As organised as we are , we can't remember all the gigs we've played , but we can remember most!
Below are 75% (give or take a bit) of our live shows.
Unless stated diary by Joel.
As organised as we are , we can't remember all the gigs we've played , but we can remember most!
Below are 75% (give or take a bit) of our live shows.
Unless stated diary by Joel.
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The Boat Race Cambridge Oct 2nd This was our first gig with the band agency and after getting over the initial mistake of the Boat Race double booking us the week before we had a pretty damn good gig. Cambridge Folk Club July 18th - The Unicorn Trumpington This was one of the most enjoyable gigs we've done all year, in spite of the fact that we thought it was going to be a complete disaster because we hadn't practised for ages. We thought we'd be scraping the bottom of the Sunday Driver song barrel, but it didn't come to that in the end. We got through two hour-long sets without having to air some of our "medium-quality" numbers like "Makes no Sense" (which, to avoid a band argument, is a good song in principle, but Kat's songwriting has come on quite a bit since the 1980s) though we still had to resort to "Centrefold" for the encore. Playing those old songs feels a bit like reading adolescent poetry in public....Mel and Chemise were persuaded to fill in time with a couple of songs from their new band "Meadowman", which went down well, and Kat gave us a few harp solos which weren't bad either. The audience were amazingly appreciative and some of them hadn't even been bribed. Si gave a top performance on drums and congas in spite of never having played half the songs, and Kat's new harp pick up has transformed our lives - you can actually hear the harp when everyone else is playing! The venue is absolutely lovely and I'd definitely recommend it. There was a bouncy castle in the back garden, which I'm sure we would have been allowed on if we had asked, but nobody would ask for me.
Oh yes, and Kat doesn't know this yet, but my friend in the front row said he could see right down her new corset every time she leaned forward...
In spite of a series of disasters this gig went really well! Pete and Andy did a great job with the sound, though Kat's balancing act of clarinet, recorder, shakers, vocals and harp nearly gave them a hernia. It was quite a noisy venue but everyone that could hear our music loved it! Si and Mel were both heroes - Si for playing along to everything in spite of the fact that he'd never heard half of it before, Mel for succeeding in waking Si up several hours earlier. Joel and I had panicked when Si didn't answer his phone all morning, so we sent Mel round to his house in person - the poor boy had to yell 9 ½ times into Si's ear before there were any signs of life - and Si had actually gone to sleep with his phone right next to him! The whole episode reminds me of the tale of Sleeping Beauty and the Handsome Prince. Though Si has longer hair than sleeping beauty, and is better looking. April 24th The Junction Cambridge
5 bands for a fiver .... bargain!
A bank holiday , we didn't know but it was actually an Access To Music gig, which was cool cos I got to see my old tutor Rob (top man). |
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November 28 Grand Union Orchestra The Cambridge Corn Exchange Main stage at The Corn Exchange with an orchestra .... bo yea! First gig without goshi, Tarik played some Tabla with us. September 20 12 Bar ClubGoshis last gig, before he ran off to get educated in Scotland.
Performed ok, some girl talked on her phone through ours and everyone else’s set or told her mate “he aint fu*in worth it , leave ‘im. f*** ‘im”.
After that its all a blur I remember Goshi rapping in the bar at 1 am and Mel falling on that girls table knocking over a bottle of red , then trying to appease her with B & H, all in all a good send off. August 2 Cambridge Folk Festival 15 mins of Fame at the renowned Folk fest?? Yes please, the Folk tent was packed must have been few hundred in the audience, we all loved it , played pretty well too. photos Sunday Driver, here in Soho , on a Friday night, are they mad??
Evidently not! Not a great gig for me but as whole a good performance , which is what counts. Packed gig, we played really well (which was a good job as they told us we had a slot at the folk festival) , everyone was really quiet and into the set, we all love the Portland. I really liked this place gig was ok had a 'mare finding it, can’t remember anything else! £5 a pint???? No free beers; no free anything??
Good gig though, I was very impressed with the cleanliness of the gents. Damned trendy London bars. Usual local stuff – always a pleasure. With Club fabulous. Now this was a cool gig – tiny stage upstairs in the Junction, loads of quality bands Um was genius, missed the BFB as we clashed with them and got most of the photos for More Than Flies done. Battle of the bands – the great Cambridge Band Comp.
Well we were never going to win, not nearly loud enough. We all had a great laugh, got marked down on innovation and up on stage presence (something was definitely wrong!) think we came third in our heat. Which was a good thing as I think half of the bands that made it to the final split up a week later!
Feb the something Cambridge Boat Race
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