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[shermarama]

I went to see the Bevis Frond at the Standard in Walthamstow, which is a place I've never been to before, although it turns out I've driven past it a number of times since it's right opposite Blackhorse Road tube. It was good to see Nick do his acoustic thing, especially with Ade Shaw on bass for some of it. The electric half of the show, and it's not often you'll hear me say this, was less fun. Ade Shaw is yer bass professional but the other people that got added in were a not very interesting drummer and guitarist from another band, a geezer with wispy, fading hair dyed desperation black giving it pointless widdle on the guitar, and Ade Shaw's son with the sort of fringe that takes constant attention to keep swept horizontally doing something not especially edifying with a keyboard. It was supposed to be Nick's last ever gig which it's a nice idea to have seen, though.

And we went to see The Mighty Boosh at the O2. It's very vertiginous inside, and there seemed to be loads of better seats free with no-one in them, but it's slightly difficult to tell which are the best seats in something that three-dimensional. As for the show, it was amusing and pleasing although not necessarily laugh-out-loud funny, and with not really that much content. Probably not worth the massive fees at the O2 neither, but hey.

And, assuming we don't see any more bands in the next five hours, that's that.

Comments

[aphroditemf.livejournal.com]

Ah, were you in the top tier of the O2? I was on the ground both times I saw Roger Waters there, and looking up it appears that the stairs on that level are damn near vertical. I'm not surprised it wasn't a sell-out for the Boosh, they'd already played a few dates at Wembley Arena and Brixton Academy.

[shermarama]

We were about five rows down from the very top of the top level, and I can assure you that the stairs really are damn near vertical.

It's one thing for it not to have sold out, but since we didn't get a choice of seats, wouldn't you expect them to have some sort of algorithm that assigns the best seats first? Lots of people moved once it became clear that there was no-one turning up for the lower rows, but why sell row S before rows G to R?

[aphroditemf.livejournal.com]

I reckon ticket scalpers buying whole sections of seats and being unable to sell them on is part of the problem here. I do recall though that the ushers at the O2 didnt' seem to be particularly bothered about people moving seats. I had a ticket at the side for the first night Roger Waters played there, and realised that there were seats on the floor free and jumped a barrier and went and sat right at the front!