2008
OCTOBER
Friday 10th - London callin' at The 12 Bar Club, Denmark Street,
London WC2H 8NL
Cost: £6/£5
London’s best punk night.. 8pm - 3am Looks like we’re doing the midnight set... Also with The Misconductors + Wonk Unit + Virginia Slint
Friday 31st - Dirty Water Club - lineup to be confirmed.
Boston Music Rooms, 178 Junction Road,
Tufnell Park, London,
N19 5QQ
NOVEMBER
Wednesday 12th - Tommy Flynn's, 55 Camden High Street, Camden, London NW1 7JH
Lineup and showtime TBA
DECEMBER
Friday 12th - Liar Liar Club - 323 New Cross Road, London SE14 6AS
Cost:£3
New retro rock club (US Garage, Psych Rock, Soul, Motown, Beat, Mod, Revival, Nuggets.)
Line-up to be confirmed, 8 - 2am
PREVIOUS GIGS
Relive our past triumphs with this handy chronological list of observations
and moans
Friday 11th July - Lounge on the Farm Festival –
Tractor Trash Stage,
Merton Farm,
Canterbury
. An empty cowshed full of manure-ridden dust that coated us and our gear. No one seemed to know that anyone was playing...rocknroll eh?
Saturday 26th April - Oxjam
Festival. Jon manages to get
sunburnt in one hour. Nice and loud on stage.
Wednesday 23rd April -
New Cross
Inn
. A bit of a laugh, some old faces and
some new.
Friday 11th April - Nags Head
Rochester
.
With Armitage Shanks. A good one, both bands played a blinder.
Rochester
is the rocknroll capital of Medway.
Saturday 15th March - Parliament Club,
London
.
With The Fallen Leaves, Hungry Dog Brand, The Vandebilts. Good room, good
sound, good set. Absolutely pissing down outside. Under a flyover. Reminded
me of Bladerunner for some reason.
Wednesday 30th January - The Castle,
Luton
.
On a cold, desolate night in darkest
Luton
, we had a
lot more fun than we anticipated. Sometimes a small but appreciative audience
is better than a large non-committal audience. Or something.
Saturday January 19th - Leonard's Bar, London
- It was the last night of the shooting of Heath Ledger's latest film just
a few yards from the venue. Two days later he was dead. Not our fault.
Saturday January 12th - 12 Bar Club, London -
Good fun on the smallest stage in London. Always a treat to spend the gig
dodging the neck of your partner in rock's axe.
2007
Saturday December 15th - Magnetic Field, Brooklyn, New York
(with Dirty Excuse). Our extensive USA tour ends on a high at this friendly
rocknroll bar. We'll bring our own guitar straps next time.
Wednesday December 12th - Hawaiian Tropic Zone, New York
(with The Woggles, The Gripweeds). Bikinis, ear-gouging volume, borrowed
gear, free booze, go-go dancers... A mixed bag but a good night overall.
Friday December 7th - Nag's Head, Rochester. The Selmer
Treble n Bass blows up..
Thursday December 6th - The Windmill, Brixton. Last minute
warm up for the USA gigs. The Selmer Treble n Bass sounds great.
Thursday November 1st - Royal Rooms, Rochester + Graham Day and the
Gaolers. Pretty cosy, like playing in a large living room with all your
relatives staring suspiciously at you. It was good though. Nice sound.
Carpets on the floor.
Friday October 5th -L'Escalier, Liege, Belgium + Len Price 3, Captain
Kirk. Thoroughly enjoyable evening all round with our mates from the LP3
and the Kirk boys. Good audience, venue everything. Pity it wasn't the
first night of a tour.
Friday 21 September - Bullet Bar, Kentish Town. Headpress launch party
with The Masonics and RazorDog.
Friday September 14th - Dirty Water Club. With the Wildebeests. A good
one. There's a video of some songs from this gig here
Friday August 17th Nags's Head Rochester. Not with the Len Price 3.
Thought we played pretty well, and the neighbours didn't complain.
