I went to a gig last night at Wellington Town Hall. There were three stage invasions, a high-octane cover of Black Sabbath's Paranoid as an encore, and the ending was a crescendo of feedback. Yes, this is what you get from a Jarvis Cocker concert. Absolutely the best gig I've been to in years, the man is an total pro and gave it everything in spite of jetlag. And he's such a star, women will even jump on stage to kiss his arse. Some of the men in the audience were even desperate to touch him! He can actually rock pretty hard, it's just a shame that the shoegazers making up the audience didn't know how to mosh. The support, Phoenix Foundation, were very enjoyable, reminiscent of 1990s British indie in the vein of The Weddding Present, or at times James. There must have been something else as well, because today I had a massive urge to play Get over you by the Undertones. I felt like a teenager again.
Gigs aside, I carried on with a bit of wiring on Steinrücken yesterday. I have chosen to try Atlas points in the hidden sidings, as for the same price locally as Peco, you get the point itself with a motor ready fitted, a switch and a small roll of five wire ribbon. I wouldn't use these points on scenic areas, as aside from the sharp radius, they're frankly quite ugly, especially with the motor fitted. However, in the hidden areas, they're a good economic proposition.
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