Music Quote by Andy Taylor

“Mind-blowing” does a lot of work here: it’s not a critic’s adjective, it’s a survivor’s. Andy Taylor is describing a comeback in miniature, the kind of venue that forces you to confront scale. Two thousand standing tickets isn’t stadium mythology; it’s sweat, eye contact, the old rock economy where you can actually hear a crowd react instead of watching them ripple on a screen. By naming the number, he anchors the awe in something tangible and, quietly, disarms any suspicion of inflated nostalgia.

The phrasing keeps slipping from logistics to relief. “It’s great to have your band back and working and playing again” isn’t just about soundchecks; it’s about continuity. The triple stack - back, working, playing - reads like someone savoring basic verbs after a stretch when those verbs weren’t guaranteed. That cadence suggests there’s been interruption, fracture, maybe illness or distance, and the return is less triumphalist than grateful.

Then he pivots to the audience: “people have been so generous.” That word is telling. Not “loyal,” not “amazing,” not “the best fans.” “Generous” implies the crowd is giving something the band can’t take for granted anymore: patience, forgiveness, attention in a fragmented culture, money in a tight economy, emotional permission to start again. The subtext is a recalibration of ego. Instead of selling greatness, he’s acknowledging a kind of social contract: we showed up, you held space, and that made the music possible.