12/9/17

One more before the year is up. it’s also late and hell... life’s been getting dramatic and all over me. 

Hickoids were playing Riley’s with the Beaumont’s and Spider Mike.  It was cold as hell out in the country. 

I made he drive in my noisy ass truck, but I made it down there easy. The access road was lined with cars at the exit. Families all ready to go to a three acre chunk of land with Christmas lights on it. They might have had a Santa in there, I’m betting it wasn’t worth it for anyone involved in any capacity.  

Mike stated after I loaded in. His new act had a lot of slide in it.  All is good. 

Our set was decent, the stage is really too small for the size amps we use. And the jumping around, Tom and I kept running into each other. And then there is Smitty... Fucker is all over the place. 

Beaumont’s were killing it but I still took off right after “Not As Cool As Jesus” aka the greatest song in the world!!! Those guys, I fucking love them. 

Next year is comin soon!!

11/30/17

We Swished it in San Antonio the other night. Played at an art opening at a place called The Brick. It's in a formerly industrial part of town right across the street from the Pioneer Flower company. And it's all been gentrified.


The gallery was cool as hell. It was a unicorn themed show and a bunch of people were showing and their was a costume contest so loads of folks dressed up as unicorns. Pretty cool stuff.


I was sick as hell. Coming down from a nasty cold/flu hybrid that had been (and still is) kicking my ass. At the end of the set both Lance and Tom asked me how I thought we did, "I have no clue"... Poor sick boy. They both said we had a good show. I guess I believe them.



Pocket Fishermen went on after us. I loaded out and went home to bed.

10/13/17

Week two, day one of ACL. Or my second and final sow of the festival. ABGBs with Beaumont’s, Winsome Losers and Rennie and the Banned Names.

I missed out on Rennie's first show ever... She had Lance and Cody (and another dude) playing with her. It sounded like they had a good first of many.

Winsome went up, hmm most of that band is familiar. Sometimes Austin to San Antonio. Is one big pool of talent that puts it's players in interesting and new ways. Great set. 

We went up and kinda killed it. Since Frontier Dan wasn’t here we were regular Hickoids. After last weeks three shows with him it was fun just being us. And the crowd gave everything we gave them back with a multiplier.

And then the Beaumont’s...  “Not As Cool As Jesus” is still the greatest song in the world. I could hear it for a week straight and not be tired of it.

10/6/17

First official night of ACL, we were at the White Horse. There were a bunch of bands on the bill so the sets were short but the rock was plenty.


Too much for recaps and I was tired as hell so I remember about a third of what happened... But we had PDB, Fishermen, Pat Todd, Roger Wallace, the Sons and Hickoids all jammed in to a Friday. The place went from mildly attended to fairly packed even though the "real" ACL crowds didn't seem to be out.


We were on after the Fishermen and had Dan up for four tunes. We did all the songs we know with him and the crowd ate him up. Smitty came out at the top of the set as an ear of corn and eventually he stripped that off... He had buckskin pants on underneath. Hickoids, keepin up the class!


I missed Saturdays show and we are back at ABGB, Friday the 13th for week two!

10/5/17

Last night had us in San Marcos at the Buzzmill.


When I showed up Pat and the Outsiders were setting up, I'd already missed Harvey... Damn.


Pat's set was great, almost all of the tunes were different than the night before. Stylistically similar but different "numbers". Mmmmm, Professionals!


Our set was short but rockin. They have a noise cutoff at 11 and we went on a little after 10. A decent amount of time, but with all of the bullshitting we do... During the first song I pulled a Davy Jones by stepping on my cords and unplugging my tuner... twice... Sigh.



We did Glorious Heroin and Half Breed/Eighteen with Frontier Dan. What a charming son of a bitch. We ended our set with Donkey Lady at lightning speed. It was more than a little unhinged.

10/4/17

It's (almost) Austin Corn Lovers Fiesta time! The true ACL weekend one officially starts Friday, but we have a couple of preview shows first.


Hickoids played at Jandro's in San Antonio last night. I'd never been there, but it's another new/cool place on St Mary's. The ever expanding street of rock.


We were last after two bands from Sweden and our buddies Pat Todd and the Rank Outsiders!!! Bring it!



I was running a little late so I thought I'd only catch one of the Swede collectives, but the night was running late... I showed up when Shady and the Vamp were two songs in. Rocking ass set. As were the Martin Savage Gang. Both bands had the core "Vamp" and then (I'm assuming) Martin Savage added in on guitar and vocals. Two sets of high energy rock and roll. A great way to start the night.


