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| MICKS FIRST GIG AND WHAT A BELTER IT WAS. HALF THE SET WAS TOTALY NEW TO ALL OF THE LADS, AND YOU COULD TELL THAT BY THE ADDED ENTHUSIASM WITH THEIR PERFORMANCE WE WERE GIVEN A REALY WARM WELCOME BY RICKY THE LANDLORD, AS LAST TIME WE PLAYED THERE HE WAS SUNNING HIMSELF IN A HOT COUNTRY SOMEWHERE (JAMMY GIT)SO I THINK HE WAS A BIT ON THE NERVOUS SIDE AS TO HOW WE WERE GUNNA SOUND, HIM BEEN A PRO AND ALL. MUSICALLY THE BAND WERE POSSIBLY ON ONE OF THOSE ROLES WHERE EVERYTHING GOES WELL. EVEN STANNY WAS ON FORM, ALTHOUGH A LACK OF YORKSHIRES FINEST CARLING PROBABLY HELPED THAT CAUSE ALONG THE WAY. THE LOCALS HAD COME OUT OF THEIR WAY TO SEE US AGAIN AS ANDY WAS MET WITH A CRY OF "WHERES YA KAZOO" WHEN HE WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR. THE CROWD GOT INTO THE GROOVE AND HAD A CRACKING NIGHT, AND THE TWO LADS, (I THINK THEIR NAMES WERE CHRIS AND DAN) , WHEN THEY GOT UP AND PLAYED THEIR VIAGRA STYLE GUITARS (VERY FLOPPY) IT GAVE EVERYONE A LAUGH AND I MUST SAY, ONCE AGAIN, PUT THE BAND AT EASE, AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE THAT A GOOD TIME WAS BEEN HAD BY ALL. THE SONG OF THE NIGHT THOUGH HAD TO BE 500 MILES BY THE PROCLAIMERS. ONLY LEARNT AS A BIT OF A GIGGLE, THE LADS THREW IT IN TO SEE HOW WELL IT WOULD GO DOWN, AND I MUST SAY, IS WAS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS WHEN THE LOOK OF THE AUDIENCE SAID IT ALL. THEY LOVED IT A BIG THANKS TO RICKY AND HIS WIFE FOR HAVING US THERE SEEN AS WE WERE BREAKING IN OUR NEW GUITARIST AND HERES LOOKING FOREWARD TO RETURNING THERE SOON BYE FOR NOW |
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