The Orgasmic Scribbler's Picnic - 24.8.08

Well, I guess you could class this as "yetanotherdoubleheader"!! Esteemed God of Thunder Iain and King of the Six String brought a great sense of hooliganism to Soul Inferno on Friday 22nd August where they depped at the brilliant O'Neill's in Merchant City, Glasgow. I had the "pleasure" of bein there to witness the spectacle of 2 outstanding rock musicians bringing their own form of lunacy to a perfectly respectable soul band... Why the "pleasure" in inverted comments? Well, the sound was absolutley rank! This particular muso was dying to get his hands on their soulie knobs!!

So, a quick sleep, rub down with a couple of freshly squeezed virgins and the boys were made Shiny again! This time it was a Sunday afternoon gig at the Scribbler's Picnic festival in Stirling - a gig we've been trying to land for 4 years!

So, why orgasmic? Well, these festival type gigs are fantastic for us - really our forte - but we tend to run on 30 minutes of extreme pleasure and then a climax!!! Get the point?

Anyway, we launched into high energy version of Kids In America... then straight into Highway To Hell. A quick welcome and we were into Andy's brilliant Inspiration. Not to be outdone, I had to bash out my own one Saturday Night. Strangely, and very welcome, the originals went down a treat! We then launched into the guaranteed crowd pleaser Chelsea Dagger before rounding off with American Idiot.

Thanks to Anita and Carrie for taking some photos (all featured in the various galleries) and videoing the whole Shinyshow! I just wonder whether my comment of "You're coming home with me!" to the bird in the Moulin Rouge type outfit came out on video...? I couldn't hear it, but there again I didn't hear ANY monitor!

Big thanks to Ted Christopher for having us... Hopefully we'll be back next year??!!

So, all in all, within an hour of unloading the cars we had played, sweated a couple of pints, loaded the cars back up again and were on our way out!

A good time had by all!!!