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2009 

Sat 19 Dec: Stockport - SAS Mad Dash @ The Thatched House; Ste played solo, as Andy was away with The Infested

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Mon 7 Dec: Manchester - Retro Bar, w. Assorted Jelly Beans; promoted by Dean SLiT

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Weds 18 Nov: Manchester - Retro Bar, w. Hayabusa and Mr Shiraz; promoted by Jim LAP


Sun 8 Nov: Bolton - The Alma, w. The Kirkz and Scumface; night two of our world tour of Bradshawgate

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Sat 7 Nov: Bolton - Soundhouse, w. Geoffrey Oi!Cott and a load of metal bands; a fundraiser for the Rainy City Roller Girls; Ossie stripped during the Oi!Cott set – again!


Sat 31 Oct: Blackburn - Cellar Bar, w. Fair Do’s, Turn it Red and Bays.  We played dressed as Romans: "who wants to be just another zombie!"

Fri 30 Oct: Rawtenstall: the Ram’s Head, w. Fair Do’s and others
  

 Sat 24 Oct: Manchester - a cellar in Withington, w. The Autonomads, John Player Specials and many more; a charity gig to raise funds to pay the legal fees of someone charged with spitting on Nick Griffin; Marios did the sound using the GASH party system in a tiny cellar

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Fri 23 Oct: Bury St. Edmonds - The Old Maltings, w. Sak Less Jack, Luvdump, Vanilla Pod and others; it was Vanilla Pod’s album launch gig; gang of us clambered into the abbey for a look around at 3am – most impressive!       

 

Sun 18 Oct: Manchester - Star & Garter, w. The Dead Class and The Drellas

 

Sat 17 Oct: Lincoln - [venue?], w. Escape to Victory, Gutshot and others

 

Sat 3 Oct: Rhyl - Dirty Alldayer @ The Dudley Arms, w. Stuntface, Contempt, Kill Youth Culture, ASBOS and others; organised by Global Parasite

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[DATE?]: Farnworth - Snooker Club; w. The John Player Specials, Rasta4eyes, The Murderburgers and many more; aftershow party for the Inner Terrestrials and Subhumans gig; left at about 11am on Sunday

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[DATE?]: London (Stockwell) - The Grosvenor, w. X State Ride, Waiting for Better Days and more; Ste had to play in his prescription sunglasses, after accidentally leaving his contacts at home; last gig with Gray Cooper 

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[DATE?]: Blackburn - 41 King St, w. , with X State Ride, Waiting for Better Days, Fair Do’s and Leading the Charge; a Naughty Donkey gig; we played as a trio, as Gray couldn’t make it


Fri 21 Aug: St Helens - Aponepunk Weekender @ Fluid Live Lounge, w. Glue Ear, The Shadowcops, Brassneck, Pete Bentham and the Dinner Ladies, Redneck Zombies, Geoffrey Oi!Cott and The Distrakted; five year anniversary gig too; Kev Hawke joined us for The Fallen, Burn the Flag and Thatto Heath


Sun 5 July: Blackburn - 41 King St; rather a struggle for some, after a very, very late Saturday; fun though

Sat 4 July: Birmingham - The Swingin’ Sporran, w. dozens of others; Ste played solo when it turned out the others couldn’t make it, at the last minute.  Ste: "As I was due on not long after noon I got an early train from Warrington and hit the beer at about 10.  I started dodgily, but did ok once I had warmed up.  The singer from another band joined me for an impromptu Hops and Barley, and two old Irish chaps formed a trio with me at one point.  Just as I was exhausting every last solo possibility the promoter came along whispered: ‘the band after you have pulled – carry on mate!’   I murdered a couple more before saying I would only carry on if someone knew the words to 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' and would duet with me.  A bloke called Boz knew it.  The bastard."

 

Thu [?] June: Blackpool - West Coast Rock Café, w. Dying for Toto, The Emos and The Guilty Pleasures

[Date ?] June: Colwyn Bay, Prince Madoc, w. Broken Minds, Buff, W.O.R.M. and others

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Sat 12 June: Ieper, Vort'n Vis, w. The Dead Class and others

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Fri 11June: Oberhausen - Druckluft, w. The Dead Class; promoted by KGLSE

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Thu 10 June: Berlin - Wild At Heart, w. The Dead Class.

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Weds 9 June: NordhausenDestille, w. The Dead Class

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Tue 8 June: Ochtrup - Hubi, w. The Dead Class and Ants in the Pants; the latter were a duo from Finland that played Irish standards - they just showed up, so we let them play; promoted by Madness - that really was his name!

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Sat 5 June: Bielefeld (DE) - City Carnival:, w. The Dead Class and many more; we played on the Kulturgruppe carnival float.

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Fri 4 June: Bielefeld (DE) - Falkendom, w. Motex and others; joined on stage by pretty much the whole crowd for 'Arminia Bielefed'; promoted by Mike Schiesser

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 Sun [?] May: Morecambe - Nice 'n Sleazy Festival @ Trimpell SSC, w. lots of bands; promoted by Big Ivan; we were supposed to play on Saturday evening, but Andy was late; Ivan kindly let us play at non on the Sunday, before the advertised bill

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Fri 15 May: Bridlington - The Queen’s Hotel, w. Nork Torsion, The Dead Class and UK 77; warm up for the Mutiny festival

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[DATE?] April: Manchester - Scottfest @ Satan’s hollow, w. lots of bands; promoted by Scott Bradley

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[DATE?] April: Moelfre - Mountain Bike Festival, w. Brassneck and others; had a border collie on stage during 'Dogs Actually'

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Thurs 9 April: Liverpool - The Caledonia, w. One Man Orgy, Straight Out of Moscow and MAFAFI; went to a party in a rehearsal room afterwards

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Sun [DATE?]: Accrington -The Regency Bar, w.Total Bloody Chaos and Headclinic

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Sat [DATE?]: Kirkaldy - The Path Tavern, w. Headclinic and others

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Sat 28 March: Perth - Mucky Mulligans, w. Sick Trick and MAFAFI; the usual good PHC laugh

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 Sat 21 March: Bradford -  Mannville Arms, w. The Senton Bombs, MLTF and Rising Strike; an SAS gig

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Fri 20 March: Boston - Indian Queen, w. W.O.R.M. and Get Dead; had to push the car off the square in the middle of the night, having discovered that the day after was market day; much later, subject of a Marv Gadgie zine write up (he reckons it was February)

         

Sat 14 March: Blackburn - Cellar Bar, w. Newbridge Downfall, Frontline, Leading the Charge and Turn it Red; a Naughty Donkey promotion, and Corrupted’s opening night; despite Tom 'Ayrton' Penn's superb driving, we were pulled by the police on the way home, for speeding: they soon realised we were impoverished would-be-musicians and let us off with a warning
 

Sat 7 March: Burton on Trent - The Appleby, w. DETERANT; Russ's birthday bash

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Thurs 26 Feb: Kirkby - The Carter’s Arms; the one and only time we have ever been switched off, threatened and ejected from a venue - surreal

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Fri 20 Feb: St Helens - Fluid Live Lounge; w. Apocalypso and Mispelt 2.0; RAM MAN had to pull out on the night, as their van broke down; apocalypso’s first gig

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Weds 28 Jan: Manchester - Retro Bar:, w. Aldehyde, Jackie O and Fanny Devine; a fundraiser for the Rainy City Roller girls; got the gig at 24 hours notice when The Hyperjax pulled out.  

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Sun 18 Jan: Stockport - SAS Weekender @Thatched House, w. lots of other bands; Kev filled in on guitar

 

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