loondon (and brighton) baby

[howard]

Dear unified scene,

a couple of days of ace gigs serves only to remind how many cool, interesting and generally kind, fun people love this music. And commit to being there.

Summary - (as anticipated) performances rather fantastic.

brighton was adjacent to the sea - such that distance from craig's mic' on stage to the english channel (la manche) was peut etre 50 metres.

London maybe 400 people in the room. gig sold out in one of London's nouveau riche areas (or where new, trendy people go to drink Craig Finn Beer. 800 bottles sold tonight .

I bought a beer for Sam the brewer who said that he is bringing out beer for other muso's. Personally, a Galen Polivka ministry of fun Ale would work well.


March in England is ordinarily cool from a weather perspective. However, Craig and band brought heat . "Dennis and Billy" an astonishing song.

No new material but stuff played with true craftmanship.

finn gave us the itinerary/ list of gigs played by he and some guns at start of set - a splendid thing.


Thanks to them and you.

[toastie]

What Howard fails to mention is that he probably bought a good 100 of them. I had about 3 or 4. Not a bad beer overall. Tastes like a classic big American style beer. Last night was fantastic. Craig really brought it even on the quieter songs of the set (can't remember the running order) but finished on Jesus Save by Bobby Charles. Yes it was in a "trendy" (read expensive and full of twats) area. Thank you Unified Scene for everything. And thanks to Craig's music to be there to pull me through the dark parts of last year. Got to meet Michael Hann finally, super nice guy FYI. Totally worth sleeping on the floor of Standsted Airport.

[mattjs]

I could not be more jealous. really i couldn't.

[howard]

Matt - sent you a pm

[tanner]

Totally agree about 'Dennis & Billy'. Brilliant. Let's hope it's committed to tape before too long.

[toastie]

JJA, Wealdstone, Howard: what was the running order because I didn't make note.

[motörben]

Lovely to see everyone! Clear Heart was delicious, band was great.