Thursday, May 23, 2002 Iain Harvie

London

And so to London. An unusually long soundcheck on account of us being joined on stage by the wonderful Joti, Stella, Mandy and Izzy to provide real strings put Justin in a funny nervy frame of mind before the show but what can go wrong in Shepherds Bush Empire? You can see three bars from the stage here and just about order a guiness from the nearest. My kind of venue. The crowd are great as they always have been in London even since the very first shows we did in the old Marquee and the strings sound fucking amazing. During Just Getting By I was standing on stage wondering if it could possibly sound as good through the PA as it did where I was standing.