24 June 2003
Carling Academy
Brixton, London, England
Source: Raija Helen = Sony ECM-DS70P > Sony MZ-N1 MD
support: Pete Yorn
soundcheck: Star 69 (Instrumental) / Get Up (Instrumental with Mike Mills backing vocal only) / Talk About The Passion / Feeling Gravitys Pull / Get Up (Take 1) / Get Up (Take 2)
Disc One 67:26
01. Get Up
02. The Wake-Up Bomb
03. Imitation Of Life
04. Animal
05. The Great Beyond
06. Drive
07. Pilgrimage
08. The One I Love
09. Feeling Gravitys Pull
10. Maps And Legends
11. Driver 8
12. Life And How To Live It
13. Electrolite
14. At My Most Beautiful
Disc Two 56:51
01. Bad Day
02. Losing My Religion
03. Star 69
04. Man On The Moon
05. Walk Unafraid
encore:
06. She Just Wants To Be
07. Everybody Hurts
08. Little America
09. People Have The Power
10. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Timeline notes: First appearance of 'Feeling Gravitys Pull' since 11 November 1989.
Notes:
-MS claims to have spent 3 months filming a song in the venue "650 years ago" After Drive He elaorates on this a little it noting he was there filmin Velvet Goldmine. He also notes he and Peter saw The Smiths there on their Meat Is Murder Tour "and there was one move the singer, yeah him. He's good! I like him. We were right back there see that (?) sign? You with the hand, you were Peter and the short one next to her, you were me. You were very sullen and wearing a raincoat at the time. But I watched that guy. He's singinging and he's going like this, hand over the audience and I was like 'oooh that's good. I'm taking that' and I did"
-After LAHTLI MS notes "Those last few songs were all recorded in London, England in 1985" This next song was written on a park bench in Miami (?) somewhere in front of a strip mall in Los Angeles, California. It's aout thos little photoplasm things, when you go to the ocean and you stick your hand in and you go like that. Yeah but I embarrasingly got the word wrong. Anyway, so now it's called Electrolite".
-Before AMMMS claims he can't think of anything funny to say,the responds to a comment from the crowd "That's not funny. Someody slap that guy". He goes on to thank some publication for making his teeth extra white and offers the mic to PB. Someone else on stage asks "Are my lawyers present?"
-Before Everybody Hurts MS announces he has just wieghed himself and he is under 7 stones "whatever that means".
-Before Little America MS says he ill not apologize for eing American because he has been told apologies from the stage sound dumb "and I am not dumb".
Grade: D
-Distant and boomy also have a vocal fan for the first few tracks thought the taper, to their credit moves away from them (you can still hear her but far more distant).