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From: Nick King
Date: 13 Nov 2001
Time: 21:47:30
Remote Name: 213.107.42.206
Well, I'll be the first to post, although my memory of track names is not very good!! ;->
Anyway, Saturday night at Aberdeen (Club Lava):
Markus & I turned up at the venue (myself having one too many Tennants beforehand!), and continued drinking at the bar upstairs (damn, whoever invented WKD - Irn Bru & vodka needs to be shot!! ;->) with Andy & Darren before making our way downstairs to the club, whereupon someone asked if I was "the lead singer of 808 State!". The club was packed as Andy & Darren started spining with Future Sound Of London's "Papua New Guinea". I can't remember much of the tunes they played, but they also played "Cubik" & two versions of "Pacific" (crowd went wild!), as well as Derrick May's "Strings Of Life". Continued drinking after the set, left the club, and continued drinking at the hotel (with Andy, Daz, Markus & the promoters)... Left about 5'ish and didn't have any trouble getting to sleep that night!!
Woke up just before chucking out time at my b&b, and went to meet Markus, Andy & Darren, and the promoters at the Frankenstein pub at Aberdeen for breakfast - good pub, but strange trying to eat a breakfast whilst watching Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (blood, guts & gore) whilst feeling extremely hungover!!
Markus & I travelled onto Dundee by bus, and got to the hotel before travelling to the Circus for a soundcheck - Graham had arrived earlier after playing with Homelife at the Royal Festival Hall the night before. Joining the soundcheck were Paddy Steers & Mike (both from Homelife), which was superb.
Met up with JD, Pete2Tone, Neil (TartanArmy), and Danny at the pub just before the gig, and picked up a rather superb t-shirt - superb!!
Anyway, got to the gig at about half 10 - not too many people there (Sunday night, new club?), and the bouncers tended to have an attitude problem towards people dancing... Hmmm... Not a good sign...
Anyway, the State took to the stage after Robert Craig sang through 4 songs that sounded exactly the bloody same (Women Trouble x 4)!!
Tracklisting (not in order, and from memory) included: Quincy, SW1 (aka Invader), In Yer Face, Pacific, Cubik - and many more besides (similar/same set to Brixton, apparently - I didn't make Brixton due to being ill that day)... Top gig, mad dancing, lots of beer/irn-bru, top 808 list members, but a bit of piss-poor nightclub!
More to follow with (hopefully) better setlists!!!
l8rs,
Nick ;-)