Pat was Pat. Always engaging while the Outsiders sling that no bullshit rock and roll. This was the first of three in a row we are doing with them. I'm lucky as hell sometimes. We get all of this out-of-town love in for ACL.



Speaking of, Frontier Dan is in to do his part. He is hopping up for a few songs each night with us. It's always a treat to play with that dude. The comedy runs high when Dan is around. AND he brought his Theremin!! I love it...


We finished up around the time I thought I'd be back home and in bed... No big deal, sleep will come later.

9/28/17

We did some Swishbuckling the other day. Hurricane Harvey dumped down on the Texas coast and some greasy rock and rollers had a benefit for some of the people it crapped on.


Thursday at the Paper Tiger down in San Antonio, we were in the middle slot. The crowd was ok, but it looked nonexistent in that space... Big joint, twenty people, it happens. No big deal, we gave it good.


I really got to open up the amp in that space. Lots of opportunities to let the feedback build between the guitar, amp and PA. Magical and one of the coolest thing you can do playing guitar with minimal effort!!


The Sons were last and the killed it (as usual).



You know, I think we got some Corn on the way!!

9/3/17

Late...


It was Lawrence's tribute at the Hole and there were a ton of folks there to celebrate his life. It was the type of night you'd expect to bump in to him... yeah.


Originally I wasn't on the bill at all, I was just gonna go see the Fishermen but Bigfoot got added on at the last minute so I got to rock for the Lar Lar one last time.


We'd practiced the day before. We were joking around about how we had twenty minutes so we only needed to practice six or seven tunes to fill the space. Got seven down and went home. At the show we were told we had a thirty minute set... rock in the big city.


I stuck around for most of the lovefest. It was a good night, but someone was definitely missing.

7/29/17

Late as hell...


It was the Hickoids at AGBG with Chicken Snake. They drove over from New Orleans to do a little rock and roll with us. I walked up after parking and Pauline was sitting outside talking with Smitty. She said "Don't you play in South Filthy?" My response was "Yes, Who are you? and I love you!"


New best friend. Seriously. I was a little out of it before I got there but not after we met!


They went up and killed it. The best standing two-drum, drummer I've ever seen. She actually made it groove. Not an easy task with so little to work with. And everything else made me happy as hell. We got to get back to NO for some shows with them.


We went up and it was the usual Hickoid stupidity. Loud and dumb with beer spilled all over the floor. At the end of the night Johnnie Hell got up and played drums with Lance sliding over to play the floor tom. Possibly the best musical Hickoid moment ever. My grin went on so long I forgot to type this up...

RIP Lawrence Heads

We lost a good one the other day. Lawrence Heads died from some heart related complications after decades of being one of the biggest live music fans in Austin.

During the original run of the Hole in the Wall he would bounce between the Hole  and the Showdown (now the Local) drinking/music circuit and that's where I met him. It was after one of my early solo shows he walked up and started asking me about my act. Direct and serious questions that were incredibly well thought out, from a guy who was obviously soaring on a head full of something. We were pals almost immediately.

Over the next few years he'd seen me play several hundred times. No joke. If I was at the Hole doing anything, Lawrence was there. The man was gold.

The Hole closed then reopened a couple of years later, Lawrence was at my first show. I was thrilled he was out, even though I'd kinda expected it. After the set he came up to me and I jokingly said "Oh man, Good to see you, I didn't think you liked my shit anymore". He looked me dead in the eye and said "Fool, I love you."

I loved him too.

7/14/17

Hickoids went to Houston for the Poor Dumb Bastards anniversary show at Fitzgerald's. You seen those words before... this show has happened more than once.



But not really. In the past it's been a big blowout with a bunch of bands and the Bastards had a lot of special stuff going on. But this year it was on the small stage downstairs and there were only three bands and we were the Headliners. Keeping it small made it really cool.


I drove solo and got there twenty minutes before PDB went on. They had a rocking set, no real surprise there. Then we went up.


I'd only had one rehearsal with the boys since they got back from Alaska. It was a little shaky, I was a little nervous. No need. We killed it.


At the end of the set during "Truck" Smitty started in on his rap while we held down the groove. We went to some pretty sweet musical places we've never even seen before that night. It felt SO good!!


