I sabotaged The Sweet
Summer 1988 & I'd just completed my first year at the then Polytechnic of North London. Brian Connolly's New Sweet were playing a gig there as part of his nostalgia cash-in & I'd dragged a mate along to see it. They were shite. The hall is now The Rocket & a reasonably good venue but then it was just the Poly's crap theatre. The mixing desk was on a couple of tables at the back of the hall next to where we were standing. After a few pints we were feeling bored & ripped off when we noticed a single extension lead coming from the back of the hall to the mixing desk table. A strip was plugged into it with various plugs going off to the sound equipment. So I sidled up behind the fat git doing the 'sound' & very quickly unplugged the extension. The effect was dramatic - the sound completely died except for the banging of the drums at the back of the stage. It took them 15 minutes to suss what had happened while fat, florrid Brian looked on enraged from the stage. (Shame he didn't hissy & storm off.)

Purile, yes, but we were very pleased with ourselves. Served them right, they were crap.
( Dunks, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 14:33, 1 reply)

...and it turned into a Ballroom Blitz?
Nice one, I can't fucking stand The Sweet.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 16:59, closed)