So we went back the next night, and the Soledad Brothers had put us in for backstage passes as well as guestlist stuff (them knowing Ivy from back in Detroit).

And Spiritualized were BETTER. I’m not sure how they did that. Same set as Sunday, plus ‘Electric Mainline’, but about twice as loud. And tighter. And yet most of the songs went on longer (’Cop Shoot Cop’ in particular just fucking lifted off).

The band turned out to be a very nice bunch of guys, even if the three of us were stuck in fanboy mode, and they mix a very, very strong drink. At the end of the night we smoked up with the roadies and then, since they were leaving the country, the one that got us in gave us his Canuck dollars to get a ($40) cab home to Pete’s place.

Sweet Jesus, what a night.