It struck me that at several points last night that the band were actually recreating the fabled Leadmill gig from '88, only this time they were achieving rather than failing. The gig is well known as being a bit of a shambles but it seems the band went out of their way to put that right last night. For a start they projected films successfully unlike in '88 when the projector broke and they had to have that little telly, they got everybody to drape toilet roll all over the Arena, they huge smoke machines billowing out smoke unlike that little bit of dry ice you see Russell preparing before the gig on the Hits DVD. But most importantly, and this is what clinched it for me, they made it snow at the end of the gig. Something that they tried in '88 but according to reports failed miserably at. Those snow cannons really were something special and I think it was all about that show in '88 which, if I'm remembering correctly was very much viwed as a final gig by the band. All that was missing from the stage were some trees.