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[tj_dragon]

So last night was my first big name gig at an inside venue. Texas!
Sharleen Spiteri has a great voice and her speaking accent is nice too. She was willing to chat to the audience and respond to the many hecklers; we discovered that Jaffa Cakes are cakes not buscuits and learnt some rather personal things about the keyboard player. They played all

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[x_equals_speed]

True, eh?
"Cathy needs this lobotomy"
Sure I'll do it. I've got some scissors around here somewhere. Nobody minds do they?

[tj_dragon]

Already did. He doesn't know where I live and can't break in, which he'd need to do to get a sample of my signature to forge on the consent form.

[herdivineshadow]

That would imply that he wasn't going to have a go at doing the lobotomy himself though.

[rossb]

The Academy is a pretty nice venue. Certainly better then alot of venues that size I've come across.

[cmannall]

I knew about the Jaffa Cakes thing. Apparently it's actually an important distinction, since it affects their tax classification. Cakes are an "essential", and thus have 0% VAT, whereas biscuits are a "luxury" and thus have 17.5% VAT. I haven't quite figured out yet why cakes are more essential than biscuits, however.

I've not been there before, but doesn't the Academy have a capacity of 2,500ish or something? We must have very different ideas of "intimate". Granted, on the scale of things it's far from huge (I've seen Radiohead play with a 40,000ish audience), but it's not exactly a dozen people in the upstairs room at a pub, either.

[tj_dragon]

It's highly possible that we have different interpretations, after all that was my first big-name indoor gig. The Academy wasn't full so it didn't seem like a lot of people (though that's in comparison to outdoor festivals which are obviously bloody huge). The small gigs I've been to have been pubs and unsigned bands so I tend to think of pub gigs as being in a different scale completely.

I'm going to more gigs over the next few months so I'm sure my perspective will normalify over time.

[cmannall]

I think it's more down to the fact that the majority of gigs I go to are at the Zodiac in Oxford, which has a capacity of 450 (upstairs) and 250 (downstairs), so that has become my reference point. Anything larger than that is a "large" gig (certainly not "intimate"), anything smaller than that is a "small" gig, and seeing Rachael Dadd play to about eleven people in a room above a pub is officially "tiny but still fantastic because oh-my-god Rachael Dadd is the loveliest creature on the planet".

I don't think "normalify" is a word, but I love it anyway. I'm going to have to find a way to use that.

[tj_dragon]

It's not. But "desertify" isn't really a word either and I invented that as well (dessertify came along soon after).

Shakespeare was supposed to have had a huge vocabulary but he definitely invented a lot of it. In my book that's cheating so I reckon I can cheat too.