A quick re-visit to Derek’s original Twilight Singers post from a little while back.

I saw the Twilight Singers last night. Let me just say - hallelujah! The show totally kicked my ass. They played for over two hours. First set was basically straight-up Blackberry Belle, with Black Is the Color of my True Love’s Hair thrown in for a laugh. And it sounded great - the band are super-tight (and sport super-fly threads) and they do this great between song interlude noodling thing. Plus Dulli was on superb form - cracking jokes, smoking like a chimney and just being all cool and sexified (although his paunch is veerying rather close to the spare tire zone). Set closer, The Zombies summer come-on classic ‘Time of the Season’ nearly made my knees buckle.

But the second set - holy smokes! It was pretty much an hour plus of the Ipod on random covers set. They did a note-for-note tribute to ‘Hey Ya’, plus ‘Dancing Queen’, ‘Layla’, ‘Rhiannon’ and even some frigging Darkness! And if that wasn’t enough, my contact gave us the sweet after-show party hook-up. Hung out, chatted and even met the bass player’s parents. All in all - a tip top night.