Reply To: London (and elsewhere, hopefully) Calling
Holy crap, Bristol was a great show and a very enthusiastic audience. JoCo did a lot of songs he hadn’t done this tour yet: Better, You Ruined Everything (for fake encore, instead of A Talk With George) Now I Am an Arsonist, Soft Rocked By Me (at the end of which he broke a string, and replaced it himself instead of getting Storm to as he used to, while Storm sang a song a cappella which sounded familiar and I think JoCo called it Brown Sugar.)
Also, I guess Paul and Storm were afraid of laughing at the thought of whoops during Nugget Man, because instead of that they played the Ballad of Eddie Praeger! I’ve never seen them do that one. Paul killed on the penny whistle, probably literally. It reminded me of Chris Patterson (keeping the tradition alive!) of The Arrogant Worms on Gaelic Song. During Jonathan’s set, Paul scratched his nose and made it bleed, and staunched the blood with some panties while extolling the virtues of the nose panty for distinguished gentlemen, in a hilarious voice/accent. Bristol is now known as Sneezetown, and its new currency is liquorice penises.
This show and the last I tried my hand at starting the clapping during Shop Vac. I’m not that confident about when to start, or rather I am confident about when I should have started just after I don’t start, but I know when to stop.
The Swedish friend I dragged along (who only knew a couple of songs of each of theirs) loved it and bought two T-shirts.
ETA: I forgot to mention he sang Je Suis Rick Springfield for the first time in the tour, which was most amusing for the aforementioned Swedish friend, a language geek who knows French quite well.