Loyalties Gig

Lets make no bones about it - I love The Loyalties, just as I loved The Yo-Yos which featured various Loyalties over the years. And lets not forget to mention the Dogs D'amour connections! So I was really looking forward to this gig.

The usual Rock n' Roll travel logistics mishaps meant that no sound check for us as by the time the Loyalties and more importantly their speaker cabs arrived, we were already past stage time. So we just throw the gear on a started.

The sound engineer was preyty damned good and managed to iron things out by the end of the first song.
There was some weird mis-tuning thing happening during Ordinary Day, which screwed that a little as I really couldn't tell where to pitch the vocal - not being able to tell what instruments were in and which were out, but everything else was good.

Of course, the big thing for Grinn was that this was our first gig (of note - lets not count Pontefract!) since Paddy returned - its good to have the double guitar attack and backing vocals back!

Up next were the new look Violent Angel who bashed though their dirty rock n' roll before Germany's Radio Dead Ones, tore the place apart - awesome and really nice guys to boot!

I was a little worried about The Loyalties as I heard that their set in London was only 20 minutes long, but they all seemed in fine spirits especially Tom who was 'nicely drunk' and we got a fair old set.

Unfortunately due to the late starting we ran up against the venue curfew and they weren't really going to let the bands indulge in too much post gig drinking - which was a real shame.


Thanks to JJ for getting us on the bill!