If we're on the subject of what we've thieved from gigs...
I've got fucking loads stuck on my wall, but my personal favourite is a 'Babyshambles official statement' from a doomed Newcastle gig earlier this year, because I was working in the academy that night. Funniest night of my life. That's rock and roll...I was flyering (I'm that cunt who shoves listings in your face when you come in to gigs, but hell, you paid to get in, I didn't) that night, a friend sold her ticket to a tout and got in flyering too. Doors were supposed to be at seven, but Pete had already been arrested (twice) that day and he was supposedly turning up anyway...anyway, it ticks round to about twenty to eight and suddenly the whole venue springs into action and all the security are flooding into the auditorium, the gig's off. And everyone was being kept in the venue 'for our own safety' while they disappointed the crowds outside.
I can't not mention the 'GET BACK AND STOP LAUGHING!', but I can't drop it into context.
I couldn't not giggle at the groan a few minutes later though. I was sat in the box office just afterwards and there was a constant barrage of phone calls, the phone would be put down and instantly ringing again...'Carling Academy Newcastle...no, I'm afraid it has been cancelled...sorry...bye...' put down...ring...etc.
I don't describe it well but it felt very rock and roll at the time...


(and now for someone completely different, Tue 4 Jul 2006, 0:55, Reply)