the World of Verbal Warning 30.06.07

Not much happening this week, had a practice on Wednesday with no John so me and Lee shared the vocals on a couple of new covers and a new original, fortunately Ian didn't record the session so no record survives of this appalling vocal performance. Decided to bid up to £400 for a 1978 USA P bass on e bay which evenually went for £823 think I'll have to stick to my £40 Hondo. Applied for another Postmans job and received an instant rejection, when I asked the reason was told only one interview allowed every six months why don't they state previous applicants need not apply grrrr. And finally much sadness all round, this years Tallington has been cancelled due to the Pub owners playing at silly buggers

the World of Verbal Warning 21.06.07

Well Lee's already beaten me to the punch with the equipment problems last night but it wasn't that bad, we started poorly and got better so, as Basil Falwty might say "I think we got away with it". Probably our most profesional venue to date, complete with proper dressing room, and it's run by Shawaddywaddy's old drummer 'the Duke' which was good and bad news for Ian as he spent half an hour tuning his kit, none of us new a drum kit needed tuning but it did sound better, or louder? when he'd finished, I'm just glad he wasn't their bass player! Anyway we got an encore and against mine and Lee's advise John decided to do Living Next Door to Alice which the Duke said was the best thing we did all night so, John 1 us 0. At the end of the gig the Duke said "Well that was certainly different" and we thought uh uh thats bad, but apparently he was just fed up with bands playing Smoke on the Water everyweek. I think we all benefitted by the experience, and who knows we might get asked back next time a U2 tribute band lets them down.Just off to Sainsbury's to do some shopping, ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!!!

the World of Verbal Warning 18.06.07

The weekend away at Glastonwick went well the weather was remarkable good, a few light showers compared to the tropical deluge the rest of the country suffered. One piece of bad news though, a bottle of beer was again spilt in guitar boys tent, the good news? it wasn't me. The gig went well considering we got one of the graveyard slots, winding the whole thing up after John Otways set, well somebody's got to do it and on the plus side we can say we headlined the festival and Otway was our support act. There was about 50 people left to see us but they all enjoyed it and we sold quiet alot of merchadise after and more importantly as the bar was closing down the beer was free! A few cocks ups during the set, drummer boy forgot a hi hat clutch and had to gaffer tape the cymbols together I forgot the intro to Kill and Animal and guitar boy started playing it in the wrong key, one of the cymbols stands fell over right at the end of Tommy Gun which sort of ruined the ending and singer boy forgot to slow down in the middle of our glorious encore of 500 miles, so honours even I guess

the World of Verbal Warning 15.06.07

Really bored now, no job and waiting for singer boy to pick me up for Glastonwick, so I thought if I'm bored everybody else ought to be.Applied for 2 jobs this week one is a carpark attendant, should get that if I can grow a Hitler moustache in time.At practice on Wednesday singer boy suggested that we give kill that girl a rest due to the Madellne business, just had a thought though, we could change it to kill that boy and dedicate it to Barrymore and friends!Sharing a tent with guitar boy and Amiee this weekend and I've promised not to spill 2 pints of beer in it this time, don't know who was more upset, guitar boy cause he had to clean it up or me cause I wasted some beer