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kalihaI saw the ever-lovely Elbow the other week at the Academy in Birmingham and I actually use this icon in a completely related sense. As I am made of fail I am only writing my review now when I've got a spare few minutes at work. Elbow, please don't think that I love you any less.
I think Guy having his own radio show (what do you mean you've not heard it. Forshame! Get yourself over to Guy's Radio 6 pages and download yourself his podcast and then listen every week) has done him some good because he's a lot more chatty nowadays.
He even got us all signed up as members of the Air Wobblers Guild (the payment terms are very reasonable too – all we have to do is sing Elbow songs) It was obvious that he was really enjoying himself. All the band were. Which is good.
As well as the band they also enlisted the help of a string section. Lovely. So much better than having a pre-recorded string section, which some bands use.
Highlights (of which there were many)
Starlings: Everyone on the trumpets at the start. Ooh, I love a good brass section
Fugitive Motel: so lovely it made me cry actual tears. Bless. My favourite Elbow song by absolute miles.
Leaders of the Free World: Really good reaction from the crowd, lots of bouncing about and some 'rock-arm' dancing from a bloke in front of us who was really, really getting into it.
Grounds for Divorce: Everyone cheered the opening of the last single with Stars in Their Eyes-style whooping and shouting. God love them.
Guy asked the crowd how many bought the CD when it was released (massive cheers) and then how many illegally downloaded it (much smaller cheers – including one bloke on the front row who Guy reckoned was very proud of his illegal downloading). He told everyone who downloaded it that if they were not very, very poor then they were going to the hot, burny place.
Newborn: Still my second-favourite song called Newborn. Guy got us to sing the opening couple of lines before talking over
Cast of Thousands: The song written especially for 'us' (as in the fans in general) to sing along to and the Academy really blasted it out.
The band were brilliant, I love going to see them very much and they're always worth the ticket price.
9/10
And then the parking cost us £6.40 for two hours and ten minutes in a city Centre car park. Bloody Hell Birmingham, why rip us off so much! It's not as if you're a poor city. Bloody Tories.
Standing behind us were this little group of absolute twats (pardon my French) would were being really obnoxious and talking really loudly through all the quiet songs and even louder through the louder songs. In the end His Lordship snapped, turned around and told them to shut the fuck up One of the little twats told him that "he only just stood in front of them so didn't have the right to tell them to be quiet". We'd been standing right there since the support band came on. One of his little cronies then went "tell us to shut up again and we'll see you in court!" Blimey getting his lawyers on us because we've infringed his God-given rights to be a twat.
They made me ashamed to be a Brummie.
Hilariously there wasn't a peep out of them for the rest of the gig. Lulz.
It really does annoy me when people spend all this money on a gig ticket to then ignore the band THEY'VE PAID TO SEE to gossip about stuff going on at work. Here's an idea for you: why don't you fuck off home and listen to the CD instead. Idiots.
Can you tell I feel a bit strongly about this?
I think Guy having his own radio show (what do you mean you've not heard it. Forshame! Get yourself over to Guy's Radio 6 pages and download yourself his podcast and then listen every week) has done him some good because he's a lot more chatty nowadays.
He even got us all signed up as members of the Air Wobblers Guild (the payment terms are very reasonable too – all we have to do is sing Elbow songs) It was obvious that he was really enjoying himself. All the band were. Which is good.
As well as the band they also enlisted the help of a string section. Lovely. So much better than having a pre-recorded string section, which some bands use.
Highlights (of which there were many)
Starlings: Everyone on the trumpets at the start. Ooh, I love a good brass section
Fugitive Motel: so lovely it made me cry actual tears. Bless. My favourite Elbow song by absolute miles.
Leaders of the Free World: Really good reaction from the crowd, lots of bouncing about and some 'rock-arm' dancing from a bloke in front of us who was really, really getting into it.
Grounds for Divorce: Everyone cheered the opening of the last single with Stars in Their Eyes-style whooping and shouting. God love them.
Guy asked the crowd how many bought the CD when it was released (massive cheers) and then how many illegally downloaded it (much smaller cheers – including one bloke on the front row who Guy reckoned was very proud of his illegal downloading). He told everyone who downloaded it that if they were not very, very poor then they were going to the hot, burny place.
Newborn: Still my second-favourite song called Newborn. Guy got us to sing the opening couple of lines before talking over
Cast of Thousands: The song written especially for 'us' (as in the fans in general) to sing along to and the Academy really blasted it out.
The band were brilliant, I love going to see them very much and they're always worth the ticket price.
9/10
And then the parking cost us £6.40 for two hours and ten minutes in a city Centre car park. Bloody Hell Birmingham, why rip us off so much! It's not as if you're a poor city. Bloody Tories.
Standing behind us were this little group of absolute twats (pardon my French) would were being really obnoxious and talking really loudly through all the quiet songs and even louder through the louder songs. In the end His Lordship snapped, turned around and told them to shut the fuck up One of the little twats told him that "he only just stood in front of them so didn't have the right to tell them to be quiet". We'd been standing right there since the support band came on. One of his little cronies then went "tell us to shut up again and we'll see you in court!" Blimey getting his lawyers on us because we've infringed his God-given rights to be a twat.
They made me ashamed to be a Brummie.
Hilariously there wasn't a peep out of them for the rest of the gig. Lulz.
It really does annoy me when people spend all this money on a gig ticket to then ignore the band THEY'VE PAID TO SEE to gossip about stuff going on at work. Here's an idea for you: why don't you fuck off home and listen to the CD instead. Idiots.
Can you tell I feel a bit strongly about this?
