Gig report: The Damsons @ The Man On The Moon, Cambridge

Band: The Damsons
Venue: The Man On The Moon, Cambridge
Date: 02/04/10
Audience: Young, squeaky, and slightly sarcastic
Set: Be True, Going Places, Goodnight Baby, In The Meantime, Show Me The Way, Million Day Dreams, Dark Outside
Notes: It would be wrong to say this was 'fucking awful', which is what I said backstage after the show (I like the fact the Man On The Moon has a backstage area by the way, although it's pretty much just a storage cupboard with a bench). We were supporting Kyan Kuatois, who everyone has been raving about recently. He's 21, the next big thing, and to be main support should have been a big deal to us, and I'm not ungrateful to Jordan for booking us. But when an artist is 21, the next big thing, and with a charm that young ladies go bizarre at comes an audience full of teenagers, many of whom just look in the lower reaches of teen-hood at that. It felt like there was hundreds of them, swarming around everywhere and making us feel old. The opening act, my old friend and former musical collaborator Alex Harris played his arse off and was practically ignored. We didn't play our arses off as such because we had some major sound issues and played almost hesitantly, and every time Christena (rightly) asked the audience if they were looking forward to seeing Kyan play she was greeted with screams which resembled a boyband gig. We didn't actually go down badly - every song was met with a decent amount of applause, and 'In The Meantime' was met with a really huge amount of appreciation - possibly because it's our best song, but more than likely sarcastic from an audience whom I never felt comfortable performing to. Kyan by the way was excellent, and a nice chap too, even he looked slightly bewildered by the whole thing.