Wow. That is the only word that can be used to describe a gig such as this.

Milburn live is something everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime.

From the moment the band kicked in with Lo + Behold the gig just erupted. The band filled the Astoria with energy. The crowd picked up on this and created even more energy. The place was rocking and the fans were bouncing and moving to every beat that the band produced.

When What Will You Do (When The Money Goes), the crowd absolutely flipped out and let everything go. Seeing the band makes you forget everything else in the world and makes this the most important thing currently going on in your life.

Joe Carnall, the bands bassist and lead singer has a proper brit-pop swagger about him and this gives him an incredible stage presence. The crowd reacted to his every demand and this helped create the atmosphere that was in the old London theatre.

He was like a king giving his people demands. His confidence spilled out with him acknowledging the crowd at every moment by shaking his fist in celebration and by geeing the crowd up whenever there was a momentary lapse in the energy levels.

The gig didn’t just reel out all their new singles. They played a lot of music of the debut album Well Well Well, and this got the crowd really going. When Milburn played Storm In A Teacup the crowd reacted by singing the guitar intro. It was one of the most intense things I’ve witnessed at a gig.

The whole gig was full of a type of energy that any band would have been pleased to create. The band and crowd seemed to have a rapport more of friends than of a band to its fans.

The band finished the gig with Cowboys and Indians, a song off their new album These Are The Facts. This was a good choice of song as it was full of the energy of the gig and seemed an appropriate way to finish.

For the encore Roll Out The Barrel was played with just Joe Carnall and Louis Carnall on stage. This was a fitting song to wrap the whole concert up. The crowd sang the whole song with Joe leaving them to sing specific parts of the song.