Patrick Wolf- Zodiac, 6th Feb

(Copied from my last.fm journal)

LESSONS LEARNED
(in chronological order)

1. Nice people from last.fm may in fact turn out to be nice people in real life.

2. Never, ever trust the Zodiac to start a gig at anything approaching a reasonable hour. Having the support act on one hour fifteen minutes after the doors open, so the main act is on an hour after that, is fine by them. They do not care that some patrons may have to leave at a certain hour in order to get public transport home, and thus miss half the gig. They have no souls.

3. No Bra is impossible to describe politely.

4. The Zodiac staff are still doing their best to protect the innocent, by soon stopping No Bra from proving his/her own name. (Yes, I know there were breasts, but I refuse to accept that he/she is an actual woman.)

5. Never feed drugs to ginger midgets. You will risk being taken out by their wildly flailing, wee little limbs.

6. Patrick Wolf is a very, very pretty man. Okay, so I already knew that, but he is especially pretty when dressed in sideways hair, a swoosh of glitter over one eye and an amazing electric blue military-style-buttoned tailcoat thing.

7. Patrick Wolf is still an amazing virtuoso violinist, and Overture is a brilliant opener.

8. Virginals are far nicer sounding than harpsichords, and Mr Wolf can play one as nicely as he does the piano. And Bluebells sounds especially brilliant on it.

9. Theramins are fun. I want one.

10. The ukelele on Augustine is still incredibly menacing in the most awesome way imaginable.

11. Patrick Wolf has a friend named Craig who looks like a woman but whose name suggests otherwise (my ability to guess people's genders has been messed with after witnessing No Bra). When drunk, Craig can be persuaded to get on stage with Patrick and sing Larrkin's part on Accident and Emergency.

12. Leaving after only 45 minutes of Patrick Wolf, and hearing Tristan booming from upstairs whilst leaving the building, is very saddening indeed.

Songs we did see, in as much of an order as I can remember, are:
Overture
Let's Get Lost
To the Lighthouse
Bluebells
Jacob's Ladder
Augustine
Don't Say No
Accident & Emergency

What we saw was fantastic, but I'm still really, really annoyed that we only got to see half. Maybe there were technical difficulties or something- we only got there at eight, so we don't know. I'm particularly upset that we didn't see Bloodbeat or A Boy Like Me, as those were probably my favourites from last time.

Anyone care to fill me in on what we missed?

***EDIT*** I love YouTube. The Wolf plays Overture: