Warm Up Gig - 2nd March - Cambridge Junction!!!

Misspelt Yoof wrote:

Tonight's setlist. I'm sure someone will correct me if I've missed anything...

The Birds
The Bones of You
Lippy Kids
Mirrorball
With Love
Neat Little Rows
The Night Will Always Win
Great Expectations
Grounds For Divorce
The Lonliness of a Towercrane Driver
Punture Repair
Some Riot
Weather To Fly
Open Arms
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Starlings
Station Approach
One Day Like This

That's right: NOTHING from Asleep...!

that seems spot on to me .... what an awesome gig, Guy and the lads on top form, pretty emotional in places, that man has a perfect voice, and I even got a wave, and a mention when I shouted out that I came from Skegness !!!!

I'll second that, set-list looks right - seen elbow 3 times before tonight, have to say tonight was probably the best, maybe the small venue - or the fact that Guy and the band seem so comfortable on stage. New stuff sounded great - definitely more cerebral than SSK, can see the psychedelic influences in some of new the tracks. A really special night - well done to everyone!

'Emylou123 'and a mention when I shouted out that I came from Skegness !!!!'

Lol - my wife had a seriously blonde moment (i apologise to all fair haired maidens for the stereotype) - 'wow that's a long way to come' she said.....slow shake of head

Such an awesome gig! We were stood one row behind Emylou123 - could feel her awe/embarrassment.

Have attached a link to some reasonably poor shots:

Elbow Live

Misspelt Yoof wrote:

Tonight's setlist. I'm sure someone will correct me if I've missed anything...

The Birds
The Bones of You
Lippy Kids
Mirrorball
With Love
Neat Little Rows
The Night Will Always Win
Great Expectations
Grounds For Divorce
The Lonliness of a Towercrane Driver
Punture Repair
Some Riot
Weather To Fly
Open Arms
-------
Starlings
Station Approach
One Day Like This

That's right: NOTHING from Asleep... Or Cast...!

It was too heavy SSK for me, I loved it don't get me wrong, I adore 'With Love' and 'Open Arms' I just think they need to step the setlist up a notch.
But not going to be please everyone!

Sounds like it was a wonderful evening, and a fantastic opportunity to hear songs from the new album live like that.

Is that the final setlist (or similar) for the tour too? I'm really looking forward to hearing the new songs (both live and on the album) but I don't think I'm being a dinosaur if I say I really, really hope there'll be a couple of early songs in there too. And what about my "Newborn Live fix"?

As you say they can't please everyone and hopefully the new songs will more than make up for the gaps...

Great gig, some of the new stuff is sounding really good - 'The Birds' was a huge opener and while I'm not usually a fan of audience participation it worked very well on 'With Love' (they said they were terrified about playing it, but it sounded great). Would have been nice to have maybe one or two of the old songs, but I've seen them played live many times before - it'd be a shame though if the arena crowds didn't get to hear Newborn live.

On a purely selfish note, thanks for choosing Cambridge - straight on my bike and home before 11pm, lovely job!

Misspelt Yoof wrote:

Tonight's setlist. I'm sure someone will correct me if I've missed anything...


That's right: NOTHING from Asleep... Or Cast...!

no Newborn? err... have to say i'm gutted...

barclayender wrote:

it'd be a shame though if the arena crowds didn't get to hear Newborn live.

It's be a shame if *I* didn't! (Glad I'm not the only one...)

Glendarian wrote:

barclayender wrote:

it'd be a shame though if the arena crowds didn't get to hear Newborn live.

It's be a shame if *I* didn't! (Glad I'm not the only one...)

agreeded... I as in me (too)...

not too enthused about 'with love' but really enjoyed the rest of the new material. while I too would have liked some older material I was very keen to hear the new stuff. for a 'warm up' gig I think the balance was probably about right.

and Guy, as always, on fine form. loved the banter

The rapping in 'One Day Like This' made me laugh a lot!!

Such a wonderful wonderful evening. Am still on Cloud 9! Felt very priviledged to be there. I thought they might have played a few more from the new album and was gutted they didn't play Newborn but Guy was certainly on form, he really has that extra special something at entertaining folk.

Bring on Nottingham and 02 although nothing will ever beat last night. Couldn't stop smiling the whole night home. Swooooonnn!

It was a great night and it's virtually impossible to add 6 new songs to a set without making sacrifices somewhere else. Last nights setlist with Newborn, SBAW and Forget Myself would have been pretty close to perfect for me.

