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Wed 04/08/2004
Doors Open: 8:30
Band on at: 8:45
Price: £4.50 with a flyer
Our first proper London club gig. God help us all...
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The Band's Review:
I hate reviewing gigs that went really well, ‘cause, no matter what you say, you’re always going to come across as arrogant. Last night was one of our best shows, no doubt and by the end I don’t think I’m being overconfident in saying that we played confidently, stylishly and with a technical proficiency, abd that as a result we probably impressed a few people. However, it didn’t start so goddamn smoothly.
Being told about an hour before you’re due to go onstage that someone somewhere along the line has double-booked a slot and that you might not get the chance to play (despite having invited all your friends and your friends’ friends), that if you do, you’re going to get 10 minutes less stage time than you expected and that you’ll end up going on 15 minutes earlier than scheduled does absolutely nothing for your morale. As if there wasn’t enough pressure in trying to break our way onto the Camden gig circuit successfully!
Seriously though, melodrama aside, it was dispiriting to think that a bunch of people might be trekking across London to come and see us and that they might miss half our set because of such technicalities. Nonetheless, nothing could be done so despite there only being about 10 punters in the venue when we took to the stage, we set about doing our job.
The venue was cool and certainly felt like the kinda place we wanna be playing more often; small, dark, sweaty – everything you’d expect from a place in Camden! And sure, enough, as the punters started to arrive and the place started to fill up the energy started to flow back and forth we hit a groove. We’ve been a bit wary of late of putting too much energy in to our performance, as if you’re not either a) careful or b) Iggy Pop it can potentially have an adverse effect on what you’re playing. However, I don’t know if the gods were on our side last night or if we are indeed gods ourselves (joke, chill!) but we seemed to perform on both levels. We even played the newie “Hell Is Other People” (practiced just two times, including our soundcheck just moments before) with confidence and conviction. Man, I think I was singing that one louder than Chris! By the time the now-standard ‘…Blessings’ came about, we were relaxed and enjoying ourselves and I personally that sounded more dynamic that it has done in the live scenario to date (despite Chris guitar sound cutting out during the dying moments).
We need more of these kinda gigs. I really think we’re playing with more and more conviction with every one. Hopefully those of us who’ve been coming to see us agree. On that particular note, I want to personally thank every last one of you who come down. It was obviously an important show for us and as corny as it sounds, you people did us proud.
And now the wedding gig is outta the way we can really spend some time on practicing some more of our new material so things can surely only get better.
I just wanna see a day when we get to do this shit for a living. "Rock and Roll all night and party every day!"
Click here for pix from this show.
Set List:
Leeches
Lumps
Hell is Other People
Count My Blessings
The Lungs of London (breathe me in)
Plan B
Madly on Love
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