On the 17th of January, I travelled to the N.E.C in Birmingham, with my big sister Nik, to see Garbage. The concert started at around 7.30pm. We passed the long wait by singling people out and waving at them! First to come out on to the stage were the support band, Moloko. Nobody liked them (or had even heard of them.) All the lead singer did was swish her skirt about and scream down the microphone. There was a bloke on the far side of the stage (a keyboard 'player') who was wearing a dressing gown and a bowler hat (what a plonker!)

After half an hour of Moloko (aaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!) there was a 20 minute wait while the instruments were set up. We sat and waited and found out that not one of the 10,000 strong crowd actually liked the support band! Then, after an eternity of useless support bands (e.g. Moloko) Garbage came out (hooray, at last).

Shirley Manson lead the band out, and they started with Milk. This proved to be absolutely deafening! The second track they played was I think I'm paranoid (which everyone loved). After the song had finished, Shirley Manson said that she was hot and might take her top off (but she didn't). The next song was Special and the crowd went totally mental !!!!

After a few more songs, Shirley Manson said "I have done a very un-cool thing, I have dropped my microphone and dented it, but a new one has arrived, it is a moment for celebration!" A deafening roar arose from the crowd.

After a while, one of the guitar players gave their guitar to one of the backstage blokes to be re-tuned, and then to his horror, the band started the next song without him! He ran back on to the stage and waved his arms around wildly and the rest of the band stopped.

After some more (brilliant) songs and some blinding lighting effects, the band went in for a break (only about 2 minutes) and came back out for the last 4 songs. Most people stood up around now. Two quite fat women stood up and blocked our view so we pelted sweets at them until they sat down!

The final song came and everyone got up and waved their fists around and generally went totally insane. After the last song was over, everyone filtered out and eventually left. In some ways I was glad the concert was over (e.g. I was bursting for a pee!) and we made our way home.

Over all 9/10