The Gaslight Anthem at Leeds - First Gig of 2013

I'll never get a job as a gig reviewer with these immense writing skills, but finally writing about 2013's first show! Last week I went to Leeds for The Gaslight Anthem with my friend Kate for what must be the worst organised trip anywhere, ever! Stupidly last minute, we planned it the day before, despite me going round to hers 3 weeks ago specifically to sort it out. We ended up making cake pops and not mentioning TGA once! But look at these works of art... Obviously we were concentrating so hard on them there was no time for distractions... Something like that...

Awesome cakepops...Nailed it.

But we got there. That's what's important. Had a quick detour into One Direction World to have our picture taken with the boys (yeah we only pretend to be into cool music) and off to the academy. Support band was the Japandroids who were pretty good, two guys - one on guitar, one on drums. Couldn't really understand the vocals, which is a shame.

Then the sound of 'Jump' by Van Halen. And Gaslight time! Loved it. They played a great show with a good mix of all the records. My absolute favourite moment was in Too Much Blood - when Brian Fallon sings 'Now I am no devil but I've got things on my mind' His voice! It was fierce! Wow! His voice in general was awesome. I think I'm developing a bit of a fan girl crush...

They played so many songs, about 25 in total, the energy levels were high all through the show and the excitement in the air was as you'd expect for a sell out show with some great singalongs.

I hope it's not too long before they're back.

Gaslight Photos courtesy of Kate Wall and her iPhone skillz