Carina @ ULU

[Steve]

SETLIST

• Motel 74
• Shoot
• Lacuna
• Elegy
• Monument
• Into My Blood

Another short, sweet set from Carina! Nice to hear Elegy live again (quite different from the studio version) and there was time for Into My Blood!;D

ULU is a pretty nice little venue but the crowd response was not as good as it should have been. Apathetic student oiks! It seemed most were there for Mew and Mew alone. Felt a little sorry for Carina at the beginning but after a couple of songs I think she turned most of them around. I heard this guy in front of me who was pulling stupid disapproving faces early on say he liked Lacuna (not that he said 'Lacuna' obviously, but in reference to it being played ) and actually started to bother clapping properly after

Hehe it just pissed me off because I was stuck behind him in the crowd and he wasn't even appreciating it ... grr

Anyway, there were those that definitely did enjoy it as I saw people buying The Disconnection later!

Rich, I think we might have seen you! Not sure!

[Rich (NLi10)]

If there was a tall person near the front, quite possibly in your way then that was me. I have to be at the front because I have small friends. And because I like being at the front. ;D

I was into it all the way and even thought the Amberseeds (or whatever) were quite good too. Lots of people at the front knew the words to Carina's stuff and I thought she got quite a good reception for an unknown support band. They have a lovely round sound now and seem to fill the venue with sound. I noticed a guitar tech too!

MEw were good too although they did use too many lights. I was blind and deaf by the end of it.

Couldn't see the Carina stuff for sale at the end, was it on the sound desk or with the Mew t-shirts?

[Glenn]

merchandise!?! what kind of stuff??

[ecosid]

Steve said:

student oiks!

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;D - It was the guy behind me that said, before Carina came on, "oh god they're going to use a cello" (in a kind of harry enfield character sort of way) that got me.

But yeah, Oiks aside, another good night. Didn't see any of the 1st band so can't really comment on them. Carina was great (can't wait 'till January for a full performance ;D), & Mew were ok, I suppose. Decent enough band, but didn't really float my boat.

[ecosid]

The merchandise was just her album - Carina was sat at the sound desk signing stuff etc etc.

[Steve]

Rich said:

Lots of people at the front knew the words to Carina's stuff and I thought she got quite a good reception for an unknown support band. They have a lovely round sound now and seem to fill the venue with sound. I noticed a guitar tech too!

Yeah I could see those at the front were into it! Carina certainly didn't bomb or anything ;D It's just I had a few dipshits around me who seemed to have made their minds up before Carina had really even started that they weren't going to like her But as I say I think she won them over by the end!

Gotta appreciate the moon boots at least! Come on! ;D

May need to post pics soon so anyone else knows what the hell I'm talking about!

[Steve]

Carina's furry moon boots in all their glory* ;D

*I've just been sifting through my photos and found a place to upload them to so hopefully I can share them all with you fairly soon! They vary in quality though so don't expect to be too impressed!

[Steve]

Ah it works now!

OK I'll try to upload the rest of the pics later today/tomorrow.