PopEx ≫ 2003 ≫ Travis and Kings of Leon

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As a nice last minute surprise, I went to Alexandra Palace last night to see Kings of Leon and Travis. Fantastic looking building isn't it? And a great view over London. Not my ideal size of room to see bands in though, and while it's great for CarlingLive.com to be supporting music by sponsoring absolutely everything going, I'm not so pleased there were only two choices at the bar: drink our lager or BUGGER OFF! There wasn't any bitter, or even any cider 1!

So, while Kings of Leon and their southern fried blues were ace, much better live than I'd been led to believe, we didn't stick around for Travis, we went off to pubs instead. Does that sound ungrateful? Ah well. Apparently Travis were VERY GOOD INDEED and also Avid Merrion was there (just read this on the message board on travisonline.com while I was searching for bits to steal for a now abandoned fake review), and someone off Fame Academy, but the closest we got to celebrity was seeing someone from Red Dwarf on the bus 2... seeing the band at Ally Pally was much like trying to do that Mini Pops quiz that's been doing the rounds 3. The sound was good though.

Now, seeing MJ Hibbett at Brixton Windmill tonight 4, then Damon Albarn in Notting Hill tomorrow, then that's it gig-wise for the year I think... happy christmas all!

  1. The PR who had given me the free tickets was not very pleased with this, I probably didn't get any more freebies from them again.
  2. I wonder why I did not name the person we spotted? Did we not know who they were? Was this the guy who went on to be Eastenders too? I think it might have been. He was not even a named part if Red Dwarf if so. Otherwise it was Captain Hollister, we saw him somewhere once.
  3. There was a quiz going round where you had to identify bands from tiny pixel versions of them. I am saying here the venue is big so the band looked very small on the stage. Do you see?
  4. Did not actually go to this.

💬 Travis

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