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Current mood:  cheerful
Been more than a week now since I returned from London. Had a great time with all pals - "old" n new: Gurbs (Another Cowboy), Nick (Bucketfull), Amy, Keith, Paul, Marc (Band of Outsiders), Maz, Lorraine (Mudkiss Fanzine), Simon (the taxidriver)... etc etc...
Also had the priviligue of meeting up with Chuck Prophet for an interview before his show at The Relentless Garage (as it is called these days). Had a great time and it was a good interview. And it was down on tape (well actually on a compact flash card on my new digital recorder). But hell, on the way home (to Chez Gurbs) after the gig as I am listening to the interview I somehow manage to fuck it up - and the file is deleted. Shit, stupid me!!! What an asshole I am....
Well I tell mr Prophet about it in an e-mail - and he is perfectly fine about it "At least we had fun - and thats what counts, aint it?"
Great guy, that Prophet. And his gig was outstanding. I mean - we knew it before, didnt we? But hell, what a hot guitaraeeeest he is ;-) And a great catalogue of wonderful tunes.
The Mott gig? (Friday 2nd October) Simply stunning. Soon to be featured in quite a lengthy review from me at Mudkiss Fanzine. Ill let you know when its online...
BTW Lorraine from Mudkiss interviewed me up in a nice cafe in Camden - and this is gonna be online soon as well. Let you know bout that one too...
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby (Wednsday 30 September)? Really good stuff.
As for the file. Some say these things can be retrieved. And if anyone of you has got info as for how to do it - pleeeezzze contact Hawk The Jerk ;-)
Well actually maybe it isnt Hawk The Jerk. After a wonderful solo show I had the pleasure of doing at The Betsey Trotwood (Saturday 3d October) - thanks a lot Gurbs + Raz @ The Betsey for giving me the opportunity :D - a guy in the pub asks me my name. "Hawk", I say. "Pork?", he asks. "No! Hawk!", I reply. "Pork?", he says and continues: "How the hell you gonna sell a band with a singer called Pork?"
By this point - partly due to a few pints of Guinness and "Nuns delight" (as Keith calls "Bishops Finger") and partly due to this charade I cant hardly keep my face... But I go once more "No! Hawk!" " Awwwww..... Hawk", he says.... ;-)
On the bus to the Betsey Trotwood me and Gurbs sing a couple of Dream Syndicate tunes... Good fun!!! Amy captures on video - but the following morning her camera is gone... Shame...
The gig then? Loads of people in the upstairs acoustic room of The Betsey - one pal from Sweden in fact - music journalist Patrik Forshage. And I played mainly acoustic versions of Plastic Pals tunes: Hangin in the Louvre, If love should call, Good Karma Cafe, Here comes the sun and Shes going back. About mid-set I get an inclination of doing a T Rex tune - and settle for Jeepster.
For an encore there are requests for Mott - "Dudes!" "Play Dudes, Hawk". So we have ourselves a good singalong of "All the young dudes"
In the taxi on the way back to Gurbs place - about 4.30 AM or so - me, Gurbs, Amy, Keith and Paul entertain the cab driver with shamelessly drunken versions of more Mott tunes - to be continued in his house ;-)
A good trip indeed!
Thanks everyone!
Hawk
2:03 PM
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