| 29th December '97 St Francis Bay – Arranged a show with “little sister” which was a huge success, taking in R26 000 at the venue. Graaff Reinett Feb '98 – Round Table have an annual Dam Day of which the band was one of the main features, even though there were torrents of rain, the tent was packed and they were invited back next year ’99. East London – The Goods Shed was hired and they did a concert with “amersham”. It worked well and the band got an excellent response from the audience. Knysna – The band is frequently invited to play at the tin roof, where a good following has been built up. George – A Cape Town Promotions company called “Africadabra” have frequently booked the band to perform at corporate functions for Standard bank and others at Fancourt. Durban – The band toured Durban for 1 week and was very well received. Port Alfred/Bathurst – Hyundai requested the band to play at their family day in Bathurst. Hyundai sponsored the band a van for 3 months. The band now owns the van. Jeffreys Bay – They have performed at various venues over the last while, the most recent being the J-Bay Shell festival. Tin Roof Blues 22-23 may - Good turnout, the band rocked. Guest spot, on-the-go-show (27-28) - Awesome sound and lighting, we had a ball and definitely kicked butt! RED NOSE DAY Concert at the Wesbourne Oval (29th 7:00) - Played with "Pulse" (on the go winners 98) and Rap band "sixth man". 600 tickets sold. Redhouse Music Festival - Laid back festival at Redhouse River (on the bank), Fair crowd, played well in a short set.(Sat 30 May - 12h00) Sat 6 June - Bluewater Bay Festival 12h00 - Cold and rainy however band was tight and kudu-burgers were tasty! June - East London Tour 23-29 (Buccaneers, Carnegie hall (Gonubi!!) & various schools and other venues in town) Alexander Road High School - last day concert (thursday) then back to EL. July - (Standard Bank National Arts Festival)MARTELL ROCK FESTIVAL - 3 July with Lithium/Plum/Amersham 6 July with Amersham/The Led/Wonderboom. July - "The Big Time" St Francis Bay - unplugged gig. 5th August - TAPAS Pine Lodge one off during INTERVARSITY 27th Aug Barneys (Rondebosch) 4,5 September - Cape Town tour and open for Mango Groove 31 August - MNET appearance - Youth program. September 23 - 27 - Durban tour for Youth Seminar. October 98 - Tour to Jbg, Pretoria, played The Camel Tavern, Hoods, Toads and Roxy's. Interview in JBG for Live @ five on MNET and interviewed and live performance on KTV Mnet with the new Demo. November 14 '98 - Performed at Roxy's with Boo! Using the new look and the extended 2000 intro and theatrics - definitely lifted the show a notch. November 19th - Fancourt, George ... well lets just say the gig payed well and we ignored the request for "boesmanland"! However , it's always fun to play fancourt!! 27, 28 November East London - Buccaneers - Full to Capacity 29th November - East london .. Greenfields - Full and RAGING 4 December - Tapas al Sol - Full to capacity again, this is a rocking gig. 11 Dec - Tapas al Sol, packed as usual December 16th - Evening Tin Roof Knysna, packed to the brim, in season we could not go wrong! December 17th - Evening Tin Roof Knysna, the night before the Hootie & the blowfish concert in Plett - packed again. December 19th - Opening of the season, Port Elizabeth, well.... hmm, the wind blew the left hand stack off the stage and the fireworks were blown into the sea!!! Darren got sick and we were cold and miserable, some gigs are just hard work! 19th and 20th Feb - Tin Roof Blues (Knysna) - ja ja, same old same old, full both nights 26 Feb - Walmer Town Hall with "Benjamin Gate" - Rocking, got to do it again. March 17 - 21 Bloemfontein Tour, Deja voux (The Underground) - quiet! March - Graaff Reinette, Dam day again! Nearly blown away by the wind, had to move party inside and then played till the wee ours! Splash Festival - Rocking in front of 20 000 people, always a pleasure!! April - Micheal Learns to rock gig cancelled (dissapointed!!!) EMI wanted thier own kind. Harbour festival in PE, 2 sets to a "mill about" crowd - paying our dues?? April - Tin Roof again, ho humm... Wedding in Plettenburg Bay "Slow hand" (our half Clapton / half Eminent Child show) was a HUGE success The shows had rave reviews and were sold out completely thus we have extended the run, 1st, 2nd (election day) and 3rd of june at the centerstage, PE) and then at the Grahamstown festival for the 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 of July. We leave for Londonium (still prefer the old italian name!) on the 8th July, bit of a rush but that's rock and roll for you!! I think the secret to the Clapton/Eminent Child thing is that the audience are drawn initially to the Clapton and the blues (which we LOVE to play) and then they (the then captive audience) are shown the original material and (because it IS good and tight because we rehearse it more - and they are watching intently) they are blown away. No better situation for an original band to be in!! 11 - 12 June - We played at Buccaneers in East London from 21h00 Tin Roof once again..... Played at "The Back Door" in George September - Coming Up - We play in Joburg at
the Rhema Church Hall, and at Soul Survivor in The millenium gig was awesome. Free
food, great fireworks display, and beautiful weather.
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