What a messed up day. But then, it’s my birthday and I’m in charge so what’s not to expect.

Got lost, went to the wrong pub. Got lost again, started to get annoyed with myself and thought, no, stop it. Make a cig and it’ll all be cool because it’s you and things always go weird but end up good.

So I rolled a cig, walked round the corner and there was The Grove 🙂

Was very clique like everyone said and I do think I scared the poo out of the more conservative people a tad with my words (especially X-Factory)….Job well done.

very small room with no amps or mics or anything. Just one on ones own.

But then got lost again through some scary estate, found myself in some prostitute area but made it back to Carpe for beer and Jaeger and ended up in FAB when Kate and Charlie turned up.

wicked shit.

Set List

Big Log
Killer Nuns
X-Factory

At the Fenton. Good jam as always. Great to see Q out and jamming again. Always awesome to watch Andrei play when he’s sober and digging it. And Sean and Nick being great as usual.

My set was a bunch of old school punk poetry from other (but not famous or even remembered) people.

All of them fitted well in a pub in 2012. Us old punks did have a point to make and the relevance is still felt today.

Set List

My birthday present to myself this year is a week of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Let’s see if I really could be Lemmy…

Day 1

First gig of the week at Carpe. Went down well. Noisy crowd but I got their silence and attention by end of the first poem. Probably because of saying clit and balls (the power of words is incredible)

Chatted to a few cool people and saw the guy out of Arizona Bay do his first gig with his new band. Pretty good it was too (wish I could remember who the singer reminds me of though)

Played 9 games of pinball for £1 – kept getting replays all over the shop – and got my name on the score board for 3rd highest score. And had 5 free balls in one game (new record for me)

Set list

My Kinda Woman
Killer Nuns
Big Log
X-Factory

Score card (that I’ll either be proud or ashamed off in years to come)

Beer – 7
Jaeger – 3
Special cig – 4