Face Of Cheam

"Croydon Hates Me" are Bob Geldof's first words at the poorly attended show at the Ashcroft. I reckon there were less than 100 people there with my friend being able to get five tickets in the fourth row two days before the show. Not over expensive (£25) but perhaps he's either lost his flair or it wasn't well advertised. He started and ended with The Great Song Of Indifference, the most irish like he gets. The set included loads of Boomtown Rats songs, ending with I Don't Like Mondays. Someone's Looking At You and Rat Trap prior to the encore. A great storyteller between songs, Bob introduced Scream In Vain being about a street in Addis Addaba where you would get stabbed, before adding just like Croydon a couple of weeks ago. In the enocore Bob rescinded slighly saying despite his misgivings at the start it's been a lot of fun. Here both Bob & myself agree.