Ham Sandwich 13/06/2009
As I mentioned in my previous post, I went to see Ham Sandwich in Whelan’s on Saturday and, as I predicted, I was not disappointed. These guys definitely know how to put on a show! 
They took the opportunity to showcase a couple more new songs, including White Fox and Concrete, which they had alreday played for us on Thursday. There was also a song called Out of the Darkness and one named in the set list simply as Quiet Song in the encore, which just that, and very nice it was too!
Apart from providing us with some tasty new tunes, we were of course treated to Carry the Meek in its entirety, an album of such consistent quality it almost seems as if any track could easily be a single. Not to mention every track being so well received by the adoring audience. 
And just before they leave the stage for the first time they perform their outstanding cover of Stay and give another heads up on the Sparks N’ Mind album for Aware (again, see previous post).
Apart from the quality music supplied for the evening, Ham Sandwich put on their usual visual display which includes lots of confetti, Podge’s… erm… interesting clothing choices and on this occasion, about a dozen huge confetti filled balloons. They were fun for a while, but eventually they all suffered the same fate – they got popped. As well as that Podge had promised that he was going to “engage with the crowd”, which as always, he did. There is always much more than “just” the music to be had at a Ham Sandwich gig, I defy anyone not to come away smiling.
Anyway, apparently they’re going off to work on a second album now so that will be last we’ll see of them for a little while. If it’s anything like the first album though, I can’t wait to hear it!
You can have a look at my photos from the night here.
Following links are going to be a carbon copy from the previous post, sorry about that. Damn laziness.
EatHamSandwich.com & the MySpace
Buy Ham Sandwich’s music from iTunes or Amazon or a shop maybe.
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