Monday, October 30, 2000,
The Portland Arms, Cambridge
Lineup: CRS*, Junk Culture
Setlist
Sample2 - Videodrome
Halloween Song
Sky Falling Down
Early Work (Destroyed)
Prometheus I
Comic Book Apocalypse
Fight or Flight
the first Portland gig with our band. after the gig with Hofman at the Boatrace the expectations were pretty high to deliver a good performance. at the time when we finished the gig the general consensus was a fairly good show. reflecting on it later made me smile and scowl. there were so many little things that went wrong and other things were taken completely out of context.
before we were about to play I asked wait outside briefly while we arranged the room into the way we wanted it. again it was another bad move as we were later branded as the band "who did not want their audience to see them". I didn't find that fair as we try really hard to make every gig different and as atmospheric as possible.
the performance itself went ok. lots of tuning problems, but Arthur was on the ball as usual. the instruments got trashed at the end as part of the frustration of the performance. to top the night we didn't get any money even though we brought all the people. I think that this night was a bit of a let down in the fact that we tried so hard to do as many different things as possible and we had it all thrown back in our faces.
maybe a different approach next time
Posted by Matt CRS* on 28/07/2008 8:46:27 PM