Great fun last night as I went and saw
From The Jam, which is basically two former members of
The Jam, one of my favorite bands, who broke up after I got into them in, um, 1984. The played all their old songs, but with a replacement front man. Kind of strange, really, considering that most of the songs were written by
the missing guy. But if it was an odd situation for the band, it didn't show.
It seemed everyone there, like me, knew all the words to every song. It was a dream set list, where they played all my favorite of their hits, plus all my favorite of their non-hits, it seemed. From memory:
In The City
The Modern World
All Mod Cons
News Of The World
To Be Someone
David Watts
In The Crowd
It's Too Bad
'A' Bomb In Wardour Street
Down In A Tube Station At Midnight
So Sad About Us
Thick As Thieves
Private Hell
Little Boy Soldiers
Smithers-Jones
Eton Rifles
Strange Town
Pretty Green
Start!
Ghosts
The Gift
Thick As Thieves
Town Called Malice
When You're Young
Going Underground
After the show on the tram I chatted with a guy who flew up from Tasmania for the show, leaving his wife and two kids behind. It did seem that there were a lot of people like me who were there by themselves, just because they had to. Come on, this is as close to The Jam as you'll ever see. (Well, I said that about the Pixies too.) But I still have a happy buzz from the show the next day just writing about it.
Oh yeah, I have a new job too.
