jackson dancing to her jazz two badly dressed people got up on stage and sang 'don't you want me baby?' - murdoch said that sheffield is "[his] kinda town" apparently he went running the previous evening and composed something in his head. they didn't really know the words to 'don't you want me baby?' though it's worth noting that TONITE the human league are playing at the city hall, which is also where b&s played. perhaps they'll do a b&s song. there were seats in the venue, but as soon as the band came on everyone in the whole place stood up and stayed stood up and it went like this (setlist stolen from the bowlie site, kerpow): Passion Fruit in which our boys go all dick dale and rock out and such Expectations in which our boys rock a lot harder than the album version and prompt me to think 'when we had that list of stuff that had never been played before, was this on it?' and so on, nobody has really addressed this issue, though the song has been turning up on setlists all over the shop of late - am i getting it confused with something else Step into my office, baby in which our boys play their recent chart hit, competently Wrapped up in books in which our boys play a surely future chart hit with gusto. i like this song a lot, the lyrics are great, though quite why we're going to find stuart murdoch out in the country is beyond me Womens Realm in which our hero thought this was 'there's too much love' until the lyric about 'a torch and woman's realm' right at the end. afterwards murdoch sez that one of the bits of it sounds a bit like a song which i didn't know, the themetune to something from too long ago for me to remember. jackson and murdoch have a brief onstage discussion about being old. do you think they plan these in advance? Waking up to us in which murdoch frees himself from the shackles of the mike stand and does that quaint, kind of constipated dance that he premiered (maybe) on jools holland. our hero is reminded how good a song this is Beautiful in which our boys bust out one of their more melancholy numbers, complete with low level lighting and a hushed audience Travellin' light in which jackson has something of a crisis of confidence before playing this ok song ok - does he feel bad it wasn't on the record? does he feel inferior to murdoch? is he aware of how crap the lightshow is? all this adds a touch of melancholy to the proceedings - for what thought do we give to those who surround genius? are not their pains equally worth our time? does the gasman really love to drill? Photo Jenny in which we are reminded why we liked b&s in the first place You Dont send me in which we are prompted to wonder once more quite what 'you don't send me' actually means - this song more than most makes our hero think that anyone who has commented on b&s' more 'upbeat' new sound (and i think there have been a few) are wrong though Audience Participation - Dont you want me in which a long time is spent arsing about for a quite rubbish cover version of a great song. people who can't dance or sing and don't look very good aren't pop stars for a reason you know (it's because they can't dance or sing and don't look very good - i'll admit there are flaws with this) and in which the annoying man standing next to me who has been talking to his mate quite a lot actually decides he's enjoying himself and starts clapping right next to my ear, our hero turns the other cheek Dog on Wheels in which we all contemplate just what 'anything goes' would constitute and in which our hero imagines, if only for a second, a blow up dog on wheels Dirty Dream #2 in which our boys continue with the innuendo-laden ditties and our hero wishes they would do the fusion bit off the end of 'a spaceboy dream' as the intro, but still enjoys it Piazza New York Catcher in which our boys are reduced to just two and murdoch sings about eloping and running off and such - but with who stuart? and why? Asleep on a sunbeam in which our boys play things in the same order as they appear on the new album - clever that huh? and in which martin's voice is actually amplified so that you can hear it(!) Like Dylan in the movies in which our hero thinks if he has ever seen dylan in any movies, and concludes that he hasn't and in which our boys remember the red coloured album which isn't the soundtrack one If you find yourself Caught in love in which our boys rock the christian rock, sort of, and lay the diss on the war in iraq, sort of Roy Walker in which murdoch asks the stage hand for 'an occasional table' Stay Loose in which a strange effect is added to murdoch's voice, which our hero initially thinks will botch the song because he sounds too high, but actually works really well once he gets used to it. and in which our boys ROCK OUT - chu mentioned a city with in a city in nottingham which is called THE ROCK CITY and if there was really a THE ROCK CITY it would probably sound like this (i recently spent one of the worst weekends of my life in nottingham, including a visit to THE ROCK CITY and it sounds nothing like this, it sounds more like your mates sister's bedroom and looks a bit like laser quest but without the guns) Sleep The clock around in which our boys triumphantly play their best song ever and don't even mess up the words ENCORE Judy and the dream of horses in which our boys plot their entire career trajectory in their one emblematic song, starting off all faint and twee and with out of tune recorders and band members learning their parts on stage just before the start of the song and steadily build it all up to some sort of lush pop FIASCO with probably gun noises and a big fuck off twee prog ending which last about two hours afterwards there was an offbeat after party which murdoch and jackson and probably some of the backing musicians we don't care about were at and jackson was dancing to huggy bear and he was wearing a spotty tie and i was wearing a spotty tie and just for one second i glanced over at where he was dancing and he looked so content and i thought "stevie, you're alright" _________________________________________________________________ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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