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The Cribs on the opening night of the Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2008 at Belfast Mandela Hall on Tuesday.
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The Cribs opened their set with ‘Don’t You Wanna be Relevant’, followed by ‘Another Number’ and ‘Hey Scenesters!’.
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This man may or may not be responsible for stealing Ryan Jarman’s shoes. We suspect he’s guilty.
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Does It Offend You, Yeah? opened their set with the rave-rock classic ‘Battle Royale’, after whetting their whistles substantially backstage.
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Joe Lean brought a vintage record player for the communal backstage area. DIOYY? brought some beer, and by the looks of it one lime.
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Crowd participation is a must at a DIOYY gig, and Morgan got the crowd shrieking “let’s make out” for, um, ‘Let’s Make Out’.
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Does It Offend You, Yeah?’s Morgan spent much of the gig hanging from the lighting rigging.
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Does It Offend You, Yeah? on the Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2008.
Pic: Andy Willsher
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Joe Lean joined the Jing Jang Jong after an instrumental number to lead the band through ‘Lucio Starts Fires’.
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Joe Lean played ‘Where Do You Go?’ and ‘Teenagers In Love’, which he introduced as “a song about fucking”. Pic: Andy Willsher
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Joe Lean and The Jing Jang Jong live on the Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2008 at Belfast Mandela Hall, January 29, 2008.
Pic: Andy Willsher
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The Shockwaves NME Awards Tour 2008, Belfast Mandela Hall, January 29, 2008. Pic : Andy Willsher
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Katie White’s guitar didn’t work for the start of The Ting Tings set, but soon enough they were out of the traps with new single ‘Great DJ’. Pic : Andy Willsher