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kalihaWhere: The Academy, Birmingham, 15th November 2005
When we saw them supporting Muse way back when at the NEC they promised they'd come back and do a gig in Birmingham because they loved us and felt we got the short straw as at the time no-one came to play in Brum. Two years later here they were, all ready to rock.
Support Act: Mew
I can take or leave Mew, I'm not obsessively in love with them like His Lordship and Jim is. Mew make me go Meh.
We got there at eight and Mew were already on stage and give them credit they did sound really, really good. Sadly, for His Lordship, we only caught the tail end of their set and only got to hear four songs before they were gone.
The Main Attraction: Elbow
Oh Elbow, how I adore you with your brusque Bury accents. Guy was sporting a bandaged foot and an old-man's walking stick, having fallen over the night before.
I could be here all day waxing lyrical over how good each song was so I'm just going to pick out my favourites:
Fugitive Motel: All orange-lit (reference to the dust-bowl perhaps?) and beautiful. I love this song so much, in fact it's my favourite Elbow song, like, OMG ever! I was singing along like a loud, out-of-tune crazy person.
Newborn: His Lordship's favourite Elbow song, and, I think, one of his favourite songs of all time. Ooh, lovely. Lots of singing along from the crowd again, His Lordship and Jim screaming and whooping at the end of it
Leaders of the Free World: *points to icon* favourite Elbow video and a fun little song to boot. I'm actually humming it in a random manner right at this very moment.
Forget Myself: The crowd was bouncing, we were bouncing and singing along
Grace Under Pressure: Do you think bands have a meeting during rehearsals and go "We need a song that we can play at festivals and the end of concerts, let's go write one…" because Grace really does fit the bill. Proper hair-standing-on-end/goosepimply moment. I think the crowd was singing along to the last section as well (I was and His Lordship certainly was – right in my ear) but the sound was blocked by all the bodies surrounding me.
Guy was lovely, chatting to the crowd (who were shouting questions at him in a slightly-surreal Ross Noble stylee), getting us to sing Happy Birthday to someone he knew in the crowd and telling us that we were lovely and making sure we were all okay. He's such a sweetie. He was also pinching fags off people in the crowd, cheeky so and so.
They played for an hour and a half so we certainly got our money's worth, but all too soon it was over and we were fighting our way through the crowds to the exits.
Sadly there were a lot of people in the Academy who fall into the category of needing a smack round the head. Why pay £15.00 for a ticket to a gig if you're just going to stand there and talk ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BLOODY CONCERT. Why not just go to a pub and listen to it on CD instead. ARGH!!!! His Lordship undertook a mission of standing right in front of the talkers until they moved away because we WERE there to enjoy the concert. Eejits.
On the way out after the show ended His Lordship was complaining (jokingly) that it wasn't very good and a girl by him turned round and gave him a look of horror and hate. :D I was very amused by it all.
Outside we were greeted by the "T-shirts a fiver, hoodies a tenner" sellers and I'm not the proud owner of a brown Elbow t-shirt that's really nice and not cheap feeling. So hoorah!
A great time was had by all.
Mew: 6.5/10
Elbow 9.5/10
When we saw them supporting Muse way back when at the NEC they promised they'd come back and do a gig in Birmingham because they loved us and felt we got the short straw as at the time no-one came to play in Brum. Two years later here they were, all ready to rock.
Support Act: Mew
I can take or leave Mew, I'm not obsessively in love with them like His Lordship and Jim is. Mew make me go Meh.
We got there at eight and Mew were already on stage and give them credit they did sound really, really good. Sadly, for His Lordship, we only caught the tail end of their set and only got to hear four songs before they were gone.
The Main Attraction: Elbow
Oh Elbow, how I adore you with your brusque Bury accents. Guy was sporting a bandaged foot and an old-man's walking stick, having fallen over the night before.
I could be here all day waxing lyrical over how good each song was so I'm just going to pick out my favourites:
Fugitive Motel: All orange-lit (reference to the dust-bowl perhaps?) and beautiful. I love this song so much, in fact it's my favourite Elbow song, like, OMG ever! I was singing along like a loud, out-of-tune crazy person.
Newborn: His Lordship's favourite Elbow song, and, I think, one of his favourite songs of all time. Ooh, lovely. Lots of singing along from the crowd again, His Lordship and Jim screaming and whooping at the end of it
Leaders of the Free World: *points to icon* favourite Elbow video and a fun little song to boot. I'm actually humming it in a random manner right at this very moment.
Forget Myself: The crowd was bouncing, we were bouncing and singing along
Grace Under Pressure: Do you think bands have a meeting during rehearsals and go "We need a song that we can play at festivals and the end of concerts, let's go write one…" because Grace really does fit the bill. Proper hair-standing-on-end/goosepimply moment. I think the crowd was singing along to the last section as well (I was and His Lordship certainly was – right in my ear) but the sound was blocked by all the bodies surrounding me.
Guy was lovely, chatting to the crowd (who were shouting questions at him in a slightly-surreal Ross Noble stylee), getting us to sing Happy Birthday to someone he knew in the crowd and telling us that we were lovely and making sure we were all okay. He's such a sweetie. He was also pinching fags off people in the crowd, cheeky so and so.
They played for an hour and a half so we certainly got our money's worth, but all too soon it was over and we were fighting our way through the crowds to the exits.
Sadly there were a lot of people in the Academy who fall into the category of needing a smack round the head. Why pay £15.00 for a ticket to a gig if you're just going to stand there and talk ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BLOODY CONCERT. Why not just go to a pub and listen to it on CD instead. ARGH!!!! His Lordship undertook a mission of standing right in front of the talkers until they moved away because we WERE there to enjoy the concert. Eejits.
On the way out after the show ended His Lordship was complaining (jokingly) that it wasn't very good and a girl by him turned round and gave him a look of horror and hate. :D I was very amused by it all.
Outside we were greeted by the "T-shirts a fiver, hoodies a tenner" sellers and I'm not the proud owner of a brown Elbow t-shirt that's really nice and not cheap feeling. So hoorah!
A great time was had by all.
Mew: 6.5/10
Elbow 9.5/10
