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GIG - The Vine, Leeds 22nd Sept 04

Ahh the Vine. Love it or hate it - you've got to play it!

Never had a bad gig here - though last nights sound engineering wasn't a patch on Jamie's who's done the sound for our last couple of gigs here and one we did at CJ's earlier in the year.

We were the main support (which is the best position on the bill in this venue IMHO) to Mishkin.
Now we've shared a bill with Mishkin twice before, once supporting them at the vine and once them supporting us at CJs - and we love them. Lovable space cadets the lot of 'em, with a huge range of sound from infectious funky grooving to angry thrashing - check 'em out if you get the chance ever.

Opening act were a young band called Your Perfect Alibi (beware pop-up-tastic web site) from Halifax who acquitted themselves well enough.

Next up were This Way Out kinda in a similar stylee to Miskin - quite enjoyed their set.

We set up and played a 28.5 minutes of our allotted 30 minutes (see, punctual). On stage sound was awful (nothing like sound check as per usual, but what you gona do?) but we thrust on as ever. Crowd was cool - even if we had imported half of them! And on that note a BIG BIG BIG thank you to all who made the effort - we really appreciate it. This is an important venue on the Leeds scene, even if the promoters do pay next to nothing!
Set list:

1. Wrecking Ball
2. Smallville
3. Bully for you
4. Bubblegum and Machine guns
5. Scars
6. Angelina Crush
7. Def Con 1

Few clangers here and there, and a few iffy vocal notes but hey, on the whole not so bad.

Mishkin were awesome as ever, but the front of house sound just didn't so them justice. The mix was very muddy and the vocal was barley audible - still quality shines through.

GIG - Panama Joe's, Barnsley 10th Sept 04

This is more like it.

We were booked into this venue for a gig earlier this year by a promoter called Munk – any hoo it all went TU when he mail to say there was a venue double booking issue.

So we rescheduled for Sept 10th, only to get a frantic phone call from a guy called Jay from the Metellica tribute act Sententia saying that that had got a long standing booking for the very same date. Any hoo - long story short the bands sorted things out among themselves and we agreed on a double header.

Sententia provided a kick ass PA and the front of house sound was pretty cool – despite some humour with bad mic leads.

The set was pretty good – we did 40 minutes plus and encore!!

Crowd we excellent and well up for it – even sold a couple of albums!!!

Sententia played a blinder, their front man was the spit of Hetfield, and had the voice and stage persona down to a tee – great stuff.

We are heading back for another gig in November, hopefully taking Mary-Jane with us as support.

And, we’ll also try and sort out some more gigs with Sententia – great guys!

This one rocked!!!

Thanks to Liz. Lou and Jen for travelling support.

No pix for this one I’m afraid – must try harder!

GIG - Classic Rock Bar - Sheffiled 9th Sept 04

Well, what can we say?

First gig back after the summer off and so we needed a warm up. So here we were kicking things off for out mates Rhombus by warming up the crowd for their set - or at least that would have been the case had there been a crowd!!!!

We've played this venue before a couple of times, and while its never been packed out, its always been a decent atmosphere. This time however we literally had the bar staff, 4 punters and a dog.

Landlord has always seamed quite affable in the past, but today was pissed and in full on arsehole mode - maybe the imminent threat of the venue being pulled down to build more yuppie flats isn't helping.

Any hoo - we played pretty well considering, the lousy PA and complete inability of the landlord to operate it, or indeed understand the basics of sound engineering.

The venue has a no 'widdling policy' translation, they don't really see the need for sound checks.
Asked to take the stage at 9:00pm, we did (after all we are a very punctual band) - only the landlord was living out some DJ fantasy and continued to play a mix of abysmal 'classic rock'. So, bored as we were Paddy started playing along in a funky stylee, soon to be joined by Lee and eventually Nev, Ian was laughing too much.
So he turned up the PA, but with the backline we carry, that was never gonna work. Anyway eventually we did the gig.

Rhombus did their best under the same circumstance, and we enjoyed their set, as did the strange intoxicated lady who spent most of the evening dancing to her own internal rhythms!

Read our mate d00mw0lf's take on events and see some photos.

So, as we stick yet another venue on our never again black list, we are once again in the position of finding a venue in Sheffield.

And so here it is...

So we are back on the road for another season and thought we'd try something new.

So here it is, our band blog.

We shall endeavour to blog our gigs and other activities to keep you good people up to date!