Halloween arrived for me on a train back from Leeds after going to a gig.
Went to see Paul Heaton with support from Cerys Matthews and Attic Lights. Was a really good night... Great songs, dancing, near miss fights, old people getting down and odd couples! We got there after a strange boy offered to walk us the RIGHT way to Leeds Met uni. He was eating something which i pointed out looked healthier than mine and Louisa's choice of cheeseburger and large fries, to which he made no comment and threw the remnants of it in the bin. I found this a little weird, but conversation continued and it turned out he worked at the hospital... I really had to bight my tongue at this point as i was convinced he was a cleaner and was unsure I could feign interest in that profession. Louisa thought he looked more like he worked in the morgue! i couldn't possibly comment! :)
Gig was filled with a very weird mix of people, fat goths in PVC coats, middle aged couples in annoracks and lots of mother/daughter combos. In fact we were the only (relatively) normal looking peo
ple there. This was confirmed after watching Attic Lights, when 3 short fat female chavs elbowed louisa in order to get her out the way, and an evening of sly comments and fighting talk followed. I was a little scared but this feeling was quickly swept aside as the lovely Cerys Matthews came onstage! Yey!She was charming and lovely and played quite a few songs I did know, and the ones i didn't were really good. Loads of really good Tennessee inspired stuff, and a good slug of welsh influence as well. At one point a particularly drunk man a the front managed to heckle her with the ever classy shout of "Cerys is lovely" to which she commented that Men never change. Love her!
After Cerys, Paul Heaton arrived to chants of HEA-TON HEA-TON! He looked his normal chav looking self, and to our surprise opened a book on a stand in front of him. From our cleverly gained vantage point (front row stage left) we spotted that ... OH MY GOD!.... he had a book with all t
he words in! Not only that the words were in exceptionally large print! He was going to sing from a song book! He then sang mostly songs from the new album and we danced and sang til we were very hot. Paul however, who was wearing a coat indoors, refused to remove his jacket all evening, and by the end of the gig was a VERY sweaty mess! Louisa was joined at various points during the gig in shouts of Take yer coat off Paul! to which he finally answered that he didn't want to inflict his body on the audience... a little strange since he evidently had a T-shirt on underneath. Hmmm. Another amusing point was that in a few songs he plays harmonica, but sometimes even though we could hear his voice no harmonica sound came out... strange huh?! Ah no! it would appear the harmonica sections were pre-recorded and the sound engineer was having trouble pressing the play button! HAHAHA!
Overall the gig was loads of fun, and was only marred by the fact there were two idiots sat behind us on the train back having a farting competition. Jesus. Was good to be at a gig... feels like ages since i've been to see live music. Am gonna look at a few other gigs coming up at leeds met... Dashboard confessional, Alphabeat(though not sure who will come to this with me) and Tegan and Sarah.Also of mention is the fact i spoke to New Zealand last night! tee hee! Hello Abi in your shopping mall in kiwiland! was good fun, and without sounding to old aged... was amazed at the clarity of the line! NO delay no noise or anything! woo hoo!
So halloween arrives and i still have no cut throat razor. I shall head into town today and see if i can aquire one. hmmm. tonight is party and marks the end of half term break for me. Weekend is weekend and is part of termtime routine. grr
Finally.... in temperature news... overnight temperature was 2 degrees and current 10:30 am lounge temperature is 13.5 degrees. brrr.
More soon.
INTI xx
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