Blue Aeroplanes

From Blue Aeroplanes Thunderbolt March 2010

I saw The Blue Aeroplanes play a great gig last week at the Thunderbolt, warming up their upcoming appearance at SXSW. They had a great line-up and played a cracking set. I'm really looking forward to buying a CD or something (new album) with "25 Kinds of Love" on it. As to the photos, Chris Sharpe lurks in the background a bit, so he's easy to miss, but Max Noble doesn't and John Langley was very visible so there's really no excuse for not having managed to snap them - but I didn't.

Thanks to Chris Sharpe I am able to tell you that the setwas:-

1. Nothing (new album)
2. Up In A Down World
3. Sulphur (new album)
4. Great Movie Clichés (new album)
5. Bury Your Love Like Treasure
6. Don't You Dare (Rita song)
7. Huh!
8. Cowardice & Caprice
9. Raise The Roof
10. Oak Apple Day (new album)
11. Go Along With Me On This One (Gerard Starkie song)
12. 25 Kinds Of Love (new album)
13. Jacket Hangs
14. Yr Own World
    
    
15. Lover & Confidante
16. The Applicant
    
    
17. Warhol's 15
18. Breaking In My Heart

I recommend the support band, "Daddy Long Bones" as well.

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Aeroplanes take off

From Aeroplanes

What a great gig last night. Bristol's Blue Aeroplanes played a pre-SXSW gig at The Thunderbolt. The line-up was Max Noble (guitar), Dave Chapman (guitar), Chris Sharp (bass), Wojtek Dmochowski (dance), Gerard Starkey (guitar and vocals), John Langley (drums), Garard Langley (vocals), Rita Lynch (guitar and vocals) and John Stapleton (DJ). I don't know how long it is since John Stapleton has performed with the 'planes but I don't think I've seen gim since I saw the 'planes play the Hope Centre back in the year dot.

From Aeroplanes

The band played a great set ("Raise The Roof", "Warhol's 15", "Sulphur", "25 Kinds of Love", "Angela Carter", "Play On Empty", "Oak Apple Day", "Police 38 Divinity", "Lover and Confidante", "One World Passport", "Tied To You", "Nothing", "Birthday Suit And Badge", "Jacket Hangs", and "Bury Your Love Like Treasure") and great encore ("Your Own World", "Too Drunk To Fuck", and "Breaking In My Heart"). The new material sounds great - "Sulphur" is excellent on a first hearing (I think - maybe they played it at Christmas) and "25 Kinds of Love" is not enough. (Sorry, I mean is fast becoming a favourite).

From Aeroplanes

This gig was so much better than the sad years when the Christmas show seemed like a "Gerard Swaggers - a Blue Aeroplanes Tribute Band". It's great to hear the good new material and the old stuff being revisited. It's as though the "Swagger" is no longer weighing down the band and they have moved on to pastures new and old.