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They were superb, played lots of stuff, I'd tell you what, but I don't think you'd care, and I can't remember. Lots of stuff off the first album though which surprised me as I thought they'd stick to The Last Broadcast for most of it.
It was a charity gig at the Royal Albert Hall (I'll come back to this), and so the lineup was a bit strange. They were supported by Rebelski, who I'm not going to try and describe, and the Asian Dub Foundation. I have no idea who decided to put the Doves and ADF on the same night, but they're either a genius or insane. A bloke from ADF started a war rant at the end of their set and got heckled by a man in the crowd. He got REALLY angry really quickly, and it was entertaining to see him shouting that people in the crowd were facists.
The Royal Albert hall is a lovely place, but not great for gigs really. My friend who bought the tickets was told there would be no standing, so he bought cheaper circle seats as he thought it would make little difference. We arrive and find that Coldplay had standing on Monday and so there's standing tonight. "Great" we think, " we can change our tickets and go standing". Asked a member of staff and they said there was plenty of room in standing, so we went to the ticket office to ask about upgrading. The man there told us that standing tickets would cost more and as we were upgrading, we'd have to pay £20 each to go standing.
Needless to say, we were a bit annoyed but decided we could afford it and tried to upgrade. The man looked at our tickets and said "Oh, sorry. You didn't buy these tickets direct from us, you'll have to buy entirely new tickets." We couldn't afford it. The censor stops me fully expressing my views on this.
So, the place was half empty, there weren't enough people standing to do the bands justice really, and we couldn't upgrade because the RAH has an antisocial policy. Nice view from the upper circle though, not many people up there so we could sit pretty much where we liked
Excellent music too.
It was a charity gig at the Royal Albert Hall (I'll come back to this), and so the lineup was a bit strange. They were supported by Rebelski, who I'm not going to try and describe, and the Asian Dub Foundation. I have no idea who decided to put the Doves and ADF on the same night, but they're either a genius or insane. A bloke from ADF started a war rant at the end of their set and got heckled by a man in the crowd. He got REALLY angry really quickly, and it was entertaining to see him shouting that people in the crowd were facists.
The Royal Albert hall is a lovely place, but not great for gigs really. My friend who bought the tickets was told there would be no standing, so he bought cheaper circle seats as he thought it would make little difference. We arrive and find that Coldplay had standing on Monday and so there's standing tonight. "Great" we think, " we can change our tickets and go standing". Asked a member of staff and they said there was plenty of room in standing, so we went to the ticket office to ask about upgrading. The man there told us that standing tickets would cost more and as we were upgrading, we'd have to pay £20 each to go standing.
Needless to say, we were a bit annoyed but decided we could afford it and tried to upgrade. The man looked at our tickets and said "Oh, sorry. You didn't buy these tickets direct from us, you'll have to buy entirely new tickets." We couldn't afford it. The censor stops me fully expressing my views on this.
So, the place was half empty, there weren't enough people standing to do the bands justice really, and we couldn't upgrade because the RAH has an antisocial policy. Nice view from the upper circle though, not many people up there so we could sit pretty much where we liked
Excellent music too.
Is the singer's head really that big in real life?
I saw FInch last night. I sweated so much I felt like I was gonna pass out. It was excellent.
There goes the fear
dum dum
dum dum
I'm gonna see Counting Crows at the RAH soon.
Doves. I like The Doves.
Doves. I like The Doves.
My sister went to see Avril Lavigne. I didn't.
Our Lady Peace were the support band. They rocked the house.
I should have gone and just left after OLP :-(
Our Lady Peace were the support band. They rocked the house.
I should have gone and just left after OLP :-(
They were superb, played lots of stuff, I'd tell you what, but I don't think you'd care, and I can't remember. Lots of stuff off the first album though which surprised me as I thought they'd stick to The Last Broadcast for most of it.
It was a charity gig at the Royal Albert Hall (I'll come back to this), and so the lineup was a bit strange. They were supported by Rebelski, who I'm not going to try and describe, and the Asian Dub Foundation. I have no idea who decided to put the Doves and ADF on the same night, but they're either a genius or insane. A bloke from ADF started a war rant at the end of their set and got heckled by a man in the crowd. He got REALLY angry really quickly, and it was entertaining to see him shouting that people in the crowd were facists.
The Royal Albert hall is a lovely place, but not great for gigs really. My friend who bought the tickets was told there would be no standing, so he bought cheaper circle seats as he thought it would make little difference. We arrive and find that Coldplay had standing on Monday and so there's standing tonight. "Great" we think, " we can change our tickets and go standing". Asked a member of staff and they said there was plenty of room in standing, so we went to the ticket office to ask about upgrading. The man there told us that standing tickets would cost more and as we were upgrading, we'd have to pay £20 each to go standing.
Needless to say, we were a bit annoyed but decided we could afford it and tried to upgrade. The man looked at our tickets and said "Oh, sorry. You didn't buy these tickets direct from us, you'll have to buy entirely new tickets." We couldn't afford it. The censor stops me fully expressing my views on this.
So, the place was half empty, there weren't enough people standing to do the bands justice really, and we couldn't upgrade because the RAH has an antisocial policy. Nice view from the upper circle though, not many people up there so we could sit pretty much where we liked
Excellent music too.
It was a charity gig at the Royal Albert Hall (I'll come back to this), and so the lineup was a bit strange. They were supported by Rebelski, who I'm not going to try and describe, and the Asian Dub Foundation. I have no idea who decided to put the Doves and ADF on the same night, but they're either a genius or insane. A bloke from ADF started a war rant at the end of their set and got heckled by a man in the crowd. He got REALLY angry really quickly, and it was entertaining to see him shouting that people in the crowd were facists.
The Royal Albert hall is a lovely place, but not great for gigs really. My friend who bought the tickets was told there would be no standing, so he bought cheaper circle seats as he thought it would make little difference. We arrive and find that Coldplay had standing on Monday and so there's standing tonight. "Great" we think, " we can change our tickets and go standing". Asked a member of staff and they said there was plenty of room in standing, so we went to the ticket office to ask about upgrading. The man there told us that standing tickets would cost more and as we were upgrading, we'd have to pay £20 each to go standing.
Needless to say, we were a bit annoyed but decided we could afford it and tried to upgrade. The man looked at our tickets and said "Oh, sorry. You didn't buy these tickets direct from us, you'll have to buy entirely new tickets." We couldn't afford it. The censor stops me fully expressing my views on this.
So, the place was half empty, there weren't enough people standing to do the bands justice really, and we couldn't upgrade because the RAH has an antisocial policy. Nice view from the upper circle though, not many people up there so we could sit pretty much where we liked
Excellent music too.