I was disappointed to find out they weren't named after Pigeon Street

Pigeon Street, surely you remember?!?? Mr Baskerville was the detective anyway.

Last week I went with Susie to see the Pigeon Detectives play the NME tour (maybe, NME something anyway, they always seem to have a tour going on). As you might remember I saw them play the O2 Wireless festival last year, but they were that good I wanted to see them again.

As is tradition (for this blog anyway), here's my quick rundown of the support acts.

First up (at 6:30pm, which is the time the tickets said doors opened, and is a bit mean if you ask me) were Grammatics. I don't remember too much about them, except they had what sounded like very emotional songs. Oh, and also they had a cellist wearing a short skirt, I wondered whether the front row were listening to the music play really.

After these came, um, The Rascals I think, yeah, I think it was them next. These sounded pretty average indie fare if you ask me, and I had heard at least one of their songs before, which is why I thought I recognised the name. Actually it was probably because of the showbiz friend they brought out to play on the last song, Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys, and I then remembered that I had read about the fact he was collaborating with the singer on an album. Don't know whether it was just the recognition, but the last song they played was, in my eyes at least, the best. As an aside, I still want to see the Arctic Monkeys play somewhere, but not a big place, and it is very difficult to get tickets for them otherwise.

Third on the bill were Black Kids, who, according to their Myspace page, list themselves as Indie / Religious, though to me they sounded more poppy with guitars (but maybe they were religious, it was difficult to work out what the lead singer was actually saying, he had a kind of wail a bit like Kele from Bloc Party).

Finally the headliners. I was wondering what we would get as they do only have the one album to date, and that isn't the longest. What it was was basically an hour of music, no encore, with pretty much all of the album plus three new songs. This was interspersed with the lead singer swing the microphone, falling on the floor, jumping off drum kits, jumping into the crowd and forgetting the words to, aguably, their most famous song and getting the guitarist to tell him. He also must have opened about 15 bottles of water, taking a couple of sips and then launching them into the crowd, and in the end he looked like he'd just walked in from a rainstorm.

Musically, I thought it was great, but seeing as they have very poppy, upbeat, short, sharp songs, thene there was never going to be much time to get bored, as I can tend to do, during elongated guitar solos.

Here's a couple of videos for those not in the know ;)





Also, I promise not to be so long with my next post.