Saw Drive By Truckers last night...

foursymbols

they had Josh T Pearson supporting! Was looking forward to him as much as DBT as his Texas Jerusalem Crossroads album with Lift To Experience is an absolute classic... Come 9 o clock, he still hadnt appeared on stage, then just after he appears & begins fumbling around with his guitar & mic stand! Whens he's eventually ready to start, he tells us that he had just received a phone call from the States telling him his Da had died!! Told us he hadnt talked to him in 10 years! His Da was a 'fire & brimstone' style southern preacher who abandoned his family long time ago... Pearson only played 2 songs before leaving the stage and then spent the rest of the night just wanderin around the venue in a daze... Bizarre... The Truckers were outstanding, ripped thru back catalogue for nearly 2 hours, Hood swigging outta bottle of Jack Daniels thru out...

ilockyer

Saw the 3 Rock Shows in Leamington Spa, London and Bristol at the end of last week. Josh opened for the Leamington and Bristol shows. The audience didn't seem that interested at Leamington, so he ran through a few musician jokes to get everyone back on side. Very captivating lve performer, and there was more than a few in Bristol there just to see him. Didn't buy his LP at the show as figured could get it cheaper online, it's about the same so now feel guilty because he could've had the money rather than a shop. Can see he's in London in November but it's the day after a friends wedding so I won't be making that one.

DBT were excellent every night, the Leamington show was good despite a dull crowd. London was much better than the show the previous November, much livelier crowd and the band fed off it well. Shepherds Bush is a great venue, only problem was that, where we were at the front, you couldn't hear vocals clearly, that's largely due to the PA placement though. Bristol on Friday night was off the scale though, crowds there are always good, and on a Friday night with a few drinks down it's even better. The band were up for it right from the start and played the best show I've seen of theirs, and possibly by anyone ever, including Pearl Jam. Shows in places like Bristol are always better as there's none of the big city trendy types wearing hats because some indie landfill act wore one in the NME once, just people out to have a good time.