Face Of Cheam

A return to the live scene for Ian Broudie and crew saw them play Dingwalls in Camden. After a good crawl of Hampstead we arrive at the venue at 9.20 and get the cheapest round so far (£5.40 two pints of Fosters). Finding a place down the front on the left we saw the Seeds do an hour full of their hits. Before the encore the last three songs were 'Marvelous', 'Pure' and 'Life of Reilly'. You can't argue with that. A very 'festival' friendly set the only complaint was for £18 it was a bit short. However would you really want an extra half hour of stuff you don't know? Three Lions was inevitably the last song with the lyrics changed to 'forty years of hurt' and Mr Broudie yelling 'Come On England - Win the world cup'.
After the show we had time for a few beers in Camden's Good Mixer pub, where the Gallaghers are still banned from as far as I am aware. An appropiate choice considering the Lightning Seeds got their popularity in the midst of the Britpop environment.