Date: Friday 17th Manchester 2010
Venue: MEN Arena
Face Value: about £40 I think (The Husband bought them)
Support Act: none
Gig Buddies: The Husband, Rock Goddess and Sheffield
Yeah, I nearly forgot to post this - it's only Australia Day on Wednesday that's reminded me.
Anyways, just before Christmas we catch the Tim Minchin show at the MEN Arena. The Husband and I have both seen the genius of Mr Minchin before but we felt compelled to share it to our two very bestest gig buddies, since they imparted the wisdom of the Lancashire Hot Pots on us. Seemed only fair. And besides, they got married at the end of last year and we got them tickets as a present (as well as making the cake, obviously). The rock of our friendship (see what I did there?) stems back to our wedding where they bought us Guitar Hero for the Wii, so our gift was not completely out of context, okay?
Anyways, we entered the famed arena and paid over the odds for some warm booze and cold nachos and settled in for what is arguably one of the most funniest Australian acts since Steady Eddy. And the comedy is just as raw. The full 60-piece orchestra were amazing. Tim's performance was brilliant and White Wine In the Sun of course made the set list, which moves me to tears every single time I hear it.
What wasn't amazing though were the imbeciles behind us that talked loudly ALL THE FUCKING WAY THROUGH THE SHOW. Very annoying.
And our seats on the floor didn't actually give short asses like me a good view, but overall it was a top night. Shame it had to snow 3 inches in the time we sat in the arena and mean that it took us an hour to leave the car park.
