Blog: Fighting Cocks

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Another night out last night, as I was off to ISLINGTON to see The Fighting Cocks. One of the MANY improvements in their STATUS of late is that these days they play MUCH MUCH MUCH nicer venues - a few years ago I seemed to always be seeing them out in cranky old nasty pubs MILES from anywhere, but recently it's been a LOT a) easier b) more pleasant to hang around where they're playing. I haven't been in The Hope & Anchor for AGES, and it was MOST pleasant, even if the BEER seemed to be off. Followers of my BOOZE HABITS will be pleased to hear that this time i very sensibly DIDN'T default to Bad Lager, and had a couple of tasty pints of GUINESS instead.

I arrived to find the downstairs DESERTED, as there'd been a Running Order Switcharound, so went upstairs to find The Cocks sitting with the chaps from Phoenix FM, and so we fell to CHATTING for a little while, before following the band down for the gig itself.

It was absolutely GRATE - yes, I know i always say that about The Fighting Cocks because really it is TRUE, but this time it seemed EXTRA GRATE. Maybe it's the touring they've been doing, or maybe it was just that the sound was really good, but they sounded FANTASTIC, and BY HECK the dance routines were CRACKING. I've always said that the Women Cocks have had a good influence on Charlie because... well, because they obviously HAVE, but now I'm starting to think he's having an influence back on THEM, as every seemed extremely UP for it and only SECONDS away from GURNING FOR JOY.

Also rather groovy was the fact that the set seemed to be very largely made up of NEW songs (or at least from the new album anyway), and it all sounded BRILLIANT. There was a LOT of singing along, lots of LARFS, and the best bellow of "BEER!" at the end in the "England! BEER!" song (can't remember the name...) I've ever heard. It was just ACE. INDEED i felt privileged to think that THEY were the band The Validators have done the most gigs with. HOORAH!

Being a London Resident of some years standing i felt another surge of DEEP CONTENTMENT after they'd finished as I realised that - OH BOY! - i was in good time to get to Blackhorse Road and get the over-land train home, cutting my journey time in HALF. This is the sort of thing that gives me BIG THRILLS, and thus it was an EXTREMELY happy Hibbett who strode off into the night, a mighty big grin plastered all over my MUSH.

posted 25/8/2006 by MJ Hibbett

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