if you're happy and you know it....

Yes, you know how it goes!

So, I was just reading Arj Barkers blog and he recently went to see Radiohead. I have to agree with Arj on many things - Radiohead are a must-see live band. They rock like there's no tomorrow, then tug at your heart strings and make you question everything you thought you believed then throw some rock action at you again. Before you know it you are buying the TShirt and signing up to the Johnny Greenwood is God fansite.

I love live music. The whole bit. The last gig I went to was Belle and Sebastian. Man, how good are they. I had no idea what to expect, as this was the first time I was seeing them and you don't really get photos of the band with their CDs or much to go on by their film clips.

They were just magic. They also have a lot of songs that you cannot help but clap along to - and they are very happy to start a bit of a group clap along - you know, where the guitar is just left hanging for a moment while your man out front claps his hands above his head until we all join in. This happened a few times and I was smiling and bopping away, clapping my hands up high....that is of course until that moment when the clapping dies down and you realise that you are the only one still clapping. If you stop immediately, the people with the funky haircuts around you will know that you could not handle being alone out there in the clapping stakes - no you cannot just stop. You have to let your own clapping die down too, then quickly replace it with some sort of little dance that requires your hands so that the funky haircut people think nothing more than you were ready to progress from the group clap to your own little dance because you march to your own drum....in which case by this stage the front man is letting his guitar hang again and leading the crowd in a mass clap-along.

I am intimidated by people with funky haircuts.

So clap your hands.