Tour Record (3) - 13-NOV/2010

Blackpool @ The Blue Room

Setlist: For Us For Me / Teenage Eyes / There’s Still Room For Love / I Am Home

Is the first offence the worst offence?
One-way systems and 100 mile an hour winds wrecking the town – though we only had to deal with one of the two directly.

Slightly more bruised after tonight – the Blue Room being the venue that Jimi Hendrix was once thrown out of for being too high.
For all our mistakes we still claimed a victory. For the half hour we wrestled with our music, as if trying to reign in a mad horse – sound erupted and gargled and wailed and screeched and buzzed (we’re doing acoustic shows?) - None of this in a positive sense, some gigs are just like this.

But…

…by the end we raised our bloodied fists and fractured loop pedals and voiced a dry scratchy throated sigh to a venue full of 2am license frequenters; a mixture of relief and gratitude to the listening police.

After an odd There’s Still Room For Love, the crowd whistled and whooped and I said (with a slight smile on my face) “Don’t clap, that was fucking awful…” because it was a shambles, BUT I guess what I meant to say was that I didn’t feel like we deserved an applause but words are seldom found when you need them most.

Phil – sound tech – was the best 'before, between and after band DJ'. EVER. Tune after tune after tune after tune after tune.

As Jo (Merch Girl) lovingly summed up; bad gig, great night.

I Am Home (from this very gig)



Love you, but not in love with you, but love you

3LX