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OK Go - Koko, London (29/06/11)

Starting off honest again, OK Go are pretty much my favourite band, entity, thing, in the entire world. I started off loving them for their music and contrary to most, I had not once witnessed the treadmill video before listening to their discography, so I can say I genuinely loved their music, but the videos added to their genuine incredible-meter as a whole. Anyway, I was meant to see them tomorrow as well as Wednesday, but turns out I have another engagement which I’d rather not see (particularly as tomorrow was also a Flaming Lips gig). Anyway, the show. The show opened with Mike Doughty, who I thought was a welcome open act, though I did arrive late. He was spunky and acoustic and funny and overall a good opener. And then we move on to OK Go, who opened with ‘Do What You Want’, an unexpected move by me.

I’m not entirely sure the band are crowd-pleasers, because for all my love of them, for the first half, or at least until ‘Here It Goes Again’, their major hit, and ‘Get Over It’, I was very easily the only one dancing or singing along (and they showed their amusement at it too). I’m a huge fan and I love them and I really cannot express it, but they get better for me every time. I lose all sense of rationality when it comes to my boys, because they’re too wonderful for me to judge, so I guess you’d better get yourself along to one and go for yourself. The concerts are always intense, but they’re brilliant and light-hearted each time.

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Morrissey - Grimsby (28/06/11)

Okay, at this point I’ll be honest and say I’m not a massive fan of Morrissey - in fact, I’m much more into The Smiths, though I think Meat Is Murder is quite overdramatic. But nevertheless, I was pretty excited about this gig. Having gotten to the front and dealt with a lot of crazy fangirls to do it (one screamed every time he wiped his sweat off), I really enjoyed this concert - he put on a great show, and he played a lot that I recognised, and a lot of it was all very ‘best of’, though finishing with This Charming Man was an anticipated stroke of genius, because even though we anticipated it, we all loved it anyway. Out of the band, I really loved the bassist, Solomon Walker - I really liked his style and he kept it together very well. That’s pretty much it as far as Morrissey’s concerned - if he comes to town again, I’ll definitely go see him, but if he’s away, I wouldn’t do it alone, I’m not that huge a fan. Wonderful show, though.