Don't Shoot!!!!!

Still no pictures, and I don't know what to do about it really, maybe I'll copy them and take them into work and upload them from there.

On Wednesday Tina (yes, you heard correctly) came with me to see the Rifles at the Electric Ballroom. The ticket said doors at 7, when in reality they opened at 7:50, which is fine in the summer months, but not in cold December, and particularly when we weren't dressed for standing outside (although we did see a couple of touts having an argument, which lightened the mood albeit briefly).

We were still one of the first in, and obviously everybody was too cool to pick a position to watch the gig as the whole 'dance floor' area was pretty empty, save for us and another couple, until the first band came on.

We had two support bands to see, the first being Speed Circus, who I thought were very good, entertaining on stage (they had santa introduce them), good rapport with each other, a bassist who needed to pull his trousers up, and some toe-tappingly good music.

The second support act was the On-offs, who, with a lead singer who looked like he was on drugs, knocking over the guitar player after about 30 seconds, and basically being a tad erratic through the set, didn't really have the tunes to pull it off.

The main act were very, very good. I might be biased as I really like the album, but all the songs they played were great, and I really liked Local Boy, Peace & Quiet and Narrow Minded Social Club. The crowd was a bit more jumpy than I expected, and being at the front we got squashed and covered in beer, but it was good. Also I was impressed with the guitarist's outfit of a frilly shirt (still with its out-of-the-box creases), sunglasses and top hat. It actually looked pretty cool.

Oh, we also bumped into Tim Lovejoy, Tubes and Fenners off of Soccer AM (This is a fan site link, it is more interesting than the official one). Very brief conversation though as they were surrounded by people wanting pictures.