Round The Horne...Revisited

For Alice's birthday, her parents bought us tickets to this stageshow. It was a funny old production as it was basically a staging of a radio recording - with the BBC sound effects guy in his brown overalls and everything. Still, the gags were timeless and the impersonations top class.

Travis (supported by Kings of Leon)

I'm not exactly what you'd call a "fan" of Travis, but we went along to this gig out of interest more than anythign else as it was the first time Alexandra Palace had staged a gig. I was, I admit, more excited about seeing Kings of Leon in support, but was pleasantly surprised to chat with Rick Wakeman in the crowd as his son, Adam, is a session keyboard player with Travis.

Varsity Rugby Match (Cambridge vs. Oxford)

The first and, sadly, probably the last time I'll get to see the Varsity Match as it's always played when I'm at work. I went with Simon, Stuart and Matt and stood drinking Tetley's surrounded by huge crowds of Rugger Buggers from Cambridge. Gosh! What a bawdy lot! At the end of the day, we drew...but as we'd won the previous year we got to keep the trophy. Oh, and at half time they paraded the World Cup. Cool!

The Darkness

Carling Homecoming gigs were a serious of concerts staged at small venues hosting massive bands. Tickets were won through a competition and, although I didn't win, I also entered under Alice's name and she did! As a result we got to go along to this invite only gig of The Darkness at the Astoria and drink free beer (well, Carling) all night. To make the evening all the stranger, we had had tea at the Ritz only a couple of hours previously. My, how Cambridge! I was also able to add another collapsed-girl-carried-to-the-side to my collection.

MTV2 5th Birthday (The Darkness, The Thrills, Jane's Addiction, The Music)

I got tickets to this show primarily as I wanted to see The Darkness again, but ended up going home more impressed with The Thrills - as the number of other Thrills tickets I have would prove! We didn't bother staying for much of Jane's Addiction as it was a school night, though...

G2

I'm not a huge follower of Genesis, but Simon and Dukey from HMV are - and when they began working at the Kings Lynn store they urged me to see this tribute band. They were aurally a precise copy of the original Genesis, and provided a fantastic show - albeit to only a half full house.

Robbie Williams

I guess we went to this more to say we'd been than to actually bother seeing Robbie. However, I'm glad we did, especially as it was his first night at Knebworth and so looked truly speechless when he was on stage in front of that size of crowd. The Darkness opened, and other support came from Ash and Moby. Sadly Kelly Osbourne also played, and generally got a dreadful reception form a rather hostile crowd. Robbie himself was astounding.