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 Thu, 7 Oct 1999 What would you call a programme dedicated to Foie Gras? Why, "Pate News" of course. Due to the fact that I couldn't be arsed until now to put finger to keyboard, the news from t'lads has been a bit thin on the ground. We just arrived in Aberdeen for tonight's (Thursday) show after a 12 and a half hour bus journey from Bridlington, home of Busy Bees chippy, and to mine and Andrew Stephen Bown's collective way of thinking, one of the top culinary experiences available in the Western Hemisphere. In fact, I give so many places free advertising, I have decided to go into the ad game, and I'd like to "Run a couple of ideas by you" ...that's ad speak folks, you probably wouldn't understand all the jargon, anyway here goes: 1) "Try New Daz. It's Fucking Amazing!" 2) "Mcdonald's. It's full of shit, but who cares?" I think I have the necessary skills to add to the new service industry based economy a strong and lasting... by the way Rhino, why don't you just shut up and tell about the bloody tour, you boring dickhead? Fair comment that... Here goes then... Manchester.. Um, bit of a mess this was, with a lot of sound problems. I'm not going to make excuses as such, but rehearsals were pretty much devastated by TV and interviews. It's a cleft stick, when you got a record in the shops you got to do as much as you can, especially if it's not on the radio much, so I admit that we were a bit rough, however, all you tossers who go on the guest list afterwards and take us to pieces ought to imagine what it would be like following a band like the Stones? You'd get one gig in 8 where it was really happening, 4 OK, and 3 absolute horrors. Plus it'd cost you more money. And another thing, we've changed the set to try and accommodate what we term the hard-core fans want to hear. OK, one bad gig, but please, don't write us off just yet! By the time you read this, we'll have got our shit together hopefully... anyway, we finished the show well aware things weren't right, but agreed to give it another go at the next show ... By the way, a big calm down to Felix, our new Liverpudlian assistant to Ms Worsfold...... 
We did what we said at Nottingham, which was indeed the next gig, and
repeated the set...then we then started to suss out what was wrong, although to be fair we were back
to pretty good shape on the playing front. Starting with Horses was just not
getting it off to a strong start, although by the end of the night we got
ourselves and Billy in quite a lather. It's a great venue, and Andy Taylor,
our out front engineer had much less trouble than at Manchester. We also
decided that Shine on (or Shite on as some one with such a great line in
prose and comedy wrote) just wasn't right... drastic times call for drastic
measures, so we've worked out a medley of wartime songs as performed by
ENSA. If that doesn't work we have exploding horses, a police dope smoking
Motor cycle display,these people are GUARANTEED to crash and Mr Jimi
Hendrix on Vibes laydees and gentelmen, yes fun for all the family, dead or
alive ...GET ON WITH THE LOG YOU TWAT!!!!!! Sorry, major meeting Monday morning, new set with even more surprises for Bridlington, you know with us, if we get it wrong occasionally, it ain't for lack of trying, we spent seconds on that set (shut up Rhino), no, we do think long and hard (don't we all dearie!) about what we do, and on this occasion we got it a bit wrong. Oh yeah in Nottingham there's this geyser who has a Status Quo flag, which he puts over his head during ITAN I wish I'd had a hat and a pair of glasses to put on him, I couldn't stop laughing all the way through the song. So there you have it. The nearest I can get to an apology for the first couple of shows. I don't like apologising 'cos it means we got it wrong. It's called being human, y'know? Oh, let's shed a tear for Rhino. By the way, can anybody shed any light on a Mr Hackerlogger? He keeps writing to me saying he's going to get in the site and mess with it. Usual bullshit, you think, but he's got one of my home email addresses, which I've never even used. I've seen him on the guest list, bizarre huh? Bridlington was the usual cauldron, one of my favourite venues in the world, real Rock and Roll gig, a great crowd, hot and sweaty. Absolutely poxy backstage facilities, once Billy's in you can't leave the dressing room without crossing the stage, and when the opening band are on it's like World War 3, but so what? We tried the new set (New improved Quo. It's Fucking Amazing! SHUTIT!) and I think it worked, watch this space. A girl gave me a ring last night, which was nice, thanks a bunch whoever you are. Anyway, as I got about 3 hours sleep on the bus I'm going to get horizontal for a couple of hours B4 the nights activities, which will be followed by a nice 8 hour bus trip to Newcastle. I will log up the shows I've missed during the summer, with my photographic memory I will report on the gig we did in Belfast, I love the French you know, and again in Belgium, the home of Curry and the film industry.. Enchantez, meine kleine demi de cervesasxxxxxxxxxxx  P.S. If you opened a 24 hour stir fry restaurant, would you call it Wok around the Clock? P.P.S. We had big plans for this years logs, but the digi cam won't work, and so there's no recent piccies so far. |
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