Saw The National at Shepherds Bush Empire last night, after what feels like months of waiting. Being with two other people who were both under 5'6'', we found a perfect spot near the bar where there was a very handy ledge we could stand on to see over everyone. The band were great and kicked me out of the sheer knackeredness I seem to have slumped into this week.

I was also quite happy with the cute boy ratio at the gig, but that's another story...

I was trying to decide on a track or two to post with this and couldn't narrow it down enough so i've just gone with two crowd favourites:

Daughters of the Soho Riots (from Alligator)
Fake Empire (from Boxer)

Apologies for the yousendit-ness, but my website/server/something technical, I'm not too sure, is misbehaving at the moment.