I was looking at their dates as well a few days ago.  I thought you'd probably go to that one Jules.  Sadly none near me.  They are really good.  I would really like to see them again.  I would say Dizzy Lizzy are equally as good.  Hard to decide between the two.

The date for this show finally came round last night. What could be a better warm up for my mini-Geldof season than listening to the music of other great Irish legends, performed so beautifully and with such talent as Limehouse.

When we got there the car park appeared to be quite full and we thought we were in for a busy evening. There must have been a private function going on in the room next door, as there was about 80 of us and lots of tickets left for sale on the door.

There were 5 of us in our crowd, two Limehouse Lizzy die-hards (who have been to over 50 shows - now I can't even boast that about Bob), myself and my partner and a friend who apparently only knew The Boys Are Back in Town and Whiskey in a Jar. I'm not sure how Thin Lizzy passed him by, he's one year older than me with more or less the exact same taste in music, with a particular penchant for guitar greats.

The show started at around 9.45 pm, sadly the sound wasn't spot on, so the lyrics couldn't be defined (although the guitar sounded fantastic). Hardly anybody was dancing, people were standing around looking rather wooden. And not very many people standing at that. A few people at the side started to headbang but that was all. Wayne, the singer, tried to get everyone to join in the singing but no-one was having any of it. It didn't exactly spoil it for me, but it was a slight disappointment. The atmosphere was rather flat. After a 15 minute break the band returned to the stage and this time were determined to boost the atmosphere. People were calling out requests. Obviously they weren't going to do Whiskey in a Jar until the end. But a lot of people wanted Emerald. They claimed they weren't going to do that track this evening, but if we wanted them to, we had to move them. 'Not enough, move us some more and we'll play it'. He sparked up the audience's imagination and got us moving, finally. What a dramatic difference this made to the rest of the show.

Pete (the friend who'd been asleep during the Lizzy years) was in awe of the apparent effortlessness with which the guitar parts were performed, but at the same time how such a magnificent sound could be produced. I think he decided he likes Thin Lizzy. And he really didn't recognise any of the tracks. There was only one album track from Jail Break (which I don't have) that I didn't recognise. Howard, my partner, didn't know two of the tracks and of course the other two knew all the words to every one.

Wayne paid tribute to the great legend Philip Lynnott and expressed his pleasure at allowing the music to live on through his band.

Here is a list of some of the tracks they played:

Jail Break
Waiting For An Alibi
Killer On The Loose
The Boys Are Back In Town
Do Anything You Want To
Rosalie
Parisienne Walkways (apparently it is quite rare for them to perform this one)
Dancing In The Moonlight
China Town
Out In The Fields
Cowboy Song
Suicide
Are You Ready?
Whiskey In A Jar

There was then a rare bonus. Apparently this happens only occasionally. Just when I thought they were going off stage Wayne said 'I hope you don't mind, but we are going to play another track, which isn't actually Thin Lizzy'. They then went on to do an incredible performance of Get It On by T-Rex. Utterly superb. This is the only T-Rex track they ever do, but I'd actually like to see them do a whole show of T-Rex.

I look forward to seeing them again.