All those yellow balloons bouncing round everywhere…oh how I long for a good game of hack. Anyone in Edinburgh who stumbles across this and fancies a game hit me up; anyone in NZ who fancies a hack come visit – winter is for suckers and I have a futon in the boxroom.
The Flaming Lips put on a great show. I came in from getting a beer and Wayne had descended in a big space bubble thing and was crowd surfing in his bubble. Pretty cool – he gets to crowd surf without munters trying to rip his clothes off. Not that Flaming Lips punters would do that. Over post gig beers we came to the conclusion that if you like the Flaming Lips you’re probably a nice person.
The set started with Race for the Prize, had three tracks off the new album At War with the Mystics : yeah yeah yeah yeah song, Free Radicals and The WAND, Yoshimi pts 1&2, Do you realise?, She don’t use Jelly and some more I can’t remember. The encore was a cover of Warpigs, nice and heavy but lacking the guitar solowank. I could’ve done with a few more songs for the encore personally…maybe Fight Test, Mr Ambulance Driver, or A Change at Christmas would’ve been cool seeing as half of the stage was full of santas. A Machine in India would’ve gone down a treat with me too but you can’t please everyone. Still one song for an encore wtf???
The Go! Team were cool too but the rest of the crowd didn’t seem too excited. I’ll be keen to see them again anyhoo.
Had a rather good beer at The Blue Blazer after – An Teallach from Ullapool. I might go visit sometime.
Now I must sort some Triptych tickets….Silver Jews have already sold out dammit!
Threadless have some new tees and reprints out too. I just got Talk to me – my favourite track off Kiss-Unmasked