Gigs We've Done: 2008
Here's all the gigs we played in 2008, along with any details of the night I can remember.| Tuesday 22 January | The Lamb, London Totally Acoustic night, with Sunny Intervals - featuring the Surprise Ukelele Flash Mob! |
| Saturday 26 January | The Fishtank, Durham GRATE trip North for The Cleator Moor Validators to a posh apartment and ACE gig with Rich & Ollie a nd Mr Pete Green. |
| Saturday 9 February | The Albany, London Fab, totally acoustical, night, where the chap from The Free Fringe came to see me. |
| Friday 22 February | Firebug, Leicester Supporting Neck at Steve McHaggis's Birthday do |
| Sunday 2 March | Monkey Chews, London Jim'll's Brain, MASSIVELY varying standards of comedians, zombie/topless lady films, and a naked poe t. |
| Saturday 8 March | The Brunswick Inn, Derby Quick impromptu [DRUNK] couple of songs after watching Frankie Machine. |
| Tuesday 10 March | The Green Dragon, London Back at Freedom of Expression, with Sue Verran, Jenny Lockyer and Matt Geary |
| Tuesday 18 March | The Lamb, London Totally Acoustic night, with The Bobby McGees |
| Sunday 23 March | The Battersea Barge, London The PopArt alldayer - BritPopArt 2! |
| Sunday 23 March | The Battersea Barge, London Shameful attempt at 'Country House' |
| Saturday 5 April | Cardigan Arms, Leeds First day of Pennfest, with The Scaramanga Six, Penny Broadhurst, Brontosaurus Chorus, The Fighting "Cocks and The Seven Inches. We couldn't get any ""India""!!!" |
| Sunday 6 April | Leonard's, London Pennfest day TWO, this time with Penny Broadhurst, Friends Of The Bride, Brontosaurus Chorus, George Death, Paul Mosley and Sajeela Kershi. Nobody seemed to notice we were playing! |
| Friday 11 April | The Perserverance, London A, frankly, STORMING night at Freedom Of Expression. |
| Tuesday 22 April | The Lamb, London Totally Acoustic night, with Frankie Machine on UKELELE! |
| Thursday 1 May | Lee Rosy's Tea Room, Nottingham Playing with Frankie Machine and Phil Wilson, of The June Brides. |
| Saturday 3 May | Monkey Chews, London With Zipper, Horowitz and The Bumblebees. |
| Sunday 4 May | Fox & Firkin, London A lovely start to summer, at Foxfest 2008. |
| Monday 5 May | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield Lots of singing along - especially during Do The Indie Kid - at the Fuzz Club BBQ. |
| Wednesday 7 May | The Bandstand, Stoke A Sunny Inside night with A Smile And a Ribbon, Horowitz and DJ Rocker. |
| Thursday 8 May | Jamm, London Offline night with Gin Riots and The Boycott Coca-Cola Experience |
| Thursday 22 May | Firebug, Leicester The Leicester leg of the single tour, with The Mai 68s and Phil Wilson |
| Thursday 29 May | Shortfuse @ The Camden Head, London Short talky set at Shortfuse. With poets. |
| Friday 30 May | The Prince Albert, London Solo spot at the Offline club in a very busy pub, with Helen McCookeryClub and The Boycott Coca Cola Experience |
| Tuesday 10 June | The Lamb, London A lovely (warm!) Totally Acoustic with the MIGHTY Jim'll's Brain |
| Wednesday 18 June | Buffalo Bar, London Goonite Club, with The Indelicates, Lily Rae and The Keith TOTP All-Star Band, the latter being made up almost entirely of people I knew from all sorts of different places. |
| Tuesday 1 July | The Lamb, London 'Dress Rehearsal' of My Exciting Life In ROCK |
| Monday 7 July | The Red House, Sheffield Amazing line-up (The School, Slow Down Tallahassee and Mr Pete Green), lovely friends in the audienc e, rather scary episode of getting LOST on the way home! |
| Monday 14 July | The Cross Kings, London Press Preview (press preview!!) for My Exciting Life In ROCK!, with support from Mr Pete Green. |
| Friday 18 July | The Perserverance, London Back at Freedom of Expression with Superman Revenge Squad. |
| Friday 25 July | The Midland Railway - Butterley, Derby The World Premier of My Exciting Life In ROCK! |
| Saturday 26 July | My Mum's Back Garden, Peterborough Rather unusual set for my parents' friends! |
| Thursday 31 July | Boston Music Rooms, London The launch night for Apples For Everyone's new album, although I had to dash off too soon to see any thing. |
| Monday 4 August | XFM Scotland, Glasgow Session for Jim Gellatly's show, doing 'The Lesson Of The Smiths' and 'It Only Works Because You're Here', broadcast the next day. |
| Monday 4 August | Medina, Edinburgh First night of the show - 30 people in but I was a bit nervous. |
| Tuesday 5 August | Lower Stage, Edinburgh An extremely enjoyable bit of busking, featuring dancing babies. |
| Tuesday 5 August | Medina, Edinburgh Only four people in so I did the show Totally Acoustically and had a GRATE time. |
| Wednesday 6 August | Medina, Edinburgh There were 25 people this time, and it was a WHOLE lot of fun, with a live satellite link-up to Stev e Lamacq on 6Music! |
