So I have no more reason to pay 22 pounds and take a 4 hour bus ride to Manchester (or see that town at all for the matter). And even though they only did a really short 8-song set (had to autograph new albums), it was really cool to see them for free and up close.



The show was really kept low-key; it wasn't on their myspace, homepage, in the news or blogs or any events listings. I stumbled into it on Last.fm and IndieLondon when I was contemplating whether or not to invest in tickets. Nice break.



The thing about the people who came to see the show is that they were all pretty diverse; most of them really showed that they were die-hard fans, dancing, writhing, yelling, clapping and putting up lighters despite the fact we were in a very commercial, bright fluorescent-lit store. But the crowd included a very diverse cornucopia of people; teenie-boppers and gray-haired gents; english-speaking and english-as-a-second-language; hipsters and hippies; just a very eclectic array of skin and style tones.