April.11th, 94, The Monarch, London.
Support:Zuno Men, 8 Story Window.
J:Poor food intake for Jack Plug tonight. Zuno Men, I thought, were really good. 8th story window were polished, but I didn’t find them too inspirational-moody music.1/2 way through the gig James’s drums started dancing across the stage;James+Glenn tried to fix ‘em while Ali and I did ‘Bolus’ pretty badly. James cut his hand+splattered blood all over the snare and hi-hat. Jack Plug shared a bottle of whiskey w/Frank art towards the end of the set. Then Jack threw up at the front of the stage just before ‘Birthday’. Disgusting. Also this huge gobber was dripping off the ceiling at the end of the gig. The show ended w/James trashing the whole kit, Glenn kicking guitars around all over the place, broken glass all over the place.....etc. Apparently J.P stepped on the Amp head that was being used to keep the drums stable and broke a couple of knobs off it.Ooops! I don’t think the performance was that great but certainly not a gig that’ll be forgotten too fast. The 1st time Theresa saw the band for a while and I don’t think she dug it that much!

April,12th, 94, The Camden Palace, London
line up: DLD
J:Young crowd all snogging in corners. Long haired hipsters banging heads to happy songs misspent youths. Then the music stopped and the men of DLD assumed the position. Jack Plug looked absolutely smashing as he crooned to the packed house. A couple of people stage-dived a few times and I managed to kick in the butt. The room was huge-serious “Stadium Rock” time. The drum riser was really wobbly but they had a bit of wood nailed to the front of it to keep the kit stable. Great rider! 24 large cans of Grolsch plus little pies, Cadbury rolls, cake +lemonade....
F:had a good gig but this was another part of a string breakage phase.
So I lost a string, but managed to change guitars mid-song once again. Garret from Compulsion was there to see us again. Jeremy Rogers had a good time, inspired by being backstage amongst the drunken antics!

April 19th, 94, The Corn Exchange, Cambridge.
Line up: The Wonderstuff, The Gigolo Aunts, and DLD.
J: Limited food intake early on probably resulted in greater than average intoxication later on. “Hello Cleveland” Huge place w/too much gear. We used Gigolo Aunt’s gear. Vocalist was best friends w/Kendall! Theresa gags. F: Awesome gig! Miles Hunt is definitely not a cunt!!! R: But his band still sucks a big one. Last band on Earth I ever expected to play with, but the whole night was a blast. Ali’s one man show backstage will not be forgotten. J: people claimed to hear Jack Plug singing 2 notes at once. Are they winding me up? The crowd really got into the Wonderstuff-jumping around like popcorn. Miles and the guitarist w/goatee were really friendly and normal. We went to their room and nicked lots + lots of beer + food. When we 1st showed up I was feeling really ameteur. We went onstage at 7.15pm to a ½ empty house, but the place had filled out by the time we were done. Ali leaned against the shelf in the Stuffies dressing room and broke it - their tape player fell on the ground but continued cranking out the Sex Pistols. F: an impromptu photo shoot in the dressing room resulted in F. Art swinging off the clothes rail-it broke, then he lands on top of Jack Plug, heavily, who proclaims painfully “I hope we haven’t broken anything” F., Art replies “No the guitars are OK!

April 20th, 94, The Oliver Twist, Colchester.
Line up: DLD and Sulphur.
J: Really friendly promoter. The PA was about the size of Ali’s home stereo. R: Something that didn’t please the snotty Sulphur, but suited us fine. Probably the best turn-out we’ve had outside of London so far + the first time we’d get to play a couple of the songs off ‘Bucket’ F: Sulphur sucked + helped themselves to our rider (cunts) Nick Nack came to his first DLD gig. Had a great laugh on the ride home!

