Against a massive backdrop of their 1994 album 'Jollification', the Lightning Seeds half hour support slot for the 2010 Squeeze tour was certainly enough to warm the somewhat ageing audience up a bit. That, and the Dark Star brew available on draught from the bar.
But, good as it was, this paled alongside Glenn Tillbrook's shiny silver-grey suit and the matching spotty guitars played so admirably by him and Chris Difford as they led Squeeze through a blistering set of tunes old and new. Opening with 'Black coffee in bed', the set-list took the sold out house back to memory after memory.
The evening's highlights for me were the definitive 'Cool for Cats' and the barnstorming encore opener, 'Bang Bang'. However, the eclectic dance routine part way through was a close second glory.The only slight surprise was the absence of 1979's Christmas Day, something I thought they might do seeing as it's only just over two weeks away.
An excellent last gig of the year though and I think that Father Christmas may well be asked to bring me a copy of the new album 'Spot the Difference'.
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