OK, so it’s not called Long Island any more, it’s now the Mosaic Bar, but yes Goodbye Sergeants are doing a gig there on 3rd April. Me and Jules used to live in Sutton, and Jon still does (kind of why we moved away really), so it’ll be great to play somewhere we’ve been turned away from so many times for not having the right shoes on.
Check out the venue’s website or Chog Town, the promoter’s Myspace for more details.
I was just searching for stuff on the band on Google when I should’ve been working and I stumbled across the fact that our ancient demo version of Over So Soon seems to have crept up to Number 1 on The Mag’s download chart for February. Who’d have thought it?
My friend Tony, who got us involved with Help For Heroes, and at one point was having serious talks with us about being our manager, happens to be friends with Al Murray, so he got me a ticket to the filming of his show Happy Hour with a backstage pass. Very funny show, and when I met the man himeself he was very nice, and a bit pissed, although rather disappointingly on red wine rather than beer. I was also informed that the beer he drinks on the show is non-alcoholic. Still, the beer I was drinking that night was free, so who could complain. I made friends with a guy called Tim too, although he hasn’t yet replied to my email, but maybe it went into his junk folder and he thinks that I’m a twat for not emailing him. Who knows.
I also met Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze, and stood very close to Peter Davison (Dr Who, All Creatures Great and Small) and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (oh, you know who he is).