GIG - The Vine, Leeds 22nd Sept 04

Ahh the Vine. Love it or hate it - you've got to play it!

Never had a bad gig here - though last nights sound engineering wasn't a patch on Jamie's who's done the sound for our last couple of gigs here and one we did at CJ's earlier in the year.

We were the main support (which is the best position on the bill in this venue IMHO) to Mishkin.
Now we've shared a bill with Mishkin twice before, once supporting them at the vine and once them supporting us at CJs - and we love them. Lovable space cadets the lot of 'em, with a huge range of sound from infectious funky grooving to angry thrashing - check 'em out if you get the chance ever.

Opening act were a young band called Your Perfect Alibi (beware pop-up-tastic web site) from Halifax who acquitted themselves well enough.

Next up were This Way Out kinda in a similar stylee to Miskin - quite enjoyed their set.

We set up and played a 28.5 minutes of our allotted 30 minutes (see, punctual). On stage sound was awful (nothing like sound check as per usual, but what you gona do?) but we thrust on as ever. Crowd was cool - even if we had imported half of them! And on that note a BIG BIG BIG thank you to all who made the effort - we really appreciate it. This is an important venue on the Leeds scene, even if the promoters do pay next to nothing!
Set list:

1. Wrecking Ball
2. Smallville
3. Bully for you
4. Bubblegum and Machine guns
5. Scars
6. Angelina Crush
7. Def Con 1

Few clangers here and there, and a few iffy vocal notes but hey, on the whole not so bad.

Mishkin were awesome as ever, but the front of house sound just didn't so them justice. The mix was very muddy and the vocal was barley audible - still quality shines through.