Tom Vek

Last night saw my brother and I head to the Tom Vek gig, held at The Venue. The show ran from about 7 to 10, with two support acts. I did try and blog live from the event (via Flickr), but it didn’t work, sadly.

Beerjacket was one man and his guitar – not something I’d listen to out of choice, but he was not bad. He had a few more upbeat songs which helped his cause and which I really liked; they weren’t just all monotonous ballads, thankfully.

The Fallout Trust were on next – woah! These guys (6-piece band) are good. They were giving out free CD-ROMs with some of their stuff too, which was nice of them – very very impressive live; the recordings don’t translate that quality across though, but they still sound pretty good to me.

Finally, the man himself appeared, and played most (if not all) the songs from his album We Have Sound, plus a couple of new tracks, with the bass set to maximum. Awesome stuff, and again, even better than the CD itself, I think.

In terms of value for money, probably the best ever: £7.50 for 3 hours and 3 acts. Nice.