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What: Live Show
Venue: Labour Club, Charles Street
Town: Northampton UK
Date:
Friday, 5th of December 2003
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Nature Boy
(Eden Ahbez),
Ghosts,
Old Snakey,
Play It All Night Long,
Harlan,
When Eno Sings,
Sister Death,
Hey, Star
(Wolfgang Tschegg),
Satellite Of Love
(Reed),
Honey,
Rocking In The Free World
(Young),
Encore:
September Gurls
(Chilton)
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Pat solo
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It was a bit terrifying, as I found myself obliged to go on after two Northampton rappers, who call themselves,
triumphantly, The Shit. As in "To the S...to the H...to the I...to the T...MC Burt Reynolds on the M-I-C." No,
really. They were really good. They're gon' kick our asses higher than the Express Lifts tower. We're gonna try and
get them on with Wilson, maybe on Christmas Eve.
Anyway...coming on after The Shit was tough, especially as I'd elected to play Nature Boy for a starter. Hardly the
"breezy opener", but it went down all right. Things went fairly swimmingly until towards the end of Harlan, which I
found myself obliged to finish with 5 strings. I switched to the Burns and carried on, but I lost sight of my sound,
got clumsy, hit the pickup switch a few times when I didn't mean to...all a bit scrappy, really. Didn't dig it.
Satellite of Love felt like a big mistake (doing this was - indirectly - your fault, Brian Kelly...) Some dignity
recovered during Honey and the deeply inappropriate Neil Young cover. Noisy ending. Happy, baying punters. Encore.
Not really satisfied with the performance, though. I'm trying to get this shit good, but I didn't really have the
time to sort myself out for this night. Small difficulties threw me off course more than I would have wished for.
I think they're having me back in February. Folks, I promise I'll have a proper solo set sorted out by then. Honest.
Since you ask...
Fishboy...
Spider Hole Mansions, NN1
14Dec2003 2:57 PM
(8 years 57 days ago)
Weeeeeellll...
My home's in Montana
I smoke marijuana
And then I get drunk down at Molly Malone's...
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My fault, eh?
BrianDmage...
Brian Kelly
13Dec2003 5:10 PM
(8 years 58 days ago)
Now, if you'd played 'My Home's in Montana', I could see it being my fault...
-Brian
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