The REOFFENDERS returned to The Hub in Plymouth last night. We played there with Too Hot on the last night of our August tour and it was great to get back there. It's a nice sized stage, really good PA, brilliant sound guys.... what else could you want?
Well playing with The Sex Pistols Experience was a pretty damn fine addition! We'd been looking forward to this for a while, the SPE tour the world as the closest thing you're ever gonna get to seeing the Sex Pistols. They don't just look like the original Sex Pistols, they sound like them too!
We played a blistering 19 songs in an hour, mainly classics but with a bit of Toy Dolls and Elton John chucked in too. The audience went with the silliness and we had them chanting "Britney, Britney" before you knew it. They also enjoyed singing Goldblade's Psycho with us - it's a great moment when you get a new audience to join in with a song that they don't know!
We've been promised a DVD recording of the gig and should have that by next weekend so keep your eye on the website for that.
The SPE were brilliant. It's eerie how much Sid and Johnny look the real deal and how well they have their mannerisms. I particularly enjoyed Sid's banter with the audience although Johnny got a perfect one line put down in which got huge applause.
We'll be keeping in touch with the SPE boys and hopefully support them again next time they're in the South West.
Well playing with The Sex Pistols Experience was a pretty damn fine addition! We'd been looking forward to this for a while, the SPE tour the world as the closest thing you're ever gonna get to seeing the Sex Pistols. They don't just look like the original Sex Pistols, they sound like them too!
We played a blistering 19 songs in an hour, mainly classics but with a bit of Toy Dolls and Elton John chucked in too. The audience went with the silliness and we had them chanting "Britney, Britney" before you knew it. They also enjoyed singing Goldblade's Psycho with us - it's a great moment when you get a new audience to join in with a song that they don't know!
We've been promised a DVD recording of the gig and should have that by next weekend so keep your eye on the website for that.
The SPE were brilliant. It's eerie how much Sid and Johnny look the real deal and how well they have their mannerisms. I particularly enjoyed Sid's banter with the audience although Johnny got a perfect one line put down in which got huge applause.
We'll be keeping in touch with the SPE boys and hopefully support them again next time they're in the South West.
Before long, we had a full on mosh pit infront of us with beer spilling everywhere, bodies slamming together, drinks being knocked off tables and glasses broken. One guy cut his hand on a glass but carried on regardless. He kept being taken behind the bar to get patched up before getting back into the middle of things. 
Punk'd stormed through a great one hour set which included dropouts into Adam and the Ants and Pulp Fiction's Dick Dale. Our other favourite was Too Drunk to Fuck! (You can hear it on their myspace... blatant plug). Awesome guys, awesome! Was Stevie singing from the heart? ;-) If you've looked at Punk'ds myspace/website at all, you'll notice that Stevie Boy has a fixation on blowjobs. Tracy did her best to accommodate mid song although this seemed to make the words fall out of his head! Tee hee! Add into the mix a brummie trying to do his best Devon accent which sounded more Pirates of the Caribbean. It was most entertaining! I had forgotten to mention to them beforehand though that support bands aren't meant to be so damn good - they were a tough act to follow!
We played for an hour and a half before being joined on stage by Punk'd for Teenage Kicks, and then landlord Ian brought us back for request from him.... Jilted John. Unrehearsed songs live! Always an interesting experience.
Surrealist painter and graffiti artist "Smeg" is, of course, best revered for his seminal 2002 work "Where's mypipe raymond?" where a forty-three foot painting of a jar of marmite was hung from Westminster Bridge for five hours until the violent intervention of river police and a man with a dog sent it crashing into the Thames. That work, and his naked performance of "Covent Garden Sucks" in the following June on the Richard and Judy show finally cemented Smeg's position as a major force in the new british art movement.