Gigs From History: 2008

Tuesday 22 January 2008	The Lamb, London  (setlist) Totally Acoustic with Sunny Intervals - featuring the Surprise Ukelele Flash Mob!
Saturday 26 January 2008	The Fishtank, Durham  (setlist) GRATE trip North for The Cleator Moor Validators to a posh apartment and ACE gig with Rich & Ollie and Mr Pete Green.
Saturday 9 February 2008	The Albany, London  (setlist) Fab, totally acoustical, night, where the chap from The Free Fringe came to see me.
Friday 22 February 2008	Firebug, Leicester  (setlist) Supporting Neck at Steve McHaggis's Birthday do
Sunday 2 March 2008	Monkey Chews, London  (setlist) Jim'll's Brain, MASSIVELY varying standards of comedians, zombie/topless lady films, and a naked poet.
Saturday 8 March 2008	The Brunswick Inn, Derby  (setlist) Quick impromptu [DRUNK] couple of songs after watching Frankie Machine.
Tuesday 18 March 2008	The Lamb, London  (setlist) Totally Acoustic with The Bobby McGees
Sunday 23 March 2008	The Battersea Barge, London  (setlist) Shameful attempt at 'Country House'
Sunday 23 March 2008	The Battersea Barge, London  (setlist) The PopArt alldayer - BritPopArt 2!
Saturday 5 April 2008	Cardigan Arms, Leeds  (setlist) First day of Pennfest, with The Scaramanga Six, Penny Broadhurst, Brontosaurus Chorus, The Fighting Cocks and The Seven Inches. We couldn't get any "India"!!!
Sunday 6 April 2008	Leonard's, London  (setlist) Pennfest day TWO, this time with Penny Broadhurst, Friends Of The Bride, Brontosaurus Chorus, George Death, Paul Mosley and Sajeela Kershi. Nobody seemed to notice we were playing!
Friday 11 April 2008	The Perserverance, London  (setlist) A, frankly, STORMING night at Freedom Of Expression.
Tuesday 22 April 2008	The Lamb, London  (setlist) Totally Acoustic with Frankie Machine on UKELELE!
Thursday 1 May 2008	Lee Rosy's Tea Room, Nottingham  (setlist) Playing with Frankie Machine and Phil Wilson, of The June Brides.
Saturday 3 May 2008	Monkey Chews, London  (setlist) With Zipper, Horowitz and The Bumblebees.
Sunday 4 May 2008	Fox & Firkin, London  (setlist) A lovely start to summer, at Foxfest 2008.
Monday 5 May 2008	University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield  (setlist) Lots of singing along - especially during Do The Indie Kid - at the Fuzz Club BBQ.
Wednesday 7 May 2008	The Bandstand, Stoke  (setlist) A Sunny Inside night with A Smile And a Ribbon, Horowitz and DJ Rocker.
Thursday 8 May 2008	Jamm, London  (setlist) Offline night with Gin Riots and The Boycott Coca-Cola Experience
Thursday 22 May 2008	Firebug, Leicester  (setlist) The Leicester leg of the single tour, with The Mai 68s and Phil Wilson
Thursday 29 May 2008	Shortfuse @ The Camden Head, London  (setlist) Short talky set at Shortfuse. With poets.
Friday 30 May 2008	The Prince Albert, London  (setlist) Solo spot at the Offline club in a very busy pub, with Helen McCookeryClub and The Boycott Coca Cola Experience
Tuesday 10 June 2008	The Lamb, London  (setlist) Totally Acoustic with the MIGHTY Jim'll's Brain
Wednesday 18 June 2008	Buffalo Bar, London  (setlist) Goonite Club, with The Indelicates, Lily Rae and The Keith TOTP All-Star Band, the latter being made up almost entirely of people I knew from all sorts of different places.
Tuesday 1 July 2008	The Lamb, London  (setlist) Totally Acoustic 'Dress Rehearsal' of My Exciting Life In ROCK
Monday 7 July 2008	The Red House, Sheffield  (setlist) Amazing line-up (The School, Slow Down Tallahassee and Mr Pete Green), lovely friends in the audience, rather scary episode of getting LOST on the way home!
Monday 14 July 2008	The Cross Kings, London  (setlist) My Exciting Life In ROCK Press Preview (press preview!!) with support from Mr Pete Green.
Friday 18 July 2008	The Perserverance, London  (setlist) Back at Freedom of Expression with Superman Revenge Squad.
Friday 25 July 2008	The Midland Railway - Butterley, Derby  (setlist) The World Premier of My Exciting Life In ROCK!
Saturday 26 July 2008	My Mum's Back Garden, Peterborough  (setlist) Rather unusual set for my parents' friends!
Thursday 31 July 2008	Boston Music Rooms, London  (setlist) The launch night for Apples For Everyone's new album, although I had to dash off too soon to see anything.
Monday 4 August 2008	XFM Scotland, Glasgow  (setlist) Session for Jim Gellatly's show, doing 'The Lesson Of The Smiths' and 'It Only Works Because You're Here', broadcast the next day.
Monday 4 August 2008	Medina, Edinburgh  (setlist) My Exciting Life In ROCK First night of the show - 30 people in but I was a bit nervous.
Tuesday 5 August 2008	Lower Stage, Edinburgh  (setlist) An extremely enjoyable bit of busking, featuring dancing babies.
Tuesday 5 August 2008	Medina, Edinburgh  (setlist) My Exciting Life In ROCK Only four people in so I did the show Totally Acoustically and had a GRATE time.
Wednesday 6 August 2008	Medina, Edinburgh  (setlist) My Exciting Life In ROCK There were 25 people this time, and it was a WHOLE lot of fun, with a live satellite link-up to Steve Lamacq on 6Music!
