#In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon

I know that the name Echo and the Bunnymen won’t give a response without passion if you know who they are……and I do realise that many won’t, given a relative lack of success in the USA and a pretty long time since any new material of theirs has generated any significant interest in Europe.

In fact, their appearance at Glastonbury in 2005 provoked a strong reaction at both ends of the continuum between ‘love and hate’ on the wonderful Beeb’s website.

However, I can tell you that I was in a health food shop in Truro a few weeks ago, with DM and picked up a flier for a festival in Falmouth at which Echo and the Bunnymen were headlining tonight. Hmmmmm – bear in mind that I have always been a devotee, seeing them play live many times in the early 80s and being at a recording of Top of the Pops when they were in the studio (probably miming as most bands were forced to do) to ‘Never Stop’ in 1983. I was by Mac’s feet and could have (if it had not been cringingly uncool to do so) reached out and touched his feet from where I stood. Mac was the epitome of everything I loved in men at the time, and probably still do if I'm brutally honest – skinny as a rake (always top of my list), musically gifted, obtuse, arrogant as an arrogant thing, intelligent, mean, moody……I think you get the picture.

I needed a strategy. I came home without more than a passing reference to the fact that this God (in my world) was playing in Falmouth – fancy that, just a few miles from home! I dug out ‘Songs to learn and sing’ (strategy - to make DM realise he knew loads of their songs) – the strategy worked and at the end of it I casually said ‘so, do you fancy going to see them then?’ My heart was palpitating – what if he said ‘no, I can’t be bothered’. He didn’t – he agreed to go and I think that Badly Drawn Boy – the second on the bill was a factor in that.

So, tickets were bought and the day has come. We set off from here and ‘wiggled through the lanes’ being scared of getting onto the A30 and finding ourselves in bank holiday traffic. We got there quite quickly, parked in a car park almost in touching distance of the quayside where the gig was taking place. We realised the band playing were a way down the bill so decided to try for some ‘decent nosh’ instead of a bag of chips in the square. We found our way around the back of the arena into a restaurant, where we were told that the only tables left were ‘in the gig VIP area’ but you needed a ticket to get in there……..hhhh hhhh hhhh hhhh (that’s the sound of me hyperventilating) – ‘well, it’s funny you should say that’ I said, pulling a pair of tickets from my bag, ‘here’s two I bought earlier!’ We were shown to a table about 30 feet from the stage and spent the set of Badly Drawn Boy eating fabulous food, at close proximity to the ‘goings on’ and thinking we’d found ourselves in heaven!

DM was warned that there might be an embarrassing moment when I stripped naked and threw myself at Mac shouting 'take me, I'm yours' which I think he was relieved to see I didn't in the end do!

After a fab meal and a few drinks in the fantastic view but slightly rarefied atmosphere of the VIP area, we decided to settle up and join the throng to see the Bunnymen, being a bit of a mosh pit girl - I know that's sad at my age but who cares? Oooohhhhh were they good? Oooohhhhhh I’ll say so.

To be honest, I was worried about having my 5d confiscated so took my P&S instead but it would not have proven a problem having the 5d and I deeply regretted the lack of said kit. My 10d is totally dead now - it won't even switch on any more - I just loved it to death really! I did get a few close-ups of the great man, Mac, doing his thing but the iso problems on the G7 are little, if any, better than they were on the G3 and all of my shots, close up or otherwise needed ‘neatimage’ treatment.

This shot was taken from the back while they played ‘The Cutter’ and although I have a few pics that are probably technically better, I like the feel of this one so it makes the cut – because I am the Cutter!

You know what? All sorts of things could have happened that would have made this experience less perfect - we could have got stuck in holiday traffic, we could have had to walk miles from an out-of-town car park, we could have not decided to go for something to eat, it could have been raining, there might not have been a beautiful moon and stars overhead, Echo and the Bunnymen could have played like 'has beens' but none of those things happened - and the Bunnymen played like Gods.......to a girl in heaven!

Weirdly (and I didn't look before choosing my bit of Bunnymen lyric) last year 'my sky all hung with jewels' after a long, hard day.