Sinister: you're just a maybe

[kenneth.chu at xxx.org]

I think I watched Pop Idol too much nowadays to appreciate a good indie gig.

However last night's B+S show was an exception I think - I mean, sure, at
the start of every song I had all these witty comments about the various
members commitment and singing abilities.  However normally by the end of
each song I'd be grinning like a loon.

Big Stu talked about the lack of dancing.  Well, there was just NO ROOM TO
MOVE.  I was my first time inside the Astoria actually and my God the place
was packeder than ROCK CITY in Nottingham, and nobody dances there, they
just mosh.  I tried to initiate a pit where I was standing but I was too far
to the side to start anything apart from maybe CROWD SURF - but then I
chickened out when I noticed the unguarded 10 feet drop into the ladies loo
(what a way to die though).

Being near the ladies loo is just awful too, because all these people just
keep rushing past you going to and from the toilet and probably not washing
their hands and they come back out squeezing past you with their wee ridden
fingers.  There was this one girl with really big boobs and she keeps
walking past and squeezing her bosom into me.  "Keep your boobs to yourself
woman" I wanted to shout, but I was too polite.

The sound was fantastic, there was a good sound man for a change, and it was
great - Sturan at certain occasions sounded a little tired maybe, or just
couldn't be arsed, but still it was very nice.  And nobody has yet mentioned
the RAWKING OUT - hello Loneliness of the middle blah blah, Stay Loose and a
RAWK version of You're Just A Baby!!!  If I have a mutation in my gene each
time I hear a guitar solo I'd have been toxic to every species of slugs by
the end of the gig!

Such is (re:carsmile) why seeing gigs before the bands are famous is
RUBBIDGE!  Wait til they learn how to play properly and have enough money to
waste on collecting autumn leaves to fall all over your head during a gig!
And FOXY VIOLIN(?) PLAYERS - standing mostly at the back of the stage during
the B&S gig - Did Sturan recruit them based on FOXINESS who knows but woah!

Makes my heart feel young again.

Yeah right, before the band was on I was talking about INTEREST RATES and
MORTGAGES with my flatmate.  Good heavens.
 
Ken
P.S.: I didn't see the support band at all, in fact at the time they were on
I was playing DDR at the Trocadero, whilst on the phone to my flatmate who
was shouting "WHERE ARE YOU?", oops.  Their website made me dizzy.


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