The Flat Tops Supporting Kickback Generation 25-11-2016

It was the first time we've played in this bar, but for myself and Gilley it was our first return to Boldon Colliery after 5 years, last time we played was in the crown just 5 mins away from the flat tops, long story short, it was an awful gig being our second one as a rock band who just started out!

But anyway its in the past and this is now! we all loaded in to this interesting pub on a cold November evening, with the locals drinking and a stage layout I've never seen before, vinyl records all over the walls and big bright stage lights. It seemed to me this bar loves their local music scene!

We hopped on stage ready to take off our set, with a huge Marshall rig behind me cranked up to 11 and gilleys huge bass rig cranked up aswell, we kicked off a loud set going into our usual opening song CID by UK Subs and making it loud! we had a great crowd reaction from our mixed up set of originals and covers. i think we found the best venue to play at too! Then just as the set is going good and we were nearing the end, it just had to happen, the guitar string snapped during the song "Head in the toilet" so without stopping i had to do a quick change of guitars and carry on the song from the chorus, well its what happens when you play hard and fast! (also it was caught on video which i wasn't expecting)

we blasted through the full hour set nice and loud and even got a few encores in on the end.

We finished on Rock away beach and left the stage ready for Kickback generation, it was our first time supporting them too!

Kickback generation took to the stage with their anti-consumerism set kicking off with "Profits Not Enough" a great track to hear live along with their other track "stuff" they even stuck in a short cover of UK Subs emotional black mail!

all in all the night wen't quite well even though it was really cold and my car was frozen up with ice and frost.

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