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The Rakes w/WRM & Duels & Switches 27.01.2006

The Rakes
Support: White Rose Movement, Duels, Switches
Date: Friday 27th January 2006
Doors: 7pm
Venue: Exeter University Lemon Grove

So first up was Switches, they werent to bad, Best song was definately 'Lay Down The Law'. Setlist here...

Message From Yuz Drama Queen Testify Lay Down The Law Joysticks Rite/Wrong Every Second Counts Solid Gold 13 Years Inside

Photobucket and Blogspot are currently pissing me off, Review to come another time..

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Shannon and myself have both just managed to get 4 tickets to see James Blunt and Jason Mraz! That should be pretty dudey, thats on February 17th!

Also debating whether to go see Infadels again or not on the 24th? hmmm...

Arrghhh we have just been told at the last minute that we could attend Kubb.. 3 hours notice?? No way of getting to Plymouth.. Arrghhhh, how crap. We could of gone Kubb, i give up.

WE HAVE MORRISSEY TICKETS.

Hard-Fi w/Infadels 01.12.05

Date: Thursday 1st December 2005
Venue: Exeter University, Lemongrove
Time: 7:30pm
Support: Infadels

We went and picked up my lil concert buddy, and drove to Exeter, we got there pretty late, but we didnt miss anything. None of us particulary felt like getting squashed so we just stood at the back against the wall, the lemongroves tiny anyway, so we were still pretty close. We waited for Dad. He eventually got to us, he had been having a coffee in the cafe and Rich Archer (hard-fi singer) was right next to him! Oh and he then met Infadels at the bar later on.

Infadels came on about 7:50pm i think, they had so much energy, really funky. They played the following (from what i can remember).

Love Me Like Semtex
Top Boy
Jagger 67
Give Yourself To Me
Reality TV
Can't Get Enough

Im sure im missing one or two, but oh well. They were very good live, made me go listen to their record again anyway! Amazing band. Good dancers. Some Pictures..

In between bands, they played loads of remix's including nearly the whole first half of the Hard-Fi album remixed, and other stuff like Gorillaz etc Then this dude came round, and we signed up to Infadels mailing list, even though im already on it, i just wanted free stuff! So we got some badges and leaflets.
Hard-Fi came on pretty early, and they were absolutely brilliant. Rich was quite talkative. Highlights for me were definately 'Cash Machine', 'You & Me', and 'Feltham is Singing Out' i think. Setlist went something like this....

Middle Eastern Holiday
Gotta Reason
Better Do Better
Unnecessary Trouble
You & Me (New song)
Better Do Better
Feltham Is Singing Out
Hard to Beat
Seven Nation Army (White Stripes Cover)
Cash Machine <3
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Move On Now
Stars Of CCTV
Living For The Weekend

'Cash Machine' was recorded live, so i think we'll download that later. Was a great night! Crowd were quite crazy at times too. Would love to see them again!




















http://www.hard-fi.com/flash.html

http://www.infadels.co.uk/

Franz Ferdinand w/Editors & The Rakes 14.11.05

Venue: Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff
Time: Doors - 6:30pm Show - 7:30pm
Support: Editors and The Rakes <3
Date: Monday 14th November 2005

**UPDATING THIS WEEK.. Watch this space....**


So we travelled upto Cardiff, and went shopping until the doors opened. As we got in, we just sat down roughly the middle of the middle, and got some drinks. The Rakes were first to come on, and oh my absolutely amazing, in my opinion they absolutely stole the show, and should have been on after Editors, because well they werent as good. Alan was dancing extremely well. He is class. Absolutely amazing to watch, the songs were perfect. Setlist as follows..

Terror!
Retreat
We Are All Animals
Open Book
Binary Love
Work, Work, Work, Pub, Club, Sleep
The Guilt
The World Was A Mess.....
Strasbourg
22 Grand Job

Editors Setlist
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Lights

Bullets

Blood

Fall

All Sparks

Munich

Fingers In The Factories

Open Your Arms

Franz Ferdinand Setlist
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This Boy
Come On Home
Do You Want To
Auf Achse
What You Meant
The Dark of The Matinée
I'm Your Villain
Walk Away
Eleanor Put Your Boots On
Take Me Out
Michael
The Fallen
40ft
Darts Of Pleasure
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Jacqueline
Evil and A Heathen
Outsiders
This Fire

Athlete w/Gemma Hayes 07.11.05

Date: Monday 7th November 2005
Venue: Plymouth Pavillions, Plymouth
Time: 6:30pm, Doors: 7:30pm
Support: Murphys Kid and Gemma Hayes

My lil concert buddy picked me up at 5, Thank you again for the lift :) Got to Plymouth about 6. Then we went and met up with the other street teamers who were really nice. We put up some posters, must have given out at least 70 flyers, 30 cds, etc We went around doing the mailing lists aswell, which is fun until you get rejected! Doors opened around 7-7:30pm, we just waited outside for a while though. The Pavillions were set up really different from when we went to see Kings Of Leon. There was loads and loads of seating too. Our tickets were actually in the seating area, so we sat for Athlete and stood for the support. Anyway we stocked up on some Gemma Hayes posters, cds etc.
First band on were Murphys Kid, who werent actually that bad. Quite nice, they played about 4/5 songs. Then we had to wait 30 minutes for Gemma Hayes. She was amazing, 'Hanging Around' was very good, she's pretty good, she played about 6/7 songs then ATHLETE! Wooo! 30 minutes later!
They were pretty amazing, very good live. Joel is actually even cuter than i thought, he spoke out quite a lot, made a few jokes too, Great guy.... Yummm Anyway the bassist i thought was being lazy because he was sat down, turns out he had a dislocated shoulder, They were brilliant, the lighting was beautiful, very nice colours, the big screen at the back was pretty cool, then this random guy was on stage filming the crowd and it was up on the big screen, that was cool. 'You Got The Style' and 'Wires' were by far my favourites of the night, bloody amazing.

