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Gigs From History: 2004
Here's all the gigs we played in 2004, 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.Thursday 26 February 2004 | The 12 Bar Club, London (setlist) A brilliant night, and the first time I played 'Breaks In The Journey' |
Friday 5 March 2004 | Starka Bar, Motherwell First night of the tour with The Hector Collectors, who turned out to be ACE. I didn |
Saturday 6 March 2004 | The Captain's Rest, Glasgow Still on tour with The Hector Collectors - a slightly scary pub, and I made a lengthy speech about how everybody was very keen for you to know they were Scottish. This ended up being a GRATE night! |
Sunday 7 March 2004 | Caledonian Backpackers', Edinburgh This was the gig that inspired 'Let The Weird Band Win' AND 'Mental Judo'. I played with, and to, the lovely Hector Collectors at their final gig. |
Sunday 14 March 2004 | 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 2004 | The Social (Nottingham), Nottingham Validators Full Band Set 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 2004 | The Adelphi, Hull Validators Full Band Set Astounding night when people came just to see us, and we had a big feature in The Hull Daily Mail! |
Friday 7 May 2004 | The Adelphi, Hull The Validators supported by MJ Hibbett! Live debut for 'Dino At The Sands' and 'Never Going Back To Aldi's'. |
Sunday 9 May 2004 | Railway Inn, Winchester With Winston Echo at a benefit for the Winchester Hunt Saboteurs. |
Saturday 15 May 2004 | The Blue Posts, London Carsmile Steve's birthday party! |
Thursday 27 May 2004 | The 12 Bar Club, London Launch gig for 'Shed Anthems'. |
Friday 11 June 2004 | The Grapes, Sheffield Validators Full Band Set Fabulous night, supported by James Taylor and Peter Green. No, really! |
Saturday 12 June 2004 | Hobgoblin, Brighton With Anal Beard and The Lovely Brothers. This night I discovered that they don't have Aldi's in Brighton. |
Tuesday 22 June 2004 | The Attik, Leicester Validators Full Band Set 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 2004 | The 12 Bar Club, London A heavily compressed set due to THE FOOTBALL. |
Saturday 3 July 2004 | Carpe Diem, Leeds Validators Full Band Set With Johnny Domino and Being 747. |
Saturday 14 August 2004 | Ray's Mum's Back Garden, Stourbridge A birthday surprise for Ray and a lot of drinking for me! |
Saturday 28 August 2004 | My Mum's Back Garden, Peterborough My parent's silver wedding anniversary - aah! |
Thursday 16 September 2004 | The Victoria, London Before the gig I had broadcast to YORKSHIRE, then two songs in decided to ABANDON PA for the first time |
Saturday 18 September 2004 | Jug of Ale, Birmingham With Bom, Pete Green and Jeffrey Lewis. |
Monday 20 September 2004 | Tchai Ovna Teahouse, Glasgow First night of The Tour with The Plimptons and Frankie Machine. Afterwards we got very very drunk indeed, and hijinks ensued. |
Tuesday 21 September 2004 | The Adelphi, Hull Second leg of the Plimptons/Frankie tour, also with Cracktown and the very lovely Mr Jeffrey Lewis. |
Wednesday 22 September 2004 | Portland Works, Sheffield One of my best EVER gigs - in an abandoned factory/studio complex, without a PA, and on still on tour with The Plimptons and Frankie Machine. Two encores, a huge amount of beer, clubbing, a party, and further hi-jinks. ROCK! |
Thursday 23 September 2004 | The 12 Bar Club, London A beautiful final night for the Plimptons/Frankie Machine tour, also featuring Nathan Persad and Spinmaster Plantpot. There was a lot of hugging. |
Saturday 2 October 2004 | Sanctuary Cafe, Brighton A benefit for an Animal Sanctuary organised by Paul from Pog. |
Saturday 30 October 2004 | 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 to buy CDs from me |
Saturday 4 December 2004 | The Criterion, Leicester Validators Full Band Set Me and Tom play to a VERY tough room at the Ultimate Frisbee Party. |
Saturday 11 December 2004 | Woodhouse Eaves Village Hall, Leicester Validators Full Band Set The Validators Christmas Gig, with Tube Bar DJs |
Sunday 19 December 2004 | 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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