The band van
For starters, it was dubbed the Millenium Falcon after we turned up for a gig and someone actually said " you came here in that heap? You're braver than I thought ". It was a silver Transit minibus, with NHS prosthetic pink patches of rust retardant in random places. Our singer had built a 'shelf' in the back by fixing some ply on to 4x2s with 4" nails, so it was a dance with tetanus every time we loaded up. One wintry evening it had iced up, so what did he use to get the ice off the windscreen? That's right, a piece of fucking griptape: every time the sun hit the windscreen, the driver's vision was instantly obscured by more spiral scratches than Norman Cook's record collection. Nonetheless, it conveyed us from Plymouth to Aberdeen and points between many times before failing its' 3rd MOT catastrophically. The only photos I had, taken outside TJs in Newport (RIP) in all its' reeking glory, seem to have disappeared from our webshite.
( uncle bastard is twanging a dan moi, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 18:57, Reply)