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¥ here is the orgy itinerary
since 1998 ¥
¥ 09 Apr 98: Star & Garter ¥
our debut gig, very low key but
very surprising to the few friends who joined us. We
worked.
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¥ 20 Apr 98: Manchester Roadhouse ¥
word already had gotten round. The impact soiled more
faces.
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¥ May 98: recorded "T-Minus"
at Salford Uni ¥
with the generous help of staff in the dept of popular
music, free studio-time was offered by Sean Boothe, who
was interested in trying to capture our sonic essence.
The 24-track analogue master was finalised and remastered
at BMC studios with the kind help of Alan Lowles and Gareth Bibby
(RSI label artist),
written onto CDs and subsequently
many are hovering around at various Label offices. We may
even sell a few, for revenue, like.
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¥ June 98: sabbatical ¥
Tom went off to Africa. Remainder of band thinking,
writing, out on picnics and generally improvising life /
losing day jobs.
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¥ 21 July 98: Roadhouse ¥
showcase night for unsigned bands. Rocketfeild begin to
enjoy being liked by audience, staff and management
alike. Things are nice and warm. Labels come to watch the
show. Friends are turning into enthusiasts.
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¥ August 98: band automobile stolen ¥
sabbatical II ... enforced recreation: live, offstage.
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¥ 21 Nov 98: Roadhouse (yes, they
really like us there) ¥
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¥ 01 Dec 98: Band On The Wall, Face II
Face promotion night ¥
new face on the rock promotion scene, Linus Liew, decides
to put on rock bands and make a noise about it all.
Result: the evening is a blast, Rocketfeild have one of
the most enjoyable gigs ever, crowd are stunned and Fire
Records are there to see it all.
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¥ 26 Jan 99: Roadhouse, Face II Face
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Linus works it again, this time, taking the Face II Face
machine to the Roadhouse.
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¥ 30 Jan 99: Britons Protection,
Rotations: featuring Arctic Jukebox ¥
members of Rocketfeild step out from the 4 piece rock
unit format and collaborate with operatives from the
Manchester RSI label avant
noise and project exxplorationists - improvising all
manner of live-generated, non-sampled driftcore, thrumb n
scrape, marble n plate and drone minimalism.
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¥ 06 March 99: Night and Day Cafe,
Manchester ¥
Fantastic. Good turn out people. The band very happy to
play to you all. Included first stab at an instrumental
(called Whoosh at this point which is a crap name and
we're going to do something about it). "Vuh
Pish"!!
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¥ 25 March 99: Rockworld, Manchester
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Linus books us again shocker. A bit wierd what with a
shite sound and a set cut short by about 5 songs. Oh, and
some interesting tuning problems. However, despite this
it was a blinder (in it's own way) with a storching
version of Kinevil to end.
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¥ April 99: now we've got a van
(glamour etc) ¥
Rocketfield shall henceforth
venture out in an X ambulance. Hooray.
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¥ 09 May 99: Boardwalk, Sheffield ¥
Finally we leave town. Panic, 5
bands to get in by 10:30, no sound check, getting a
little worried but hey, it all went swimmingly. Half hour
set, good sound, great venue, some people and we'll go
back. We played well too. Cheers to Jamer for the after
gig entertainment to enrich the twisty return trip.
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¥ 08 June 99: The Garage, London ¥
Ah, yes. A particularly tragic
moment in Rocketfield's scrap book. We went complete with
flashy new sound engineer coming to do his first gig with
us and 3 extra bods tagging along in the van. Which blew
up. Near Northampton. Misery. From Watford gap did we try
to hitch with 8 people, 80 geetars 18 drums and some
other things. It didn't work and we missed the gig. Shit.
It seemed bad at the time but now we can look back and
laugh. Except when I look out of my front door and see a
knackered van being usless. It looks like a valve seat
went. It will run again, it will run again....
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¥ 17th June 99: Rockworld, Manchester
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Fantastic, totally what a
Rocketfield gig should feel like. Bang bang bang. Kate
even thinks she saw people siging along. New sound system
and our first actual gig with John Delf so we sounded
brilliant. Yippee.
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¥ 02 July 99: Dublin Castle, London ¥
Finally we made it to London. Not
bad, dodgy sound, realised that venues in the capital are
no shinyer than anywhere else. Last gig before we signed
our first record deal with Doo-Little records.
