Five Fat, Short, Hairy, Mancunian, Ricky Gervase Lookalike, Musical Gnomes

Saw Elbow in Plymouth last night. They were wonderful. I would have put up a video, but Youtube are apparently arguing with the PRS, and Blogger unsurprisingly won't allow me to upload my appalling mobile phone video (*reminds oneself to hold the thing sideways in future to save turning my PC screen 90degrees).All you are going to get is thisTaking photos in a flashing light/heavy contrast/without a flash(cos I am good)/with a new mobile phone/wearing contacts so I can't read anything within 4 feet situation is not an ideal situation for taking concert photos or videos. Everyone was so polite! ("He was first" after waiting 10 minutes at the bar)and middle-aged and middle class.
The hotel M booked was 50 yards from the venue, and pretty smart (I have never stayed in a hotel after a gig before: always the long drive home; last train (last train Plymouth-Teignmouth 7.37pm); stay in a tent), and also 50 yards from the nearby Wetherspoons, where we got into conversation with A Scouser With A Job (inevitably an Evertonian), albeit 300 miles from his home and wife and child. A young man who worked hard with no resentment even when I remarked on the contrast between him and the boozing, drugtaking scousers who populate Torquay
And a first class FEB in the morning.
Arrived very late for work.
And then Management Meeting, which expands, as usual to 2 hours even there were only 6 items on the agenda (Including "3. No Senior Management Meeting this week")