Impatience!

I could/ should have done this earlier, but didn't get round to it for some reason. Anyway, here's what I was blathering on about in my last post...

We Are Scientists did their instore thang at Fopp in Cambridge last Thursday. And I had nothing better to do than go along and see them! So, as the guy who worked there said..."a lot of interest"... blah blah blah..."get here early if I was you"...etc. I got there at 11am. Nothing. Not a twinkle that anyone even knew what was going to happen later that day. So, I made a decision to check back every hour or so to see if there was any interest.

I was wandering around Cambridge city centre like a lost soul for the whole afternoon! I thought about taking the opportunity to take some pretty photos of the city, but then decided against draining the battery on my camera. I had enough foresight (thankfully) to spot the potential schoolgirl error in the offing...makes a change for me. Luckily, I had a book and it wasn't raining. Four o'clock they started queuing. Four o'clock!

So, I got in line with the indie cindies and their grumpy boyfriends who'd clearly all bunked off school for the afternoon. And I know I was twice their age. Did I mention I was also conspicuous by my lack of friendage? Meh.

On the positive side, it meant we only queued for an hour and a half. Whilst I was in the queue, I came to the conclusion that I may have been the only actual proper fan there. There must have been 30-40 people in the queue when out of nowhere, Max Hart (keyboards/ guitar) just comes and stands on Sidney Street, like he was waiting for someone. Right outside the shop. For about twenty minutes. Not a soul recognised him.

Anyhoo. It's 5.30 and the line is soooo long, I can't see where it ends. I'm about 25th in line (the queue somehow grew sideways with the emo kids and their mates), and they're letting people in ten at a time. There's four or five security guards on duty. So I get in, get a good view, maybe second row, hard to tell. It got rammed! 200 capacity apparently.

I spent the first five minutes doing what I usually do in the Barfly. Looking in vain for the fire exits... just in case!


We are standing there for what seems an eternity, listening to Def Leppard at full blast. Good choice fellas! They come on, casual as you like, Chris promises the crowd a Def Leppard listening party after their set, which goes down well.

They played "After Hours", "Lethal Enforcer", "The Great Escape", "Cash Cow" and "Impatience". Although probably not in that order, my recall's not good.

It was, of course, brilliant. It didn't last too long, but that was good considering the confined space! We then queued up yet again to get stuff signed. That took a good twenty minutes or so, but it was worth it. Look! ^^
All in all, awesome. Full set of pictures here.

The Great Escape...



Impatience...