Thursday August 2nd - The Enterprise, Camden. With The Bleeps. A
convivial evening. Very intimate. Relaxed. A little empty. Damn smoking ban
may help kill off live music...
Friday 13th July - Lounge on the Farm festival,
Canterbury
.
Well, we had to compete with the Super Furry Animals playing at the same
time on the main stage...but highly enjoyable. We had those tent flaps
ermm..flapping.
Wednesday 4th July - The Good Ship, Kilburn. With the Masonics. A bit
like playing in a bear pit, but with no bears. And a stage. But it was
good.
Friday 1st June - Motherbar,
Old St.
London
.
Monday 23rd April - Tap'n'Tin,
Chatham
- Best we've played for a while. Pity it was a Monday night in a student
venue when all the students are on holiday. But those that were there
seemed to enjoy it, particularly Francis's personal fanclub.
Friday 23rd February - Windmill, Brixton - A rare return to the stage,
with a load of new songs, a few funny cockups and a small tantrum.
2006
Friday 22nd December
Holland
-
Hengelo
, Innocent
Jon finds his voice at the bottom of his suitcase and normal service is
resumed. We were good.
Thursday 21st December
Germany
- Münster, Gleis 22
with the Stillettos. Thanks for making our jaws ache with laughter boys.'
Holland
- that's in
Amsterdam
, right?'
Wednesday 20th
Germany
-
Furth
, Kunstkellar
An old undergournd bomb bunker. Nice place and people. Let yourself out in
the morning lads.
Tuesday 19th December
Germany
-
Heidelberg
, Storchennest
Best gig, broken strings a-go-go, wet floor, Cockney market trader approach
to selling merchandise bemuses the locals
Monday 18th December
Germany
-
Berlin
, Wild at Heart
Voice still lost, but we are pros.
Sunday 17th December
Germany
-
Chemnitz
, Subway
to Peter
It gets light again. Good cellar club, DIY approach, garlic vodka, pass round
the hat, Jon mislays his voice.
Saturday 16th December Germany -
Koln
, Sonic Ballroom
It goes all dark... bad moods all round. His Lordship's amp breaks.
Friday 15th December Holland -
Rotterdam
, The Waterfront
Great venue, great sound. Audience a bit thin on the ground but they helped
us rock unselfishly.
Friday 8th December -
Bloomsbury
Lanes with the
Fabulous Penetrators
3rd November - The Lauriston, Hackney
In which His Lordship arrives half an hour after we should have started
playing. Still, a nice cosy 20 minutes.
21st October -
Bloomsbury
Bowling Lanes,
London
.
A good one. Dancing, shouting and encores. Just like a real gig.
24th September - Carlo Levi,
Liege
.
With Momo la Mana
A small but very appreciative audience. We rocked and then we drove to the
ferry.
23rd September - Le Coliseum,
Charleroi
,
with Captain Kirk, Billy Bolley.
A good one. Like playing in a glass sauna. A very big sauna overlooking a
night club dance floor. With a bar.
14th September - Rhythm Factory,
London
,
with the Len Price 3.
12th August - Endorse-it in Dorset Festival (Six Penny Handley), LGO Big
Top.
1pm
- a real rock'n'roll time slot at
a 3 day festival... However, punters were lured into our big tent and
enjoyed our lunchtime treat. Sold a few copies of our new album by
mistake... It's not officially out yet, you see.
28th July - Dirty Water Club. With The Urban Voodoo Machine and The
Tumbitas. A proper gig, good sound, played well, good crowd, got paid. What
more can you ask? Apart from world peace and food for all.
21st July -
Dublin
Castle
,
London
. With Chinese lungs,
Girls on Top. Jon goes funny from nicotine withdrawal and threatens to
leave the band. As if.
28th May - The Village pub -
Crosby
village
festival. 5 venues around a pedestrianised precinct, bands playing
simultaneously..... No drum stool, kit moving across the stage at a rate of
knots, broken strings, indifferent audience. And the car had to be towed
back to
London
. Not the best
gig ever.
27th May - The Cavern (front stage - evening) IPO Festival. Much better.
Small stage, hot as a sauna. A good one.
