Just returned home from Newcastle after another amazing concert. If I thought Leeds was amazing then Newcastle was completely super-duper fantastic! Everything sounded better for me, largely due to the fact that the echo that I had heard in Leeds was no longer there and even the brassies sounded better, including the trumpet.
Mark was in fine form and I completely disagree with the report from the Chronicle that this was a static audience. When Why Aye Man began, there were lots of people on their feet, clapping already. Mark told the audience how great it was to be back in his home town and quoted some lines from Southbound Again and then said something like "I hate quoting myself" and the audience responded, laughing!
Met up with lots of people from amit again and we ended the evening discussing the show over drinks at the hotel. Thanks for a great time to my amit friends and, of course to Mark and his wonderful band.
PS Made it to the stage again, but had to climb over some people to get there!
Nobody seemed to know about the running of the bulls! Some others cottoned on eventually!
My next concert is Verona, which I know will be bittersweet.