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Gigs From History: 2003
Here's all the gigs we played in 2003, along with any details of the night I can remember. If there's a blog entry you can click on the date to read it.Wednesday 5 March 2003 | Betsy Trotwood, London First gig since I moved to London, first gig for my brother Thomas, and live debuts for both 'The Lesson Of The Smiths' and 'Things'll Be Different'. |
Saturday 19 April 2003 | Betsy Trotwood, London Not a good night - weakened by a run of good gigs, I lost control and panicked. |
Wednesday 7 May 2003 | The Albion, Winchester Playing with Owen Tromans, who lent me his pickup, I did 'I Can See Clearly Now' and a revised version of 'Fly Me To The Moon' for the first time and ended up stoned (sorry mum) on a lilo during a student party. Rock and ROLL! |
Saturday 14 June 2003 | The Adelphi, Hull Me and Tom at our first Hull gig - thus the first night we met the mighty Mr Eddy Bewsher. |
Friday 4 July 2003 | The Verge, London Supporting The Lovely Brothers - this was the night 'Captain Disco' joined me onstage to sing 'Stan' with his penis water pistol. |
Sunday 6 July 2003 | Loxley Residential Home, Peterborough My Nan's 90th Birthday Party |
Friday 1 August 2003 | Upstairs At The Garage, London I spent the afternoon at BBC 6 Music, and was a bit WEAKENED by the time I got to the gig, and didn't manage to control the heckling. |
Saturday 2 August 2003 | Victoria Inn, Derby Validators Full Band Set AAS 5th Birthday all-dayer with Johnny Domino, The Frightened Prisoners Of The Kraken, Lazer Guided and many many more. |
Sunday 10 August 2003 | Ray's Back Garden, Winchester A vegan barbecue and payment in BEER - NICE. |
Thursday 14 August 2003 | The Windmill, London Validators Full Band Set AAS Fifth birthday gig - Mr FA Machine was drunk, people cheered, we had fun! Also featuring Johnny Domino and Plans & Apologies. |
Saturday 20 September 2003 | The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds Hecklers were deflected, girls danced, I played 'Born Yesterday' (the only time) and there was a strange and frightening pub quiz. |
Monday 29 September 2003 | The Social (Nottingham), Nottingham Validators Full Band Set Very very LOUD gig with The Chris TT band - I think this was the night when Sam from Tasty Fanzine got head-butted. |
Saturday 11 October 2003 | Raffles, Derby Live debut for 'Young People Bring Me Your Problems'. I played first, didn't get paid, my name was spelt wrong on the posters, and I missed The Validators! |
Sunday 12 October 2003 | The Adelphi, Hull Validators Full Band Set An astonishingly fantastic night, organised by Eddy, and featuring Christmas Cake! Tom ran about trying to keep up with demand for CDs. |
Thursday 16 October 2003 | The Vine, Leeds Validators Full Band Set A very sweaty night with Being 747 and a young heavy metal band. |
Monday 20 October 2003 | Firebug, Leicester Validators Full Band Set Final gig of the mini-tour with Being 747. We did an encore, but had to ask for it! |
Friday 24 October 2003 | Jamm, London A Kooba night - I had to work hard to get the audience on-side, but it worked in the end. This night saw the debut of my solo set DANCING! |
Thursday 30 October 2003 | Cube Cinema, Bristol Supporting Chris TT - The venue's roof was falling in and I lost my bottle and haven't been back to Bristol since! |
Saturday 1 November 2003 | Jug of Ale, Birmingham Bearos Halloween Gig with Grover and Palomar 13. They'd learnt special spooky songs, so I had to do 'Evergreen' by Will Green and add ZOMBIES. |
Sunday 2 November 2003 | The Maze, Nottingham Earlier in the day I'd been complimented on my dancing, so was in a good mood. This felt like the first gig that moved towards The Uberset, and I did 'Boom Shake The Room' with a proper introduction for the first time. |
Saturday 8 November 2003 | Railway Inn, Winchester A good night - I thought I was dying on my arse but ended up getting an encore. I noted that my name was still on the board outside The Albion from several months before. |
Saturday 15 November 2003 | University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield After 'The Lesson Of The Smiths' a youth shouted 'You're the MAN! You're the MAN!' I pointed out that I was simply A man, but it was nice of him to say so. |
Sunday 21 December 2003 | The Windmill, London Supporting Chris TT, who doubted my WORD about 'Bands From London'. First gig appearance for 'Girlfriend Alarmed' |
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