27th May - The Cavern (back stage - afternoon) IPO Festival. The days
entertainment started earlier due to another venue pulling out, meaning
slots had to be found for a dozen bands. Not many punters about at
2pm
. Once again we played a blinder to a
handful. That's rocknroll.
26th May - The Attic,
Accrington
. International
weekender. Nice venue, disappointing turnout considering the amount
of promotion work. I think the audience was mostly the other bands.
Obviously we rocked anyway.
10th May - Upstairs at the Garage,
London
,
with Serpico. - Midweek gig in
London
.
Says it all really. We were good though.
28th April - Command House,
Chatham
,
Kent
.
With the Len Price 3 (who were, it's got to be said, pretty damn good. And loud). This is an odd
place for a gig, a cellar bar with no stage and the punters standing 2
inches away staring into your eyes. Slightly intimidating, with a typically
suspicious medway crowd. But we overcame our pre-season nerves to pull it
off, with a few new tunes in the mix to spice it up. It was good to be
back. Showbiz is in our blood you know.
11th February - Coca Cabana,
Metz
,
France
,
with Captain Kirk. And after our best gig the night before, a strange anti
climax. Complaints from neighbours and a nervous bar owner mean that the
gig is pulled after 5 songs from Captain Kirk. Bit of a downer - the place
was packed. No riots, because it was free to get in, but plenty of sullen
muttering. Now we wait for April 28th..
10th February - La Zone,
Liege
,
Belgium
,
with Captain Kirk. Our best ever gig? Possibly... great club, another
exciteable audience and, a bit of argy bargy (His Lordship jumps into the
punters and sorts 'em out with his axe), and loads of encores. We nearly
ran out of songs. Look out for some live MP3s from this gig very soon.
9th February - Babylone Cafe,
Amiens
,
France
.
With Captain Kirk. A tiny cellar, vocal PA and a very sweaty and exciteable
audience. Rocknroll heaven. And we had to cram a 45 minute set into 25
minutes because someone forget to check if there was a curfew... We did it
though. Some very fast versions.. Flyer here
7th February -
Ravensbourne
College
of Art and Design. With the Dominoes. A riproaring night of rocknroll
debauchery. Actually it wasn't. It was a Tuesday night in Elmstead woods.
Nuff said. Good rehearsal for our European gigs though....
19th January - The Cockpit @ The Fighting Cocks,
Kingston
.
First gig of the year. A slightly bigger and more appreciative audience,
still a nice little venue. Allan is not thwarted at all and makes his lead
vocal debut on his first all original composition. Continents collide,
volcanoes erupt etc. Also featuring Pipe and Primary School Hero.
2005
30th November - The Cockpit @ The Fighting Cocks,
Kingston
.
Last gig of the year. A small but appreciative audience, nice little venue.
And Allan is thwarted by a mere minute in his quest to make his singing
debut on his first all original composition for any band. Those words loved
by bands everywhere... 'make that the last one lads'. Oh well, next time.
And it will be the same venue for our next gig, January 20th..
20th November - Punk and Ska all-dayer - Dagenham and Redbridge FC. One
of those strange gigs that happen to bands occasionally. We thought we
played a slightly shoddy gig and didn't do ourselves justice. But then for
the rest of the night we had people coming up to us and telling us how
wonderful they thought we were. And it was the best night for selling
CDs/EPs and T-shirts we've had for ages. Strange. If we'd played a blinder
no one would have taken any notice. That's the way it goes sometimes in
this strange and wonderful of rocknroll.
2nd November - The Spread Eagle - Shoreditch. With The Duel and the
Vacants. Turned out highly enjoyable. Very small place, no stage, makeshift
PA, pissing down outside. But it was good, and some enthusiastic dancing in
the tiny area between the band and the bar. One of the better midweek gigs.
21st October - Dirty Water club,
Tufnell
Park
, with the Bare Necessities
and Ghostwriter. A great night for us, not so sure if the other artists
enjoyed it so much. And apparently you could hear our vocals!
