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Status: Single
City: Norfolk/Suffolk
Country: UK
Signup Date: 3/24/2005

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Monday, November 09, 2009 
Well, it's been an eventful few days for us.

On Thursday night, myself and Wayneo were at the Playhouse in Norwich to see the comedian Adam Hills. I mentioned on our twitter that we were at the show and Adam read it out on stage, started to talk to us about the band, and then decided to organise a gig for us the following night in the bar.

During the interval I text Ritch to make sure he was available, still not sure whether this was just a joke or whether he was deadly serious. At the same time, Adam tweeted for some song titles, that he would challenge us to write and perform at the gig. Some of the most popular were: “I Lost My Heart To A Girl From Ipswich”, “Shake It Like Shakira”, “There’s No Folk Like Norfolk” and “Don’t KunK With My Heart”. However the clear winner was “I’ve Got A Brand New Combine Harvester” so in the second half of the show, Adam challenged us to perform a rock version at the gig on Friday (this is when panic started to set in).

On our way back from the playhouse on Thursday night, it occurred to us that we had no bass amp, and that our van was booked in to the garage so we had no way of getting our gear to the gig. Oops.

Friday morning and few phone calls later, we'd managed to get our hands on a bass amp (thanks Hannah!) and we had our van back. I then set about trying to work out something for "Combine Harvester". I failed. I find it hard enough to remember my own lyrics, so to learn something that I really I didn't know in a couple of hours wasn't easy. I scribbled a few notes so that I had some reminders for the lines I was struggling with most and hoped for the best.

Friday evening, already about 45 minutes late for soundcheck we arrived at the Playhouse and set ourselves up in the corner of the bar. In our 5 minute soundcheck I tried to give Wayne and Ritch an idea of what I thought we should do for "Combine Harvester". As it got closer to our 6pm start, the bar started to fill up and we had a chat with Adam, who was very complimentary about our music, which he'd downloaded the night before.

The gig itself went pretty well, we'd turned everything down as quiet as we could at the request of the bar staff so that made it a little hard but we still rocked out as best we could. That's until it came to "Combine Harvester". You know how sometimes you have a complete memory blank? Yeah. Well, that's exactly what happened to me. I completely forgot how the song went. I had some words written down, but had no idea at all how the were meant to sound. Bearing in mind that I was the only one that had learnt the song anyway, we were lost. We ended playing one chord and sung the chorus for about 3 minutes. Nevermind.

We'd already made the decision to put it earlyish in the set anyway, because we knew it'd be shit, so that gave us a chance to redeem ourselves with the rest of our set. We even played 'Game Over' and did a mighty fine job of it. First time we've played that since Hannah left.

Before we knew it, it was over. The most bizarre gig we've ever done. We spoke to Adam for a while before he had to get himself ready for his show. Amazingly he absolutely loved it and proudly wore a KunK t-shirt for his gig in the main auditorium.

I have to say thanks to everyone at the playhouse for making the gig happen, and also thanks to Adam Hills for being an absolute legend!! He's a lovely and incredibly funny man. If you get a chance, get yourself to one of the remaining dates on his tour, you won't regret it!

If you want to read Adam's blogs about the gig, go to www.adamhills.com.au