Star Shaped Festival – Ritz, Manchester
Bands seen: Sleeper, Space, Dodgy, My Life Story, Salad Undressed
Weekend in Manchester! We stayed in a fantastic hotel, the Principal, and had a great time watching the Bands From The Nineties.
We were of course here for the Star Shaped Festival, which I think was the first gig Sleeper announced on their comeback – although of course I saw them last month too.
The Ritz is a good venue whose name has been taken over by that terrible mobile phone operator who think they have the right to monopolise our culture. I’m obviously still smarting from that time at the Wireless Festival in 2005 when I wasn’t allowed in a music tent to see Client because I didn’t have a phone on their network.
I also picked up my Star Shaped/Chemical World mug which gave me four years of high-volume tea service before the handle broke off it.
The drive home was pretty good too, travelling through the beautiful Winnats Pass in the Peak District at 9.30am in the morning …
… and enjoying a breakfast at the quirky Peak Hotel in Castleton.
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Salad Undressed setlist:
- Granite Statue
- Your Ma
- I Want You
- Being Human
- Nowhere Near
- Motorbike To Heaven
- Diminished Clothes
- Wanna Be Free
- Relationship Dust
- Yeah Yeah
- White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane cover)
- Drink The Elixir
My Life Story setlist:
- Breathe In/Breathe Out (Exileinside cover)
- The King Of Kissingdom
- Motorcade
- Neverland
- Empire Line
- 24 Hour Deflowerer
- Emerald Green
- Funny Ha Ha
- Sparkle
- Strumpet
- Fall-In (Adam and the Ants cover)
- Mr Boyd (Argosy cover)
Encore:
- It’s A Girl Thing
- 12 Reasons Why I Love Her
Dodgy setlist:
- In A Room
- Water Under The Bridge
- You Give Drugs A Bad Name
- Good Enough
- A Mended Heart
- Found You
- California Gold
- If You’re Thinking of Me
- Never Stop
- So Let Me Go Far
- Staying Out For The Summer
- Grassman
Space setlist:
- Happy Clowns
- Begin Again
- Avenging Angels
- Killswitch
- Mister Psycho
- The Ballad Of Tom Jones
- Sharks
- Female Of The Species
- Me & You Vs The World
- Neighbourhood
Sleeper setlist:
- Pyrotechnician
- Dress Like Your Mother
- Delicious
- What Do I Do Now?
- Lie Detector
- Statuesque
- Vegas
- Nice Guy Eddie
- Atomic (Blondie cover)
- Inbetweener
- She’s A Good Girl
Encore:
- Miss You
- Lady Love Your Countryside
- Sale Of The Century
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Gigs
- Gigantic Indie All Dayer – Marble Factory, Bristol
- HMS Morris, Pictish Trail – Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham
- The Others – The 100 Club, Soho
- Stray Tracks: White Gates Band, Mystery Team, Basharan, SNM, Monumental – Pink Toothbrush, Rayleigh
- Franz Ferdinand, Master Peace, Great Leslie – Empire, Shepherd’s Bush
- Melys, Yr Anghysur – Neuadd Ogwen, Bethesda
- Ynys, Sybs, Lafant – Y Cwps, Aberystwyth
- Sultans of Ping FC – Saint Luke’s & The Winged Ox, Glasgow
- Franz Ferdinand, Permanent (Joy) – Grand Central Hall, Liverpool
- Half Happy, em koko – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
- My Life Story – The Quarry, Liverpool
- Melys, Osgled – Y Cwps, Aberystwyth
- They Might Be Giants – The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm
- Darling Buds, Simon Love and the Loves – 229, Great Portland Street, London
- Fightmilk, Tugboat Captain – Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney
- Bugeye, Lucky Number You – The Victoria, Birmingham
- Art Brut – The Castle & Falcon, Birmingham
- Sultans of Ping FC, Meryl Streek – The Ritz, Manchester
- Chroma, Baby Brave, Lila Zing – Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham
- Melin Melyn, Ynys, Pys Melyn – Town Hall, Llangollen
- Antarctic Monkeys – The Buttermarket, Shrewsbury
- Bloc Party – The Institute, Digbeth, Birmingham
- Urdd Gobaith Cymru: Achlysurol, HMS Morris, Llareggub Brass Band – Mathrafal Field, Meifod
- Echobelly, Camens – Live 45, Kidderminster
- Futureheads, Adult Play – Shrewsbury Castle, Shrewsbury
- Adwaith – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
- Melys, Pys Melyn, Sophie Kilburn – Neuadd Ogwen, Bethesda
- Sea Power, Callum Easter – Town Hall, Birmingham
- Dydd Miwsig Cymru: Morgan Elwy, Tew Tew Tennau, Mynadd – Y Institwt, Llanfair Caereinion
- Bikini Beach Band – The White Hart, Stoke Newington
- Pacifica, House of Women – Academy 2, Islington
- Fonda 500, Bugeye, Hurtling, Colossus – Amersham Arms, New Cross
- Snow Coats, Toodles and the Hectic Pity – Signature Brew, Haggerston
- Snow Coats – Tunbridge Wells Forum
- Darling Buds, Keeley – The Thunderbolt, Bristol
- Fightmilk, Feeble Strength – Signature Brew, Haggerston
- Thousand Yard Stare – The Lexington, Islington
- Thousand Yard Stare – Prince Albert, Brighton
- Be Your Own Pet – Rough Trade East, Whitechapel
- Brian Butterfield – Bush Hall, Shepherd’s Bush
- Pulp – Apollo, Hammersmith
- Blur, Self Esteem – Wembley Stadium, Wembley
- Blur, Wu Lu – City Hall, Newcastle
- Salad, Repetitive John – Arts Club, West Hampstead, London
- Salad – The Hope and Ruin, Brighton
- The Others – The Garage, Highbury
- Fightmilk – Signature Brew, Haggerston
- Ynys, Gillie – The Victoria, Dalston
- Republica, Freya Beer – Powerhaus, Camden
- Pop Will Eat Itself, Sigue Sigue Sputnik – 229, Great Portland Street, London
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