brilliant. brilliant. brilliant. very small venue, the balcony had obviously collapsed and not been replaced. Mr H on form. The monitor misbehaving ...
or a new excuse for a mid-gig fag break?
Jill A has the track-listing and will post in the morning, but from me you get as usual the trivia.
Great to see Paulf who was on bouncing form with the merch and will be a spectator tomorrow.
Support act Pete Molinari fabulous - been playing his cd this week whilst driving (and so has Richard) - Pete accompanied by two pals who were chauffeuring him and made him sign a cd for me. The two pals, Duncan and Lee are in a band too - I promised I'd mention them: the 59 violets (I'll leave Denise or Baroness to find a link if they feel generous). All three really very nice. Pete was plugging me his next gig on Tues, 2 June at the 100 club? in London, anyhow said he's now got a band backing him whilst he played accoustic solo tonight. Am going to try to catch him on 2 June as think best support act I've seen with Hawley. Absolutely spine-tingling voice.
A new guitar man, 'scottie'?? but what happened to lovely hull-boy? In three months shez seems to have mated a guitar with several rabbits because I swear they've multiplied tenfold since York, green ones, sparkly ones, etc almost too wearying to count but I suspect Denise and Baroness will have notebooks to hand tomorrow night. I think I counted three hawley guitars, and one had * hawley * in the neck (I have no idea what the technical term is) and very fine it was ... accoustic. Also red Gretschy-thing and yellow-gretschy thing.
All guitars coordinated wonderfully with the suit (vintage?), light grey with a hint of blue matched with (I suspect) the new boots (very nice) and a dark blue/purple shirt (silk?), great detail on the shirt cuffs looked like three studs - Shez had some on his white shirt too. Shez also sporting very very nice new suit - this one 3-buttons (?) and shorter V with nice lapels (obviously taking sartorial lessons from Richard). Relieved that Dean back in his stripy t-shirt. I love Dean in his stripy t-shirt. Dean also sang all the words to 'I'm looking for someone' whilst giving Jon serious eye contact (the pair looked like two toddlers let lose in a sweet shop when they got going on drum stuff together).
Was at the front with Jill A (although obviously I made a hasty retreat for the bar during the system malfunction when Richard dived out for a fag); have discovered I can do really loud 'woo-woo's after my wembley shriek-fest so I gave it my all.
As for the music and the musicianship - well fan-bloody-tastic. Loved the intimate venue; perfect blend of the old and new (but we didn't get Our Darkness or The Ocean as an encore possibly due to the break near the beginning). I'm not going to tell you any more about the songs 'cos I've bullied the forum-shy JillA into posting those - and I'm insisting she gives you a full run down too!
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