Ben Lee live!

We went with Alix to see Ben Lee at the Sidetrack Cafe (its new location is not as close as it used to be - the layout is a little strange for gigs too). He was in the middle of a Canadian tour and Col noticed that he was playing, we got tickets and boom! in the middle of the busiest social week of the year we end up grooving to some Aussie tunes after a party at the Hopes.

Most of the night was the new songs off his Awake Is The New Sleep album but my personal favourite was when he played Cigarettes Will Kill You with a huge instrumental in the middle. That used to be one of my favourite songs of all time and it got a lot of rotations on the little clunky stereo system on top of my antique wardrobe in the house in Stanmore. Seeing it live was pretty magical I must say. Of course we went out and got his new album straight away and have now played it a whole bunch as well. Songs are always easier to fall in love with if you can see them being played in front of you.