I had tickets to see Asobi Seksu in Oxford. For whatever reason, ticket sales, I guess, their headline at the Jerico Tavern got changed to a support at the O2 Academy. I wasn’t going to waste the tickets, so me and my mate drove up to Oxford. We got 35 minutes of Asobi Seksu, then 65 Days Of Static came on. Heard of them, never heard them.
Walked out halfway through the first tune. Dull, duller, dullest. Only time, in 42 years of gig-going I’ve ever walked out of a gig*. I was very disappointed, getting barely half the set of the band I’d paid for tickets to see, and a hundred mile round trip for the privilege. I even sat through a John Martyn gig, where he was so shit-faced, he could barely remember his own songs, so I have a high threshold of tolerance for iffy gigs!
*Sorry, just remembered, I walked out of a Catastrophy Wife gig, Kat Bjelland’s band after Babes In Toyland.
Christ, but they were catastrophic! Really, truly bloody awful. Shame, I liked the Babes.