The Black Keys live

As I mentioned in the previous post, The Black Keys one of my favourite bands. Understatement: they're my favourite band of all time. And on 12/12/12, I was lucky enough to go and see them live at the O2 arena in North Greenwich. OH my god, you have no idea how excited I was, I almost spontaneously combusted at several points during the weeks leading up to it...!

To start off, as a taster to the amazing night ahead of us, The Maccabees opened with a fantastic set, including Love You Better, Pelican, Feel To Follow and Can You Give It. Aaaaaaaah, SO GOOD!!

Then they went off, and we waited half an hour for The Black Keys to come on, although it only felt like 5 minutes to me (the adrenaline slightly got the better of me from 7:00 onwards...) And then they came on, and I nearly cried, I was so happy. They opened with Howlin' For You, from their 2010 album Brothers. It only got better from there! They included some oldies (Thickfreakness and Strange Times) as well as the majority of El Camino. So far, so incredible.

They "finished" with Lonely Boy, which was just electric. Then, when they came back on for the encore, a giant glittery disco ball came down from the ceiling and they played Everlasting Light... Just watch this and you'll see what I mean.

Altogether it was an incredible evening. I've become a complete concert addict now, and will angle to see anyone and everyone I possibly can! I'll post some pictures when I've had them developed, so godspeed, folks!