First, thanks to Gaynor for the tip-off about the sound being appalling at the back of the Apollo (née Odeon), those of us in row Z (I kid you not) found that the Lips clearly had the best sound engineer in the business, every word that Wayne (not a very rock’n’roll name for someone who is) said came through loud and clear.
Second, a word on the two support bands; Steve Burns (from Brooklyn) was terrific. Very funny videos, catchy songs and bags of chutzpah (which is the correct term I believe), check out his website for some great QuickTime movies and a flavour of the man. Alfie, on the other hand, need to find themselves. The sub-Beatles Yellow Submarine graphics and the Gallagher-esq swagger of the lead singer were tiresome. In fact the whole lolloping around the stage like the aforementioned neanderthal was so hopeless that I really have to mention it again. (more…)
