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Last night was something of a lesson in asking questions first. It might, for example, be a good idea to find out which part of the venue your friends are going to be in before buying an overpriced last-minute ticket (er, then spending more money to get another one, also for the wrong part of the venue). Luckily it was all sorted out and I eventually managed to change that for a ticket that let me in to sit with everyone else, without spending any more.

And it was a cracking gig. I’ve only got two Powderfinger albums, but I knew every song they played. I’m not used to sitting down, though. Watching a gig from one of the upper levels of the Shepherd’s Bush Empire is an odd experience. It feels like the band are playing to the people down on the floor and your just observing from above–a sort of out-of-body gig experience.

The other thing about sitting down is that you can keep going back to the bar all night without having to worry about finding your way back into the crowd. That seemed like a good thing last night, but this morning I’m not so sure.

I’ve also never seen a support band I’ve never heard of go down as well as Jebediah did, but then I suppose their generic aussie guitar rock was slightly more familiar to the rest of the audience than it was to me.

Oh, and Powderfinger will be back in the UK in February, apparently. Maybe this time I’ll get tickets when they go on sale, like everybody else.

Today, I will be wasting time browsing the excellent Group Hug online confessional website (links from the Guardian Online section and the lnr journal). It’s a bit like the man who fell asleep website (which is full of things supposedly overheard on the tube, sample: “I spoke to God and he told me that he hates you”).

Only better.