Colchester Arts Centre 15/10/09

Colchester Arts Centre, a beautiful gothic church, situated ontop of the hill, with an equally beautiful pub 100 yards away... I was intrigued to find the similarities with my home town of Salisbury's Art's Centre, right down to its old manager who is now in charge of the Colchester venue.. small world... Oh, and another thing, who ever thought Colchester was a sleepy town was wrong, which you will find out about further into this review.........

So here we are, on the first date, of the second section of the Twisted Wheel tour, and the venue is filling up nicely, with chants of 'Wwwhhheeeeellll', to let the lads know that theres an eager crowd waiting. Of course, they don't disappoint, storming onstage and straight into 'Lucy The Castle', a completely changed set list to last week... quickly followed by 'Racket' and 'Bad Candy'

SET LIST

''Lucy The Castle'

'Racket'

'Bad Candy'

'One Night on the Street'

'Shes A Weapon'

'Let Them Have It All'

'Bouncing Bomb'

'Whats Your Name'

'Strife'

'Bang of the Beat'

'Smash It Up'

'We Are Us'

'Oh What Have You Done'

'You Stole The Sun'

With the crowd being so rowdy, it wasn't long before the first stage invasion of the evening. In fact, there were many, much to the annoyance of the bouncers, who really seemed to be a bunch of 'jobsworths'. Infact Jonny pleaded to leave the extras on stage, but unfortunately, they were removed, one of the bouncers even remonstrated with Jonny which angered the crowd somewhat. We're all here to have a good time, so why do they see the need to spoil things?

The good people of Colchester obviously love Twisted Wheel and really showed their appreciation and I am sure the lads were so impressed by the evenings events that they will certainly request to make a return date

the bouncers being a bit rough...