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Jonny and Chris were on the Chris Moyles show on Radio X this morning. Moyles made a big point of bigging up Jonny, which was v. funny. They also mentioned that they were trying to see if they were allowed to make some track names just be emojis - not sure if that is true or not! Video is on Facebook: https://fb.watch/5qsZIxVwdY/

It was me that changed the Genius lyrics, I thought Ouija made sense in the context of the rest of the lyrics, "the talk amongst the skeletons this morning" etc about looking back at your life after you've died. Still no idea what the first part of the sentence is though!

I Wonder why, since in Everyday life he sung live and high as in Church..... Because Church was the very first vocal song - by Everyday Life his voice had warmed up.

Also Cry, Cry, Cry is influenced by Earth Angel from the film.

They’re filming the Graham Norton show on 12th December so back in the UK for the end of that week at least.

Perhaps a series of smaller venue gigs but at more places than normal, limited to fans within a certain radius to prevent people going from travelling a long way taking planes etc to get to the gig? So you can buy tickets if you live within 150 miles of the venue. In the Uk this is simple with checking the postcode of the billing address, not sure about elsewhere though? Surely it uses less emissions etc to move the band around than to have thousands of fans travelling thousands of miles for each gig? And obviously ban single use plastics at the gigs. And you can definitely get electric coaches now, I've just done work for Metroline who have recently launched electric London buses.

Don't forget the record company guests got their tickets before the gig as someone posted on instagram a couple of hours before with their tickets in their hands. So that's probably a couple of hundred.

Chris said they'd recorded one of Femi's own songs for the extra track.

I had two tickets available to me at one point and then it said the same thing.

Nope

The point of the song is that it's unfinished! Chris said it was recorded as a voice memo on his phone. That's why we have unfinished lyrics in the booklet.

Oh yay, fun times ahead then? o_O

Just got mine!

At Sentebale we had special winners tickets that we had to collect from the entry point. They had my name on a winners list. It could happen. Seems amazingly crazy to me to book flights and hotels for a gig that you don't even definitely know that you can get tickets for or get into, that's supposedly for fans in a country you don't live in.

Water and raindrops seem to be recurring in the lyrics!

No but I think the ticketing link will only be available to UK based IP addresses as with the registration form, or to UK billing addresses only, otherwise they wouldn't have made such a big deal about UK only fans. Anyway, hopefully we'll know when they send the details out on Friday.

Actually I can see them doing that - I've been to quite a few events where the name has to match the ticket and the lead ticket holder has had to bring photo ID or the card they paid with. They checked the name against the ID on the way in. And these had bigger audiences than this is likely to have. Especially if they want to stop touting and reselling?

I actually think BrokEn is perfectly placed. It's the reaction song to Trouble in Town, I see it as how the communities affected by the sort of police brutality highlighted would come together to get through it? Does that make sense?

Sunset tonight in London is 5.55pm, sunrise is 7.36am - could be when we hear something else?

Just to let anyone going know, they are allocating seats in the order that you arrive at Bauer Media. I got there at 9.15 and got the last couple of seats on row c.

I've won tickets for this too! Was at the Sentebale concert but think this will be a completely different atmosphere (although I reckon the sets will be similar). I spoke to someone at Magic (where I won the tickets) and all the seats are already pre-allocated, so no need to worry about queuing in the early hours. Just crossing my fingers I've been given good ones!

We were talking to the security guy in front of us at Wembley, and beforehand he was saying how excited he was to be there as he loves the band and this was his first time seeing them live, then during the gig he was so deadpan it looked like he hated it! We asked him afterwards and he said he was dancing in his head. At least where he was (back to main stage) he could still see the B stage.

I remember seeing the camera man film right up in your face and wondered where they were going to use it! So now I know! I'm on there too about half way through but in a long shot of the front row. I'm still coming down from this gig (and Wembley) to be honest!

I know, his reaction when he realised Chris was sat next to him is priceless!!

Thank you! They were just taken on my iPhone so nothing special!