Saturday, March 17, 2001,
The Man On the Moon, Cambridge

Lineup: CRS*, Rob Jackson, Mouse Finding The Key

Setlist

it's a pity this gig didn't go a bit smoother, after all the work we put into it. it was the one we were all looking forward to. for a start we were quite honoured to be headlining someone elses cd launch. and also we had decided to do nice things with slides and things. we were gonna make everything our own. so we worked out the set nice and early and practiced it loads. george came round with slides and we put them in an order to fit with the music and everything. and we knew we could get to the moon in the afternoon to set up. so we went round for about 4. but arthur and tom were still making tshirts and fixing guitars cos we all got up kinda late. so me nmatt ngeorge started to set up. george dropped the slides seconds after deciding to number them. so we spent quite a while putting them back in the right order. then we discovered we'd left the keyboard stand at the lock-up and so i had to go and get it. the time just slipped away. by the end of the sound check we were all a bit pissed off. speedy had decided we were too loud, even though we had turned our amps down from our practice levels, and were now playing in a much bigger room. but we were pretty happy still. afterall the last gig we had done went really well, and there was no real reason why this one should go wrong.

so then the gig came round. we got back to the moon about 9, and the place was packed. by the time mouse finding the key finished it was sold out. i can only recall the rest from my own point of view, cos i think we all got different things from it. i personally started getting really angry. rob jackson came on, and he was brilliant. quiet and gentle. the kind of gentle that gets right into your head and blocks everything else out. everything that is apart from the majority of the people in there who had payed to come in and then just shouted all night. it was actually hard to hear the music over the talking. it made me so mad, i was ready to smash things when we got onstage. perhaps go dum dums mental haha. then we went on and things just got worse and worse. arthurs guitar broke and was really out of tune for the whole of the flood:, we couldn't really hear the instruments properly, and in the quiet bits the talking was so loud i wanted to kill someone. it was just loadsa little things which took the shine out of the gig. without the shine, it's just average. and i'd rather be shit than average. and speedy was just taking the piss at the end, going on about his precious mics, and his stage covered in glitter. it's not as if no-ones ever knocked over a drum kit before. still we played princess-x, the old daycentre song, and that went really well. even had a certain person crying for the rest of the night. and our stage presence got a bit better. so it wasn't all that bad. it's just it had been bigged up so much that it's a shame we didn't deliver. sorry guys.

Posted by David CRS* on 28/07/2008 9:28:05 PM

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