Hereford Leisure Centre – 4th December 1998

Setlist: Destiny Calling, Laid, Sometimes, She’s A Star, Waltzing Along, Heavens, Born of Frustration, I Defeat, Vervacious, I Know What I’m Here For, Out To Get You, Lost A Friend, Say Something, Tomorrow, Sit Down, Top Of The World, Confusion, Sound, Come Home.

Review by OneOfTheThree.com

(as posted on the wattyco messageboard)

Tim wearing a dress-type thing and a buddha t-shirt with a dodgy looking leather jacket.

Saul being polite and assuming as usual – flicking me the finger at the end of the main set for no apparent reason, shouting Come Home and a tirade of swear words at the beginning before having his mic cut off (we think).

Tim climbing on speaker stacks and then the main speaker, scaring the life out of everyone ending up about six feet over Kulas head.

Tim dedicating Heavens to the lifers.

Gene – surprisingly – although Martin Rossiter has eaten all the pies

Soundcheck – they played three other new songs in the soundcheck, one which we think is called “Millionaires” which has a chorus “feel like Fred Astaire”, “Surprise” which some of you know and another one that we couldn’t work out a title for.

Of the newies, Confusion is a fast-paced “brother of Laid” with a killer guitar riff, I Know almost has a breakbeat backdrop to it and the lyrics are all changed from Oxford and they’ve deleted the”nah nahs” at the start, I Defeat is a slowie, with excellent lyrics about being in a good relationship and then throwing it all away and Vivacious starts off slow, builds up, heads off on a tangent and then slows down again.

So the big questions:

WILL THEY CHANGE THE SET LIST?

WILL SAUL GROW UP?

WILL WE SUFFER DEATH BY STEREOPHONICS FAN CRUSH TONIGHT?

we’ll let you know…..

P.S. Don’t you think it’s sh*t that CoS can’t sell fanzines before the show? will they remember that if the next LP flops and they’re slumming it back at the Forum? buy a fanzine, because the program is full of nice photos but little substance for £5

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