Xmas Gigs 2012

[Crystal Days]

....and don't forget to talk all the way through Rust just to annoy Mac, Christmas just wouldn't be the same without one of drunken rants.

[5times]

or do this in front of him...



it must be really annoying.

[Voodoo Billy]

Just don't smile.

[Voodoo Billy]

or do this in front of him...



it must be really annoying.

That's the front row for James.

[Kounelaki]

That's the front row for James.

Wouldn't they be sitting down?

[King Of Kings]

(Intro)
Going Up
Show Of Strength
Rescue
Stormy Weather
Think I Need a poo
Seven Seas
Bring On The Dancing Horses
Bedbugs & Ballyhoo
Zimbo
The Disease
All That Jazz
Shroud Of Turin
My Kingdom
Back Of Love
The Killing Moon
The Cutter
Nothing Lasts Forever / Walk On The Wild Side
Do It Clean
Lips Like Sugar

[fat cherry]

KOK, KOK, KOK.... the game is, to put those into a sentence or paragraph, and then say 'see what i did there'. ok i'll have a go...

I was going up to liverpool as a show of strength for my fave band, well at least they used to be, so i was going to try and rescue my love for them at any rate. Due to the stormy weather we were running late - we were driving up the coast and the ocean rain was lashing down - my mind drifted to my former career as a chemist and particularly the organic compound toluene, which has seven Cs in it. Suddenly the missus said, we never stop normally, but i think i need a poo, i said [for purists of the game], OK cos i think i need it too. Once we'd been to the lav I said, get in the car, which she did and settled down to read her book - the david niven memoir, bring on the dancing horses. She really wanted to read Mac's autobiography, and I'd made a promise that she could have it for christmas a couple of years ago, along with the usual perfume and all that jazz. Obviously she didn't get the former but thats the disease of christmas, you make promises you cant deliver. Anyway the whole christmas thing these days is as fake as the shroud of turin. So she cracked and had a go at me, with those lips like sugar - their usual ripeness gone gone gone. I said leave it alone, all i want is for you to back off love. And she did to an extent, but nothing lasts forever does it? One night we were watching some crime thing on the telly, i wanted to watch the footy but she said, eh, whats the name of that drummer in The Who? I said, its OK, if you like, you can watch The Killing. Moon! Keith moon, thats the bloke.

did you see what i did there?
brrrrm tshhhhh!!!

OK I struggled a bit here and there and the niven reference is an obvious cheat, and i expect theres at least one in there you're not going to get.

[5times]

back off love.....? lol

[smokeandsteam]

Seeing as Ma Eggies is shut, where will everyone go for a beer on Saturday?

The pub is open. It was closed for a refurb but opened again about 6 weeks ago.

I'll be going to the Vernon pre gig on Dale St.

[Voodoo Billy]

See you at the barricades!

[Dave Smith]

Wish I was going.Ill get a fat scouser to push in when the intro starts to make me feel at home

[Dave Smith]

Set list?Review?i normally post by now lol

[Crystal Days]

I can't recall the set-list, but it was the usual suspects.

The venue was packed to the rafters, with a great, buzzing crowd. Thankfully the band were on top form and I think the penny has finally dropped with Mac.....We aren't there for his stand up or his rants, he just got on with it. No banter at all, and refreshingly there were no diversions in the songs (roadhouse blues during VT be the exception) so, no walk on the wild side etc.

There seemed to be more urgency to the songs...it was the best I've ever seen from them at the o2, I was dreading it after last year's shambles.

[Chunkyhair]

The best show by the Bunnymen for many a year - no ramblings by Mac, just a cracking set that went down a storm. Will was awsome. Defintiely worth the annual pilgrimage up the M6.

Set List:
Going Up
Rescue
Pride
Do It Clean
Villiers Terrace (with Roadhouse Blues)
Seven Seas
Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
Bring on The Dancing Horses
Rust
The Disease
Zimbo
Never Stop
Crocodiles
All That Jazz
Killing Moon
The Cutter
Encore
Over The Wall
Nothing Lasts Forever
Lips Like Sugar

[Grumpy_Jimbo]

Pretty predictable set but if delivered still a bloody top notch listen.....

Glad Mac seemed to be on his best behaviour for those in attendance.......