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King Creosote,\u00a0Manchester Academy 2,\u00a027 January 2015<\/em><\/p>\n

You remember the first time you hear King Creosote.<\/p>\n

\u2018The internet sent me on a date and the guy gave me a lift home afterwards,\u2019 the woman next to me says. Like everyone else in Academy 2, she is wearing her coat, both hands around her plastic cup of Red Stripe, as if it could warm them. \u2018He kept pointing out takeaways where he\u2019d gotten food poisoning, or seen people having fights, so I asked him to put music on. No One Had It Better<\/i>. Then Two Frocks At A Wedding<\/i>. The album is so good I actually considered giving him a goodnight kiss.\u2019<\/p>\n

On stage, mic stands, amps and a cello are backlit by orange and blue spots. The light feels simultaneously cold and warm. It seems fitting.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was walking around Bournemouth with my girlfriend\u2019s MiniDisc player.\u2019 The man behind us has joined in. He nods at the bar. \u2018She\u2019s getting the next round.\u2019<\/p>\n

Then it\u2019s my turn. M\u00fcnchner Freiheit U-bahn station, waiting for the first train. The pillars separating the lines glowed blue, as if waiting to be fastened around wrists, moved to music. My best friend was still asleep in the bed we\u2019d shared that weekend. I wouldn\u2019t see her again for six months. I put in my earphones and scrolled to the playlist she\u2019d made me. John Taylor\u2019s Month Away<\/i>. Bats in the Attic<\/i>. I was early \u2013 couldn\u2019t risk missing my flight home \u2013 and tired, and suddenly crying. When I looked up, the ceiling was tiled in mirrors.<\/p>\n

There is movement on stage, places taken behind keyboards, drums and the double bass. \u2018Have fun,\u2019 we tell each other. King Creosote opens the set with a smile, a quick \u2018Hey, Manchester\u2019, and the first track on From Scotland With Love. Again, it seems fitting: \u2018You promised me a feeling \/ Something to believe in\u2019.<\/p>\n

He offers us a new song, I\u2019m A Great Believer In Threes<\/i>, written when he broke his foot. \u2018If you do something hideous to a bone in your body,\u2019 he says, \u2018you start hearing all these tales of people who did something worse. Tales you always thought you\u2019d have to go on the internet to find.\u2019 Everyone dances to mentions of the \u2018Anne Frank break\u2019, the refrain \u2018please just leave me be\u2019.<\/p>\n

Pauper\u2019s Dough<\/i> comes surprisingly early in the set. I\u2019ve always imagined it as ideal for an encore, the swell of it, the repeated rallying cry: \u2018You\u2019ve got to rise above the gutter you are inside\u2019. Instead, tonight, it\u2019s delicate, even as other voices join his, plaintive rather than triumphant, urgent. Especially when the band moves straight into Carry On Dancing<\/i>, which asks \u2018how\u2019s that fair? \/ Take one of us instead \/ Take one of us older ones instead\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018That cheered you up,\u2019 King Creosote jokes afterwards.<\/p>\n

Those for whom tonight is the first time will remember songs new enough to need music and lyrics, the sheets sometimes floating from the stands mid-song: Search Party For One<\/i>, sung entirely by Amy MacDougall, (one-line review by the man behind me: shades of Bjork but with an accordion), Penny Drops and the devastating Kirby Grips (\u2018Is it enough that you loved me once \/ Left Kirby grips in every room of my house\u2019).<\/p>\n

They will remember how guitarist Sorren Maclean and cellist Pete Harvey hug their instruments when not called upon for a song, as if it\u2019s the only way to keep their hands still.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll remember the cover of Demis Roussos\u2019 Forever and Ever, a song they probably didn\u2019t even realise they knew. The two encores, one fake (the band don\u2019t even leave the stage) and one real, both eliciting stamped feet and whistles.<\/p>\n

\u2018One more tune,\u2019 a man shouts, when the band files sheepishly \u2013 because they\u2019d promised they wouldn\u2019t do this \u2013 back onto the stage.<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019re gonna do one more tune,\u2019 King Creosote agrees.<\/p>\n

\u2018Two more tunes, then. Three!\u2019<\/p>\n

They will remember how we\u2019re told to put our arms around the people next to us and sway together to Homeboy: \u2018Me, myself and Prozac, together as one\u2019. How the room doesn\u2019t feel so cold anymore, and, when they step out into the night, the wind not so sharp.<\/p>\n

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