Huge thanks to everybody that came out to Clwb for the First Two Years release show last Friday. We were truly overwhelmed and had a really great time to boot. By the end of our set, we had played no less than eleven songs, which for us something of a G'n'R esque monster set!
The show was both recorded on the desk by our friend Phil and filmed by a girl who's name i can't remember right now. She's a friend of Eddie's and came equipt with some seriously pro gear! When i got told that the show was being filmed i just expected someone to be wandering around with a camcorder or something, but the camera was positively HUGE and there we tripods set up and everything. Very bizzare, but cool. I look forward to seeing the footage.
The setlist, for anyone that wants to know, was as follows:
Lake Palmer
The Rest Will Follow
A Devil Among The Dancers
The Plastic Stays Yellow Forever
Fighting Tigers
Mexican Waves
Drug Money
Blank Cities
Apparatus Separator
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Mary Anne, Come Out Tonight...
Young Loins
The last two were due to an unplanned encore. And you can believe me when i say it was unplanned! Mary Anne, considering we hadn't played it together for the best part of two months, went fine and to be honest we should have called it quits there. However, and i can't really tell you why, i decided to go straight into the opening chords of a song we'd never, ever played before immediately after, that song being Before The Roars acoustic campfire punkrock closer, Young Loins. The problem was, those opening chords, i had absolutely no fucking idea what they were. Cue what seemed like an absolute eternity of me thumbing around the fretboard to try and figure out what they were. Thankfully it was Rhys who eventually showed me what they were. Yes, Rhys, who wasn't even in the band when i wrote the damn song, showing me how to play it. Oh, the shame! What followed was nothing short of a massacre of the original, i don't know what happened, except for the fact that all the way through i was thinking "this is YOUR fault, young man... it's all you". Hah! Believe it or not we had people rushing up to us after the set exclaiming "i'm so glad you played that last song!"- these people were met with a perplexed and incredulous grimace.
Young Loins aside, i had a ton of fun playing, as did the other boys. We weren't perfect, i totally forgot the words to both new songs, Rhys' guitar was screaming like a banshee from first song to last and Robin (bless him) managed to whack his hands and his feet on various parts of his drum kit (he has several ugly bruises to show), but who really wants or expects perfection at a punk rock gig? You're in the wrong scene if you do. My favourite song of our set was probably Blank Cities, it sounded better than ever, and for a song i practically wrote of as a perfectly acceptable 'punk by numbers' song just a few weeks back, it really is starting to stand on it's own two feet as one of our finest efforts to date.
Cell Mates and A Thousand Arrows were both incredible too. It was an awesome night, if we get any more like that this year then we'll be a very, very happy and content bunch of dudes indeed.
Now it's back to the grind. We need to promote The First To Years outside of South Wales as well as keep the creating juices fully spilling over into lots of new tracks. Onwards and upwards.
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