Wet Wet Wet

Wet Wet Wet

Haydock Racecourse

July 19th, 2014

Never being one to turn down a free night out I was thrilled when my husband won tickets for my sister and I to attend Saturday's race meeting at Haydock Park, especially when I discovered that the night would end with a concert by Wet Wet Wet, a band that had one of the prime spots on my bedroom wall through some of my teenage years!

As neither my sister or I are really into horses we decided to go in time for the last race and the concert rather than the whole day. 

Wet Wet Wet kicked off the night with 'Wishing I was Lucky' and proceeded to play all of their well known hits from across the years and pretty much the whole of 'Popped In Souled Out', which was the album that shot them to fame in 1987.

Consisting of Marti Pellow, Tommy Cunningham, Graeme Clark and Neil Mitchell, Wet Wet Wet  have been on the music scene for many years and do not seem to have lost any of their spark.  They put in an energetic and very upbeat, feel good set, which I'm sure sent the majority of their audience back to their teenage years.

Playing songs such as 'Sweet Little Mystery', 'East of The River', 'Angel Eyes', 'Temptation' and 'Julia Says' they had the crowd kicking off their heels and dancing on the grass in front of the small stage.

Finishing the night with their cover version of the Troggs, 'Love Is All Around', which spent fifteen weeks at the number one in the charts in 1994 after being used on the soundtrack to the film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', they left Haydock to loud cheers and thunderous applause from the crowd.

 

These guys are not someone that I would have ever bought a ticket for as it would not have crossed my mind to go and see them but I'm glad I did as I had a fantastic night. Another one to add to my list of guilty pleasures!