i am sooooooooooo gutted i am going to miss this. Car breaks down terrible. oh well.

Dimmer was Dimmer - what can I say. The night started off with a lengthy hiphop set from DJ Logikal, which seemed to spark off lots of talk of the DJ Shadow gig. Not quite sure why this particular act was doing support - it didn't really set me up for the Dimmer sound, no songs called for a turntablist - maybe it was hard to find someone to fit the Dimmer sound so they went into left field? I'd have though quite a few bands would be good - maybe Gramsci, Brunettes would have been an interesting choice.

As for the gig itself, ten songs in all starting with a new one and ending with Evolution. The three or four new songs sounded much like other Dimmer songs, which is a good thing. Can't really tell you what the lyrics were - the instrumentation tended to overwhelm Shayne's vocals. Strangely, Shayne broke not one but two E strings - after leaving his spare guitar at home because he'd never broken a string while doing a Dimmer gig. Oh, and we were blessed with some wild haired chick dressed for K-Road on a warm night, "Fuck Me Gary" or some such written on her belly barging up to front centre four times - felt a bit sorry for her the last time: she'd gone out to get a flower for Gary and came back as the band was finishing: they wandered off and left her standing forlornly with her unwanted love token.