By CrosbysLeftEar (via Sleater-Kinney.Net)
Righty ho, heres my review of last nights show in Brighton. I’m rubbish at remembering song titles so this review will have a distinct shortage of them.
The Old Market is a pretty good venue. Roughly 300 capacity I think with wooden beems in the roof and a really nice sound and shape to the room.
Klang & Electralane were both ok but neither was really my cup of tea and I found both a bit unengaging. This means I can spend a bit more time in the pub tonight which is good S-K have developed a few roadies since I last saw them although they didn’t seem to happy with it and set up a lot of their gear themselves as usual.
S-K started the show with 3 tracks from One Beat, the 2nd of which was ‘Oh’. These songs were all amazing and better then they sound on the record which is impressive in itself. It was obvious that all 3 ladies were up for the gig and there was movement and banter from the start.
The next track they played was a new song and it was just draw droppingly good. Everyone I talked to, even some unconvinced S-K fans said that this was the moment when the gig really came alive for them. A stunning track
which sounds like a development of the material on ‘One Beat’. They played one other new song later in the set which maintained the standard of the first new song. I think we can all start looking forward to the new album now.
The rest of the set consisted of a pretty good mix of stuff from the previous 5 albums including ‘I wanna be your Joey Ramone’ and ‘Stay where you are’ from ‘Call the docter’. I think they managed to play pretty much every track I wanted to here especially ‘Turn it on’ & ‘Words and Guitar’ from ‘Dig Me Out’. The place erupted for ‘Words & Guitar’.
Corin and Carrie were both really chatty all the way through. We got a few jokes and some tour stories. Apparently Corin had called the Norwegians Germans at there previous show. They wern’t impressed.
After a short break they returned for probably the best encore I have ever seen. On request they played ‘Your No rock’n'roll fun’ but I think they would have played it anyway. They then played ‘One More hour’ which morphed
after an extended jam into ‘Dig Me Out’. The way they blended the two songs together was amazing and proved that they have really developed as a band.
In the three years since the last time I saw them I had forgotten how good they actually were. I remembered they were amazing but had forgotten why. Suffice to say thi sshow reminded me of everything. Really looking forward to tonight now.
If anyone with a better memory could post a set list it would much appreciated.
Any mistakes are mine. Apologies if this is all wrong, it was a bit of a blur.
Also I hope the crowd dances a bit more consistently in London, cant believe people can stand still at an S-K gig.
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