Thursday March 10th saw LoGOz back at Trillians in Newcastle to support UK Punk legends 999. Upon the tradesman's entrance to load our gear in we were greeted by 999 six stringer Guy Days who politely asked us if he could borrow some guitar Amp equipment as they had unfortunately had a bit of a last minute technical problem! No worries. Once the boys had finished their soundcheck we jumped onstage and got our groove on for a quick warm up as the venue was starting to fill up nicely. As pre gig drinks were quaffed and we chatted amongst the crowd, before we knew it, it was 8:30pm stage time! Without introduction we ripped straight into LONG TIME DEAD! The sound was loud and tight and it felt good man! The lights above were so powerfully blinding as I was singing it was cancelling out my vision, but that didn't matter, we were
having a blast! We tore through a catchy punchy 35 minute set much to the pleasure of the Newcastle crowd. Again we threw in a cover of PRETTY VACANT and took folk back to their anarchic hey days, with our own modern twist! We finished our set with a frantic warp speed MEXICOLA which went down a storm! It all seemed to go quick but yet again we did ourselves proud and the reception from the busy
Thursday night crowd couldn't have been better!
So onto headliners 999. I hadn't seen these guys in 10 years
since I supported them in my old band JUNKSTER. So this I was looking forward to! As main man Nick Cash said from the stage, they formed the band in 1976 and the press back then said they wouldn't last a year, yet here they are 40 years later! You can't help but admire them for that. Not only in attitude have they got it right but onstage too. Like many things in life, bands like this just get better with age. Helped along by the driving Lurkers rhythm section of Arturo Bassick and Pablo on drums, they were on top form. These lads have played on every punk stage from Dundee to Düsseldorf and know their audience. As they belted out their classics 'Emergency' and 'Homicide' people down the front singing every word back to them it was almost 1978 all over again! The lads also gave LoGOz a few good shout outs from the stage which was a good touch, so cheers for that! I've said it before and I'll said it again "Old Punks never Die"!
To round things off it was another brilliant night for the band and so cool to see lots of familiar faces, old and new, contributing to a great gig for us. Big thanks to everyone who came down.
Cheerz
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