6th October - Clockwork, Angel, London N1 - with some other bands. Can't
remember who they were because two of them decided not to turn up, without
the courtesy of telling the promoter or the other bands. The band that
headlined were about 17 (nothing wrong with that) and played ZZ Top covers
(something definitely wrong with that. Highly disturbing). We were good and
some people braved the dance floor for our set. Thank you.
30th September - Soul Bowl at the
Citrus rooms,
Barnsley
- with the Freebooting
Profiteers and the Concrete & Piss sound system. A good night, got the
punters dancing, friendly people, nice venue. The only downer was the
acoustics, which sounded akin to putting a tannoy in a lift shaft. Put them
right and
Barnsley
will be the rocknroll capital of
the North. Maybe.
10th September - Tap 'n' tin,
Chatham
- with the Len Price 3. A great venue, not the sort of thing you
might expect to find in
Chatham
!
More like a European arts venue, lots of different rooms and bars with
contrasting vibes. A good gig, despite some bounder knicking our last
couple of badges from the merchandising. And our good mates the LP3 were
rocking as usual. Ooh it was a happy night.
31st August - Rendition at the Bed Bar,
Basinghall
St
,
London
.
posh place, pseudo-Morrocan decor. We felt like we were being slightly
impolite making all that racket after the acoustic stylings of the
preceding act. Parsley liked it - review in Artrocker soon.
26th July - The Borderline,
London
.
Four band bill, us on second. A bit early in the evening for serious
arse-kicking, but a good one nevertheless. Sold some CDs before we even
finished playing. We were also contratulated on our gratuitous use of the
word 'piss' in our art.
23rd July - Command House, Chatham. Thoroughly enjoyable evening. We
rocked like a mutha. (Is that phrase still in use? We rocked like something
mispelt in an arbitrary yet enigmatic manner.)
22nd July - The Loaded Dog, Leytonstone - of the 3 bands booked, we were
the only one to turn up, on what was a very strange night in
London
.
Eerily quiet, for obvious reasons.
25th June - The Pleasure Unit, Bethnal Green. - Supporting the Treliks.
We were first on, but it was a good response. And it even sounded OK, so
we've knocked the 'dis' off the name of the venue this time.
24th June - Dirty Water club,
Tufnell
Park
. With the Buff Medways. A
good night all round - much backslapping and ego-boosting. And fuzzy vocals
as well. And we bottled out of playing our tribute to the Childish Sound
System, 'Shit P.A.'
17th June - The Windmill, Brixton. With The Len Price 3 and Fallen
Leaves - Far too drunk. The beginning of our 2 pint rule. We've been shit
hot since. And been able to drive home afterwards, albeit really badly due
to being wired on Red Bull and the like.
3rd June - Give and Go club, AFC Wimbledon - great reaction, nice
people.
29th May
Afternoon - Rubber Soul,
Mathew Street
,
Liverpool
(International Pop Overthrow Festival)
Evening - Cavern Club,
Mathew Street
,
Liverpool
(International Pop Overthrow Festival)
20th March - The Standard, Walthamstow - 15 minutes of fun at the
hastily arranged Punk Aid night.
18th March - The Windmill, Brixton - last minute slot…c'mon you
trendies dance!
4th March - The
Alma
,
Crystal
Palace
- with The Not-Too-Distant-Future
and The Dominoes. Muchio danciolation.
26th February - The Borderline,
London
- supporting The Bureau - top sound - top gig
30th January - Goldsmith's Tavern, New Cross (Red Cross Tsunami benefit)
- take that hat off you delinquent!
27th January - Fox and Firkin, Lewisham - we were Hot Shit and Raw Poo
lived up to their name.
26th January - Command House, Chatham - Headpress have this on video
somewhere -
Orange
's debut I
believe.
10th January - New Cross
Inn
, New Cross. Hope
they get the PA fixed soon… A night of inaudible vocals
1st January - Tsunami Club,
Koln
,
Germany
(a rather unfortunately named club under the circumstances) - Tonight
Matthew I'm going to be Lemmy
2004
31st December - Landespavilion,
Stuttgart
,
Germany
. With The
Minds. Click here to see the rather groovy poster - a fine way to
end the year - fun funnity fun
29th December - Bootshaus,
Bamberg
,
Germany
.
