Date: Friday 25th March
Venue: MEN Arena
Face Value: £27.50 or thereabouts
Support Act: no idea
Gig Buddies: The Rock Goddess, Sheffield, a couple of old workmates that will still go to gigs with me even though I got really hammered at the Foo Fighters gig and The Husband.
Venue: MEN Arena
Face Value: £27.50 or thereabouts
Support Act: no idea
Gig Buddies: The Rock Goddess, Sheffield, a couple of old workmates that will still go to gigs with me even though I got really hammered at the Foo Fighters gig and The Husband.
Right, first things first: I don't know much about Elbow. There is precisely one track that's vaguely familiar and even then I'm sketchy on the lyrics. What I do know is that The Rock Goddess has usually excellent taste in music (her penchant for John Farnham and Toto notwithstanding) and so when she says she has tickets to something I'm always all ears. I'm also all ears when dinner is in the bargain as well. So, come Friday 25th March I drive to Manchester where I am very happily surprised to find an additional couple of gig-goers joining us. I'm more than mildly embarassed that the last time I went to a gig with them that it ended in me being really drunk. Really really drunk. So it's a good thing I'm driving tonight.
Dinner at The Grinch who do fabulous pizza and then we head up to the MEN arena to procure some drinks (red bull for me, natch) before the show begins. Like I said, I don't know their catalogue at all, and I've only just bought their new album. If you are searching for a set list, you'll need to look elsewhere. However, I can tell you that Elbow put on a bloody good show. Lead singer Guy Garvey engages frequently with the crowd - it's obvious he is proud to be from around the corner in Bury, Greater Manchester and that this homecoming gig is going to be special. Everything from the sound, the tracks, the stage effects was spot on. Guy acknowledged those of us in the nose-bleed seats and made the arena feel MUCH smaller than the 11,000 people it was holding. Actually I don't know how many people were in the arena that night, but it was a fuck load.
One question though - in the picture above (dear Guardian: please don't sue me for using it) does the guy on the far left look like Zach Galifianakis from The Hangover? Or is it just me??
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