The drive home was a quick as it could be, I was in bed by 5AM and at work by 10 the "next" day. So whipped when I got off I slept for 14 hours!!


Worth it.

6/10/17

The sorta-annual Howlin' Wolf show at the Continental was a couple of weeks ago. Guess what? Bigfoot Chester was on the bill! shocker...

We were headlining or dead last, however you wanna see it. It was also the motorcycle rally weekend. Loads of motorcycles buzzing all over town. Generally it means no normal Austinites will come out to a club. Only musicians... We don't get a pass.

I was dreading everything (other than getting to play) about this night. But when I got to South Congress there were barely any cars on the road.  Parking was easy and suddenly, I was feeling great about everything!

There was a decent crowd when we went up, it was thinner than earlier but that's what you get at 1AM. Our set was OK. Almost everything was too fast. We were solidly in non-groove killing territory. Sad. 

Ted Roddy got up and did "You'll Be Mine" and it was amazing. We really killed that one. The next tune was "I Didn't Know" and it was a sloppy ass mess. Sorry Ted. 

We finished up, got paid and headed home. I had a 7AM flight out in the morning I was in bed at 2:30 and up three hours later. Beat to hell the next day, but... you know...

6/1/17

Bantam"s first show!!

We were at the Hard Luck, playing outside. It was looking like it was gonna get rained out the whole week before. All of us wanted to get up and play, felt like it had been forever since we did it last. Fortunately the weather was kind so we got to make some noise. 

Our set was pretty good. Lots of miscues, missed notes and plain old fuckups but the feeling was there. That's all that matters with a first show back. Did it feel right?

We added a new tune called "Good Riddance". Two cords and seven words. Simplest song I've ever written. Also the quickest. I played both the chords and the words came out. Not a lot of thinking for that one. Sometimes you got to get out of inspirations way

5/29/17

Last day of the tour and our dear Beaumonts had left us for their own beds and happiness. We went to Bob's. In Bend.

There was actually a good crowd for our set. We played for almost two hours, with lots of time for bullshitting... I didn't have to move a bass rig because Dorothy from the Guadalupe Pirates let me use hers! She was/is too kind to this lazy idiot... 

As usual Bob got up for a couple. That dude is funny as hell. He has this continually running stream of bullshit that would either drive you crazy or make you crack up. I am firmly in the latter group. That patter kills me.

Eventually we packed up the freak, one last time and headed back to Austin. We were all pretty wrecked, but you know... Music!

5/28/17

Gringopalooza, number four in Dallas Texas at the Three Links. Me Thinks, Beaumonts, Loco Gringoes and Hickoids. We've done this one a number of times even if it wasn't called gringopalooza. Once again it was pretty amazing.  

No reason to get in to any real detail on this lovefest. The highlight of the evening was when our buddy Hushpuppy decided to take off his shirt and lay down on the stage when we were playing. Then Smitty started teabaging him. It was amazing. Then it happened again and again again and... 

He almost got booted for knocking the monitors around. That happened a couple of times. Eventually one of the club guys started waving his shirt in front of him like a bull. It distracted him enough to get him outside. 

Yeah. Facebook is loaded with the pictures. 

Bend tomorrow. 

5/27/17

Third night and things were picking up. We were at White Water Tavern in Little Rock with Frontier Dan and his Frontier Circus. 

By showtime there was a decent crowd. They were very attentive and very polite. Lots of golf style claps in between songs. Not a lot of fire. 

The Circus had a great set. Three guitars bass and drums, the rock and roll big band. He gave us all the hits we wanted   

We went next and we played great. We were really knocking the hell out of our set but when we ended a tune... golf clap. Very polite.  Zzzz. 

I hung out back for the first part of the Beaumonts set. Then they started "the song" and I stayed inside for the rest of their set. What else can I say... I love their brand of bullshit. I'd eat it daily, spread on toast if they sold it that way.  

Dallas tomorrow. 

5/26/17

Nashville had us playing at the Stillwater Supper Club. Don't let the name fool you it's a total craphole with a food counter in the back. We did not suddenly get classy. You should have seen the bedbug shelter we stayed in after the show....

We went first. The band side was pretty packed for our set and the crowd was very responsive. So we gave it to them good. Out buddy Frontier Dan came over from Little Rock and got up with us for a couple. He has this manic and unhinged style to his playing and it really fits nicely in top of our nonsense.    