With Crazy CandyDates (top), Hombre (worst band ever) and Hartwurstsuppe
(didn't get to see them but nice bunch)
28th December - Cupoule,
Biele
,
Switzerland
.
With The Minds. Don't mention the catering (what catering?)
27th December - Loch Ness Pub,
Riva Del Garde
,
Italy
- the night of
the electrified microphones - ouch!
26th December - Sonderbar,
Feldkirch
,
Austria
- good gig, ace food, bizarre club layout
25th December - Atomic Café,
Munich
,
Germany
- let's break
everything on the first gig of the tour eh?
20th December - The Displeasure Unit, Bethnal Green - what a bunch of
arse. Get a life you losers.
17th December - The
Alma
,
Crystal
Palace
. With Striker and The
Dominoes - Christmas 'Special' with straw and everything.
30th November - New Cross
Inn
, Lewisham
18th November - Fox and Firkin, Lewisham, with The Dominoes and Mumrah -
forced to go on last - bah.
4th November - Standard, Walthamstow
1st October - The
Alma
,
Crystal
Palace
- with The Dominoes
30th September - Belushi's,
London
Bridge
- It wasn't me chucking
ice cubes at the punters honest.
23rd September - Windmill, Brixton - with The Little Killers and The
Dirty Switches.
10th September - Dirty Water Club,
Tufnell
Park
- With the Buff Medways
4th September - Tendenze Festival,
Piacenza
,
Italy
- Keep it up
Peter Chen's whore! A happy day. Hear a
live track from this gig
3rd September - Festa di Liberazione,
Verona
,
Italy
- I want to
suck your arse (that's what she said to me honest)
26th August - The Standard, Walthamstow
22nd August - Clapham Common. Happy Mondays Get Loaded in the Park, on
the I Swear I was there Stage. Fuck off you kids and go and fight somewhere
else - we're trying to play a gig.
15th August - New Cross Inn, New Cross – with The Dominoes
6th August - The City Tavern,
Oxford
- er, the night of the Big Brother final. Shite.
30th July - Dirty Water Club,
Tufnell
Park
. With the Buff Medways and
The A-Lines
22nd July - Fox and Firkin, Lewisham. With Raw Poo
21st July - Turnmills, Clerkenwell. With Lysakoski and Apartment
24th June - The Windmill, Brixton. With The Black Lips and The Divine
Brown. I think we rocked.
8th June - Club Echo at Gossips. Club Mean Fuckers more like -
£3.60 a pint - and that's if you can find any bar staff.
6th June - New Cross
Inn
, New Cross. With The
Dominoes
15th May - Freebutt,
Brighton
- give us our
cymbal back you theiving arses
8th May –
Oldham
, The Castle - 120dB of
pure terror
4th May -
Paradise
Bar, New Cross
30th April - The
Alma
,
Crystal
Palace
28th April - The Bear, Farringdon - Lucifer Star Machine supporting. V
silly - and they are NOT goths (much!)
8th April - 50 Watts of Power club, Buffalo Bar, Highbury. With Armitage
Shanks. The last 50 watts night, and we play a blinder.
26th March - The Alma,
Crystal
Palace
– with The Ludes
supporting
21st March - New Cross Inn, New Cross - with Nakeru?
27th Feb - Dirty Water Club,
Tufnell
Park
. With The Buff Medways
17th Feb - New Cross
Inn
, New Cross
26th Jan - New Cross
Inn
, New Cross
2003
2nd Dec - Bull and Gate,
Kentish
Town
.
13th Nov - 50 Watts of Power club, Buffalo Bar, Highbury. With The
Ulcers and Armitage Shanks
4th Nov -
Paradise
Bar, New Cross
19th Sept - Dirty Water Club,
Tufnell
Park
. With The Buff Medways
13th Sept - Bullingdon Arms,
Oxford
.
With The Snags
25th July - Dirty Water Club,
Tufnell
Park
. With The Buff Medways -
hey, we're a band and everything! |
