The Spiral Archive gig at the Soundhaus was lots of fun, with about 75 brave punters through the door to see a huge and eclectic bill. Joe Woolley played a great set, Post Teen Neurotic Whatsit had all manner of trouble with their tiny wee drum machine but managed to deliver their set of weird surfin' punk eccentricity, and The Mispelt were simply the nicest, most professional bunch of old punky rockers that it's been my pleasure to encounter in ages. Paul Cox I missed, engaged as I was on a dinner-related mission some few hundred yards east of the venue. Sorry, Paul. My set seemed to go off all right. You couldn't really see the audience from the stage, which was a bit odd, and I'd left my Secret Weapon in the damn dressing room, but otherwise things went pretty much according to plan. My favourite moment was playing the same note for about 6 minutes during "Che".

Spiral Archive are aiming to promote more Soundhaus gigs over the next year. There has been some talk of a show with Slipstream and myself. Watch this space...

Happy New Year, now,
Pat
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