What's The Difference Between Jam And Jelly?

Ahoy there, fine blog-readers! Yesterday evening heralded great joy and excitement, for me and Micky and Lucy and Padwin set forth on a great venture to the land of Londonium to see Broken Family Band for the last time evar! And lo, it was good, and not just good; it was very good.

We arrived almost an hour early for the support act, so the place was pretty much empty, but we sat about for a while just chattering and soon Chris T-T arrived on stage and entertained us all by Preaching the Converted...

"Poverty's bad, war is bad, racism's bad. Well done, have a biscuit."

...along with other songs of politically-slanted hilarity. He also had a lovely-looking cherry-red semi-hollowbody Epiphone (I think) guitar. Noice.

Then the main act. They were on form; the music was top notch, Steve was cracking witty (and mostly obscene) remarks left right and centre, and it was a good crowd to. Because I can, this was the set list (in rough order, I couldn't quite figure out what came after what exactly...):

1. It's All Over - Arbitrary opener which everyone knows.
2. Salivating
3. The Booze And The Drugs
4. Living In Sin - Standout song of the night.
5. Devil In The Details
6. Cocktail Lounge
7. Give And Take
8. Hey Captain - I died a little inside because it was beautiful.
9. Stay Friendly - Padwin was especially happy this came up. I also made my own lyric alteration here... "We don't have to sit at their table to know how they're WANKERS!"
10. Dancing On The 4th Floor
11. At The Back Of The Chapel - Let's do this old school!
12. A Place You Deserve
13. Borrowed Time - Camel!
14. Walking Back To Jesus Part Two - The one I didn't know.
15. Song Against Robots
16. The Mardi Gras Rescue Mission
17. Queen Of The Sea - The other one I didn't know.
18. (I Don't Have The Time To) Mess Around - It included a most amusing lyric change... "There's a dog sleeping in my bed, if I tickle his balls he gives me sweet head" (great to start with) became "There's a dog sleeping beneath my bed, if I fuck him in the mouth he licks me on the leg". HA.
19. Happy Days Are Here Again - Wohoo!
20. Don't Leave That Woman Unattended - Currently my favourite BFB song due to sheer catchyness.
21. Leaps - We were gone by this point as we had to catch a tube.
22. John Belushi - See above.

As you can see, it was a chunky old list. My favourites of the night were The Booze And The Drugs, Living In Sin, Stay Friendly, and Borrowed Time (for the Camel). I was a little disappointed that we had to leave before John Belushi... and I'm Thirsty wasn't played, but it was a good list - more early songs than last time.

We got back to Cambridge at ten past midnight this morning, which I think was pretty good going seeing as we only left the gig at eleven. Shows our superior train-and-tube-catching skills were not in vain.

Mattipus.