Gravenhurst at The Thekla Bristol 3 May 2007

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An early evening kick-off and I miss the supports. Omigoodness (1), this is the biggest crowd I've seen on the Rusty Old Boat since the refurb. And omigoodness (2) it's a Huw-less 'Hurst with Robin Allender on bass, but everyone else seems to expect this but me, so I do my best to look unpeturbed.

"Give it some ****", shouts some wag to my left as they walk on, and indeed they do, launching straight into a pulsing "The Velvet Cell", which has me discretely jumping up and down, and Nick already bent forward slashing at the strings.

Then a sequence of new songs, the second(?) of which left me wondering about a hitherto undisclosed MBV influence and the last two of which were lovely. After that, it's back into the familiar sprint to the finish-line of "Song from under the Arches" (with some quite ferocious rifferama from Robin and Nick), "See My Friends", and a stonkingly good "Black Holes". I was too far back to see quite what Nick was doing down amongst the boxes and pedals, but he made the guitar loops belch, fart and spurt in a most splendid style.

The only down point was the slightly sludgy sound, but 'twould be churlish to complain.

One encore (a gorgeous version of "The Diver") and that's that, with plenty of time to get a pint at The Cornubia on the way home.

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