05/30/2006: "Tour Diary - Day Four"

Derby - Glasshouse
With The Scarlet Tuesday, Secondman, Little Courage and Pete Green

Miles covered: three? hehe.

Setlist:
Straight Out of the Crompton
Yesterday's Technology
Trance Anthem
New, untitled song about the evils of television (ideas?)
Back Hit
Teenwolf
To The Power of Love
Contains Mild Peril
I'm In Love (With a Noxious Gas)
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Zombie Bride

This was quite odd. There were supposed to be eight bands, as some kind of late starting, late finishing alldayer, but THREE of the bands pulled out, leaving a more reasonable five-band gig that didn't force people to stay ludicrously late on a school night.
This was the last of our three dates with the delicious Pete Green, we will miss him. Little Courage were REALLY LOUD so I was glad I had my earplugs so I could still watch them without cowering behind a pillar / sofa / window. I wasn't keen on Secondman at ALL but they seemed like nice chaps, just not my kind of music.
TST played a fun set that unfortunately contained various elements of technical tragedy but was ultimately really good - including playing one of their songs twice because everyone enjoyed them so much.
And us... we played fairly well, considering! It was still brutally loud, which meant that all we could hear on "stage" was a TERRIFYING ROAR. We played some BRAND NEW songs which went surprisingly well, especially since I haven't written all of the words for either of them yet! Meanwhile, Yesterday's Technology went horribly wrong, but I blame an over-high mic stand. Ha!

GIG RATING: 6/10