| Fergus Gigs Some of the below information may not be accurate and there may be gigs missing, especially the early one�s 1991: I have no records of our gigs for this year but we did do a lot. Hopefully this will be complete. Funny gigs Krazy House We played the Krazy House sometime in 1991 supporting some cock rock band who all wore spandex. I remember the lead singer jumping off the bass drum. He also used the old rock line does anyone wanna rock say yeah ! Leons Birthday Party. After spending the afternoon at Simon and Jackie's flat we headed over to Leons party held in his huge house we had two support bands the Firecharmers and someone else. I got so drunk that i put the guitar strap around my neck eventually got the guitar on the right way we stared and the next thing i know i feel over into the drum kit and one of the Symbols wacked Yvonne in the head. She was none plused. Under the Adelphi Hotel We played to strange gigs here one was to a party for teachers and the other a bunch of Students. Liverpool UNI (Mountford Hall) We played with a lot of local bands this was a focal point for me as i met my good friend Anton who was the singer in the Screamies at the time. He could see our great potential. 1992 Jan 92 9th Wilsons (Wilsons was a Metal heads pub renowned for selling Newcastle Brown. It also had the shitiest decour in Liverpool. But it did have Silver Machine and Ace of Spades on the Juky. It is now a Vodka Bar. RIP) 18th Black Horse & Rainbow ( Still one of the best pubs in Liverpool but it is now called The Brewery. Serves real ale and stays open till 2am.) 24th The Cavern ( Not the real one it is actually built next door. Only problem with playing the Cavern was you had to sell your own tickets what a con. Rogue Best you know who you are.) 30th Raven Lodge (Club in Birkenhead good little venue) FEB 92 11th Black Horse & Rainbow (We actually played down stairs for this one that�s all I can remember, and got decent pay) 21st The Cavern 27th Lennons Bar (Named after some famous bloke from Liverpool. We played with a Jam cover band, the drummer was none other than Fergus rhythm ace Yvonne.) MAR 92 5th Wilsons 19th Wilsons 20th Roscoe & Gladstone Hall (part of Liverpool UNI a very enjoyable gig I think the stage was very narrow and The Screamies supported. Seem to remember there weren't many in the crowd, but Anton Screamie guested on Janie Jones and the students were pogo-ing for England) 26th The Cavern (again) APR 92 17th Raven Lodge (Someone made a video. Was this the one with the Steve Marriot wannabe?) 23rd Wilsons 29th Cavern (one of these Cavern gigs contained the famous "Stage trashing" incident when Leon kicked over a monitor, because we where playing away and the crowd wanted more but Mr Best turned the PA off and an awful lot of squaring-up ensued. Then Sonia from the band Slug had a argument with one of the bouncers outside as Leon was escorted out of the venue head first. The outcome was that the majority of the bands we played with boycotted playing the Cavern Club. The next day Rogue Best called our manager Pete and explained that no one would play at the Cavern because of the incident and begged Pete to get us to play again. Unfortunately the decision was not in our hands and we ended up playing again at the Cavern. (rock & roll) May 92 4th Sefton Park (Oh yes, the organisers wanted to cut our set to 15 minutes, or less, but we just kept playing. In the end the event ran out of time and Oceanic got cancelled. Shame!) 16th St Kaths College (Just exactly how many people turned up that weren't with us. Answer: < 5. Still didn't stop us getting a good review.) 21st Royal Lancaster (Preston) (I (Simon) drove most of the gear in Mandy's pickup truck with Leon as passenger. Seem to remember coming off the M58 onto a roundabout at about 60mph) Jun 92 3rd Cavern 4th Kings Arms (Preston) A dodgy little pub on the edge of a nice council estate. The only bonus, we found a dub record of the Corination Street theme tune 5th Wilsons The wake Wilson's was a bikers club and one of the regular bikers has died a week before in a crash. Unfortunately the night we where playing they where having the after funeral drink up at Wilson's. We set up our gear and went to sound check when suddenly shouts of abuse came our way and then empty cans of Special Brew ( Piss heads brew of choice ). Luckily the place started to fill up with the regular Krazy House Indie heads & Rockers. We played our set and where feeling all buzzed when suddenly one of the bikers came over to Simon and requested if we knew the song Its a kind of Magic by Queen for his dead biker mate. Unfortunately we did not have a clue how to play the song and we weren't fans of Queen. So we decided to play Teenage Kicks and dedicated it the deceased Biker. 11th Royal Hotel (Crewe) Indie club night in a very tacky 80's disco 17th London (Rock Garden) The Bands first gig in London. Lots of weed was consumed by myself Leon and Joey before the gig and Simon banged his head on a speaker while sound checking how we laughed, 24th Lancaster Uni On site campus we actually played two bars in one night and i met a girl who i went to school with Maxine Lee. July 92 1st Cherry Tree (runcorn) Rock night and we rocked only when we played the nirvana cover. Wooleybacks 9th Telford Warhouse (chester) Dont remeber it but its in my diary 15th Kings (preston) 22nd Black Horse & Rainbow 24th Wilsons Aug 92 7th Wilsons 15th The Picket We bloody rocked that night blew everyone else of the stage (God only knows we where famous) Sept 92 Back to the rock garden for our second gig in London 11th Sconner (What does this mean Ian?) It was a bar just behind the cavern we played with the Firecharmers 12th Old Hill Inn (Ingeleton) (Probably the strangest gig a band could play...) Nearest pub in 20 miles from anywhere Played in a Barn and Half the audience where tripping on the local Magic Mushrooms 17th Crewe 24th 57 Club (oldham) We played as support to some band and the bass player joined Oasis for about a month also Clint Boon was in the crowd Oct 92 2nd Welsby (southport) 9th Lancaster Uni played a freshers ball big stage big fun 16th Picket 17th Bolton Institute (I remember going in that blooming uncomfortable blue van. There was a tense atmosphere between the 4 of us, and it was pissing it down all night.) 21st Rock Garden Back to the rock garden for our second gig in London 28th 051 (Liverpool) supported the Muffin Men and me and Joey DJ Nov 92 7th Lancaster UNI I think this was the last gig we ever played as yvonne left 12th Cavern Dec 92 10th Picket |