Thursday 7 August 2008	Medina, Edinburgh  (setlist) My Exciting Life In ROCK This show featuring S Hewitt demonstrating how to do The Indie Kid.
Thursday 7 August 2008	Lower Stage, Edinburgh  (setlist) A very rainy busking spot, where I furthered my knowledge of this ancient art by doing Back For Good twice.
Friday 8 August 2008	Medina, Edinburgh  (setlist) My Exciting Life In ROCK A barefoot show for a small audience, including three disgruntled teenagers who became even MORE so when The Management CONFISCATED their hip flask, resulting in the only bad review of the show!!
Saturday 9 August 2008	Medina, Edinburgh  (setlist) My Exciting Life In ROCK Final night, and best of the lot, with a big happy audience and MUCH good times.
Saturday 9 August 2008	Upper Stage, Edinburgh  (setlist) More slightly pointless busking, featuring a troupe of characters from Japanese drama walking by, clapping along.
Friday 15 August 2008	Lumb Farm, Derby  (setlist) The Blyth Power Summer Fayre, miles away from anywhere in a hotel full of old punks.
Friday 29 August 2008	Actress & Bishop, Birmingham  (setlist) With The Graham Parsnip Liquidiser Torture Think-Tank (revival).
Saturday 30 August 2008	Ray's Mum's Back Garden, Stourbridge  (setlist) With Mr Pete Green at HIBBETTFEST!
Tuesday 9 September 2008	The Green Dragon, London  (setlist) A first time trip to Croydon, for Freedom Of Expression.
Tuesday 16 September 2008	The Lamb, London  (setlist) Totally Acoustic with Mr Owen Tromans
Thursday 18 September 2008	Buffalo Bar, London  (setlist) First full Validators gig in London for AGES, with Life In Film and Fuck Dress.
Saturday 4 October 2008	Wellbeck Banqueting Suite, Nottingham  (setlist) Lisa & Sam's Wedding Reception.
Sunday 5 October 2008	The Star, London  (setlist) Very quick set at the Anything Goes Sunday Club, after which I almost lost my guitar!
Sunday 12 October 2008	The Salmon & Compass, London  (setlist) DJ Set at The Hangover Lounge, where I learnt that you do actually need to bring more than a couple of CDs with you if you wish to properly 'drop the bomb'.
Sunday 12 October 2008	Catch 22, London  (setlist) Quick spot at John Peel day, after which I met John Peel's daughter!
Tuesday 14 October 2008	The Green Dragon, London  (setlist) Freedom Of Expression gig, with Eddie's Brother and General Paulus.
Sunday 19 October 2008	Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London  (setlist) Guest spot with the All Star Band at Bowl & Sebastian.
Sunday 19 October 2008	Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London  (setlist) Afternoon set (on about 4pm) at Bowl & Sebastian
Tuesday 21 October 2008	The Lamb, London  (setlist) Totally Acoustic with Tom From Lardpony.
Saturday 25 October 2008	University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield  (setlist) Rather tipsy evening set, with some sage advice for The Kids.
Saturday 25 October 2008	University of Sheffield Students' Union, Sheffield  (setlist) 'My Exciting Life In ROCK', done rather unnervingly with Steve Lamacq in the audience.
Sunday 26 October 2008	The Waiting Room, Middlesborough  (setlist) My Exciting Life In ROCK with The Bob Fischer Experience.
Sunday 26 October 2008	BBC Radio Cleveland, Middlesborough  (setlist) Quick session for Bob Fischer's show
Thursday 30 October 2008	Christ Church, London  (setlist) Using Mr T Eveleigh as a Swearing Vocalists as i REFUSE to swear in a church.
Thursday 13 November 2008	The Charlotte, Leicester  (setlist) A young lad's dream comes true as Tim plays with Half Man Half Biscuit.
Sunday 16 November 2008	Lee Rosy's Tea Room, Nottingham  (setlist) Lovely all-dayer with Pocketbooks, Mr Phil Wilson. Pete Green, The Bobby McGees and BEER!
Friday 21 November 2008	The Perserverance, London  (setlist) Freedom Of Expression with Jeremy Ayre, Superman Revenge Squad and New Rising.
Thursday 27 November 2008	The Shakespeare, Sheffield  (setlist) Markie Parallelogram's leaving do, with Horowitz, The Lovely Eggs, The Parallelograms and TEARS.
Thursday 27 November 2008	The Shakespeare, Sheffield  (setlist) Quick set in the courtyard!
Thursday 4 December 2008	Native Tongue, Surrey  (setlist) 'Jenny's Time Of The Month', just round the corner from Underage Drinking Central!
Saturday 6 December 2008	The Wilmington Arms, London  (setlist) A twinkly, Christmassy time with Calvin Party, Lazarus Clamp and Former Utopia.
Tuesday 9 December 2008	The Lamb, London  (setlist) Totally Acoustic A very Christmassy Totally Acoustic, with GRATE sets from Jenny Lockyer and Ten Foot John, mince pies, and general Festive Good Times!
Thursday 11 December 2008	Green Dragon Yard, Middlesborough  (setlist) Nine hours travel, one audience member, a FIGHT and several beers: ROCK!
Saturday 13 December 2008	The Fly, London  (setlist) Fantastically GOOD FUN Set with The Tiger at PopArt's Christmas Bash
Saturday 13 December 2008	The Fly, London  (setlist) Singing 'Wonderful Christmas Time' with the Allstar Band and then doing THE BEST BIT of 'Do They Know It's Christmas' - SO very much fun my face HURT from all the smiling!
Wednesday 17 December 2008	The Windmill, London  (setlist) Slightly cold ridden end to the year at the Let's Go Baboon Christmas do.