HW: Liverpool last night

[Nick Lee]

Managed to get over to the Liverpool show last night.
Didn't have much time to look for other list members as we arrived rather late, catching only the end of Tim's set.  Managed to say hi to Rich (Warren), helping out on t-shirts & Keef on lights.
Managed to get spot pretty near the front in time for HW, it was pretty packed (& fairly small) hall so there wasn't much space to move.
After an 'Earth Calling' intro (voiced by Richard) the band hammered into a fine version of Aerospaceage Inferno, with Arthur doing a fine job on vocals, followed by Angels of Death (not my favourite song, maybe, but played damn well), Out The Shadows (great to hear this again after all these years, look forward to hearing Simon play this one again), then Time Captains from Arthur, nver heard this before but it seemd to fit nicely into the HW set, Master Of The Universe flowing into Song Of The Gremlin was next with Arthur back on vocals (he got the lyrics to Master almost right!), Hurry On Sundown was next followed by Lighthouse, which Tim started solo but was backed by a full band by the end, Alan teased the audience a bit with the bass intro to the Watcher before launcing into powerful version of this song, Dave playing some excellent guitar and Huw only joining in towards the end, Assassin was next with a reworked middle similar to Palestine (though luckily no Eleanor Rigby as reported other nights), a cracking You Shouldn't Do That/Seeing It As You Really Are (with Earth Calling lyrics) ended the amin set.  The band returned for a powerful Sonic Attack from Arthur which flowed into a slightly muddled sounding Space Brock.  The evening was rounded of with a cracking version of Silver Machine, with Arthur dinging quite a lot of the right words.
All in all a cracking, powerful gig.  The band were on great from, the sound was pretty damn good (except that I couldn't always hear Tim), Huw was on much better form than the summer, though not at his best (Dave said he'd got a cold) and seemed a little lost occasionally  (he didn't seem to know what to play in Assassins of all things!).  Could've been a little longer at only just 90 mins though.
Looking forward to Northampton tomorrow, then Brighton & Walthamstow.
See you there!

Nick