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¥ 16th January 2000, Star&Garter
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Tom's birthday. Slightly drunken
performance. Great party.
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¥ 29th January 2000, Roadhouse Get A
Grip ¥
I think this gig was with Kent but
to be honest I'm going back along way coz this site
hasn't been updated for, ooo, years!
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¥ 17th February 2000, Gloucester Guild
Hall ¥
Big hall, loads of kids, went very
well. Possibly the least intimate gig so far but somehow
enjoyable. First gig with between song music to cover up
our rediculous tuning schedule. 2001 soundtrack injected
by Mr Delf.
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¥ 22nd February 2000, Stoke The Bear
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Very low key pub gig with the
audiance touch our noses. Intimate is, I believe, the
word.
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¥ 25th February 2000, The Fenton, Leeds ¥
Great. Bloody hell, I've got to
update this more often.
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¥ April 4th 2000, Star&Garter ¥
No idea. Could have been the one
with Sweep The Leg Johnny. They were bloody amazing!
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¥ April 21st 2000, McNallys,
Manchester ¥
LOUD. We played with Engrave from
Germany and Red Lights Flash and Cameron from Austria. If
anyone knows what happened to Cameron please tell me.
They were storchin'!
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¥ May 22nd 2000, Joseph's Well, Leeds
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Nice place. But everybody stood at
the back. They must have been waiting for Burning
Airlines to come on.
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¥ The rest of the summer ¥
Spent completing the recording of
the album and going to weddings!!
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¥ November 10th 2000, The Castle,
Oldham ¥
Gig with new friends Oceansize.
Long Island Heavy Ion Collider and Rock&Roll Lies get
an airing.
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¥ November 20th 2000, The Red House,
Manchester ¥
Playing in our smelly old rehersal
studio with Summer Book Club and Green Acre.
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¥ November 21st 2000, Hollywoods,
Grimsby ¥
Again with the Book Club and the
Acre. Kids out in force!
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¥ November 25th 2000, The Peel,
Kingston ¥
This was a good one. Decent PA,
good crowd, band on top form. With Inside Right,
Copperpot Journals, Douglas and Otherwise.
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¥ November 26th 2000, Victoria Inn,
Derby ¥
Again with Inside Right and also
Vanilla Pod.
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¥ January 29th 2001, Roadhouse
Manchester ¥
Suprised to find we were playing
with label mate Atomic 16 and we didn't even know. Good
show.
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¥ January 31st 2001, The Full Moon,
Stoke ¥
Playing with the Mighty and (as it
turned out) short lived Future Adventures. Loads of
bearly controlable feedback. Wowh, easy boy!!
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¥ February 23rd 2001, Roadhouse,
Manchester ¥
Chairsmissing gig with Oceansize
and Monomania. Bloody packed it was. Best Roadhouse gig
we've done. More full halls please!!
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¥ March 22nd 2001, TheRed House,
Manchester ¥
Another Smelly basement show with
no bar. Must find new venue hardcore kids!!
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¥ April 17th 2001, Star&Garter,
Manchester ¥
Supporting Bluetip and Pale. Good
show though Bluetip had a torrid time. I think they had 3
string breakages and an exploding bass amp!
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¥ Note ¥
Summer 2001, Too much time being
spent trying to fix up our stupid busted up old van!!
Porl's learnt to weld again and I've been covered in
grease for days!! Praying for an MOT!! Need tour
support!!
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¥ April 23rd 2001 ¥
Imagine The World Turning released.
Our first proper record!
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¥ May 31st 2001 ¥
Gig at Retro Bar supporting Burning Airlines from the
States. A modest affair with no stage and practically no
PA but non the less an enjoyable evening.
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¥ July 2nd 2001 ¥
MINITINFINITY released. London gig
at the Bull&Gate. Enjoyable show with lots of London
chums. The venue paid us £10 !!! (these people need
shooting)
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¥ July 4th 2001 ¥
Miserable gig at the Night&Day.
Shitty soundman, feedback everywhere moan complain, oh
forget it.
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¥ July 19th 2001 ¥
Enjoyable gig at the Night&Day.
John Delf on the soundboard of destiny!
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¥ July 27th 2001 ¥
Particularly pointless gig in
Derby. Drove for 2 hours, played 3 songs, drove back.
Audience of about 10. These are the trials a band must
face. Check this out for a set: Divide, Kinevil,
Beautiful Day. Contrasty!!
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