Gigs We've Done: 2004
Here's all the gigs we played in 2004, along with any details of the night I can remember.| Thursday 26 February | The 12 Bar Club, London A brilliant night, and the first time I played 'Breaks In The Journey' |
| Friday 5 March | Starka Bar, Motherwell First night of the tour with The Hector Collectors, who turned out to be ACE. I didn’t do too well - it turns out Thee Moths had played there the week before and done 'my version' of 'Boom Shake The R oom', so even that went down a bit flat. |
| Saturday 6 March | The Captain's Rest, Glasgow Still on tour with The Hector Collectors - a slightly scary pub, and I made a lengthy speech about h ow everybody was very keen for you to know they were Scottish. This ended up being a GRATE night! |
| Sunday 7 March | Caledonian Backpackers', Edinburgh This was the gig that inspired 'Let The Weird Band Win' AND 'Mental Judo'. I played with, and to, th e lovely Hector Collectors at their final gig. |
| Sunday 14 March | Raffles, Derby A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon slot in the 'Yr On Yr Own' all-dayer. I felt relaxed, and there was much jollity in the room. NICE. |
| Sunday 14 March | The Social (Nottingham), Nottingham Things started off late, the Promoter's band went on before us, started off even later and over-ran their set. We got ENERGISED with annoyance and played pretty good, but there was nobody there to see it! |
| Friday 7 May | The Adelphi, Hull The Validators supported by MJ Hibbett! Live debut for 'Dino At The Sands' and 'Never Going Back To Aldi's'. |
| Friday 7 May | The Adelphi, Hull Astounding night when people came just to see us, and we had a big feature in The Hull Daily Mail! |
| Sunday 9 May | Railway Inn, Winchester With Winston Echo at a benefit for the Winchester Hunt Saboteurs. |
| Saturday 15 May | The Blue Posts, London Carsmile Steve's birthday party! |
| Thursday 27 May | The 12 Bar Club, London Launch gig for 'Shed Anthems'. |
| Friday 11 June | The Grapes, Sheffield Fabulous night, supported by James Taylor and Peter Green. No, really! |
| Saturday 12 June | Hobgoblin, Brighton With Anal Beard and The Lovely Brothers. This night I discovered that they don't have Aldi's in Brig hton. |
| Tuesday 22 June | The Attik, Leicester A trip down memory lane for some us, getting back to the Attik, and the first and only appearance of THE REMARK-O-PHONE. |
| Thursday 24 June | The 12 Bar Club, London A heavily compressed set due to THE FOOTBALL. |
| Saturday 3 July | Carpe Diem, Leeds With Johnny Domino and Being 747. |
| Saturday 14 August | Ray's Mum's Back Garden, Stourbridge A birthday surprise for Ray and a lot of drinking for me! |
| Saturday 28 August | My Mum's Back Garden, Peterborough My parent's silver wedding anniversary - aah! |
| Thursday 16 September | The Victoria, London Before the gig I had broadcast to YORKSHIRE, then two songs in decided to ABANDON PA for the first t ime… it was a Very Good Idea. |
| Saturday 18 September | Jug of Ale, Birmingham With Bom, Pete Green and Jeffrey Lewis. |
| Monday 20 September | Tchai Ovna Teahouse, Glasgow First night of The Tour with The Plimptons and Frankie Machine. Afterwards we got very very drunk in deed, and hijinks ensued. |
| Tuesday 21 September | The Adelphi, Hull Second leg of the Plimptons/Frankie tour, also with Cracktown and the very lovely Mr Jeffrey Lewis. |
| Wednesday 22 September | Portland Works, Sheffield One of my best EVER gigs - in an abandoned factory/studio complex, without a PA, and on still on tou r with The Plimptons and Frankie Machine. Two encores, a huge amount of beer, clubbing, a party, and further hi-jinks. ROCK! |
| Thursday 23 September | The 12 Bar Club, London A beautiful final night for the Plimptons/Frankie Machine tour, also featuring Nathan Persad and Spi nmaster Plantpot. There was a lot of hugging. |
| Saturday 2 October | Sanctuary Café, Brighton A benefit for an Animal Sanctuary organised by Paul from Pog. |
| Saturday 30 October | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield The Fuzztival - this was the GRATE time Steve Lamacq was pushed aside by a mob of WOMEN who wanted t o buy CDs from me… it was like a DREAM! |
| Saturday 4 December | The Criterion, Leicester Me and Tom play to a VERY tough room at the Ultimate Frisbee Party. |
| Saturday 11 December | Woodhouse Eaves Village Hall, Leicester The Validators Christmas Gig, with Tube Bar DJs |
| Sunday 19 December | BBC 6Music, London Singing 'The Advent Calendar Of FACT' and 'Rock And Roll Mayhem' live on Steve Lamacq's Sunday show. |
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