{"id":875,"date":"2004-02-15T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2010-05-07T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T19:51:00","slug":"875","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/875\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff trip report – The Loves argue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardiff report (part three)<\/strong>
\nHeadlining the night was the highly tipped rockers, The Loves.<\/p>\n

With a brace of high profile support gigs under their belts (Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs), I was looking forward to seeing the band – as were the Actionettes who’d been booked to perform one song with the band, dance a full set afterwards and then DJ for two hours.<\/p>\n

The evening was already running late when The Loves were due to go onstage. When they finally graced the stage, it was clear that lashings of alcohol – and quite possibly vats of industrial strength pharmaceuticals – had all been imbibed liberally by some members of the band.<\/p>\n

Instead of launching into their set, the singer decided to treat us to a truly unique rendition of The Who’s rock opera, ‘Tommy’. It was awful beyond words.<\/p>\n

Some members of the band appeared to gamefully go along with this deeply unrehearsed sonic assault, but it wasn’t long before a grand hissy fit broke out.<\/p>\n

Band members stormed off in all directions leaving a trail of naughty words in their wake.<\/p>\n

The Actionettes, sensing a night of chaos ahead, lobbied to go onstage, but any kind of decision making seemed beyond the drunken organisers.<\/p>\n

In the end, the band returned to play an unremarkable set with the house lights coming on the second they finished.<\/p>\n

Some of the crowd took this as their cue to leave, so by the time The Actionettes took to the stage, the place was half empty.<\/p>\n

Undeterred, the Actionettes were determined to salvage something from the night, and put on a lively set of dance moves.<\/p>\n

And then – to add insult to injury, the lights came back on after the third song and bouncers told everyone to leave.<\/p>\n

Not the greatest of nights then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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