Gig report: Eureka Stockade & Aidy @ The Portland Arms, Cambridge

Bands: Eureka Stockade, Aidy
Venue: The Portland Arms, Cambridge
Date: 05/02/11
Audience: Really very nice indeed, enthusiastic and appreciative
Sets: Aidy (not sure), Eureka Stockade - She Got Good, All Alone, Without You, Violence, Through Every Darkness, Heroes Fall, Erotomania
Notes: A good little gig this. This is the first time we've gone full band with Aidy's set - it was still the three of us (Aidy, Dave and me) but with drums rather than percussion, and it was enormously good fun. Okay, so we weren't the tightest, but in a New Wave kinda way it worked, I sometimes feel Aidy doesn't get enough credit as a songwriter - there's some proper good stuff in there. The Eureka Stockade set had the same vibe as Aidy's - although we were well rehearsed, there was a ramshackle charm to the performance, with the odd glitch in tightness forgiven due to the enthusiasm and energy of the show. The Portland Arms is a lovely venue to play when we have an audience like this - it's a small venue, but with a really good turnout like we were lucky to have it felt vibrant. A lot of the people in the crowd were singing along to the Eureka stuff - I know it's a home audience and all that, but it was very lovely all the same.