Dexy's at the Royal Festival Hall last night

Other Famous people who were there according to http://atimeforfear.blogspot.com/ : St Etienne, Taylor Parkes, Dickon Edwards

Did they do the thing where they do the piano intro to Plan B and then do Geno (and then not play the main bit of Plan B)?

Other famous people seen there:

That terrible Isabella Blow woman wearing the world's stupidest hat

Bobby Gillespie

The lead singer from the Visitors

all of St Etienne

Dickon Edwards is not famous but he was there yes.

Simon Price looking almost as daft as the Blow woman, but loving it.

Best moment: the intro to "Let's Make This Precious", the third one in and the first to have a burst of brass and a beat behind it. Until then I admit I had a slight fear it was going to be a night of 'Dexy's unplugged'.

Other bests: "Come on Eileen" reclaiming itself as a truly remarkable number one pop song rather than a ubiquitous soundtrack to 80s nights and office parties, "This is what she's Like", "Manhood" showing that they still have what it takes. And Pete Williams deserves a mention too - he has a superb voice and did all the songs justice, giving way to Kev when needed.

It was the first 'reunion' gig I've ever been to that felt like a band with something new to offer.

And the only famous person I saw there was Paolo 'chancer' Hewitt.

good call, I thought so too. The pair of them combined terrifically.

no, no lingerie, just spiffy thirties style suits

Can we start using this as some sort of motto, a bit like 'dib-dib-dib, dob-dob-dob' in the cubs?

If I'd had it, I'd have paid the price of admission for that moment/song alone. Got the shivers just *thinking* about the first line...

Regarding the suits, i wasn't so keen on Kev's - too baggy i thought. Pete's was nice tho, and i also agree that he deserves a lot of credit on the singing front too. The only bit that I wasn't so keen on was him singing his spoken word bits - made it feel a bit like a musical.

That said, though, the second encore opened with Manhood, which was probably the most important part of the night, cos it showed that Dexy's still have 'it'. It fitted in perfectly... could there be more new material? Could they be properly back?

Would've liked to write an insanely positive writeup of Dexuh's but it was about two weeks ago and I'm crap at doing live reviews cos I never know what to say. I also think I'm a bit out of favour with the new Redbrick girl because I stayed in bed instead of collecting CDs for about three weeks running. I only got Liberty X because nobody else wanted it, sniff

(please don't tell me you actually told her you stayed in bed)

Ah.

Still, potential Brutish Sea Power guestlist action.

*notices Erase Errata album*

Ah.

I did review LX, the review was just the suckiest suck that ever sucked.

Oh dear.

It was interesting to contrast the London and Bristol shows (the only two I will manage to get to, sadly). In London I thought they started nervously and didn't really hit their stride until about halfway through the set proper, but the best bits (esp TIWSL) were more amazing in London.

I did my crying on my own at the Bristol show, happily. I like the slightly pantomimey Pete and it occurred to me that KR's extraordinariness works well with a kind of foil next to him, whether that's Billy Adams or Al Archer or Pete or whoever.

WBS re: new material..."Manhood" and "My Life In England" were both premiered in the early 90s on a Jonathon Ross show, as I understand. I hope KR considers some new material at some point but right now we've not heard any new Kevin songs for more than a decade.