Hello gang! Well, for those of you that could not make the first Darlo BadMeet you missed a treat. Here followeth the details - starting from the Thursday morning when Rob W and I travelled up to the gig itself. Rob arrived at 09:30am. I hadn't even got up by the time he arrived. After about an hour we were off on the 250 mile journey to the grim north. Thankfully, the motorways were kind to us, and we arrived at Mike H's at 14:30. The rest of the afternoon sped quickly by, and before we knew it, we were in Mike's local 'The Caledonian' waiting for his friend Ian to arrive. Bored by waiting, we had to sink a couple of swifties. Ian arrived at about 19:30. Shortly afterwards we left for Yates' Wine Bar in the centre of town - stopping only briefly for a quick nose-bag in Burger King. We got to Yates' reasonably early as the bar wasn't too packed. We headed for the 'stage' end of the bar and ordered a drink. There was a DJ on, playing punk / ska tracks from the late 70s early 80s. The room rocked to the sounds of Madness, Beat, Specials, Dexy's amongst others - although the DJ didn't have any Ian Dury amongst his 200 CDs! You just can't get the staff! Mike wandered over to the DJ's assistant, and asked him to inform the lead singer of the band that Mike and his gang had arrived. Within a couple of minutes the lackey re-appeared with the first of many freebies! Plastic pork-pie hats and shades all-round! Shortly afterwards the lead singer himself appeared and chatted to us for a good 15 minutes. He had some bad news to impart - Mike couldn't get on stage to help out with lyrics of Drip Fed Fred as the band hadn't finished learnng it! Would Mr. Hearne ever get on stage again? The lead singer then disappeared to ready himself for the evening's performance.... - ______________________________________________________________ Visit the Total Madness Mailing List website for: latest news, madmeet info, list charter, games, and more ... http://members.xoom.com/totalmadmail/ Contact the TMML Moderators at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and in the message body put: unsubscribe total-madness
