one summer

“I dont remember these...”

“I think the weeds were Andrew Berrys band, The Happy Mondays were fans.”

“I think Kev Irving and Marshall Jeff had a bit of a scuffle at the bar over someone ripping off ride the rhythm ???? Or maybe my memory isnt what it was !”

“I think it rained allday, or at least while the Mondays were working their magic, I remember some bloke with a stall making homemade quavers !! Shudda got the recipe.”

“I was at the Mondays night, I seem to remember Freaky Dancin starting up and Shaun was nowhere to be seen, he was sat in ' the corner ' and came wandering thru the crowd and jumped onstage and said ' this songs called Macgowens had a car crash ' apparently MacGowen was a friend of the Shaun and Paul Ryder. Great gig with about 50 people there ! This was during Shauns hat wearing phase and he was never seen without a blue fishermans hat, as copied by a certain Stone Rose sometime later.”

“Good band, I think I was gonna join as guitarist at some stage but never got round to it.”

“factorycolm9 do you still listen to dramatis”

“Did Tony come on stage wrapped in silver foil, or was that at the ritz ?”

“I remember the redhouse was run by a bloke called Al, we never had any money to pay so used to do bits of plastering and painting to pay for rehearsal time, the place stunk of damp as did you and your equipment for months after. Al used to sit in his little office cooking veg curry all night, what ever happened to him ???”

“86-88 these kids where right on the money, best white funk band I ever heard...mint”