Up All Night
Up All Night, Spice of Life, London, 27th January 2003:
Now I’ve played in London once before, with Gav and my brother (”The Avant-Garde Genius”) at the Klinker in 2000, but this was my first opportunity to show the capital what it had been missing by only visiting oyster restaurants in Whitstable and not the Smack or the Neptune on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Monday, having found the place through hordes of Leonardo Di-Sproutface fans, nearly didn’t happen at all as so many people had turned up to play, but we (me and Adam Rothwell) were kindly found a slot: numbers 29 and 30, right at the end of the evening! Fortunately, those who stayed were suitably impressed, despite one or two technical hitches (like no guitar audible through the PA). I was pleased to find that we (Adam as well) were still something DIFFERENT, which can only be a good thing.