Talking Away, I Don't Know What I'm To Say...

Well, the gig was great, but I seem to have ended up paying for it today. I feel a lot worse, both physically and psychologically. Add to this that I phoned the Doctors and got to speak to the Nurse, who said there's a nasty bug going around and that I'd probably be like this for a week or so. Nice. Not.

But anyway, the gig. The set list was (in not necessarily the correct order, I know the beginning and end is right, but in between it gets a bit messy):

• Forever Not Yours
• Minor Earth Major Sky
• There's A Reason For It
• Manhattan Skyline
• I've Been Losing You
• The Blood That Moves The Body
• The Swing Of Things
• Time And Again
• Lifelines
• Oranges On Apple Trees
• Stay On These Roads
• Cry Wolf
• Did Anyone Approach You?
• Hunting High And Low
• Sycamore Leaves
• Dragonfly
• Crying In The Rain
• Scoundrel Days
• Take On Me
• The Living Daylights

With the first encore being:

• Summer Moved On
• The Sun Always Shines On TV

And the second:

• Locust

Locust was a bit of an odd track to finish on, seeing as it's off their (in my opinion) worst and probably least known album, but it made for a nice mellow ending. The most amusing moment was Mags fucking up the lyrics to Dragonfly and then saying at the end something like "That's the last time I give Morten shit about the lyrics". Also quite funny was when Mags said "We don't speak that language any more!" after a particularly loud barrage of screams from the audience. Hunting High and Low and The Living Daylights both had cool singalong moments, and tracks like Swing Of Things and Scoundrel Days were nice surprises.

We were right at the front. Well, not right at the front, but only the third row back - internet booking as soon as the tickets go on sale, gotta love it - at the lefthand end of the stage. Right in front of the fucking speaker stack. Nearly 24 hours on my ears are still ringing a bit.

Now, there are gonna be guys who think stuff along the lines of "You went to see A-ha? What a poof!" Well, you can think what you like, because the fact is this: It had a mostly female audience, so there were an awful lot of women shaking their booty last night, and a fair proportion of them were very easy on the eye. And I must applaud the woman in the front row in the turquoisy suntop with huge breasts who was really going for it all through the gig, after dancing like that she must have a really bad back today.

I bought the Holly Valance album today, but haven't really listened to it yet. What I have been listening to is the online streams of the tracks from this album. Some of it is a bit tawdry, but most of it is excellent. Starsailor doing All Or Nothing is pretty good, and Feeder doing Frankie Goes To Hollywood's The Power Of Love is fantastic. That'll go on the Must Buy list then.