Last night, I went to see The Frames in Islington. It was a good gig. It wasn’t as good as the Bush Hall in December but it was still fun. The crowd wasn’t the best and the venue which I had enjoyed before seemed wrong. The A/C was going strong and aswell as it being noisy, I was cold for most of the evening. Very unusual for a gig with 1000+ people around. Decent set list, not sure Revelate was meant to be on it this time around again but without the computer to help out on the last couple of tracks it fitted nicely. Snippets from Redemption Song was good and their usual strong Pixies cover Where Is My Mind. I like the new stuff, I think it works better live than on the album. As their first global release, I’m not sure on it. Setlist cleaned up a little would have been a much better choice, it’s easily one of my favourite albums.I already had a ticket for the next gig in April and I’m looking forward to it.

My switch box issues are almost over, I have a new one and its working fine. I’ve had to go back to a shitty PS/2 keyboard and mouse which isn’t so bad except there is no scroll wheel on the mouse. I’m completely lost without it. I went to see IC and get another mouse and the only one they had to give me does not work. Not happy with this at all, and of course they are out at lunch. As soon as that away message comes down I’m going to go see them again.

Tonight I’m finally off to see Finding Neverland. I was in work late last night (hence no comments on the support act) and early this morning (bastard conference calls) so I have no compunction about leaving on time this evening for a beforehand.

I’m reading Popular Music by Mikael Niemi. Someone gave it a very good review recently and the blurbs for it didn’t sound so bad. I’m not sure I’m reading the same book everyone else did. Some of the descriptions of the musical events are pretty good but most of it seems overdrawn and in places trying to be a bit fear and loathing. I’m missing something here…

Back to music and back to Nick Cave as referenced a few days ago. So I picked up No More Shall We Part and I like it, at least I like most of it. Not enough to rush out and buy everything else he’s done but I’ll keep an eye out for more in the sales.