(from Crud Diaries)
Considering that the organisers paid £180 for the PA set up and the amount of equipment they had to hand, for our set anyway it sounded shit. I suppose that having 2 lead guitarists who are constantly having a private battle with each other for supremacy, does confuse your average sound engineer. Not having the chance to soundcheck due to U Thant‘s late arrival didn’t help matters. The 1st band on were called the Mistecs from Blaenau, a schoolboy tupenny Metallica type shite band, everyone has to start somewhere but fucking hell these children should’ve stayed at home. Then Jon Busker insisted on playing his anti-fox hunt song which was enough to drive you to killing foxes! The Mavis Riley Experience mob were an indie uplifting outfit – wonderful, even Matt liked them.

Gumpsh did a Neil Crud special & ceremoniously broke a string by looking at his guitar so the rest of us did Stand By Me while he sorted himself out. Then we got stuck into LSD with the sound all over the place, the same for Mental Asylum, it was so loud we couldn’t hear what we were playing. I Hate TV, Bat Gooch, Twisted Tabloids (which was awful!), We Want You, Burn In Hell, Poo On My Shoe, Video Party, Imagine, 4Q Blues.
And that was it, I rarely stay to watch the main band but I made a 3 song exception for U Thant and it was evident that they had to try harder after our set & what I saw was pretty good. We then took the money & fucked off home. Robin managed to upset Cumi’s Jane by climbing on her car & vomiting ha ha ha!!

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