Longlegs is spot on, you can't keep everybody happy, not without a four hour set anyway, but it was a good attempt

Initial thoughts on the new stuff:
"Open Arms" is the one I can't get out of my head this morning
"The Night Will Always Win" is the one that brings a tear to my eye
"With Love" is the one I'm not sure about

Nice to meet some of you folks again and we recognised a few others but didn't get chance to speak so "hello".

Home by 3am, a thoroughly lovely day.

Nice! Sounds like it was all that and then some! Glad to hear that the reactions to the new material were generally quite positive. As for it being a set list heavier on the new than the old, I think Sparky made a good point - if you're adding something, then you've gotta subtract something else out of necessity. Still, there may be an opportunity to hear a few of the AITB/COT classics yet - maybe as the tour progresses, they'll throw us long-timers a bone now and again! I'm thinking (hoping?) that just because they left those out last night, it doesn't mean they're off the list altogether. Last night was a "warm-up" gig, officially, and not part of the tour proper, so maybe they only included the songs they felt they needed to work out a bit more. I mean, I expect they've got Newborn down by now, right?

Just who was that crazy Irish girl, Mirin, anyway?

Was it really her birthday?!

-- we'll rename the next song after you: Mirinball

(crowd cheers)

-- oh wait, that's not the next song!

arsefrom wrote:

Just who was that crazy Irish girl, Mirin, anyway?

Was it really her birthday?!

She was standing right behind us, Spanish I think. She was in the queue earlier shouting saying ' She had come all the way from London' and lots of people laughing!

ChrissieInFL wrote:

Nice! Sounds like it was all that and then some! Glad to hear that the reactions to the new material were generally quite positive. As for it being a set list heavier on the new than the old, I think Sparky made a good point - if you're adding something, then you've gotta subtract something else out of necessity. Still, there may be an opportunity to hear a few of the AITB/COT classics yet - maybe as the tour progresses, they'll throw us long-timers a bone now and again! I'm thinking (hoping?) that just because they left those out last night, it doesn't mean they're off the list altogether. Last night was a "warm-up" gig, officially, and not part of the tour proper, so maybe they only included the songs they felt they needed to work out a bit more. I mean, I expect they've got Newborn down by now, right?

I agree, I get they don't have so much room for older stuff, as the new songs need love, but they could cut down the SSK tracks and replace them with more back catalogue tunes or just play for 5 hours, that's fine by me too.
They did play 8 songs from SSK last night.

I agree with Sparky SBAW, Newborn and Forget Myself would've been immense.

I was close to the guy that sold her the ticket - for an undisclosed amount...

When she informed the queue that it was her birthday and was 'desperate for a ticket' as she'd come 'all the way from London' everyone starting to just sing 'Happy Birthday' to her - so cruel ;-)

arsefrom wrote:

I was close to the guy that sold her the ticket - for an undisclosed amount...

When she informed the queue that it was her birthday and was 'desperate for a ticket' as she'd come 'all the way from London' everyone starting to just sing 'Happy Birthday' to her - so cruel ;-)

That was hysterical, good lotta people in the queue.
Your username makes me laugh everytime I see it

ha ha! did wonder if it was the same person: we heard that from the other end of the queue and had a good chortle

Having Guy dedicate her a song must have been the icing on the (birthday)cake.

Top evening.

I am still in a speechless daze, what an incredible night, there are no words...............
Lovely to meet some of you, fab to get together with my tribe! Apologies i was a drunken shambles at the end and am guessing i was talking nonsense, several blanks towards the end of the evening but thankfully not the music.
Totally flat now, back to reality!

Just waiting for the 28th at the O2 now, anyone going to that?

Big love xx

mitchy wrote:

I am still in a speechless daze, what an incredible night, there are no words...............
Lovely to meet some of you, fab to get together with my tribe! Apologies i was a drunken shambles at the end and am guessing i was talking nonsense, several blanks towards the end of the evening but thankfully not the music.
Totally flat now, back to reality!

Just waiting for the 28th at the O2 now, anyone going to that?

Big love xx

I am just on my way home now on the train back to sunny skeggy... just starting to come back down to reality! It would have been nice to meet up with some of you guys last night, but Im just glad and feel so priveliged to have actually been there... going to the MEN on 25th, and really cant wait, Im hoping they will play some tunes off Asleep, but the new material is really starting to grab me, the more I listen to it!! cant wait for the album to come out on 7th! .... by the way Arsefrom, I was totally in AWE when Guy answered back to me about Skegness, I also got him on my camera when I waved to him, and he waved right back to me.. aaaaahhhh!!!!! Am going to try and download some shitty piccys that didnt come out too well, too much dry ice in the air making it look like the back room of an old brown boozer!!!