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

What a marvellous tribute to the Elbow community that one badly-behaved fan stands out so much! When I go to an Elbow concert, I assume that everyone there are friends I haven't met. I was really confused to find someone being rude and disruptive at this one - I wondered whether she'd turned up at the venue on the wrong night.
Nothing and nobody could spoil such a magical night, though. One I'll never forget and was so lucky to attend.

At last I've managed to get this up on youtube:

Great Expectations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfKBHMcDzc

Facebook Emma's dedication is just at the start of the clip.

That's lovely FM - thanks for posting that. I think you might have cut off Emma's dedication though.

Yes - I was a little slow off the mark, but you do just catch the end of it. (Situation normal for me really).

fragrant_monkey wrote:

At last I've managed to get this up on youtube:

Great Expectations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjfKBHMcDzc

Facebook Emma's dedication is just at the start of the clip.

Thank you so much!! I was too overwhelmed to make a video myself so I really appreciate you posting this!

That video is gorgeous, thanks for putting it on. I had decided not to sell my sheffield tickets this morning and within an hour or so they had bloomin sold on seatwave, well thank you baby jesus!!

So think i will have to try and go along to the 29th at the o2 as well, just cant get enough.....

mitchy wrote:

I loved Pete's hat!
Any road, guys i need your help.I got invited to a drinks reception with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, absolute hero and legend - bounced home with excitement then realised it was same night of elbow 02, so i said no. Everyone i have spoken to thinks i am mad and can you believe this question 'cant you see elbow another time?'

I am gutted but you all understand don'cha?!

Still coming down from Wednesday night, great expectations - aaagghh!!

Big love x

Sell your ticket and go the other night - they're doing two

Thanks for all the support with my tutu dilemma, i know i am crazy but hearing the elbow boys is my church! I now have to go to both nights, even though arenas not my thing....but would rather see them there than not at all.
OMG my lager blanks are slowly filling in from cambridge, i was singing along to weather to fly really loud in the toilels.....my singing is about as good as cheryl cole's (i.e. i cant at all) but at the time i thought i was fab probably - oh so mercifully free from the pressures of grace i was.

PS Please can we make the boys do forget myself!

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flossietoo wrote:

I think that the guy on tip-toes was a French photographer called Jean-Luc Benazet. His website is imaginatively called jeanlucbenazet.com and I think that the very high-angle shots would be the ones he took by poking the camera in Guy's face. It looks as though some of the photographers crammed in front of the stage were not press but commercial ones. Usually venues give the photographers two songs. When they were still there after that I got a bit irritated and might, possibly, have accidentally poked one of them. Very relieved when they crept for the exit.

<rant>I think @Flossietoo you should check your facts... before giving a bad name to people and saying things about them! I'm the French photographer, and I was not tip-toeing at all. I was on the left of the stage, and never went past there. I shot at a very high angle either because I'm 6ft3 or because I use a 70-200mm lens. The guy on tip-toes was probably the guy shooting for The Line of Best Fit (http://www.thelineofbestfit.com), his pictures should be online sometimes soon. Also, usually photographers are given 3 songs/no flash as a rule, and not by the venue but by the press office of the artist. And those three songs were very long ones at that gig. Also what do you call press & commercial photographers !? Are they not the same ? You think some guys came and shot the band for free ? However awesome are Elbow, and believe me they are, nobody in their sane mind would go there and shoot them for free, apart from me maybe...

One last thing, I got poked once by a moron at a gig, and he probably still remembers it to that date. So do not poke photographers at gigs, they are just doing their job.

And what is your website address again, just to see if you have any brains at all... <rant />

OOOH it's kicking off.

I have no issue with photographers in a pit. It's at gigs without pits where they push through, think they have the right to block everyone's view who has paid to see the gig and take lots of pictures with noisy clicking shutters during slow songs.

as Jean says though, pit photographers is generally three songs, no flash. I was stood at the side at Cambridge and I could see the guy with the long arms. I was surprised Guy didn't take the camera off him, it must have been very offputting - I can see why the front row got annoyed with him.

I'm not going to bad mouth a colleague... so end of the story for me. Just wanted to clear my name

And actually, the venue liked my photos so much that they put them up in their Flickr feed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thejunctioncambridge/sets/72157626187790818/

And for the fans I also took pictures of them in 2008 @
http://www.jeanlucbenazet.com/blog/music-photography/elbow-corn-exchange-cambridge/

Peace!

Much appreciation for all of the shared photos and videos. I'm glad that everyone had a wonderful time at the gig.

It was an excellent gig, but I couldn't find any reviews on-line (apart from this thread), so I had to write one myself...

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/live/elbow-cambridge-junction

Don't slag it off - it's my first go (my girlfriend usually does them but she was sick and couldn't go, and now she hates me...)

Scuzzboy24 wrote:

It was an excellent gig, but I couldn't find any reviews on-line (apart from this thread), so I had to write one myself...

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/live/elbow-cambridge-junction

Don't slag it off - it's my first go (my girlfriend usually does them but she was sick and couldn't go, and now she hates me...)

Hi scuzzboy24, I will far from slag u off on that review - you wrote it perfect to a tee on how the night and the music was - a perfect review for a perfect night!!

Scuzzboy24 wrote:

It was an excellent gig, but I couldn't find any reviews on-line (apart from this thread), so I had to write one myself...

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/live/elbow-cambridge-junction

Don't slag it off - it's my first go (my girlfriend usually does them but she was sick and couldn't go, and now she hates me...)

Really good review mate - just wish I cudda been there !

Well Done !

Absolutely cracking review Scuzzy - you've really got a way with words! ....and welcome to the forum.

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Wholeheartedly agree with the others about Scuzzboy24's review; well worth checking it out.

Review brought back fab memories, lovely thank you.
Classic, my 5 year old son fred came up behind me when i was watching the great expectations clip, he said 'i like elbow but guy is not as good a dancer as michael jackson'. Bless how their little minds work.Hope that doesn't come as too much of a blow to guy!

So he's a good dancer, just not as good as MJ.

Does he consider him better than Justin Timberlake, I wonder?

wait, what? a 5 year old knows who michael jackson is?!

I shall ask my son in the morning

[Mod edit: Audio of gig can be found in http://elbow.heavenforum.org/t1373-cambridge-junction-warm-up-gig-2nd-march-2011]

What a great review brings back lovely memories of a fanatastic evening.

@andy_landy much much love!!

awesome you are.

Andy Landy - yer a legend mate !

Staggeringly good quality recording. Love it.