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It was a whole LOT of fun, people seemed to get RIGHT into it, especially when we got to the Joining In Bits towards the end, and nobody seemed to mind that Man Band was a bit shakey. I've never played it live before, but thought I ought to as it's ABOUT Charlie reaching an age (ever nearer) when he's going to form a Man Band. My favourite bit though was introducing Bands From London (are shit) by saying Charlie and I first met when he threatened to kill me, and half the room saying "Me too!" ARF!The Peterborough All-Saints' Wide Game Team (Group B)
The Gay Train
Bands From London (are shit)
Man Band
Being Happy Doesn't Make You Stupid
The Lesson Of The Smiths
Easily Impressed
Boom Shake The Room
Apart from the first and last ones it's an abbreviated run-through of the ALBUM, with >Where Do All The Women Go To? done because I listened to it the other day and a) liked it then b) realised it was THEMATICALLY SIMILAR to All The Good Men, which ALSO went down pretty well. It was a RELIEF to do so much new stuff (some BRAND NEW) and have it go down OK, especially as I'm going to need to do it LOTS when the album comes out!(theme from) Dinosaur Planet
Do The Indie Kid
Where Do All The Women Go To?
All The Good Men
Being Happy Doesn't Make You Stupid
My Boss Was In An Indie Band Once
It Only Works Because You're Here
IT Guy Addendum
We're Old And We're Tired (and we want to go home)
Easily Impressed
ITEM! Work on The Album continues, as ongoing negotiations between The Producer and The Record Company reach, for now, an amicable solution. I think The Song Suite is IN, though there may be a fight to come about "IT Guy Addendum". In the meantime I'm busily working on the BOOKLET which will come on all CDs as a PDF and, for the lucky first hundred or so to BUY a copy from direct from us, as an Actual Real BOOK. It'll have credits, lyrics, chords, photographs, sleevenotes and - most excitingly of all - FUN FACTS!And that's the FACT at present time of speaking. On Monday, it's ANSWERS!
ITEM! Our version of "Glory Days", destined to be on a forthcoming Bruce Springsteen compilation from WIAIWYA, may need some adjusting. Apparently THE BOSS doesn't like people messing with his lyrics which, you could argue, is precisely what i DID by translating them into English. Hopefully I'll be able to do this at the start of February when we do the Album Mastering.
ITEM! Talking of compilations, we sent off our version of "House Of Fun" for that French Madness Compilation before Christmas - they were going to have a Listening Session to check that all the contributions so far were OK. Either they haven't had a chance to do it yet, or they didn't like it and are too polite to say so!
ITEM! Over the weekend I'm also going to be recording a yet ANOTHER cover version for a compilation in aid of The British Lung Foundation. This is a SLIGHTLY different affair than the others though - have a look at the original to see why!
ITEM! It's Totally Acoustic again on Tuesday, with Orange Nichole and Superman Revenge Squad. If you fancy coming that'd be GRATE! The NEXT one, with Tim Eveleigh and Bob Fischer, has MOVED though, it's now on February 24th not February 17th. Please re-diarise accordingly!
ITEMS | % |
WE VALIDATE! | 14.17 |
Shed Anthems | 9.87 |
This Is Not A Library | 9.65 |
Warriors Of Nanpantan | 9.61 |
Say It With Words | 8.95 |
Milk & Baubles | 6.32 |
The Lesson Of the Smiths/The Gay Train | 5.92 |
Hey Hey 16K T-Shirt | 5.57 |
The Uberset | 5.26 |
A Million Ukeleles | 4.08 |
Better Things To Do | 3.77 |
It Only Works Because You're Here/My Exciting Life In ROCK | 2.94 |
Do The Indie Kid | 2.76 |
Ukelele T-Shirt | 2.67 |
Born With The Century | 2.46 |
All Around My House | 2.11 |
A Church Hall Of Sound | 1.8 |
Clubbing In The Week | 1.14 |
I VALIDATE! T-Shirt | 0.96 |
Xmas Gig Ticket | 0.04 |
City | Percentage |
London | 20.94 |
Leicester | 5.96 |
Sheffield | 5.42 |
Nottingham | 3.61 |
Birmingham | 3.07 |
Derby | 2.53 |
Brighton | 2.35 |
Hull | 2.35 |
Cambridge | 2.17 |
Manchester | 1.99 |
Cardiff | 1.81 |
Glasgow | 1.62 |
Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Warrington, Oxford | 1.44 |
Ipswich, Kingston Upon Thames | 1.26 |
Stoke-on-Trent, Swindon, Exeter | 1.08 |
Liverpool , Coventry, Motherwell, Carlisle, Bath, Reading, Stevenage | 0.9 |
Tonbridge, Blackburn, Southampton, Aberdeen, Norwich, Twickenham, Chelmsford, Halifax, York | 0.72 |
Hemel Hempstead, Harrow, Gloucester, Stockport, Lincoln, Huddersfield, Telfrod, Clywd & Gwynedd, Canterbury, Wakefield, Bradford, Wolverhampton, Doncaster, Oldham, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Shrewsbury | 0.54 |
Plymouth, Walsall, Bournemouth, Redhill, Blackpool, Salisbury, Cleveland, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Colchester, St Albans, Worcester, Chester, Peterborough, Dudley, Dundee, Sutton, Southall, Slough, Guildford | 0.36 |
Ilford, Perth, Paisley, Southend-on-Sea, Bolton, Wigan, Bromley, Croydon, Northern Ireland, Dorchester, Torquay, Lothians, Luton, Enfield, Falkirk, Durham, Dartford, Portsmouth | 0.18 |
Dinky Doo
Dinosaur Planet
Everything's Turning Out All Right (everything)
Good Cooking
Hell On Earth
Hey Hey 64k
Honey Honey You Work Too Hard
It Isn't Jetpacks
Never Been Superstitious
Nobody Believed It
Praise The Traffic Warden
Save A Meadow
The Ballad Of Alan Moore
The Mystery Train
The Story Of My Life
We Can Start Having Fun
We'll See What We Can Do
Where Do All The Women Go To?
All Of Me
Ask
Brickbat
Country House
Do They Know It's Christmas?
Don't Dilly Dally On The Way
Dress Sexy At My Funeral
Friday 13
In The Rain
I've Just Seen A Face
Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
St Swithin's Day
The Last Of The Gang To Die
Theme From Sparta FC
To The End
Walking In A Winter Wonderland
Who's Sorry Now?
Wondeful Christmas Time
World Without Love
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