Gigs We've Done: 2001
Here's all the gigs we played in 2001, along with any details of the night I can remember.| Friday 19 January | Upstairs At The Garage, London With some Spanish Bloke whose friends talked all the way through my gig, very loudly, then went roun d telling everybody else to 'SHH!' when he was on. |
| Saturday 17 February | The Boardwalk, Sheffield First on at Pop-A-Go-Go - shortly after the gig Emma joined The Validators, and we were complete. |
| Wednesday 21 February | Jug of Ale, Birmingham With Misty's Big Adventure. |
| Wednesday 28 February | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield With Frankie Machine - this saw the live debut of 'Stan', which had recently been banned by the Stud ents' Union. Nobody noticed. |
| Friday 11 May | Bull & Gate, London Emma's first gig, and the only time we played 'Stan' live… although it was cut off before the vocals as we weren't allowed to do an encore. |
| Friday 29 June | The Charlotte, Leicester I played solo with Rob's JAGUAR and a drunk man tried to have a chat with me while I was trying to s ing. |
| Wednesday 25 July | Chambers, Taunton Insane gig - I spent about eight hours on the train each way, and played to the promoters… and not r eally anyone else. They were very nice lads though, and it was a good day out. |
| Friday 3 August | Jug of Ale, Birmingham A very early example of a Good Gig - people actually knew the 'Oi Hibbett!' bit! |
| Sunday 2 September | Firebug, Leicester Venue spends 90 minutes setting up the PA, we play a set of completely new material, all from 'This Is Not A Library'. |
| Friday 14 September | The Think Tank, Leeds First gig in Leeds, featuring Supportive Yet Doomed Heckling… Heckler 1: 'Get off! Play some Belle & Sebastian!' Supportive Heckler 2: 'Go home and listen to your good music!' |
| Wednesday 3 October | Victoria Inn, Derby With Phonotype (who'd been on Radio 1 that day so soundchecked for an HOUR then played to NOBODY), a nd Magoo (who were lovely). Live debut for 'Give Us A Kiss (for Christmas)' which the audience (Moo and Anne-Marie) seemed to enjoy. |
| Date Unclear 22 October | The Blessington Carriage, Derby Company Song and the SINGALONG at the AAS AGM. |
| Thursday 6 December | The Casbah, Sheffield With The Frightened Prisoners Of The Kraken - they were brilliant! |
| Monday 10 December | University Of Leicester, Leicester The Department Of Epidemiology & Public Health's Research Day! |
| Wednesday 12 December | Blue Cat Cafe, Stockport With The Frightened Prisoners Of The Kraken once more - they were fantastic this time too! |
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