Sunday 12th December 1999Aberdeen - Glow 303The drive to Aberdeen was a lt quicker that I had thought that it would be. I reckon that Scotland's road builder have had a serious injection of EC cash as the roads were fantastic. As we went further North the temperature dropped and by the time that we reached Aberdeen, it was freezing! The venue was easily found and before long we had most of the stuff loaded in and had started to work out how we were going to organise today's soundchecks. There was to be six bands on tonight and it was going to be an organisational nightmare for the bands and the sound crew. I found it rather difficult to get any enthusiasm from the soundcrew, but they kind of went with the flow and got things together....slowly. Adie, who was our promoter for the night, was bit worried about tonight's gig as there were a few hiccups with the venue and she was nervous about how many people would turn up. Crissi, my girlfriend, had flown up all of the way from London to spend time with me on my birthday, so we met up and sloped of to a nearby pub for a beanburger and to unwrap my presents! After some lovely food, some warmth and some quality time with Crissi, it was time to get back to business and to the soundcheck. After a relatively cushy soundcheck, we were shown to our dressing room and met up with the folk from the other bands. Strumpet were on first, but I completely missed them, so I can't tell you what they were like. Next on were Huckleberry, who played even better than the night before. Crissi really liked their version of The Ace Of Spades. Then came The Kenadas, who suffered a bit from some terrible sound. They used a drum machine and played a punky poppy cheesy set. They had some really good songs but they were lost mainly in an appalling sound mix. Then it was our turn and somehow, everything clicked into place and I had a lovely birthday gig. I totally fucked up Nobody Less Rock n Roll and decided to go straight to the loud bit. I changed the set list as we went along and it was just right. There was dancing and cheering and some great heckling. Next on were Dead Loss Superstar, who played some great r n b based rock /pop. I didn't catch most of their set as I was busy celebrating my birthday. After the gig, we had a great time drinking and chattting, chatting and drinking. Adie had offered her living room floor for tonight's gig and it was gladly accepted. Poor Crissi had to get up at 6am to get back to London for a Chemistry test, but I could sleep on until 10, lucky me!
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