Fi-Lo who?

Back at the real Fibbers last night, rather than the fake one in the centre of town. It looked like they hadn't had chance to put the black backdrop back up on the stage yet though.

Fi-Lo-Beddow were playing. Not a particularly well known band, but it's actually just Mark Morriss from The Bluetones with an acoustic guitar. He was quite apologetic at times: "I'm not the best guitarist in The Bluetones. I'm not even the third best.". Well, he sounded alright to me.

Quite a mix of songs "Some old, some new, some borrowed and some... Blue". A reference to his band there rather than implying that he was going to start playing some dirty rugby songs. So what did we have? Starting with Keep The Home Fires Burning, he moved onto a new song which was followed by an old Teenage Fanclub track and Gouge Away by The Pixies. And then more songs.

The new solo songs actually sounded pretty good to me. Better than some of the more recent Bluetones material. He played a couple of tracks from his as yet unreleased and unfinished CD (ie using a CD player) towards the end and they're recorded with a band rather than just solo so they could easily actually be Bluetones Material if you weren't paying attention. Which I think I mean as a compliment.

So a pretty good gig. Finally, it should also be mentioned that Mark is currently sporting much shorter hair than usual. This confused me a little at first, but once he started speaking it was clear that he wasn't an imposter.