April 21st, 94, Moles Club, Bath.
Support: Bugg.
J:Serious gnarl-factor going on. The club was quite small-low stage. that was cool. Good crowd. Satay, Chilli,Spag, was all good but served a little late. We had a case of Carlsberg that we shared with Bugg. Overall it went pretty well. I started the gig w/a taped up face, to sing “If I Had Only Listened” but it didn’t go to well. Vocals were well out. The rest of the gig went fine though. I played most of it with 5 strings. Bouncing off the back wall was a lot of fun. Before the gig James,Ali+JP went to get food and go busking. While we were eating some dude came up and asked if he could take our photograph. Pretty weird!

April 22nd, 94, Brixton Academy, London.
Line up: The Wonderstuff, The Gigolo Aunts and DL
F:Very surreal event this evening. Massive stage, loads of booze, oh! and by the way much of the evenings entertainment came from AliMac and his drunken antics. J:Glenn lost his tooth in the upper balcony and we were sure it was lost! The bouncer guarding the upper area was missing the *same tooth* as Glenn! It was funny seeing the two of them together!!!

April 23rd, 94, The Garage, London.
line up:Sleeper, DLD, Tripmaster Monkey.
R:HERE, IN MY VAN, I CAN PISS IN A CUP..... J:Tripmaster Monkey were really good. One of my faves that we’ve played with so far. The end of Sleepers set was really good too. The bass player got pissed off or something ½ way through their encore song and he threw the bass across the stage+walked off. I think we got 12 cans of Holsten. Glenn got totally wasted and decided it would be a good idea to go over to Micks,wake him up and give him back his amp. A:My mum&sister came down from the W.Midlands to see DLD for the 1st time. After the performance, which i thought went really well, i commented-‘better and find mum & see if I’ve still got any inheritance’! F:I think I’ll keep my shirt on from now on!

No Date supplied! The White Hart, Kingston.
Line up: Pighorn, Dld, Orange deluxe.
J:By this time Frank Art and myself had managed to break both *both* Rat pedals.... Pighorn kick ass! Visitation from the Zimmer Frames as if apparitions (especially Lisa!) was well impressed when James actually managed to break the underskin of his snare! Our rider included 24 beers,bottle of whiskey and a block of hash. F:very drunken gig, frank art slugging back whiskey as if were lager! Real bad hangover next day whilst recording ‘Punkture’! J:James played drums 4 Pighorn too, and at one point JP and Glenn took to the stage. I don’t think anybody could tell though, ‘cause the fooger was going full blast!

May 22nd, 94, Jones wine bar, Chester.
Support: Smear.
J:it felt great to sing into a Tandy microphone form the 1st time since Jr High. The P.A. was, in all fairness, a little louder than the radio in the Moonbus. R:Still sounded pretty good from where I was sitting. Good+raw and finished with Jack plug trashing my kit for me and finishing it off. Zero crowd but we played for and with ourselves! J:Baz the engineer showed up with Joolz to witness the energy-fest in this small, wooden room. JP made the mistake of wearing only his yellow slicker, which soon became the “Slime Suit”. The food was pretty good; veggie stew stuff. Plus we got a case of Grolsch bottles. 1st T-shirt sale! “We ran out of fuel”-AliMac. We picked up a new Rat pedal that morning and picked everyone up on the way back. Spent *much* too much time in the car over the course of the day. Not bad for our 1st gig in, like, 2 weeks. Smear were pretty damn bad. Their vox dude was struggling not to walk off stage and hang out with his friends, I think. Totally un-into-it. Also I hear there was a story about the trip there but I was asleep and missed it!

May 23rd, 94, The Boat race, Cambridge.
Line up: Compulsion, DLD.
J:She slapped him as hard as she could across his semi-shaven, the firm mountings of her jewelled ring gashing the rough skin. In the silence that followed, one could have detected a distinct wheeze in her panting breaths. Damn, Compulsion have a lot of crap! Nothing compared to the minimal gear of their US tour. It must be said that they’re a fun band to watch. F:Had a good 1st gig w/Compulsion, got on really well with them etc., etc. date?


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