Gigs We've Done: 2007
Here's all the gigs we played in 2007, along with any details of the night I can remember.| Saturday 6 January | The Loft, Cambridge Me and Tim were, according to Charles de Fighting Cocks, 'rough as old arseholes - in a good way'. H e's right! |
| Sunday 21 January | The Washington, Sheffield Penny's Birthday Party - a lovely afternoon down the pub, preceded by some Sheffield Sightseeing. |
| Sunday 28 January | The Windmill, London A Let's Go Baboon night with a heap of new songs and STRAP DISASTER! |
| Saturday 17 February | Fellows Morton and Clayton, Nottingham Me standing on a stairwell shouting at a room full of people at a birthday party. |
| Friday 2 March | BB's Social Club, London Just round the corner from my house, in the back room (sort of) of somebody else's… |
| Saturday 3 March | The Pleasure Unit, London MJ Hibbett & The Performing Pattisons, out way past their bedtime. |
| Friday 9 March | Glass Onion, Peterborough A really lovely night in a pub I'd not been in for eighteen years that was VERY un-Peterborough. |
| Friday 23 March | De Montfort Student Union, Leicester Strange evening of NOSTALGIA and feeling OLD where we did the live DEBUT of Do The Indie Kid and found ourselves mysteriously ejecte d via. the lifts as soon as the gig was over. |
| Saturday 24 March | Phoenix FM, Essex Quick radio session with a small audience inside the building and a slightly larger one passing by o utside, doing their shopping. |
| Saturday 24 March | The Portland Arms, Cambridge Ciarafest 9, with Dooittle, Daniel Flay & Tom Conway - an all round lovely night. |
| Thursday 29 March | Jamm, London Another night at Vic Lambruscco's Cabaret Hour, this time playing with Nathan Penlington. |
| Monday 2 April | The Social (London), London A slightly nervous start but a FUN gig, with Michael from Lazarus Clamp and Former Utopia. |
| Thursday 5 April | The Charlotte, Leicester A very last minute change of venue and change of time meant all sorts of problems. |
| Friday 6 April | The Union Tavern, London The Poptimism All-Dayer - a lovely way to spend an afternoon and a LOT of fun doing a totally acoust ic singalong. |
| Friday 13 April | Whitechapel Gallery, London A Velvet Sheep night where I played a special song about superstitions. |
| Sunday 22 April | Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London The International Smog Day where we played with Airport Girl, Fight Fire With Water, Former Utopia a "nd others, and did our ""unique"" version of ""Dress Sexy At My Funeral""" |
| Friday 27 April | The Derby Arms, Ramsgate An ADVENTURE to the birthplace of Frank Muir. |
| Tuesday 1 May | The Henry Holland, London A lovely night for a Totally Acoustic gig. |
| Monday 7 May | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield SESSION for the Shadowplayboys radio show |
| Monday 7 May | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield Back back again for my traditional afternoon spot at the Fuzz Club BBQ. |
| Tuesday 22 May | BBC Radio Cleveland, Middlesborough Radio Session for Bob Fischer on BBC Cleveland |
| Tuesday 22 May | Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle With Jazz Finger, U.R Penetrators and Ian Boddy at the Orange Evolution Festival. |
| Sunday 27 May | Firebug, Leicester A TON of new stuff on a rainy evening. |
| Friday 1 June | Sumo, Leicester Set of songs from 78s at the Banana Grove night. |
| Friday 1 June | Sumo, Leicester Brief set in the courtyard outside |
| Saturday 2 June | Carpe Diem, Leeds With Lusk and Ben Calvert at a Tasty Fanzine night. |
| Saturday 9 June | LLAMA Lynton & Lynmouth Music Festival, Devon On a stage in a street, working that crowd! |
| Sunday 10 June | LLAMA Lynton & Lynmouth Music Festival, Devon Very nice, gentle, sitting down set at Woody Bay station, with an audience of toddlers. |
| Monday 11 June | Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London Playing to the backs of people bowling. |
| Friday 22 June | The Spitz, London World Premier of Hey Hey 64K at the Back In Time Live event |
| Saturday 7 July | Cornbury Festival, Oxford On the Word stage (eventually) playing Boom Shake The Room on my ukelele. |
