11 June 2014 - HMV Oxford Street, London

On my way to oxford street, i'm so excited! Hope the whole session will be broadcast on youtube and everybody can watch it.

Hope it was good.I once again couldn't make it .I was going to throw a sickie but sometimes in life shit happens and other stuff is more important .Il make do with the broadcast instead.

What did they play, Josh?

Good good- sounds like you had a great time!

Not sure didn't look it was, there used to be a massive one and this one was smaller with a gig venue upstairs


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A bit more about today - it was very unroganised at HMV, I went early and some of us were suddenly led upstairs far ahead of schedule (meaning that I had to abandon my +1 joshman who made it after all as you know). So we ended up at the tiniest barrier in the world and 3 of them turned up at 12 and there was a problem with Tim's guitar and it needed tuning which Serge found very amusing


Tom instantly got bored and was all 'I'm going to toilet' and Serge left too until Tim and their guitar tech sorted it out. Then they came back and played Bumblebeee which is very unexpectedly pretty and fragile as an acoustic song. I think it suits tom's voice so perfectly. Then it was Stevie, Tom took the chair back to the wall and sang it standing and sat down at the back in the end when Serge was singing, which was somehow very moving because he was making the cutest emotional faces.

Then he came back with his chair for SPS which I love so much and which was absolutely perfect. Tim joined Tom for some of the backing vocals which was lovely and that was it. Here are my pics from the set.




Then we had to queue for signing with 4 of them but Tim came up to talk to some of us while we were waiting and signed some things - I asked him to sign the album vinyl and the white processed beats flag which was signed by most of the band in 2010. I want to frame it once I have Ben's and Gary's signatures too. Then we were led to the signing table, had a bit of chat with them (somehow I ended up talking about Treat to most of them them, and was reassured by both Ian and Tom that the outro won't be dropped for the live performances). I had my vinyl signed by all of them and the flag by Serge (whose signature had disappeared from there somehow) and Ian (who decided that my flag needs his signature twice) and it was all over beacuse they had to rush to Madia Vale.

Transmitter posted the first video. Which I can't watch because apparently GEMA blocks random acoustic performances now? I'd have better luck in China.