Having bought my ticket back in September some time after seeing Frightened Rabbit's ace Reading Festival set, and totally forgetting about it, I had a nice surprise this week when I remembered I was seeing them at The Union yesterday. I managed to miss the first act, Paul Thomas Saunders, due to buses and what not, but arrived in time to see Lanterns on the Lake. I'd forgotten how much I loved live music and it was brilliant to see a band I didn't know and really enjoy them! My favourite song of theirs was Kingdom, and I was oh so close to buying their album from the merch stand but dragged myself away.
After a short interlude Frightened Rabbit opened their set with Holy, which is one of my favourite songs of theirs. In honesty, I don't know the band all that well so it was nice to hear something I knew from the start! Despite my lack of knowledge of much of the band's stuff prior to Pedestrian Verse (yes, I was one of 'those' mentioned by Scott who only really know Woodpile) I really enjoyed the whole set- even if I did spend most of it wishing I'd listened to them more because they were so bloody good. As always at a gig, you get the people who are 'too cool' to let loose and bop around, kind of skulk around the outskirts (this was me, though less 'cool' more just solitary), the very keen people who like to jump around a little too much, and the fairly drunk middle-aged people dancing around wildly and having an amazing time. I was really jealous of a couple in front of me who were belting out every single song, dancing a lot, and loving every second of it. And props to the nice guys who complimented my crazy trousers.
Being a little person my pictures at gigs always suck, but the lights were really pretty so I took some anyway...
This gig has made me even more excited for seeing Los Campesinos! in just under a month's time with Kate and Daniel. Expect a review of that too!
