Bands: Flaming June, Aidy, Eureka Stockade
Venue: The Haymakers, Cambridge
Date: 27/03/11
Audience: Nice, fairly full
Sets: Flaming June - Rejoice, Under My Skin, Rumplestiltskin, You Do Moody So Well, The Insane Ex-Girlfriend Parade, Nerves Of Steel, The Wizard, Wednesdays And Weekends; Aidy - not sure (some new stuff, and the stuff we normally play); Eureka Stockade - not sure (opened with 'She Got Good', ended with 'All Alone', all album stuff)
Notes: We'd been building up to this one for a while - 5 bands playing in aid of the victims of last month's New Zealand earthquake. A good friend of mine, Clare, is from New Zealand, so it made sense that I put on some kind of gig, which she helped out with brilliantly. I'd had a long weekend of socialising at a friend's theatre show, a recording session with Laura Tapp, a mate's 30th and a then a trip to London before getting back in time to play the gig so I was pretty knackered. To then play with three different bands was pushing it a bit, but we got through it. Flaming June were once again excellent - they consistantly are, they just put everything into it and even when my own energy levels are down it's hard not to get them back up when everyone else is up for it. I then moved from congas to drums to play with Aidy, who put a cheeky new song in the set which I wasn't aware of and as a result didn't really play to the best of my ability, but when we got back to the rehearsed stuff it worked nicely. Fred's House - an awesome new band from Cambridge, then played half an hour which gave me a breather and a chance to say my thank yous to those who turned up, before a sweaty, fast set with Eureka Stockade which technically wasn't my best but I made sure I put everything into it, and we went down pretty well I think. Violet Bones headlined and typically stole the show, as we expect them to. A long night, but we raised over three hundred quid for a very good cause so completely worthit.
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