The V.V. Brown interview went brilliantly, she is a very smart & articulate person & her current state of play & end goals have been very intelligently thought out. Sweet, she was. Ida Maria, every inch the indie party girl, was delicious. The guys arounf her, the tour manager et al, were superb & really generous in helping us out. However, I left the interview to Fisk (he was desperate to talk with her as we’d missed so many previous attempts) & it went, apparently, tits up (not yet had time to listen to the playback). Firstly, apparently, he got to starstruck (horny, I think the real phrase is) Ida had to set the equipment up for him. Then it quickly became clear that his choice of interview space (above the stage, in a glass walled room i.e. NOT sound proof) was shit & the soundcheck below was bleeding rather profusely into the interview. Then the battery ran out on the recorder (he’d not checked the life of it before starting). Then all his questions descended into mad stuttering rambles (his words, not mine, as, like I said, I’ve not had time to listen to it yet) about God, sex, feminism, female singers, the 1990s & Christ knows what else. In summary, he ‘fell in love with her’ & might as well have been holding his dick in his hand rather than a mic.

Then, to cap the evening off, when she encored “I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked” he stripped off to the waist (much to the be/amusement of surrounding gig goers) & danced like an acid casualty; she saw him, gestured to him to join her on stage but he crapped out & missed his chance. He actually began his interview with the question: “would you prefer me to be naked while we do this?”

All in all, a fantastic night. I hope the interview is as chaotically brilliant as it sounds.

Ross Clark & Fantasy Island at Sneaky Pete’s tomorrow (Friday) night.

This Is Music moving venue and dropping its door tax to 99p is also a bit of an event in itself.
Insert your own witty jibe about the current financial climate here.

Admittedly, if you only go to hometown gigs then variety can suffer a bit, but I still think that I’d get better value for less money by going to three small local shows than splurging £24.50 on Ryan Adams. Mind you, I saw him once before and he wasn’t all that great, so maybe I’m biased.

Can’t agree with Tom (the one whose attractiveness is dependent upon which computer he’s seated at) but it’s all a matter of taste. I quite enjoyed Rob’s set actually, the band worked well together but personally I prefer more distinctive melodies & on Monday (may have been the sound) I stuggled to hear the lyrics.

£24.50 seems a fair price for Ryan Adams, by the way – cheaper than the Stereophonics, Deacon Blue or David Cassidy…