Hello Manchester!

After a couple of months of not seeing any live music my drought came to an end yesterday when me and the boys (Greeno, Cartlidge, Steve and Green’s uni mate Simon) went to see Stereophonics (never The Stereophonics) at the M.E.N arena in Manchester.

Support came from ‘The Dead 60s’ who were frankly a bit disappointing, it all just sounded the same to me. They just seemed to be a bit of a trend band, and whilst I do like their current single “Riot on the Radio” they just didn’t meet up to expectations. Especially since for some reason I thought that The Subways were going to be supporting.

‘Phonics don’t ever disappoint (this was the 3rd time I’d seen them) and I think that they sounded better this time than ever before. It was refreshing to see a band play so much from their back-catalogue, which was good for me since I don’t own any of their new stuff. Song highlights for me have to be Mr. Writer and Maybe Tomorrow, which were just outstanding. I’d been slightly disappointed when I saw them at Earl’s Court in 2003 (Wednesday 17th of December fact fans!) and Mr. Writer was played acoustically so it was nice to see this played as it should be.

Odd fact, we were sat in block 212 which was the same block as I was in for my very first experience of live music. And the performer then was……. Britney Spears (don’t judge me, I was 16, it was a birthday present, and it was awesome!).

Thanks again to Tyson for giving me a night off from driving.