the World of Verbal Warning 04.05.09

Got 2 gigs to tell you about since the last blog, first off we were main support to TV Smith at the Mill in Mansfield after some German Band pulled out, perhaps they were going to annexe Poland instead. Only about 50 there but it went well, sold 4 CD's and got some positive comments afterwards. Trying to get a proper pint in Mansfield is a nightmare, after finding 3 pubs with only creamflow crap Wendy Verbett asked a bouncer and he pointed us in the direction of the White Hart, what a result, good beer at £1.51 a pint, after a few telephone conversations there was about 10 of us in there. About the only thing that went wrong was not finding out till the end of the evening there was some free cans for the bands, it was only larger but it was free, so we had to force it down pretty quick.
On to the Malt Shovel a week later where we in competition with a Motorhead tribute band at the Greyhound and, as anticipated the place was full to start with and still quiet full at about 11 o Clock then completely emptied apart from the VW faithful, didn't even do an encore, I was surprised when I was told we sounded better than ever because we all made mistakes, In defence of Guitar Boy he did suffer the duel concentration breaking experience of breaking a string then the strap coming adrift on his spare guitar, oh yes, then noticing Drummer boy taking his photo during the beginning of My Way. I had no such excuses for my performance during Mrs Robinson, after practicing it about 4 times during the day I still cocked it up. On the positive side we all did very well to keep it together as one of the barman took about 3 minutes to get a packet of fags out of the machine which is situated next to where we play, he got the biggest cheer of the evening when he eventually managed to extract the required goods.
Only one gig this month at the Intake Club in Mansfield again, where the wonderful Verbal Warning are headlining an all dayer, but it does look increasingly likely that we'll be on the at the Rock and Blues festival during July, fingers crossed.