Feeder - Classic Grand Glasgow

Went along last Thursday to see Feeder at another small venue.  This mini tour that they were doing was really for them to play their new songs live as a warm up for the festival season.  Having managed to get hold of the new album Silent Cry which is out on the 16th of June I knew they would play a lot of new songs.

The set list which was as follows :

Feeling A Moment
Shatter
Miss You
We Are The People
Come Back Around
Tracing Lines
Guided By A Voice
Just The Way I'm Feeling
Sonorous
Pushing The Senses
My Perfect Day
Fires
Yesterday Went Too Soon
Lost And Found

encore

High
Just A Day

Good to see they are playing My Perfect Day and Yesterday Went Too Soon.  The new songs sound good live (6 of them) and I am pretty sure they will be doing a tour in September or October to support Silent Cry.

The venue itself is somewhere I had never been to see a gig.  As usual we turned up late and missed the support band, by the time we got in it was packed.  Managed to make our way down onto the floor and my 1st thoughts were hmm this could be a struggle to see the band.  The stage is about 1ft off the ground making it hard for the vertically challenged people to see.  As soon as they came on I could just see their heads.  My recommendation if you are seeing a band in here is head in early to either get close to the front or so you can stand at the balcony.  The sound from here was great and was a nice pleasant venue.  I look forward to seeing more bands in here.

Again no photo shots due to having a crappy camera, really need to invest in a new one!

Bruges

A short train ride (40 mins or so) from Brussels is Bruges.  We decided to visit this city on our second day in Belgium.  Getting of the train the city looked like any other city so far.  Train station loads of cars and buses.  In the distance we could see some church steeples and decided to head in that direction.

As soon as we crossed the main road beside the train station there was a major loss of cars and the roads became rather narrow and a lot more push bikes appeared.  Turns out that the city from this ring round has been preserved as a historic city (no idea what era Google says 12th onwards).

Meandering round the small streets and catching all the sites we also noticed how many canals there was in the city, we found a boat which was fairly priced which took us a tour of the city on the canals.

Some more beer stops and we sampled the local beer.  Brugse Zot  translates to mad Bruges.  The beer is still brewed in the historic center itself.  One of the best beers that we sampled while in Belgium.

A walk back to the train station and a well deserved snooze on the train was now in hand.

Brussels

For my birthday Michele booked a weekend break in Brussels.  Was not somewhere that was high on my list of places to see but hey ho she was paying for it and she did mention that there was loads of beers.

When we arrived there we decided to find our hotel and then have a stroll round the hotel.  Michele booked us the Renaissance Hotel in the European area of the city (right beside the parliament).  After getting settled it was decided we would have a quick stroll round the area we were in.  We found a nice area for drinks at the Place Jourdan which had lots of cafe's selling all sorts of beer.

While grabbing some beer we bought some well deserved fries from the Masion Antonie, Belgium fries cant go wrong there.  These fries were fantastic and I would highly recommend anyone going to Brussels to hunt this place out for the fries alone.  After sampling some more of the local beers at the Place du Luxembourg we decided that the next day we would head to Bruges for a day trip as we wanted to see that city as well.

After our trip to Bruges we were back in the city and ready to explore.  We jumped on the underground to the center of town and then hopped on a city bus (decided that this would be the best way to see most things in the city)  City bus was pretty decent took about an hour all in and covered a fair amount of the city with plenty of stops if you wanted to get off.  After doing this trip we decided to head for the Grand Place are have a look about here and trying to hunt down the Manneken Pis who was dressed up for us today.

Another beer stop after this before we decided to use the tour guide book we had and try and find a chocolatier that was a ride away in the underground.  Without getting lost we managed to get right to the place and sampled some chocos.

With all the site seeing done for the day it was time to head back to the Place Jourdan for some chill out beers and fries!