Friday night and a change from the usual. The gang had decided that we should check out The Stanleys at Certificate 18. Roy was already there when I arrived and Andy came in close on my heels. The first support band, Casual something, were already played and pretty good they were as well. In the audience I spotted Richard and the second drummer from Hazzard County, the reason for their presence was shortly to be revealed!
The second band was Naked Flame, fronted by a small girl in cargo hot pants (I’m sure there’s a proper word for them) who was a bit too screechy for my ears. The big surprise was that Richard was playing lead guitar and he really let rip. Fantastic.
The headline act was The Stanleys, a bunch of scouse cheeky chappies. Oh, and Hazzards other drummer was drumming for them! Anyway, not so bothered myself, for me the first band was the best. I had decided on wearing an old 3 Colours Red t-shirt for the evening and, in a bizarre coincidence, 3CR tracks were played in the intervals between each band. I was able to give a rousing rendition of “Beautiful Day” to Roy and Andy, but I’m not sure that they heard it very well! The grump of the evening, well it was smoky of course, which I always hate (can’t wait for 1 July.) But the thing that made me tut (it doesn’t take much) was the number of people in the audience who thought they looked amusing in the ultra-violet light exposing their yellow-looking teeth and green-looking lager in faux-Dracula poses.
It was still reasonably early when we staggered out into the rain, so we made our way down to The Old White Swan to catch the last 5-6 songs by Hazzard County, who were missing front-man, Chris Johnson. They were excellent as usual and at one stage had five, yes count them, that’s five, crazy dancing chicks. I don’t like to talk about crazy dancing blokes because it’s just a bit disturbing.
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