word up you crazy cats!!! y'all good...
took to the stage with with the most-excellent 'monkey kettle' crew t'other night, at the OU in the sunny borough of milton keynes...
bit of a bumper set, which was running a bit late owing to some technical issues during the headliner's sound check... add that to the recently finished quiz next door, and the mission was to get everyone from one room to the next... lady linenwrecker did some fine work in this department (thankyou chica xxxx), as did the voice of the mysterons...
one sotto voce rendition of 'istanbul was constantinople' later, and we were ready to start the party...
it was a bumper set from me... opening with the chicken, jazz-hands and the faux brass section... it was like a triplet fire-punch to the crowd... there was dancing. it was fun...
it was a nice uncluttered stage area, so i even got to throw in a few crazy-legged dance-moves of my own without fear of destroying something valuable... which is always nice!
swung it up with a couple of covers, even dropped a bit of 'fresh prince' at the end of 'CYHMN' - which has had very few outings this year, it seemed to nuzzle nicely into its new mid-set spot... [this does however increase the importance of a post-CYHMN swig of something, as the whole extended chorus thing is a killer, and now there's much further to go...]
then it all got a bit stompy again... before a temporary reprieve for 'modern condition' - really enjoying playing that one at the moment, although i am fighting a bit of a urge to drop octave'd distortion onto the riff bits...
closed with 'forces'... having been told that no-one in the room had ever woken up and felt like the fate of the world rested in their hands, which frankly i don't believe for a second...
all-in, a top top night... there was dancing and merriment, and some new friends made...
oh, and did i mention that there was free cake?! you can't beat a bit of free cake...
and the provision of such, when coupled with the provision of free croissant too, made it possible to create a luxury pain au chocolat...
made even better by the removal of guilt for eating too much of the free cake, as a luxury pain au chocolat is only one cake...
peace-out y'all
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