Babyshambles, Koko
Just a couple of words about last nights Babyshamles gig.

Firstly, Pete now looks to be fully "recovered" from his problems and looks to be pretty sober and, well, a bit chubby. Patrick still looks like a skeleton with a thin skin stretched over the top, so we can only assume he is still smoking something a little stronger than Benson & Hedges.

It looks like the recent studio time the band have had recording their album has paid off – with several new songs in tonight’s set (or at least songs that we haven’t heard before) and thoughts that Pete may loose his muse along with the crack pipe can be put aside.

However, tonight’s show won’t go down as one of the most memorable ‘shambles gigs and I just don’t know why – there just seems to be something lacking. Pete moves around the stage like he used to in the old Libertines days; the crowd go nuts for everything he and the band do and the whole stalls area of Koko becomes one massive moshpit; Pete still seems as anarchic as ever – throwing his mic into the front row (which results in a cringe-worthy eulogy about Pete being the King of our generation from the kid who catches it), only for the cable to emerge sans mic.

No, I just can’t place why this gig just feels a little wrong and it’s not that it’s all over by 9:45.
- posted by Nigella @ 9:47 AM