Golfing on the moon tour, 27th Oct, London, Garage Line Up: Mixtwitch, Gash, Whitmore, 4ft
Fingers
Not being able to resist Mixtwitch’s
lovely bassist Ronan on his 27th Birthday, I travelled
down to London to help them celebrate that night at the gig.
Mixtwitch kicked off the show with a great set, which I really
enjoyed, although Jen and I were the only ones there who knew all
the words. Yes, all of them. The crowd really got into this set as
Cags repeatedly asked everyone to come down to the front for a good
ol’ skank, which many of them proceeded to do. They did some songs
off their old album, ‘Funny Because It’s True’, e.g. 'Golden
Goodness' and 'Groupies', although they were mostly from the Moon
Ska Europe released ‘Smile For The Money Shot’ (which
hasn’t been out of my CD player for the past month). The Although
they had refused to play my favourite song ‘Gifted’ as they
don’t know it (??), the bastids.
Up
next were Gash, which again, I
didn’t manage to catch much of, but from what I saw they were
auctioning off a McDonalds Happy Meal ‘Sitting Duck’ that had
previously been happily sat on one of the amps. Again, the crowd
seem well taken with them, and they managed to get quite a pit.
I’m thinking maybe I should pay more attention to bands if I have
to write about them. Just a thought?
I
tried to pay more attention to Whitmore,
as they had made such a big impact on me before, but with the
distraction of a certain aforementioned bass player it was pretty
hard. Whitmore played a blinder of a set, mostly playing songs from
the new album 'Smoke The Roach', which I really should pick up a
copy of. Whitmore get a great reaction from the crowd as usual, and
once again Mixtwitch’s Ronan got up with them to sing
‘Alison’. They have a good variety in their style of songs, with
some more punk tunes, and some with a dash of reggae thrown in for
good measure. All in all, a great set.
4ft
fingers
entered the stage with the national anthem playing, and Dave (drums)
holding a union Jack…interesting? Their songs have a very strong
drum sound in them and they give off a really good vibe. They play a
wicked blend of really fast hook-laden tunes, which gets the crowd
going like crazy. The songs are even better live as they are on
their new album, 'From Hero To Zero', out on Golf
Records, which has got some great reviews, and can really
see these guys making it bigger and bigger in the UK scene and even
breaking into the US.
This
was a really cool gig, we celebrated Ronan’s birthday in style,
and a big thanks to who ever it was let all of Mixwitch, Whitmore,
Dougie and Bov of 4ft Fingers fame, Caz, Jen and me stay on the
floor of their lovely gaff.
