A wet night in crystal palace. Bit of a trek to get here (in the car) but it makes a change from the tube to Camden. I saw the Lovebirds a couple of weeks ago when they played with the Johnsons. On that occasion they caught my ear, and afterwards listening to their tunes on myspace I thought they were definitely worth seeing again. Their gig calender looks fairly sparce, so I decided to venture south to see them in what I assume is their native habitat. The Alma is just a pub (with a noise limiter). The band play in a little alcove which is pretty dark and for the first part of this acoustic set the crowd (well I think most of them are just people out for a Friday night drink) try to talk over the band. The second half has a drummer and are faster songs. The crowd can no longer talk over the band and the noise limiter cuts out twice. I think the band deserved a little more respect from the crowd, but then when a band is playing in a dark corner of pub, not many people can visualise them playing the bigger venues that this band surely will.