Turin BrakesDavid Ford:
-January- Oxford Zodiac (On top form as always, first time I heard To Hell With The World. Fie chatted to him and finally converted Katia to his genius. Support good too, Richard Walters I think his name was? Rather marred by news of Heath Ledger's death afterwards. A surreal night.)
-December- SBE London (Supporting Joan As Policewoman, we left a few songs into her set. DF's set too short for my liking but was so good to get my DF fix after so long! Was front row centre, yay.)
Tom McRae:
-May- KCL SU with Hotel Cafe (Happy Tom always scares me, but a fun gig which made me crave a solo tour. Turin Brakes and keyboard!Oli were also there. Banter about Croydon, haha.)
-August- Borderline (My fave Tom lineup, Tom&both Olis. Such a great gig, tiny venue. Weird seeing Tom in place I discovered DF after DF played SBE last year. Set included some new songs and Alphabet of Hurricanes. Most memorable for South Ossetia jokes during Dose Me Up and a gorgeous, gorgeous second encore of
Ghost of a Shark. One of my favourite Tom songs but had never heard it live before. Beautiful.)Others:
-Guillemots at Koko as part of iTunes Festival (Front row centre, surprise appearance of Martha Wainwright! Not a massive Guillemots fan but they're excellent live, FD adorable.)
-Coldplay at o2 (First time I've seen them in a while, wish it had been a smaller venue and included more songs from Parachutes. A good gig though, gleeful performance of Jingle Bells with Simon Pegg on harmonica! Really lovely piano version of
The Hardest Part, CM is hilariously hyper.)Might edit this later to include classical music stuff.
