On your marks, get set........

OK, GO!

Nope, not in a race, but we (that'll be me and Susie) did go to see OK Go in concert on Sunday. For those of you that don't know, OK Go have recently been one of the musical darlings of YouTube thanks to the videos to their two most recent singles,

a million ways



here it goes again



Back to the gig. They were supported by New York Fund and Quit Your Day Job. The first lot were decent enough, although whatever they may or may not have done was far surpassed by the oddity that followed. Probably a good time to note that I spent the first hour of this concert attempting to keep two spaces as Susie didn't turn up until an hour after I had got there, I did ache a little after all that stretching.

So, Quit Your Day Job.....I kinda knew something might be up when they came out all wearing blue, and the lead singer wearing some very tight tracksuit trousers. He also had a kind of maniacal grin on his face that was to remain pretty constant throughout. The keyboard player, despite his shaven head and moustache, looked pretty normal, ha, what did I know. Throughout their set (when he wasn't actually playing keyboard) he would be stripping down to his underpants, pointing and staring into space, performing kicks, jumping into the crowd, pretending to hump his equipment and pumping his fist....mentalist. If this wasn't enough, their songs, if you can call them that, didn't have the best lyrics in the world. For example, their song about money appeared to be simply "Oooh, a dollar" repeated, and accordingly their song about fire went "Ouch, it burns", again, repeatedly. To be fair, they were entertaining enough for the 40 minutes or so they had the limelight, and they were from Sweden (is that an excuse, I'm not sure).

The headliners themselves were good. Not knowing many songs (well three) I always go to these with a small sense that I would be disappointed or bored, but the songs I didn't know were catchy enough, the singer bloke was entertaining in his links between songs too, and they also performed a mini set on the balcony.....oh, and they finished with the dance to a million ways (which, seeing as they had played it earlier I thought we might not get). Well worth the eleven pounds or whatever it was.