On Valentine's Day...

Pete and I trekked down to Bristol to see Beth Orton at Colston Hall. She was brill!

The support, Clay Hill, were great, the singer had a beautiful voice, and they had a very cool guy playing double bass and the scissors (which featured in a song called 'beard', inspired by seeing lots of people with wierd beards at a festival. Brilliant!).

Beth Orton was fantastic. She has the most gorgeous voice, and great songs. She played a lot of new stuff, which was great. For the old stuff it was just her and her guitar - marvellous. And she's nuts - in between songs she told corny jokes, and was generally quite random.

Colston Hall's really nice - having only been to standing gigs in students unions, the CIA and places like that, it was great to be in a non-smoking, sitting venue without the smell of pot and the random drunk guys falling about the place. And they sell coffee and ice cream!! man, I really am getting old...