20 August - SmytherJones @ Furys

Tonight we were booked to play in Glasgow student indie club Fury Murrys - its behin the St Enochs Centre if you fancy visiting. It one of those places where the DJ will either be on superb form or it sounds as if he has picked up the record bag he usually takes to weddings! I've had a fair few good nights though so give it a go.

There are 4 bands in total; SmytherJones, Beggar's Lake, After Christmas and The Aquitted. We didn't know any of the bands so being on first we could get business out of the way and enjoy the other bands.

I'll not bitch about anyone but the sound check could have been better and as such the sound was disappointing and a far cry from the last gig at Barfly. The boys did well and the crowd were very complimentary.

Beggar's Lake are also from Coatbridge and had a pleasing enough sound, to be honest I had started drinking as soon as we had finished and was busy talking to people that I missed most of their set (sorry guys) and the entire set of After Christmas. The last band on were The Aquitted, but I'm sorry to say it guys but you did yourselves no favours by turning up almost an hour late for the sound check and then being prescious about your equipment. Very poor. It appears that these guys seem to think they are better than they really are.

It was a good night and we are booked to play there again on 21 October but lets hope the sound check can be a bit better and we can really show what we can do.

Al