So I was lucky enough to get a ticket for yesterday’s gig in Tunbridge Wells. The Forum is very small — capacity of about 250 people. I’ve always wanted to see T? in a very small venue, this was my chance, and I did, and I doubt it will ever happen again!
OK… so what happened — no support, the band came on about 9:30pm, started with He’s Not That Kind Of Girl.
The other songs were, in probably not the right order, and I may be missing some (definitely missing one I think)…
Church Of Noise, Bad Karma, Wall Of Mouths, Die Laughing, Screamager, Little Tongues First, Stories, Isolation, Teethgrinder, Nowhere
They went off for a few minutes and came back with Fat Camp — the first time it has ever been played before an
audience, although EvilElvis was lucky enough to hear them play it at the soundcheck too. Very cool song indeed.
Then came Potato Junkie — the first verse and chorus in a slow swing stylee. They finished off with Knives — they let
some kid come up from the audience to sing it. He was very good for the first verse/chorus — visibly putting everything into it,
but then he became starstruck and fluffed a lot of the words. Fun anyway.
And that was about it. If I remember correctly, they only played just over an hour which is a shame, because EvilElvis caught Andy in the KFC before
the show and Andy said that there was no curfew and they would play as long as the audience wanted. It’s a shame they didn’t have a ‘requests’ section
to the show - I would have liked to have heard the likes of Punishment Kiss and Straight Life amongst others. I even thought oldies like Summer Of Hate might
come out, but sadly this wasn’t to be.
So, cracking show, exhausting show, only down side, they didn’t play nearly long enough.
Posted on Fri, 11 August 2000 at 08:28