Beaumonts had another good one. That song... it's everywhere in the freak van. All of us are either humming it, singing it or making up new lyrics for it.  That's a real country music hit people. 

Little Rock tomorrow. 

5/25/17

Day one of a little tour with Hickoids and Beaumonts. We played Shreveport at place called Bushnookies. Decent joint but they lost their liquor license, no booze no beer and as you could expect... no real  customers. I feel bad for these folks, it's a pretty cool joint and they are taking it on the chin. They also got some bullet holes in the windows...

I spent the whole Beaumonts set out on the porch. They tore it up. That "Not As Cool As Jesus" tune will not leave my head. (Steal it Rice...steal it...). 

Our set was ok. The lack of crowd made it hard to get going, but we still had fun. 

Nashville tomorrow. 

5/6/17

More than a week late... No surprise there.


Hickoids at the Buzz Mil in San Marcos with the Beaumonts! We went on early, 8:30, most Hickiod fans are just getting up at that time, but a few of them made it out to the club for us.


Our set was pretty good. Tiny stage so Tom and I were on top of each other. It was one of those nights where you had to plan your move to the microphone and you would still end up knocking the crap out of the other guy...



Beaumonts were next/last. Lance and I ate pancakes and eggs while they played... I drank a little whiskey and the Beaumonts were killing it. New (to me) tune "Cooler than Jesus" had me crying in my breakfast. I snuck out when they had about twenty minutes left. We are doing a little tour with them at the end of the month I'll get more Beaumontin' than I can use then!

Bantam

Change happens. Meteors land, volcanoes blow, love moves on and bands change their names...
We are no longer Rice Moorehead and his Ladies.
We are called Bantam. Our first show is Thursday June 1st at the Hard Luck Lounge. Come and see us.
We are Bantam, hear us roar!

3/18/17

Double show Saturday!


First up was the Hickoids at '04. The crowd was sparse when I pulled up, but that meant a parking space up front!! I was told there was a house bass rig so I didn't have to bring much for the early set.



Western Star was about to go on. New bass player and a kick ass set! These dudes can really bring it. In every way except one... the bass rig was a tiny combo amp. I could have brought mine (and they could have used it to rule further.) I'd loaded then unloaded it at home already. Oh well.


Our set was pretty great. The crowd started packing in near the end of Western Star's set and by the time we went on there were a good bunch of folks looking at us. Our set was a wild one. It always works that way, the smaller/more dive a place is the more we turn up the stupid. At some point Smitty, Tom and I were in some kind of Human Centipede configuration with our instruments going off in all directions. I'm not sure what happened or how we got there but I'm looking forward to the next show!



Right before we did our last song The Lar Lar walked up to me and said "Chuck Berry just died." It knocked the fucking wind out of me. Did I mention it was my birthday?... Fuck me... I was down down.


We played Donkey Lady and went on to ABGB for The Swishbucklers.



I pulled up and they were blasting the Chuck. It set my funk bar a little lower. News like that before a show (or during) will set me off...


But then I had a little coffee and started talking with the openers and the rest of the 'bucklers and I felt better. We were joking about playing "My Ding-a-ling" as a tribute. Kind of a perfect tune for a gay pirate band to cover.


We went on after The Ian Quiet Band from Shreveport LA. Holy crap! What a bunch of kick ass weirdos!! Two bass players!!! Drums and Ian on vocals/theremin. Some crazy good, angular punk rock with some surprisingly funky moments added in for flavor. Ian licked the floor at some point. Fuck yeah! They really brought me out of my funk.


We went up and had fun. Our set was short but pretty rocking.



After I hung around for the regular greatness of Pocket Fishermen and Pong. Then The Zeros who put on a seriously rocking show.

Not a bad end to the week.

3/17/17

Bigfoot at the Shangri La last night.

I parked ten blocks away and hoofed it. The walk wasn't bad but looking for a space sucked. I got tired driving around looking so I jumped on the FIRST place I found. Ten blocks away.

The show was put on by these folks from Kansas City called Midcoast Takeover. I don't know why they were in town or putting this on but they were kind and competent as hell so I didn't ask any questions. There were two stages going and they had them running like clockwork. Songwriters inside and the loud bands outside. We were outside on the big stage with the LED screen.

When I walked in there was a Hip Hop band from St. Louis called iLLPHONiCS up there killing it. Really high energy stuff and the lead dude was on his shit. I love Hip Hop with a band, it makes good rapper better and it makes a great one amazing and that's what they were, amazing. And we were following...

