Drive Out With The Sun In Your Eyes

Yesterday James and I saw Band of Horses play in Bristol, I booked the tickets over six months ago so it had been a long wait!  James was happy to go with me, but confessed that he knew not of the joys of Band of Horses.   I played him some songs and he promptly declared 'Oh I know that band, you play them all the time in the kitchen!'.  It seems I can spread good music into the subconscious while cooking.

Before we set off on our first-date-since I-don't-when, our eldest offspring questioned whether we should be going a concert on the sabbath.  My response involved the following: 'We're not skipping church.'  'It is in the evening.'  'There was no other date locally.'  'I think that going to see people share their God-given talent is a good thing.'  Ben decided this was indeed an OK thing for us to do.  Phew!

James was introduced to the way I like to attend gigs, unfortunately for him it involved queueing for a little over an hour to ensure we had a good spot.  James doesn't like to queue for anything (especially in below freezing weather), but he got over that pretty quickly when we bagged ourselves front row views.

Observations:

- The first support band was Goldheart Assembley; I have their album already so it was a good surprise to see them live.  I also love that they used an oil drum as part of their percussion:

- Beards and moustaches rock:

- Bill the bass player looks like Napolean Dynamite's dodgy uncle. Here's a quick video of Bill being awesome:

- I have never seen so many guitars lined up to be played, there was a change of guitar for nearly every song.  (I also think red guitars are awesome!)

- Mr Bridwell held me spellbound for nearly two hours, my face hurt from grinning so much.

- Tyler is one tall bloke and he reminded me of the B.F.G when he sat down to play:

 

I think James now gets why live music makes my soul happy!  Why don't you make your soul happy and watch this video I took of Evening Kitchen?