The Divine Comedy, Oxford Brookes, October 30th.

Fantastic, incredible show. The support act, Duke Special, were entertaining, but are a bit more engaging onstage than on CD (mainly because of the percussionist's insane home-made devices for making banging and crashing noises). The Divine Comedy themselves were awesome - they played all the songs I'd been hoping from from their earlier albums and the best tracks from the new one, and my respect for Neil Hannon has grown immensely now that I've seen proof that he can pull off the songs live. And he even did a Prince cover!

The setlist:

Mother Dear
The Light of Day
When the Lights Go Out All Over Europe
Becoming More Like Alfie
Bad Ambassador
Your Daddy's Car
A Lady of a Certain Age
The Plough
Generation Sex
Threesome
Don't Look Down
Something For the Weekend
Little Red Corvette
Our Mutual Friend
Tonight We Fly
National Express (Encore)