An awesome night was had by all.

Support:
G.U. Medicine - From what I could make out were a sort of rock/stoner rock type deal and sounded alright. Their mix was awful though so I couldn't really make out much. Other than they were loud.

Sign - Um. Bad. Frontman sounded/looked like a pre-pubescent girl and was irritating to say the least, as well as having some of the worst guitar solos ever. Though to be fair, they were entertainingly bad and a Youth Gone Wild cover earned them a few points.

Show:
Setlist as best I can remember it:
Vanilla Radio
Caffeine Bomb
TV Tan
Someone That Won't Let Me Go
Nexus Icon
The Revolution Will Be Televised
Top of the World
Everlone
Sick Of Drugs
Stormy in the North
The New Flesh
Suckerpunch
OCD
Head****
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Rooting for the Bad Guy
I Wanna Go

They were so good. I was little apprehensive after hearing [i]Geordie[/i] but they were spot on. Scott Sorry looked like he'd been in the band his entire life, the crowd was good, the sound was good, Ginger's banter was good and the band really looked to be enjoying themselves. Academy 2 is a tiny venue as well, which was cool. Even the new material sounded pretty awesome live.

Apparently there was a fight at some point, but I managed to miss it entirely, for a nice change. And t-shirts were only £10.00 each as well.

Was quite close to going to the after party but after looking at the queue we decided to go elsewhere.

I'm just happy to have seen them again :)

The only crap part of the gig was getting Id'd twice at the bar.

Pics for those that wish:
[url]http://s203.photobucket.com/albums/aa164/Pissjoy/[/url]

They look alot further away than we were. I'd say we were in spitting distance, for an adequately qualified spitter.

Good to know they were on form, though it sounds like a bit of a shame about the support. How'd the new stuff work out live?

I might still be seeing them on Monday, but unfortunately it's far from certain.

It went down pretty well, got a big response from the crowd. I think I would've preferred Bi-Polar or Slaughtered Authors instead of Revolution but then they would've had to cut out a few songs or so. The new stuff sounded pretty good though.

It's a bit of a weird setlist, really. Only one song from [i]phuq[/i] and not as many from [i]Earth vs[/i] as I would have liked. Even something from [i]Endless[/i] would've been cool. At least OCD was there, which was awesome.

Don't suppose anyone else managed to catch Ginger & The Scorchers/CJ/God damn whores?

Nope, I've been spectacularly bad at making it to shows at all recently. How was it?

It was really, really good. Surprisingly <_<
Tiny venue, only about 100 people there.
The whores were great, and Mr Poole is rather a funny man.
CJ's vocals were a bit off, surprisingly. Dunno if he was just having an off night or if he just isn't used to being the frontman but either way it kinda took the gloss away from the album.
I've never heard any of the Scorcher's stuff but it was really quite good. The de-dreaded Ginger looked like he'd been playing with them all his life and was just really happy.

It was just a really fun night, especially with CJ and the likes joining Ginger on stage toward the end of the night.

A3 on Friday, and then hopefully their acoustic after show afterwards :)

The very same.

They have a few, apparently. Though I'm not sure if I just enjoyed them so much because it was something Ginger related.

That would be the same White Lies that The Wildhearts covered then.
I think they sound better with Ginger.

One of the [i]Endless Nameless[/i] singles, I believe.

The only thing I know that's even kind of by them, I think, is "One Less Heartache", from one of Jason's solo albums, which has the Wildhearts playing on it. I've got a few sound files hidden somewhere of a live performance of it and a bit of banter between Ginger and (the ridiculously southern) Jason, too. But I don't know anything else.

So Ginger's new single has something old, something new and something special. Should be interesting...If anyone can actually get hold of it before the new year.

Gonna see The Wildhearts on the 19th Dec, anyway. Should be good judging by their last performance :)

Mine's pre-ordered, yeah, but lord knows when it will get to me. Apologies in advance for breaking the page, but since we can't mask links any more;

[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Market-Harbour-Ginger/dp/B0010YO8AS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1197387623&sr=8-2[/url]

A bit out of the blue, for me at least. Amazon says late January, but I've heard people talking about it being out for Christmas (though again, no idea where they've got that from).

Small chance, but anyone else manage to catch the recent solo tour?

Laika Dog decent suport.
Ginger great show, Valor stuff sounded great live and a nice airing for SG5 stuff.

Sylvia?

Ginger?

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