TT Week Festival Isle Of Man
4th to 11th June 2004
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A week of madness, fun and games.

Farmers Arms 4th June
It was a good gig. The place is quite small so it's always a good atmosphere. Like the Tardis only in reverse.
The photos on the right are from this gig.
Friday and wednesday.

The Cat with no tail 8th June
Another goody, I haven't got hold of the photos yet,
but I'll put them up (ooh eerr) as soon as I do.

Farmers Arms 9th June
As friday, good fun. Gigs in small rooms are great,
the audience are nearer the guitar than I am.

I'm into clever heckling. The best one yet was, I said:
" It's hard work up here!". A voice came back from the crowd, " It's a lot harder work down here!".
I laughed.

Port Erin beach festival.10th June
Firstly my apology's to anyone who came down to this
gig later in the evening.
The gig was scheduled for 8pm.
Unfortunately it poured down and as it was outside
(the gig not the rain, although rain usually is)
we had to pull the plug.

I did a couple of numbers inside for some of the locals
whilst the band that were inside later weren't.
They were outside waiting to be inside.
After I'd done I went outside and.......you work it out.
he,he.

Archibald knox 11th June
AR!! the joys of multi use venues.
As a lot of places that have bands on also do food,
it's quite common to have to wait for everybody to finish scoffing grub before banging out some tunes.

This time though a bunch of good folks decided to stay put.
They were actually on the stage area with me.
At first I was worried that they might fall over
and get hurt or break something, But even drunk and dancing next to me everyone survived.

With everyone sat only feet away, and drunk, the noise was incredible.  

If that sounds strange, it's because :
at a show the audience is listening to the pa system.
The band isn't, they're listening to the monitors on stage. Which are just loud enough for the band, but not as loud as the pa for the crowd
(otherwise we'd all be deaf, pardon.)

I had to keep turning everything  up just to hear myself.
But it is funny having a bunch of Grandmas
tell you to crank it up and go crazy.