Babyshambles played Norwich UEA on the 16th September 2013.
WrittlerRicky Foley writtled
Just got home from Norwich UEA, bit knackered would have liked to have stayed around at the end again but my gig buddy has to be up for work at 6 so it was straight back to the car and over the border back to Essex.
After the first song the guy next to me kept shouting he's request for Pentonville and starting singing it which amused Pete and later on someone else requested Sweet Child O' Mine which Pete just looked at him and said "Did you just say Sweet Child O' Mine!?" shaking he's in disapproval before carrying on. Seems to me at every Doherty gig in Norwich he gets that request, must be the same guy or a Norfolk thing.
Setlist:
Delivery
Nothing Comes To Nothing
I Wish
Carry On Up The Morning
Farmer's Daughter
Fall From Grace
Dr No
Killamangiro
Baddies Boogie
Fireman
8 Dead Boys
Penguins
Man Who Came To Stay
Seven Shades
Minefield
I Wanna Be Adored
Gang Of Gin
Pipe Down
Fuck Forever
Albion/Band Introductions/Jam
Stranger In My Own Skin
Sequel To The Prequel
Twist And Shout
Pretty damn good performance from the whole band, came on at 9.30, finished at !0.45 and came back on for the encore until 11.15.
Pete seemed to be pretty intense throughout the main gig, but had some on stage banter with Drew and Mik. Pete seemed like a totally different person when he came out for the encore and was in high spirits and having lots of banter. First Shambles gig i've been to where Pete introduced the band members, he did it during the end of Albion which then turned into a big jam with each member getting a solo spot when introduced, very professional like. Liked the fact Drew was introduced as "on bass guitar, backing vocals, melodica and Twitter Drew McConell", can't remember the other intros.
After Stranger In My Own Skin someone asked if they could come on stage to which he replied "of course you can, everyone can all come up, room for everyone. How many of you are there? hmm we were 73 tickets short of selling out so that makes (starts counting on he's fingers) ah fuck it theres plenty of you and only four of them (pointing to the security) first one up gets a free t-shirt from the stall."
Within about 20 seconds a young girl appeared and Pete reminded the guy on the stall to give her 20% off and they exchanged hugs and handshakes and she asked if she could sing so he said yeah are you a singer? No! she said, which hes response was ah go ahead. She said her dad was he's biggest fan and pointed him out and asked if her could come up too and Pete replied "yeah why not bring your whole family up!"
"We spent the day walking around Norwich, it's a beautiful place isn't it, lots of lovely people. Now now don't get carried away the girls are pretty and the people are lovely, however you've been a terrible crowd, but we've played pretty damn good up here if I say so myself"
Pete then lead the band into Sequel To The Prequel and that was followed by Twist And Shout slipping nicely back into Sequel To The Prequel to finish off. The band then left and Pete hung around for a bit to shake hands with people and hug the others that had made their way onto the stage by this point.
"If you're a student here, good luck with your exams and everything. If you're a local good luck with the students"
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