overlap

So, a remarkably quiet gig, two support acts, the first of which was a guy on his own who reminded me a little of Hawksley Workman in terms of differentness. You've got to love someone who does a gig in a red indian head-dress and with a Captain America shield on one arm. And whose set is done on four microphones set up facing each other, so it's 90 degree turns from one mike to the next. Boo had him help out on backing vocals for the encore, which is always a gamble for someone who obviously doesn't know the song. The second support, a Wrexham band somewhere close to early Teenage Fanclub with absolutely no styling pretensions. If this is their Bandwagonesque phase and they tone down the vocal influences of Kelly Stereophonic and one or two other things and up the harmony and melody a touch, they could turn out to be fantastic. Of course a band called 'Camera' is inviting confusion with the Obscura bunch. Boo was only watched by 50 people at the start, and about 30 were left by the end after a few had disappeared. I don't know if it was the sunshine at Guilfest that had brightened him up earlier this year, but he was much more your understatedly grim Scotchman this time around. Though of course a festival hits set is always going to be slightly different to someone doing their own thing. You can see how telling the story of 'I played this song on Wogan, you know' twenty-odd years on must get a little wearing. Nice mix of stuff I did and didn't know, decent enough gig but not quite earth-shattering genius.