So calling the blog post 'the calm' was a self fulfilling prophecy in more ways than one. Our habit of playing gigs in the stormiest of weather continues, so much so that mister Steve Reddy has renamed us 'Raingel Pier'... We'll let him away with leaving out the 'The'. Apparently from the time we went on stage to the time we left the stage the weather went from slightly rainy to unbelievably stormy, so much there was talk of shutting Oxegen down around 9PM, not sure how true that is. The tent was at capacity before we went on so anyone trying to get in out of the weather wouldn't have had much chance. The gig itself went really well from our point of view & we got an incredible reaction from the hugely enthusiastic crowd. The picture above is a pic that Luke took in the middle of the set, requesting that the lights go up to document the moment. The pic was taken about a millisecond before the lights went up, hence the alien footage like quality... We've filmed the whole thing so we plan to have snippets appearing online on our various sites in the coming weeks, keep an ould eye out for that. The crowd were amazing, if you were there & you're now reading this, thank you from the bottom of our collective hearts... hmmm 'collective hearts' could be a good song name, maybe not, anyways, tired as all hell today after said storm. The adrenalin comedown after a gig like that can only be combatted with copious amounts of alcohol & playing pool with big stars (ahem, luke). The upshot is we loved playing Oxegen & are now gonna be preparing for our next set of shows (Castlepalooza, Tower Instore & Whelans). All going well we'll be playing a couple of completely new numbers in Whelans. Brain melting now, transmission over... Darragh.
