The venue was certainly full when we arrived, poor old Kathy was shoved in a corner right by the doors to the function room busy selling sPUTTy merchandise. We went over to talk to her, she told us how the band had spent all day eating which certainly sounds a good thing to me. She asked to mind the merchandise stall momentarily whilst she took care of a couple of things, which I was happy to do. Most people who came over wanted to buy a t shirt like mine. Listen, my t shirts are only cheap iron on transfer home made jobbies OK and I'm not going to produce them for anyone else. Buy the official ones. I spotted a blow up doll sitting in a corner by the window, somehow I just knew it was going to end up as a part of the show.

We waited outside in the bar until the support act had finished, fuck were they loud. Everybody seemed to mass through together and the room soon filled. MrsW, George, Jon, Rach and myself kind of filled the front row it was that small. The band took to the stage to their signature tune, dressed as they were at Doncaster, although Martin has swapped Bruce Lee for Jesus Christ on his t shirt. They played an identical set to the last few shows with the last minute addition of Atari Baby too. Tony certainly didn't know they were playing it until Neal told him and it seemed to throw him for the rest of the set. At one point he started introducing Jayne Mansfield when Neal yelled "no it's the slow one now" to which he replied "what fuckin' slow one?". The ceiling in this venue was so small that Martin couldn't raise his hands above his head. And of course there was the blow up doll too. It first appeared a couple of songs into the set, Martin took great delight in simulating every kind of sex act you can imagine (and a few you can't) with it before tossing it back to the crowd where it stayed for a while. It did eventually re-appear and we spent the best part of a song tossing it backwards and forwards in Martin's direction until finally tj (who I think may have been getting a little pissed off with it) grabbed hold of it and threw it behind him, where it unceremoniously laid for the rest of the show.

The crowd were very enthusiastic if a little vibrant, one guy (I think it may have been Captain Oi) leapt to the stage and I thought he'd actually twatted Tony although it later transpired he was trying to get his wig off. Wouldn't that make a great souvenir. I lost my trousers at one point during the chaos which was kind of fun (must get a pair of braces). I also became rather intimate with the speaker in front of me. Rach lost some skin off her arm but fuck it we all had a great time. Cheers for your concern Zammo we are all OK buddy.

This was another really really enjoyable gig. I can't believe the bad thing's I've read about it since. The band, as always were excellent, the crowd for the most part were cool and seemed to love every minute. Afterwards I joined in a conversation Martin was having about his "porn" film and he said he wouldn't give me a copy as it would end up going to sPUTTy fans all around the world. He also told me that it was my fault that he fucked up Alien Christ, apparently me looking at him waiting for him to make a mistake is enough to put him off. Bless him but I wasn't at the previous gig Martin and I heard you fucked it up there too.

Special hi to 2 new friends, Matt and Sooty (with the very shy girlfriend).

Thanks to Jenny Z for a job well done at the last 3 gigs.

Special thanks to Zammo for providing the much needed water after the set had finished.

AFTERWARDS WITH SHY GIRL

AND THEN WITH JENNY Z