Ahh Christmas. Responsible for some of the most awful music ever written, as well as some of the best (The Fortuna Pop! Christmas CD’s anyone?). Today The Birmingham Christmas Lights were turned on!

There was a good spread of bands put on for the ceremony, cumulating in Sugababes switching the Birmingham christmas lights on (Push The Button I suppose being the song which virtually guaranteed the Sugababe’s involvement in turning-the-lights-on events all around the country). As much as I think Too Lost In You is a great pop song, I only really wanted to see Misty’s Big Adventure, so today was a swift in and out job.

Misty’s were on at 3.45 and were introduced by the BRMB presenters as “the band with loads of instruments” which is an excellent comment – seemingly throw away but you can read so much from it. Loads of instruments. Imagine that.

It was a short Misty’s set but included many of the old and new favourites, kicking off with I Can’t Turn The Time Back and finishing with Hey Man! The best bit was their performance of Fashion Parade (which was kicked off by Grandmaster Gareth asking everyone if they were looking forward to McFly) featuring the usual Franz Ferdinand “Lots of money/Do you wanna” chorus but as an added bonus also contained that Kaiser Chiefs style “ahhhhhhhhh” build up in between the verse and chorus.

I do feel a bit sorry for Franz Ferdinand that they’re Grandmaster Gatreth’s target in that song to be honest. Alex Kapranos has always come across as one of the few people in modern popular music who has his head screwed on, and who is performing a style of music that he’s grown up with rather than because he thinks he should sound a certain way (see for example, putting Fire Engines on as their support at The SECC - that’s the Glasgow equivalent of a Birmingham band playing The NIA with Felt as support). Still each to their own and Gareth’s general point about music definitely still stands.

I really wanted to see the Erotic Volvo/large youngish non-Misty’s crowd interaction too. I’m happy to report that he seemed to have a good time; although I worry he lost a hand on his right shoulder in the fray down at the front.

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