23-03-04 - Saturday I - Dry Cleaning @ Chalk, 1st March 2023

Saw Dry Cleaning at Chalk. They were brilliant. It was a sold out gig, so it was packed, which upsets me. It's good for the band and the venue, but when it's so busy that it's difficult to move I get a bit worried.

I missed the first support band but caught DEHD, which didn't float my boat; a couple of songs were okay though, which was nice.

Then Dry Cleaning came on and it's weird; the way the singer almost throws away the lyrics dismissively hides or distracts from the degree to which the rest of the band are wigging out most of the time. I enjoyed the performance, I recognised a few songs, although I thought they didn't do justice to Strong Feelings, the 1st song of theirs that I heard. I also thought they cut short one or two songs, but I might have got that wrong. The energy dipped in the middle, I thought, but then they brought it back for the finale, which of course included Scratchcard Lanyard. All told, it was a fine night and worth a trip into Brighton.

TTFN.