Every time I close my eyes

Me and Susie went to the Brixton Acadamy yesterday (which for me was the first time in about 18 months) to see the Arcade Fire.

To be honest, I'm not that big a fan of their music, but they are consistently nominated for best live act so I thought I would take the opportunity to see why. As with the concert on Monday, the support act were rubbish (I'm not even sure what they were called, I'm thinking it might be Electrelane). If it is them, then they are an all girl guitar based band with boring songs.

The Arcade Fire, on the other hand, consist of about 10 people playing dozens of instruments between them (including an organ, a double bass, an accordian and a french horn, and rotating who plays what as well). This alone made them interesting to watch, expecially when they were darting all over the place, and some of their music is better live too. One extra bonus about the gig is that is was (allegedly) no smoking, and although a few people did flout the rules, it did mean it wasn't as bad and so I didn't come out smelling of smoke like normal, roll on July.

So overall, despite my mind wandering a bit during the duller songs, it wasn't too bad (although Susie said I wasn't allowed to sing made up words as I didn't know the real ones).....next up is Travis