We all met up at Bar Lambs in Westcliff on Sea and started loading in our gear. The original plan had been for us to open the night followed by Eastfield and then Arturo Bassick but it transpired that we were going to headline! YOINKS!
Eastfield had requested that they be allowed to open and Arturo Bassick was quite happy to go on second. After brief discussions we agreed that this was acceptable to us.
Have to say that the guys from Eastfield were fantastic. We had agreed for them to borrow some of our gear and they were quite happy to help load it all in to the venue, such a rarity these days.
There were three very different bands on show tonight (apologies for the dodgy photos, I left my camera at home!)....................
EASTFIELD
These guys were great, short sharp bursts of blistering punk joy themed mainly around railways! They were really entertaining and had some really funny lyrics to boot, namely Burt Reynolds Rides Again which deals with the evil that is Burt Reynolds!
Once Eastfield had left the stage various members of Hollywood Doll looked at each other and wondered how we were going to follow that.
ARTURO BASSICK
Arturo of The Lurkers + 999 performs his acoustic set, dubbed as a 'Punktry and Western Bonanza'. More witty tunes done in a Country and Western style, including some bona fide C&W tunes, plus a couple of well known punk ditties to boot. Arturo was awesome and although this might have been a departure from his usual The Lurkers and 999 stuff he maintained a strong presence and had some fun between song banter. Big thumbs up from me!
Again, following two great sets tonight we were wondering how we could top what had gone before.
I guess we needn't have worried..............
HOLLYWOOD DOLL
Hollywood Doll, our second gig, and now headlining a show with Eastfield and Arturo Bassick, who would have thought it? To think that one week ago I was struggling to make it through a set and now here I was ready to do it all again.
Things went really well, only a couple of mistakes were made and we seemed to go down better this week judging by the audience response. It was a great experience and everyone felt much more comfortable on stage and was really enjoying playing, just the way it should be. We even managed to throw in It's So Easy as a set closer (as a one off, please don't expect this as a regular set item)
So there you have it, one cracking night of entertainment. I want to thank the Eastfield mob and Arturo Bassick for being just genuinely nice people, being very accommodating and treating us like people, your actions and words meant so much to us all tonight. It was also lovely to have thanks from the owner of the venue and be told that he would like to have us come back and play again.
Once again it was great to see so many friends turn out to come and see us play live, thank you to everyone that made the journey down to come and see us.
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