Our Posies adventure started off in London at The Garage. Apparently it's called the Relentless Garage nowadays, but that's a stupid name, so I'll stick with the old one.
We sacrificed not one, but two, Posies virgins to the alter at this gig. Our good friend Nick, who has great taste in music and is one of those people who IS prepared to get off his arse and travel for a good gig, was virgin no.1.
Our gig buddy Kate, who is a very cool chick and loves going to gigs, even if she's barely even heard of the band she's going to see was virgin no.2. I'd convinced her to come at midnight the night before the show.
We had a chance to chat briefly to Jon, and I got a rare and pleasant pre-gig non-sweaty hug - which was nice.
Here's the setlist. The only tracks missing from the new album were Accidental Architecture, Notion 99 & She's Coming Down Again. All the new songs sounded frikkin awesome. I'm even beginning to like Licences To Hide now. That's the only song on the album that I didn't instantly like, but hearing it live, it's getting under my skin.
There was a decent crowd in. It wasn't rammed, but it certainly wasn't light on the ground either. It was extremely hot though. Ken commented on the number of people in the audience who were wearing coats, when "It's a million degrees in here!"
We were told the tale of Darius and his stolen passport and thanked as a nation for having great embassies and for inventing sandwiches.
After the show Ken and Jon were swamped with people eagerly buying CDs. Yay! :-)
They were so swamped we left them to it and headed home.
Honourable mentions to other friends present: Henrik, Andy H and his mate Mark. Great to see you guys.
Antwerp next!
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