| Thursday 7 August | Lower Stage, Edinburgh A very rainy busking spot, where I furthered my knowledge of this ancient art by doing Back For Good twice. |
| Thursday 7 August | Medina, Edinburgh This show featuring S Hewitt demonstrating how to do The Indie Kid. |
| Friday 8 August | Medina, Edinburgh A barefoot show for a small audience, including three disgruntled teenagers who became even MORE so when The Management CONFISCATED their hip flask, resulting in the only bad review of the show!! |
| Saturday 9 August | Upper Stage, Edinburgh More slightly pointless busking, featuring a troupe of characters from Japanese drama walking by, cl apping along. |
| Saturday 9 August | Medina, Edinburgh Final night, and best of the lot, with a big happy audience and MUCH good times. |
| Friday 15 August | Lumb Farm, Derby The Blyth Power Summer Fayre, miles away from anywhere in a hotel full of old punks. |
| Friday 29 August | Actress & Bishop, Birmingham With The Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank (revival). |
| Saturday 30 August | Ray's Mum's Back Garden, Stourbridge With Mr Pete Green at HIBBETTFEST! |
| Tuesday 9 September | The Green Dragon, London A first time trip to Croydon, for Freedom Of Expression. |
| Tuesday 16 September | The Lamb, London Totally Acoustic with Mr Owen Tromans |
| Thursday 18 September | Buffalo Bar, London First full Validators gig in London for AGES, with Life In Film and Fuck Dress. |
| Saturday 4 October | Wellbeck Banqueting Suite, Nottingham Lisa & Sam's Wedding Reception. |
| Sunday 5 October | The Star, London Very quick set at the Anything Goes Sunday Club, after which I almost lost my guitar! |
| Sunday 12 October | The Salmon & Compass, London DJ Set at The Hangover Lounge, where I learnt that you do actually need to bring more than a couple of CDs with you if you wish to properly 'drop the bomb'. |
| Sunday 12 October | Catch 22, London Quick spot at John Peel day, after which I met John Peel's daughter! |
| Tuesday 14 October | The Green Dragon, London Freedom Of Expression gig, with Eddie's Brother and General Paulus. |
| Sunday 19 October | Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London Afternoon set (on about 4pm) at Bowl & Sebastian |
| Sunday 19 October | Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London Guest spot with the All Star Band at Bowl & Sebastian. |
| Tuesday 21 October | The Lamb, London Totally Acoustic night, with Tom From Lardpony. |
| Saturday 25 October | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield 'My Exciting Life In ROCK', done rather unnervingly with Steve Lamacq in the audience. |
| Saturday 25 October | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield Rather tipsy evening set, with some sage advice for The Kids. |
| Sunday 26 October | BBC Radio Cleveland, Middlesborough Quick session for Bob Fischer's show |
| Sunday 26 October | The Waiting Room, Middlesborough 'My Exciting Life In ROCK' again, this time with The Bob Fischer Experience. |
| Thursday 30 October | Christ Church, London Using Mr T Eveleigh as a Swearing Vocalists as i REFUSE to swear in a church. |
| Thursday 13 November | The Charlotte, Leicester A young lad's dream comes true as Tim plays with Half Man Half Biscuit. |
| Sunday 16 November | Lee Rosy's Tea Room, Nottingham Lovely all-dayer with Pocketbooks, Mr Phil Wilson. Pete Green, The Bobby McGees and BEER! |
| Friday 21 November | The Perserverance, London Freedom Of Expression with Jeremy Ayre, Superman Revenge Squad and New Rising. |
| Thursday 27 November | The Shakespeare, Sheffield Quick set in the courtyard! |
| Thursday 27 November | The Shakespeare, Sheffield Markie Parallelogram's leaving do, with Horowitz, The Lovely Eggs, The Parallelograms and TEARS. |
| Thursday 4 December | Native Tongue, Surrey 'Jenny's Time Of The Month', just round the corner from Underage Drinking Central! |
| Saturday 6 December | The Wilmington Arms, London A twinkly, Christmassy time with Calvin Party, Lazarus Clamp and Former Utopia. |
| Tuesday 9 December | The Lamb, London A very Christmassy Totally Acoustic, with GRATE sets from Jenny Lockyer and Ten Foot John, mince pie s, and general Festive Good Times! |
| Thursday 11 December | Green Dragon Yard, Middlesborough Nine hours travel, one audience member, a FIGHT and several beers: ROCK! |
| Saturday 13 December | The Fly, London Fantastically GOOD FUN Set with The Tiger at PopArt's Christmas Bash |
| Saturday 13 December | The Fly, London Singing 'Wonderful Christmas Time' with the Allstar Band and then doing THE BEST BIT of 'Do They Kno w It's Christmas' - SO very much fun my face HURT from all the smiling! |
| Wednesday 17 December | The Windmill, London Slightly cold ridden end to the year at the Let's Go Baboon Christmas do. |
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