In 2012 we found our mojo again. Lewis Gordon had joined us on bass and Gregor Philp on guitar had played a huge role in working with me on the arrangements of the songs for The Hipsters – our first album of new material in over a decade. Here we play seven out of the… Read More
Although the early ‘noughties’ were an odd time for us, we kept playing live and found we still had a connection with our audience – twenty years on from that first album. Manchester Apollo is and has always been one of the great rock n roll theatres. Here we finished the night on a song… Read More
In 2001 we had been back together, but not as we were. For a start, Ewen was no longer with us and the work we’d all started to do in the years between ’94 and ’99 had taken us in different directions. Dougie had started a successful TV job and was no longer able to… Read More
To my knowledge this is the only show we ever played in Berlin. We loved playing in Germany but it was often a balancing act to make the show for our local fans and not about rowdy British squaddies. Other than that, it was a very hot night.
One of the reasons I remember less about shows in 1993 is the fact Lorraine and I were touring with a nine-month-old baby coming along for the ride. It was full on, but enjoyable and the show time was often the simplest two hours of the day. You will hear too that we finished with… Read More