Last night I went to see the band Dinosaur Jr at the Troxy. Dinosaur Jr were around when I was a teenager when they released the album of theirs that is still my favourite (Bug, featuring their signature song Freakscene). They are still going today, and like many bands of that era they tour with special anniversary concerts of particular albums.
Yesterday they played the songs from their 1995 album Without A Sound from start to finish, then went on with another half dozen songs from their catalogue. That included Freakscene, which I sat listening to with a big grin on my face. They ended with their stylish take on The Cure's song Just Like Heaven.
The audience was about 50% bearded middle aged men (like me), with the rest made up (roughly in order of number) middle-aged men without beards, women, and teenagers either there with their parents, or apparently there because they are independently into these dinosaurs
I'd never been to the Troxy before. It's in Limehouse, and was once a cinema serving the local, relatively poor, population. The area was largely bombed and/or cleared of slums during and after the war, and the cinema audience then dwindled. After serving a couple of uses of the years, it is now an events venue. We had seating tickets up on the balcony and while Dinoaur Jr are something of a noisy band to which the audience can gainfully mosh, my 51 year old frame was happy enough with a seat.
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