| Sunday 8 July | Maida Vale Studios, London Fantastic and STRANGE afternoon playing with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and a couple of hundred othe r people at a Play It Again event. |
| Sunday 8 July | Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London The Cleator Moor Validators reunite to play Being Happy Doesn't Make You Stupid and Theme From Sparta FC for the fir st time together in The Live Environment. |
| Friday 13 July | Lark In The Park, London The Pop Art Weekender, playing with Gamages Model Train Club, Ten Foot Nun and Pocus Whiteface. |
| Wednesday 25 July | Lee Rosy's Tea Room, Nottingham A Tasty Fanzine night, with Horowitz, where me and Tom played Totally Acoustically and did THREE enc ores… MOST of which we got asked for! |
| Saturday 28 July | The Midland Railway - Butterley, Derby A really really nice afternoon with a bunch of people TRAPPED in a train carriage with me. |
| Sunday 29 July | The Midland Railway - Butterley, Derby BEST GIG EVER! Lovely weekend, lovely people LOVELY NESS! |
| Sunday 12 August | The Green House Effect, Brighton With the Lovely Brothers and The Bobby McGees - GRATE bands, GRATE beer, GRATE night! |
| Friday 17 August | Firebug, Leicester Lovely evening in Firebug for Glynfest. |
| Wednesday 22 August | The Lamb, London A BEAUTIFUL Totally Acoustic Gig with Mr Pete Green |
| Saturday 1 September | Ray's Mum's Back Garden, Stourbridge An old tradition, gloriously returning. |
| Sunday 2 September | Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London Afternoon spot at PopArt's Comic Books all-dayer, featuring FAR too much talk of THE KREE. |
| Sunday 30 September | Buffalo Bar, London A rather excellent Lost Music night, playing with Sarandon, Keith John Adams and Navvy. |
| Saturday 6 October | Fox & Firkin, London Battling with cold, The Cleator Moor Validators play for Koobaid. |
| Thursday 11 October | Shortfuse @ The Camden Head, London Ukelele Set at Shortfuse, playing with Hugo Williams (poet) and Barry Jones and Stuart Macleod (off the telly) |
| Friday 12 October | The Boardwalk, Sheffield The Validators join The Fighting Cocks, for ROCK. |
| Sunday 14 October | BBC Radio Cleveland, Middlesborough Short session for Bob Fischer's Gobstopper show |
| Sunday 14 October | The Waiting Room, Middlesborough Totally Acoustic set in a veggie restaurant, playing with The Bob Fischer Band |
| Saturday 27 October | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield First set of the day, on the main stage |
| Saturday 27 October | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield Second gig of the day in the smaller room, and a LOT more fun than on the big stage - this one was G RATE! |
| Tuesday 30 October | The Captain's Rest, Glasgow With The Just Joans, Pete Green, and a final song out on the pavement |
| Wednesday 31 October | The Castle Hotel, Manchester With The 10p Mixes and Pete Green |
| Thursday 1 November | BBC Radio Bristol, Bristol Session for Bristol Uncovered, with a very long interview! |
| Thursday 1 November | The Cornubia, Bristol Final night of the with Pete Green, this time with Rescue Aid Society vs. The Black Terror |
| Tuesday 6 November | The Lamb, London Totally Acoustic night with Mr Pete Weiss, a ukelele, and quite a lot of BEER. |
| Thursday 29 November | Jamm, London Back at Vic Lambrusco's Cabaret Hour |
| Friday 30 November | Island Bar, Birmingham Hassle from THE POLICE and then a DELIGHTFUL night of PALS and ROCK, alongside Winston Echo and The Icicles. |
| Sunday 2 December | The Red House, Sheffield The Cleator Moor Validators ride again, ROCKING OUT at a Sparklemotion Promotions Pop Show with Nat From Monkey Swallows The Universe, The 10p Mixes, and The Deirdres. GOOD TIMES! |
| Friday 14 December | The Glebe, Stoke Brilliant night featuring CURRY, The Deirdres, Horowitz, and a LOT of larking about, including toile t visits, rugby tackles, and BIG singalongs. |
| Saturday 22 December | Fox & Firkin, London Gig 60, featuring the Fox's traditional display of Weird Audience Member Trying To Get On Stage. |
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