Just thought I'd say a few words about yesterday's concert. This 
was my first Swing Tour show that I saw, so I'll leave it up to 
someone else to be objective about it. The setlist was pretty 
standard, very similar to Wembley except they played Numb, Like 
Cockatoos, Lovesong, Let's go to bed, Subway Song, and Play for today 
and didn't play Strange Attraction, The Blood, Charlotte Sometimes, 
This is a Lie and If only tonight...
     I thouroughly enjoyed the concert especially since we had such 
luck: we managed to be the first people into the arena, so we got 
right up front in the centre (where there happened to be a lot of 
Descenters, hello to all of you), then after the gig we managed to 
get hold of a setlist and a very battered drumstick, so that was 
brilliant. It was really empty and it seemed like most people at the 
front were foreign. Still the atmosphere at the front was quite good 
and the band seemed to be in a fairly good mood too. The funniest bit 
of the concert was during Inbetween Days when the Germans next to me 
chucked a bunch of colored socks onto the stage, which Roger picked up
and later threw at roadies and the crowd.
     What I was most impressed with during the night was the guitar 
playing. Both Robert and Teddy played loads of ad lib guitaring which
enlivened songs like Fascination Street (Robert played a funky 
beginning), Never Enough, and Disintegration (Roberts guitar was 
really loud with lots of distortion).
     My faves for the night must be Plainsong, Want, Return, 
Fascination St., Like Cockatoos, and all of the encores (especially 
Lovesong and Play for today.). Subway song fitted really well, but 
Robert kept messing up on guitar.
     Well today is Manchester, so I'll write more then when 
everything is in perspective.