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No, hang on a minute, that's not right is it? No, because on Friday night I popped down to the King & Queen in London's Fashionable Fitzrovia to meet Mr S Wilkinson for a drink or two before going to see Prolapse at The 100 Club. Yes, that was it, how on earth was I getting that confused eh?
For LO! The club may have been 100 but the night itself felt extremely NINETIES, as it was full of old pals and old tunes, all of which I was DELIGHTED to be experiencing again. This was, of course, not the first time I have been to see a fellow Validator at this venue - thinking about it, technically it's not even the second time I have been to see a BANDMATE there either - so maybe that's another reason it felt so Princess Charlotte-ESQUE, as a place I knew well and rather liked. INDEED my various experiences of going to gigs there meant that when we arrived I was able to steer Simon over to the far side of the venue where I knew there to be a much less busy BAR, space to stand, and also easy access to the LOO!
These are all important things for me at gigs these days, and looking around I felt safe in the knowledge that I was not alone in this. The VAST majority of the audience were people who, like us, had likely seen Prolapse MANY times the first time around, and of these almost ALL had made the decision to wear SHORTS. I had SEVERAL conversations with different people saying "Phew! I thought I'd be the only one wearing shorts tonight", as there was an idea in my BRANE and clearly other people's that everyone else would be wearing skinny black jeans and long raincoats, but no, it was all 6Music Dad casual. Or to put it another way, it looked like about 300 BARBECUES had been rained off and made to shelter indoors.
We got there just in time for the end of Jetstream Pony, who I have seen and played with several times OUTDOORS, but I don't think I've ever seen them INDOORS before and I must say they sounded GRATE. Can sound be more COMPRESSED inside a venue than out the back of one? Either way, it really suited them!
After that there was a LOT of bumping into people which, as the estimable Mr J Jervis pointed out later, is one of the main JOYS of these sort of gigs, especially now that we don't have the annual reunions of Indietracks. It was lovely to wander round going "Oh HELLO, how are you?" about 17,000,000 times, and there was much hugging!
This was then followed by Prolapse themselves, featuring our very own Mr T Pattison who played SO HARD that I believe he broke a drumstick! Here they all are in ACTION:
After seeing the high quality photographs in the previous blog you are probably thinking that this was also taken by a pro photographer with expensive equipment, but NO! Incredibly these were taken by ME using a simple mobile telephone!
The gig was GRATE, as per - the sound levels took a couple of songs to bed in, or rather to SMUSH TOGETHER into the massive sonic RACKET of Prolapse - but once that was done it was FAB. As with last time I saw them there was a definite move towards What They Used To Be Like Back In The Previous Century i.e. not the all out HITS PACKAGE of when they first got back together but rather a ramshackle, chatty, slightly dishevelled but then SUDDENLY ENORMOUS sound that I for one really really like. It even included Pat leaving his guitar up against the amp at the end - really all it needed was for there to be some old TV sets on stage getting smashed up and it would have been PERFECT!
It was thus a ROCK SATISFIED Hibbett who left the venue, after further HUGS VARIOUS, with a spring in my step and a sudden urge to go to GRANBY FISHERIES on the way home!
posted 8/8/2026 by MJ Hibbett
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