Sunday, February 15, 2004
Ace of Blades
Yesterday we said that we'd be overjoyed if the Scissor Sisters came on stage and told us all to fuck off, so you can probably imagine how stupidly euphoric it made us when they came on stage and played lots of fabulous glitter-fuelled pop gems, looked like stars and generally set fire to the Venue in a way that should really have caused the sprinkler system to set itself off. We were even throwing some shapes as we danced like a fool. Not particularly good or stylish or rhythmic shapes, it must be said, but that didn't really matter, it was that sorta gig.
As a result of their general geniusness, we have decided not only to award the band a place in the 117 Acest Things Of All Time... Ever! list, but to award each member a place as well, so here, in order of aceness, is why:-
- Ana Matronic - Goddess of the band, we may well have fallen in love with her after last nights performance. She sings, she dances, she stances with style, she has lovely hair and, in a move that easily clinches her the position of acest member of the band, she uses a tambourine with such panache it made us smile as like gleeful idiots.
- Jake Shears - He too sings, dances and stances with style, but he drops out of pole position partly due to having less good hair, but mainly due to his faux-pas when he informed the people of Edinburgh how happy he was to be in England. The cheers turned instantly to boos and he seemed somewhat taken aback. Fortunately the lovely Ana managed to rescue the situation, another reason why she's very ace indeed.
- Babydaddy - Despite our normally very firmly held view that all hats and facial hair are wrong, Babydaddy gets into third place as his black shirt/red braces combo was very funky and he made us think that we could possibly get away with wearing a hat.
- Del Marquis - for his guitar hero antics during Comfortably Numb. Oh, and for rocking the rarely seen shirt, tie and zip-up jacket look.
- Paddy Boom - who ends up in last place by default as he's the drummer. Sorry. He is still far acer than virtually everyone else in the world, but, you know, he's still a drummer so is therefore just that little bit more unace.
