3/6/2010 Skintight Jaguars @ The Gaff

Subject	Skintight Jaguars @ The Gaff
PostedDate	6/3/2010
	Back to The Gaff for another cheap night out - a fiver on the door for several bands - you can't go far wrong really. However, when I arrive at the venue there's virtually no one there - not even the bands! I head over the road to Big Red thinking at least Skintight Jaguars will be in there. Wrong. They eventually turn up at the venue, and the punters start to trickle in as well. Local heroes Skintight Jaguars are on first. They turn in quite a good set, and amazingly, for the second gig in a row nothing much goes wrong! Bass solo! This band are noticably improving, with steps forward in both the songwriting and stage presence departments over the past year. They are actually getting to play in front of more people at their recent gigs as well, so lets hope things continue to improve. Next up is ex-King Lizard drummer Sky's new band. They are called Tres Calaveras, and that's about all I can tell you about them. One of the reasons I originally started taking pictures at gigs like this was as an aid to my feeble alcohol addled memory - so I could actually remember where I've been and who I've seen in future times, and using the pictures in my blogs to illustrate for all the people who are asking me what gigs I've been to recently. However, even after looking at the pictures of Tres Calaveras - I can't remember anything at all about their music or what they sounded like. I don't think I actually had that much to drink - unlike the singer of the next band... I think there were supposed to be four bands on tonight, but as is often the case one of them has fallen by the wayside.  I'm glad I'm not a promoter.  Anyway, I think tonight's running order leaves something to be desired - Murder Mile should have gone on first. They aren't that terrible or anything, but their singer is totally trashed!  I can't remember the last time I saw somebody this wasted on stage.  Of course, he thinks he's great! Actually, he's so far gone that it's highly entertaining watching him stagger around and forget the words while thinking he looks like either Bruce Willis or James Hetfield. If this band had gone on before the other bands then their frontman would probably have been in a far better state...

PS: This venue has closed...