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So, as all you regular readers know Saturday was the day of Joey Ultra's big gig. Second ever gig for the band, and the second ever gig for our drummer and singer. Huge! The line-up was dauntingly good. I felt like it was a bit like an episode of Faking It. 3 extremely talented bands, major labels turning up to see 2 of them and Joey Ultra, who've only ever played once before, in a small pub in Reading. It was the biggest gig I've done since 2003 and I was getting pretty nervous before we went on! Great, haven't felt nervous about a gig for ages.

In the end we played ok, we were first on but not until 9:30pm, by which point Sam and I had imbibed rather too many shandies. It's quite hard to say Asahi when you've had a few of them. The two of us made quite a lot of drunken mistakes that apparently no-one in the crowd noticed. The rest of the band did well though. There's a video below so you can judge for yourselves!

Of the other bands, Rebus were brilliant, one of their best gigs for a long time. Their single This City is available for pre-order now. Kicks sounded exactly like they do on CD live. Quite poppy guitar music and I reckon they'll sell a lot of records. OK Tokyo seemed to split opinion, I thought they were good though.

Labels: Joey Ultra, Kicks, OK Tokyo, Rebus, video