GIG - Classic Rock Bar - Sheffiled 9th Sept 04

Well, what can we say?

First gig back after the summer off and so we needed a warm up. So here we were kicking things off for out mates Rhombus by warming up the crowd for their set - or at least that would have been the case had there been a crowd!!!!

We've played this venue before a couple of times, and while its never been packed out, its always been a decent atmosphere. This time however we literally had the bar staff, 4 punters and a dog.

Landlord has always seamed quite affable in the past, but today was pissed and in full on arsehole mode - maybe the imminent threat of the venue being pulled down to build more yuppie flats isn't helping.

Any hoo - we played pretty well considering, the lousy PA and complete inability of the landlord to operate it, or indeed understand the basics of sound engineering.

The venue has a no 'widdling policy' translation, they don't really see the need for sound checks.
Asked to take the stage at 9:00pm, we did (after all we are a very punctual band) - only the landlord was living out some DJ fantasy and continued to play a mix of abysmal 'classic rock'. So, bored as we were Paddy started playing along in a funky stylee, soon to be joined by Lee and eventually Nev, Ian was laughing too much.
So he turned up the PA, but with the backline we carry, that was never gonna work. Anyway eventually we did the gig.

Rhombus did their best under the same circumstance, and we enjoyed their set, as did the strange intoxicated lady who spent most of the evening dancing to her own internal rhythms!

Read our mate d00mw0lf's take on events and see some photos.

So, as we stick yet another venue on our never again black list, we are once again in the position of finding a venue in Sheffield.