Rag tag collection of college rock wannabees, we aim to open at the Battle Of The Bands,
I the bassist am forced to sing as no-one else wants to apart from the keyboardists's sister who wants to do 'Alone' by Heart, the rest are up to me. 1st track underway, nerves a plenty and I find that the foldback monitoring isn't working so I can't hear my self sing and so waver about wildly off the note until I realise it's all gone wrong and emergency drop to a growling raasklaat accent to compensate for no tunefullness. Scrape through a the performance and come 2nd to a band doing very good Cult covers.

Next year, we say, NEXT YEAR will be different. The guys have been bet that we couldn't pull off doing a track called 'The Trees' by Rush and we insist that we can. Many practices, much success off the stage anyway. It is our second track of the set and all starts off swimmingly, me singing and bassing it, the percussioin light as a feather and the guitarist hits the main verse hard. After the first bridge "there is unrest on the forest and the creatures all have fled, as the maples scream oppression and the oaks just shake their heads", another 10 bars of ply out to the middle section where the keyboard insinuates its slippery reedy sound into the aftermath of the final crash....except it doesn't, the rig muppets forgot to plug in the keyboard at the sound check. A stunned 3 seconds of silence and then the guitarist snaps out of it, yelling to me 'TAKE IT FROM THE 5s GERRY' and we fall back into the song easily, if somewhat guiltily. Finish up with a version of The Timewarp which to our astonishment elicited a mosh pool at the front. Unfortunately that time we came 2nd to Fridge Death as extreme grunge and shrieking noisy grind had come to Stourbridge.... ah well.

*Thinks it might be time to roll out the old bass guitar again for the first time in 21 years....*
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