Face Of Cheam

So after a crawl from Liverpool St to Chancery Lane, starting off in the excellent Kings Arms, we head to Shepherds Bush for Swedens Cardigans. I was really looking forward to this having only seen them at a 'V' festival many years previously and having all their albums. However having got the spoiler of the setlist I was a little disappointed to see it only included songs from the last three albums rather than a 'retrospective' set. Musically though the last two albums are supurb, unfortuanately the majority of the audience hadn't actually bought the albums and probably only knew 'Lovefool'. They were to be disappointed. This meant although the band were very good the atmosphere was not and lead to a lot of talking over the band. So much so in fact that a steward had to come over to four extremely drunk girls. I have nothing against a so-called 'fair-weather' fan but would expect them to respect the band performing. Also I'm not sure how a band such as the Cardigans could combat this other than playing smaller venues meaning some casual observers who may return or even true fans would miss out.
That aside 'You're the Storm' was an early highlight as was 'A Good Horse', one of the few tracks where the audience did pay attention. The first encore ended with 'My Favourite Game' which in this MTV age is a classic and they returned with the gorgeous song 'Communication'. Unfortuanately at this time some of the crowd had given up enjoying theirselves and were propping up the bar.

Set - Drip Drop Teardrop / You're The Storm / Little Black Cloud / Don't Blame Your Daughter / For What It's Worth / Live And Learn / A Good Horse / And Then You Kissed Me 1&2 / Paralyzed / Erase Rewind / Hanging Around / Holy Love / I Need Some Fine Wine And You Need To Be Nicer TO Me / Good Morning Joan ////// Losing A Friend / Godspell / My Favourite Game ////// Communication