20/11 Brudenell Social Club Leeds … Jeffrey Lewis, Nina Nastasia … up the line to Burley Park and into the Social Club area … barred up doors on terrace houses slightly scary, Hyde Park chips and no change for a tenner – this area ain’t wealthy. Outside the Royal Park pub to eat my chips and watch the clientele enter. They seem ok, not too many nutters and some students. Into the pub, seems ok, find a nice corner to watch the drinkers. Strange couple remind me of the Scissor Sisters in dress and loud behaviour – still they aren’t too close. Their friends are enjoying their behaviour, others are looking into their pints. I look into my pint. Then the bar staff start to move everyones tables around, some grumbling but all good natured. My corner table is soon fenced in by other tables and sound equipment is piled all around me. I am all boxed in. But nearly time for the gig. Round the corner to the Brudenell. Never been so not sure what to expect. It is down through a car park. The doorway is very 60s, and I follow in some other punters. Soon there is a big dispute with the door staff. There are three acts and the first has been replaced, by another … the punters go away grumbling as the guy they have come to see isn’t playing. I ask about Jeffrey Lewis. He too has pulled out at the last minute, but Nina is still playing, so not so bad. I look through the doorway, a strange working mans club type environment is inside but empty. I head back the Royal Park. Soon I am totally slaughtered – drinking on yer own you know. Then the careoke begins … a bar girl has said ‘it will be very loud’ to me, and she is right. The warm up song is Scissor Sisters … but time to go. Into the club and get a pint, and sit on the end of an alcove with a couple. The Canadian support after a long wait arrives ‘Cape May’. They are pretty good … or is it just coz I well gone … but to see the act I need to stick my feet out so no one stands in front of me. The couple slot in behind me in the gap I have created … I’m glad I am there at last. The singer seems to be the main attraction with little other instrumentation to start, then the bearded bass player joins in and the drummer and a much larger sound is going on. A fair old wait and then Nina is on, a large band with some brass and plenty of beards – she is better live than on album, somehow more to it … sadly I have to leave after a few songs to get the train