the same 5 songs he's been playing for the last 4 years... we walked the 50m to the Academy to catch Supergrass, for free. The set was a pretty good belt out of the hits parade from their, now, very long career. I was a little frustrated by the sound though, I don't know whether it was just the Academy (known for it's muddy qualities, beautifully absent for Elbow however), but they had a wall of crashing guitar pub rock through most of the set. I always expect a mature band to have a mature sound live, but they didn't. Maybe that's the charm for the die-hard fans, but it bugs me. The rest of the night was spent drinking more of the fine and cheap beer supplied by Scruffy's and an 'interesting (not) Hatebreed but not even as good ultimate generic metal act' Leather Pig. From the name I was expecting something odd and people had said they were like System, but with some expansive Deftones moments, they weren't.
I want the party to hurry up and get started already... two months to go .
Oh I also have some actual news to share. But I'm saving up the anger and passion for a 'full on' essay of a mega rant! It's gonna be soooo damn cathartic
Yeah it does me to. It's either that or I end up just being in a mood all day or taking it out on my Mum. Normally the latter, which I REALLY hate doing. So yeah, obvious solution being: shout GAY at the ex boyfriend then run off to write about it anger, Lol.
I shall look forward to your rant. Love writing them. Love reading them. I don't tend to rant as much/as well/as often these days now I'm not smoking. Come to think of it though, was I actually ranting or just rambling back then? Oh no.. and now I've started to say 'back then' when refering to my smoking days- as if it was such a long time ago. Which I guess it was. Jesus, quick, someone get me a spliff!
That probably is why, yeah. You feeling better for it at all? How are your exams and stuff going anyways? All good I hope.
I kinda wish our country was warm enough so I could be a hippy. Lol.. and my sleepings pills are starting to kick in so I don't entirely know what that's meant to mean. I think it has something to do with being able to wear long floaty skirts - or something.
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I shall look forward to your rant. Love writing them. Love reading them. I don't tend to rant as much/as well/as often these days now I'm not smoking. Come to think of it though, was I actually ranting or just rambling back then? Oh no.. and now I've started to say 'back then' when refering to my smoking days- as if it was such a long time ago. Which I guess it was. Jesus, quick, someone get me a spliff!
I kinda wish our country was warm enough so I could be a hippy. Lol.. and my sleepings pills are starting to kick in so I don't entirely know what that's meant to mean. I think it has something to do with being able to wear long floaty skirts - or something.