What sort of major city has NCP car parks that shut at 11pm? FFS. After a lot of pissing about, we ended up parking in the car park for the Academy and walking up the road about fifteen minutes to The Zoo. It's actually a pretty decent venue, although I don't know how good it would be if it was really busy, because the stage is a bit low.
Still, we ended up on a little raised bit the side of the stage (next to the loos) so we had a decent view. It would have been even better if the pillar wasn't there, and the distracting, scary lesbians snogging each others faces off every few minutes. Actually there seemed a lot of friends of Dorothy in tonight, leading to some highly amusing camp cavorting...
But, I digress. Last time we saw Assemblage23 it was a bit of a let down, partly because we were watching the clock cos we had to catch a train (and had to leave early in the end), and partly because it was London, and partly because Tom didn't seen particularly engaged, and partly because we didn't know about half the songs played!
Tonight was much better, with only a couple of songs we weren't 100% aware of, and Tom was much more animated and into it. It was a pretty good setlist, sadly no 'Greed', but a few from the new album. Oddly, Tom finished the set with 30K Feet, which is a studio track that really doesn't lend itself to being performed live, but this was a small quibble. Pretty hard to call now whether this or Cyferdyne is gig of the year so far...
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