Teenage Cancer Trust Gig

Saturday involved a 25,000watt PA, a great venue, a crowd and a mammoth gig in Stoke on Trent as part of the annual 31day long March Of The Mods gigs for the Teenage Cancer Trust, and it also involved kicking balloons off stage so was exactly like Top Of The Pops.

Set List:
Checkpoint Charlie
I'm Real
Shut All The Clubs
Tomorrow's World
Girl On The Roof
Smokescreen
Love
No Kicks
Day In Day Out
Opium Eyes
Uhrwerk
Seen It All Before
(photos by Alan May)

recording and radio

Its intensely busy at the moment and as a lot of that is recording it is exceptionally good, we're back in the studio again twice this week starting work on some more. Its been a triple dose of radio with Radio Woking, 6Towns Radio and IURFM (in Northern Ireland) all getting in on it, thanks to Sean Cooke, Alan May and Gerry Martin for playing us. Comparisons to Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and David Bowie were/are all acceptable and entirely welcome. We have one more gig in October and then we'll be concentrating on the recording side for a month and hopefully we'll have a new video brewing soon too.

A large part of the last week has looked like this, with the amps mic'd up and recording in progress. We still managed two gigs in the same day at The Station in Ashton-Under-Lyne and The Thirsty Scholar in Manchester as part of We Shall Overcome festival, last weekend. Big thanks to Pauline Town and Martin Mellor for organising the two WSO gigs we that played and it was a pleasure to be involved. Severe backlighting ensures Paul won't be recognised from that photograph.

set list: The Station

Uhrwerk

Checkpoint Charlie

The Changes

Girl On The Roof

Overlooked

I Can't Say

Sit By The River

There's No One There

set list: Thirsty Scholar

Checkered Land

Love

Little Miss Restless

The Wargame

Day In Day Out

The Moment Is Now

Seen It All Before

Sit By The River