So, that's it. After two nights in Nottingham (Friday) and Glasgow (yesterday) the infamous Arena Tour is over. There's not much about the Nottingham gig. "Great to see Pete back to his best" said downinalbion.co.uk "A brilliant, professional set, with an amazing atmosphere, despite the arena not fully selling out. [...] Anthems such as Albion and Fuck Forever went down amazingly as always, and the new songs sounded even better live than they do on the album".
Thanks to Hokeystokie who put on line a few videos from the show:
The Glasgow gig got a review from the NME; and one from our friend Milly: "Shambles were ace, pulled off the secc amazingly! The sound was great and were really tight, also I liked the bit of talk between songs. Great Set list and stage, they all looked like they were really enjoying it [...] Great night, amazing gig, tightest I've seen them!".
So what's next?. It seems the guys are going separate ways in the following weeks. Adam will be launching his solo project, and so will Drew. And so will, most of all, Peter. There's a European tour looming in 2008, and of course a few surprise gigs here and there. But we cannot see Peter staying with his hands in his hands for long, and we are not sure whether his next adventure will be still under the Babyshambles name. In spite of the many rave reviews, a lot of people are highly dubious about the direction Babyshambles are taking, and they are expressing their doubts in all the web spaces dedicated to the band. You can never please everyone?
We'll talk about it in another occasion. Maybe on 32nd of December.
2 comments:
>>a lot of people are highly dubious about the direction Babyshambles are taking
Really? What are they saying exactly?
And what's the contract with Parlophone anyway? 2 or 3 full-length albums under Babyshambles or something like that? Does the EP count?
I also find it interesting that Adam mentioned something like, if this was the note Babyshambles ended at, it would be a good thing and then suddenly backtracking a bit, saying that they've already got another album written anyway so no worries.
"A brilliant, professional set, with an amazing atmosphere, despite the arena not fully selling out. [...] Anthems such as Albion and Fuck Forever went down amazingly as always, and the new songs sounded even better live than they do on the album"
Wow, I'm famous lol. That was me. Changed my username on libs.org.uk since though to 'Pretty Shambolic.'
Nottingham was absolutely brilliant. Leaves me desperately wanting more, but my next Babyshambles gig now won't be til the NME tour next year... Well, that's the plan at the minute anyway. We'll see what comes up before.
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