Support band Great Northern were pretty good - the poppy goth of All About Eve meets the whimsical shoegaze of Mew. The singer looks like Robert Helpmann in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang but I'm not sure that's exactly the look she is going for...
The Dears were predictably brilliant and the new lineup has improved over the last few months with the addition of a new bass player. The set started with a taped version of 'Saviour' - Murray Lightburn providing live vocals as he walked slowly through the audience towards the stage. It was a brilliant way to start the set, particularly as Murray stayed in the crowd for the whole song (11 mins) and was standing about 3 feet away from us for most of it, the rest of the band arriving on stage to sing the "I'll make it right" closing refrain... The Dears proceeded to play most of latest LP Missiles, along with few from 'No Cities Left' (including 'Lost in the plot' and final song '22: The Death of all romance') and a few from 'Gang of Losers' including the brilliant Lennon-esque 'There goes my outfit' and 'Hate then Love' which included an even more intense venture into the crowd by Lightburn...
Overall a brilliant show - the lineup doesn't quite match the 'Gang of Losers' lineup and the girls singing is still flat as a pancake at times but The Dears remain a great live band...
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