Round 2 of our latest "Double Header".... No, I don't mean that certain "bucket of inanimate cogitating hippocampi" (edited by Iain- work it out!) that Iain favours....
So, off we go to the Woodside in Glenrothes. Strange how I get all gramatically correct sometimes. When I arrived a drunk punter who was out for a fag growled at me "Ur you ra band?". Well, if it was just me I'd be the artist, the musician. A band, in terms of basic vocabulary, is a collection of musicians. I just responded "Well I'm 1/4 of a band". This seemed to confuse him so he just grumbled and leaned at an acute angle against the wall... C'est la vie...
Anyway, Iain and I arrived early to claim the stage as there had been a slight double booking confusion. No worries there though.
Strange place The Woodside - it doesn't really come alive until about 10.30. We launched into a much higher energy set than the previous night at about 9pm and immediately had the handful of punters in the palms of our hands. No mentions of dogging (like the previous night) as I'd decided to behave tonight. We tore through the first set at a rate of knots, so much so, we were running ahead of time and had to stick in some extra material. Sometimes it's great to have shitloads of material!!
By the time we took a break at about 10.15, the venue was starting to fill up.
Quick break, fill the glasses, and we were back on about 10.30 with a rousing Chelsea Dagger. By this time, despite some overheard comments that some punters were there to see the "other band", we had them dancing in the ailes.Again, we must have been playing at breakneck speed as - checking my watch - we had played for 45 minutes with 45 to go and three songs left. Out came the extensive setlist again.
All in all an interesting night... Solos where solos had never been before (both Andy and I guilty), solos missing where solos were meant to be, songs done which hadn't been off the shelf in 6 months ("what key's Ziggy in?")...
All in all though, another great performance as usual. When we're running at 60% we're great... When we're at 100% we're unstopable!
The night concluded with the audience screaming for more but, as it was past the witching hour, we did the fastest stripdown of our 5 year career and loaded up.
Thank God for Sunday and the chance to chill with coffee (and web blogs!)
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