TIDYING UP LAST GIGS1 Current mood: naughty Category: Life
JUST TIDYING UP! I’m not dj-ing much these days as I am trying to finish FREEBASS, we now have 16 tracks with vocals , so it’s just me moving boxes around for a couple of months ! Then it’s all yours………. Hacienda Night GLASGOW, 27/12/08 at the academy, great night it made me think that Manchester and Glasgow were separated at birth? Great atmosphere and a great bill too , 808 state and the Mondays live and me and jon da silva , half live? Hacienda Night Manchester, 28/12/08 Thanks to the Warehouse Project for another great evening , could have sold it twice over, wonderful to see all the OLD heads amongst the YOUNG heads, we filmed it too we are hoping to release the Hacienda Records first single very soon , Guy called Gerald has done a 2009 remix of VOODOO RAY for our Acid Cd coupled with a Marshall Jefferson 2009 remix of I‘VE LOST CONTROL we are working on it now so fingers crossed………you‘ll all be in the video. Had an interesting little scam pulled on me by two of the younger doormen , I was backstage in the Mondays area, they went on, leaving me and twinny in the room , these two bouncers came in said ‘can we have a word ?” took me to a corner, then said….. ’we saw your mate give you a bag of coke , if you hand it over we’ll let you off, if we search you and find it we’ll throw you out!” ……… now there is nothing us addicts love more than when we get accused of something we have not done, so I said …….. “Search away lads” big smile on my kite, this puzzled them obviously and they repeated .. ”if we find it well throw you out !” I said….”Search me! It’ll make those six years of abstinence all worth while!” needless to say they didn’t but it amused me, when I told the powers that be, they were all for sacking them , but I approve of enterprise wherever I see it( apart from bootlegging! Of course……) so they remained anonymous , so watched the Mondays really good, then got to go on last which was GREAT! Thank you Father Christmas a GREAT PRESENT! Fired up the dickhedmobile and drove smiling into the night! Last but not least…………. TRAVIS TREKS CHARITY GIG, TAN HILL INN, RICHMOND SWALEDALE. This was prefaced by a SEVERE WEATHER WARNING, so I thought I’m not doin another Skegness, “ I’ll be prepared!” so packed a parka hat etc etc but lo and behold on the 7/2/09 the weather was dreadful, so before I set off phoned the organiser scott to see how it was? In a very broad scotch accent he told me it was cold but he’d arrived the night before and the one road in was passable , bit of snow I think he said? So I set off warmed up my Virago sat nav (great machine) and co ordinates in I am off! Now the weather was bad in Manc but the further north I got it got much worse……..don’t get me wrong , the roads were clear, but everywhere was very snowy, so I get off the M6 very happy got TOO MANY DJS on I’m boppin away, red bull to hand…….take the turn off and the mr.virago takes me happily on my way on the A. So lots of snow but clear roads ….then I’m on the B not so clear now oops! The snow is creepin in and next thing I’m on a single track B with 4foot snow drifts either side and 4 inches on the road . ‘SHIT! Its bloody skegness all over again,” now we are going higher and higher, but the second most obnoxious car on the road||( a clue…the first is a Dirty White VAN!) is coping , just. I drive more its still going higher then we have a left hairpin , I pass a sign , now I’m sure that said ROAD CLOSED! But I can’t stop as I’m really climbing bout 1 in 5, the car is grabbin I put it in low and we’re crawlin no houses about , getting worried a, but the scenery is beautiful , a weird light that only loads of snow can give you. I can’t look tho we’re still climbing and roger( the car) is really struggling! Right I think I’m not having this I’m well flustered now , I pull up on a decent flat bit and think , I’ll phone him and turn round and go home? it’s too bad,! so grab phone……….guess what?……no bloody signal SHIT! Then as I’m holding the bloody think it blinks red and goes LOW BATTERY EMERGENCY CALLS ONLY! Well, what do you think it bloody is????????????? So I chew on steering wheel and set off again, here I pass a two door alfa goin the other way with four very nervous occupants , think if they can do it ……..I can! It can’t be that bad ahead they made it! It was, the Virago said 7.8km( havent re set it since Europe) I cant see anything no lights nothing, I plough on(ha ha) getting a bit scared now , 4km still no lights ……shit …….the snow drifts were now 8ft high! no word of a lie (in places) 2km still nothing shit, Then I see it The TAN HILL INN, made famous by American Werewolf in London opening scene? And the Everest double glazing ad? THE TOP OF THE WORLD! Here at last! Scott and his girlfriend greet me I’m still shaking……… “Scott! You said it was alright here, what are you talking about?? I bellow rightly indignant. He says “ aw fuck off hooky man , I’m blind I cant see a fucking thing!” Well at least that explains why its Guide Dogs For The Blind tonite eh? Me firmly in my place we gig, a great crowd too like a cross between Deliverance and Glastonbury, I swear some of the mad bastards were camping!! Beat That!! Anyway we do our thing, then I do one , as I’m leaving one of the locals says to me …… ”hey I saw you come up the dirt track , my dad lives down there and he’s been cut off for two days, how did you do it?” ???????? .. well I put it down to stupidity myself………..it can get you anywhere! Laughing I follow a 110 down the B road it’s 18 BELOW freezing! Fook me ! 4 foot drifts all the way, What a Life!!! ThaNKS gOd, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL. I think I’ll invest in some snow chains, lov hooky”09
