HW Walthamstow - I think I get in first this time

[Kevin Perry]

Well, I hadn't decided for certain whether I was going until about 6pm last
night  but I'm glad I did - easily the best I've seen them for a couple of
years.  To start with, they had a decent sound - at last!  The line-up was
Dave , Huw, Alan, Simon (synths and violin) and Richard (drums and
sequencing/synths) (and Capt Rizz for Assassins of Allah): I think the fact
that  there's only 5 of them makes it easier for the sound engineers to do a
good balancing job.  So keep it that way, please!

Huw was a but flu-y and wasn't as good as at the RFH IMHO, but he was still
playing the best he has for a few years, although he did keep taking
timeouts to have a sit down and a fag :-)  Everyone else was playing well
and seemed to be enjoying themselves: Dave's voice is great right now and
Alan was doing good BVs (although his singing on Ejection wasn't the best
I've heard...about as bad as mine); Simon's violin was sounding good;
Richard's drumming during the end of Ejection (I think) was astounding - I
don't know how he plays so fast.

Set (not right order I'm sure)
Lighthouse (Dave singing - much better than Tim)
Levitation
Moonglum
Spiral Galaxy
Assassins of Allah (inc Space is Their Palestine)
Motorway City
Hurry On Sundown
The Watcher
Brainbox Pollution (fantastic to hear this and really well done)
Wind of Change (great to hear this again and very well played too - Simon on
top form)

Encore
Assault and Battry
Golden Void
Ejection

And Bruise - the support band - were excellent too: well worth catching by
themselves.  And they did one of the best versions of Silver Machine I've
ever heard...

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Kevin Perry
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