Feel the Noize

Went with friends to a skanky dive today where a band called the 'Hip Replacements' was performing. There was really no good reason for subjecting ourselves to this, apart from a misguided feeling that we should be getting out more.

We should definitely not be getting out more. We should be staying in with DVDs and books and cakes and cups of tea.

It was a small and intimate venue. Our table was mere inches from the band and their very large speakers, which seemed to me not all that necessary in an enclosed 3 x 6m space.

The Hip Replacements don't do covers, performing their own material and singing bluesy love songs with a passion that is frankly unseemly in a gang of crusty old men. Mercifully there was too much distortion to be able to make out most of the lyrics. One New Age-looking audience member provided an entertaining diversion with her earnest free-form self-expressing dance moves.

All in all though, probably not worth the hearing impairment we have suffered.