Doves

This was Doves' pre-album-release mini-tour, and the one in which they stopped playing Space Face as their encore track. Oh! The horror! The set was amazing and worked incredibly well in the Palais. Support came from The Go! Team, who were fantastic and who we're actually favouring over Coldplay at Glastonbury this year. We may be daft for missing Chris Martin's monotone, but it's for a damn good reason...

All the Way From Memphis

Our second trip to see this show being recorded - we love it! Guests were Tony Wilson, creator of the Manchester music scene, and Richard Curtis, comedy writer supreme.

The Thrills

It had been a while since we'd seen The Thrills and bought these tickets AND the Hanson tickets from the profit made from selling a pair to see Maroon 5. This was the first time The Thills had headlined Brixton, and at the end invited audience members to get on stage and jam with the band. I didn't go, but loved it anyway. Aaaah, the sound of summer - in the middle of winter!

All the Way From Memphis

This was our first outing to the Drill Hall (which we've revisted a number of times) and we took my mum and Graham to this first recording of a new music quiz show. Guests were Stewart Lee (him from off the telly) and Martin Freeman (aka The Office and Hitchiker's Guide). I shook Stewart by the hand and said "I thought it was you", while Alice got Freeman to sign her appraisal for work. You can't beat that :)

Hanson

We went to this because of Alice's teenage crush on the band.  Their set was actually quite good for the first 20minutes but, as Hanson were playign acoustically, it all started to sound the same after that. I would also have quite happily thrown the screaming Fins, Dutch and Swedes to their death if they had carried on shouting out their undying love for Tyler or whatever the boys are called. Still, my justification is that we got this show and The Thrills for the price of one having made a bit of profit off sellign a pair of Maroon 5 tickets so it's not _too_ bad...

That Was Then This Is Now

We went to see this recording out of interest (mainly because I love Lee and Herring). We went along with Emily and Ben Board, and by strange coincidence also met up with John and Marie Campbell. It was a truly fantastic recording, and I really hope another series comes along soon so that I can go again! Sadly, Richard had already heard about King Alfred's piles, so my attempt at impressing him fell somewhat flat. But at this point, how were we to know that in less than a month we would "collect the set" by seeing Stewart Lee at a different radio recording..?

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

I always thought this was one of those shows that you never get tickets for, but was pleased to be proved wrong. We went with Norf (and one of Norf's mates from work) and giggled away for nearly 3 hours while Lamarr and the teams bumbled about and spoke about sucking yourself off using a hoover. Oh, and Norf almost got thrown out for heckling. Brilliant!