So, after our pretty successful jaunt up the M6 at the weekend to play the legendary Cavern Club and Lennon’s, we return to a slightly more local setting for us by playing the Sutton Town Centre Music Festival on Sunday 1st June.
We’ll be playing on the Millenium Bavarian Beer Garden stage (we think that’s basically the bandstand near The Moon on the Hill), at 3pm. We’ll be on after 2 covers acts, so naturally we’ll probably confuse the hell out of everyone, but there you go.
On Saturday night I randomly ended up playing drums with a trendy indie band called Ratty Rat Rat, in front of a reasonable sized crowd of equally trendy young men and women and the Astoria 2 in London.
I say “randomly” because I auditioned for the band a week before, thought it went quite well, didn’t hear anything from their manager though, then on the Thursday night got a call asking if I could do the gig in 2 night’s time. (Funnily enough, the very Thursday night I’d had a second audition/rehearsal with Sergeant Buzfuz and been asked to join them.)
Anyway, I’d played with the band for a total of about 30 minutes at this point, but thought “fuck it”, in at the deep end and all that. So, friday afternoon I was round their squat in Camberwell that they share with a guy from Shitdisco and the girlfriend of the singer in the Mystery Jets (I told you they were trendy) rehearsing for probably another 30 minutes in some dank, underground basement. I thought it was rather endeering though when I turned up and Gary the guitarist said “please excuse the mess.”
So how was the gig? To be honest I can’t remember that much of it. I remember getting quite drunk to calm my increasing nerves, and then not being able to hear a damn thing on stage, then it all being over really quickly and everyone being pretty pleased with how it went. My nerves weren’t helped by some obsessive fan type called Daniel who claimed the band were his all time favourite and that he’d come all the way down from Reading to see them. When I first bumped into him at the bar I thought he was going to try and get off with me when I casually mentioned to him the reason I was there was to play drums with them.
Turns out I was just filling in for another drummer they actually knew who was joining the band but just couldn’t do that particular gig, but I wish them all the very best as I really like the tunes and they’re nice lads too.
Goodbye Sergeants are playing 2 shows in Liverpool this weekend as part of the International Pop Overthrow Festival:
at The Cavern Club on Sunday (25th) – on stage 14:15,
and at Lennon’s on Bank Holiday Monday (26th) – on stage 17:00
Check out http://www.internationalpopoverthrow.com/ for more info on the festival, but for your convenience, here are the lineups for the 2 dates/venues we’re playing:
Sunday, May 25. The Cavern Club. Back Stage
12:45 Ben’s Diapers
..1:30 Steve Roberts & ZenBank of England ..2:15 Goodbye Sergeants
..3:00 Private Jets
..3:45 Beneva
..4:30 The Generous Days
..5:15 Rinaldi Sings
..6:00 Paul Bevoir
..6:45 Squire
..7:30 The Temponauts
..8:15 The Broken Hearts
..9:00 Automat
..9:45 The Afternoons
10:30 We Should Be Dead
11:15 The Cherry Bluestorms
12:00 Airwaves
12:45 The Anydays
..1:30 Robert Post
..2:15 Jeremy
Monday, May 26 Lennon’s
1:15 Mark Sander and The Evil Geniuses
2:00 The Low
2:45 SideFields
3:30 The Making
4:15 The Generous Days 5:00 Goodbye Sergeants
5:45 The Tamborines
6:30 Peter Colours
7:15 Telaphones
8:00 Keller