Setlist, from what i can remember.

Tourist
Half Light
Beautiful
El Salvador
Street Map
Stand In The Sun

Wires
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Twenty Four Hours

Ok not in that order, and theres more too.


Anyway absolutely amazing show!

The Subways w/The Kooks 30.10.05

Got my Kooks Vinyl signed, story and more piccys later!!

Date: Sunday 30th October 2005
Venue: Exeter University, Lemongrove
Time: 7pm
Support: The Kooks & The Suffragets

We went and picked Emma up and got to Exeter pretty early. When we got there we accidentally walked in the backstage way, but we didnt have a clue, and all the members of The Kooks walked past and said 'Hey!' and i started jumping around because i was so excited that they were supporting because stupid NME said they werent! So that made my day! We continued walking backstage because basically no one had told us off or said anything... Then Billy from Subways walks past, and Becks and Emma start wetting themselves, Anyway he's a really really nice guy, so we got some photos with him, 2nd ones blurry but meh! So we had a nice conversation with him.





Then we walked into the actual hall, and its just a tad bigger than the Phoenix, we went in and The Suffragets were in there, and then i realised that Gemma (ex Babyshambles drummer) was there, and well thats her new band! So said 'Hey!' to all those guys too, didnt have the camera at the time though unfortunately. Then The Kooks walked back in to soundcheck, and Billy followed. They played there new song 'Time Awaits' and it was oh so gorgeous, they kept looking over and smiling! Then us 3 realised that we were in a room with Billy, Kooks and Suffragets! Just us lot, and we all just were really excited! Billy and I danced along to The Kooks song whilst Becks and Emma went and got a t-shirt, poster, badges, stickers etc. Then we went back outside, and just hung around, we ended up being door holders, and the amount of times they all walked past, so we had a little mini conversation every time they did. I couldnt believe i was finally seeing The Kooks! <3>

Bus Song
Do You Want To See The World
Naive
Eddie's Gun
Time Awaits
You Dont Love Me
Sofa Song
Pull Me In

Yes, they played my favourite song last, which was actually a surprise because i didnt think they were going to play it at all. Highlights were 'Pull Me In', 'You Dont Love Me', 'Do You Want To See The World' and Arr screw it ALL of them were amazing! They were really great and realy nice to us too, we managed to get Hugh's guitar pick, its soo nice, They were really energetic on stage too, Very good indeed. I sang along and in Time Awaits, Luke looked over at me and grinned! Then another long wait and The Subways came on! and Jesus wasnt prepared, not prepared at all. The crowd were practically dead still during first 2 bands and christ all of a sudden the whole place turned into one huge mosh pit! It was hilarious, we stayed in for a while, but then Becks almost dropped our precious camera with Billy pictures on so we quickly got out! We stood about 10 rows back in the end, still had a great view though. Billy and Charlotte talked out quite a bit, both really nice, hardly even saw Josh. They impressed me though, i didnt like them too much before but now yeah there great! They played the following (again from what i can remember) :-

With You
Young For Eternity
City Pavement
I Want To Hear What You Got To Say
At 1am
Lines Of Light
Oh Yeah
Mary
A Plain Above
Holiday
She Sun
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No Goodbyes
Rock N Roll Queen

Highlights were definately 'I Want To Hear What You Got To Say', 'Oh Yeah' , 'Holiday' and 'A Plain Above'
The crowd were so crazy the whole set, Billy did some crowdsurfing, Then at the end he decided to jump off the speakers into the crowd, ive got a video of that here...

http://rapidshare.de/files/7032352/PICT0055.AVI.html

(Note: Best viewed in WMP, and also make sure you turn down the sound, because its just crackling and screaming!)
Ive got some more video's here...
Another Subways one.....

http://rapidshare.de/files/7032154/PICT0053.AVI.html

and one of the oh so amazing Kooks (my favourite video!)

http://rapidshare.de/files/7031887/PICT0010.AVI.html

The gig was just really amazing. Good social evening too, had conversations with loads of other people, all ages, was really nice. Here's some piccys from the show...

*MORE PICTURES HERE LATER*

More pictures here...

http://photobucket.com/albums/a223/gig_related_pics/Subways%20and%20Kooks/?sc=5
Password if needed is: thekillers

So after the show we see the guys again who were street teaming, and we spoke to them for another 10 minutes and they gave us some kooks flyers and posters, Then we headed round the back again and spoke to Hugh for a while, then PAUL! Paul again! So Paul signed my poster, then we asked for a photo, hehe he's so funny! He wanted us to wait so he could finish his Strepsil! Then he asked me if he had tomato sauce all round his mouth because he had just eaten, but he hadnt, then we continued a conversation, and he was a really nice guy, really really nice! Photo here, blurry again Arrghh! Cant people take photos these days?!




Heres websites if you want to check the bands out...

http://www.thesuffrajets.com/index.htm

http://thekooks.co.uk/

http://thesubways.test.wmg.com:88/proof/flash.php