I got up when they finished and plugged in to the house bass rig, a full TUBE SVT!! The only way to fly... when you don't have to move it. I was loud, gritty, punchy and clear all at the same time. 350 tube watts and 8 X 10" speakers will do that. It will also crush you at the bottom of a stairwell if you move wrong.

Our set was a quick 30 minutes of Bigfoot goodness. We snuck in an Evan Johns tune as a tribute (sadly no time to work one up for James Cotton, every harp player felt that one.) Walter had a pretty sweet harp battle with the guy from Daddy Long Legs to cap things off.

Afterwards I hoofed it back to the truck and went the hell home!


My final SXSW shows are,
Hickoids @ '04 Lounge 5PM
Swishbucklers @ AGBG 8PM

3/14/17

First day of SXSW and the Hickoids were at the White Horse with a bunch of really good bands. Of course I didn't see them all...



I got there around 10 when Jon Langford went on. What a great set, no crap, just sweet sweet music. They did a bunch of Mekons stuff but it wasn't too punky it had more of a Waco Brothers feel. Really nice. Of course knowing half of the band makes a show infinitely more exciting.


We went on at Midnight and we showed that crowd why we are Austin Music Hall Of Fame winners!!!! Of course we won that a few years ago... don't know if it still counts... and we had an amp crap out on us in the middle of the set so there was a big pause in the action.... It was a Hickoids show. When we were playing the crowd was really in to it and we gave them everything we had.


Zeros were last and they kicked it! Well they kicked the first half of the set, I headed home after that...


Next up for me is Bigfoot Chester at Shangri La, Friday 7PM.

2/18/17

Another nice night at the Nomad with Bigfoot Chester. Have I mentioned how much I like this place?!!!


We were second out of three. Jeff and Ethan were first, really great stuff, but Jeff plays saw and there aren't that many options for amplifying a saw with out killing it's dreamy sound. They played quiet and the crowd wasn't... Sad, it was a really cool set.


We went up and were way louder, so that worked. We added a new tune "Rat Fink". Walter and I literally sing "You are a Rat Fink na na na na na na." Ridiculous... It's about the stupidest song ever written and it's fun as hell! We actually had a rehearsal before this show and we worked on that silly-ass tune for a while. I don't think any of us expected to like it as much as we did. It's good when dumb is fun and not a chore.


Pie Hole was last. I'd seen them the week before so I cut out early. Fun night!

1/28/17

I got a voicemail from Mike Nicolai asking if I could play the 20th anniversary show for the Hole in the Wall's "Unplug This" cd. I almost shit myself when I realized I was on a 20 year old compilation. Then I started doing some math, then I was feeling grateful I wasn't already dead. Sometimes you got to face reality no matter how cold or hard it is.



It was a disc from the weekly songwriter show at the Hole in the Wall. Monday nights were songwriter nights and to me it had always been about trying new, partial or almost songs, seeing what worked and what didn't. You know, songwriter stuff.



I did Mondays a few hundred times during the "Unplug This" run and it felt good to be back on the front stage all alone, staring at friends while I shouted. A little surreal standing on the same spot and looking at older versions of the ones who were left. But I was glad they were still there.



There were a dozen folks on the bill and we all got fifteen minutes. I snuck five tunes in for my set. Three new ones, a "classic" and something from Henry James. I go old when I do a cover. I'm really glad I got the call, it was great seeing folks I see all the time and some I hadn't seen in forever.

And apparently I really miss playing solo!

1/26/17

Bigfoot Chester was asked to play a last minute birthday party for our friend Ray from the Crackpipes. We wouldn't say no to that. It was at the Aristocrat, another club thats close to my house that I'd never been to because of sloth.

We were the only band, set up and breakdown couldn't have been easier. And I scored a couple of whiskeys during the evening. We were on a tab, the Dj tab. Not the band or music tab...

Anyway the crowd was decent and we played pretty good for a rehearsal... Onve again no practice before the show. We did a Crakpipes tune, "Record Player Party" for the first time (I think it's for the first time. Trey said we recorded it a few years ago, Bill and I don't remember that.) Ray got up and sang it with us and we kinda pulled it off.

Overall it was a pretty low key night with some good folks coming out for a bit of fun. Just like it should be.

1/7/17

You know what happens when you play three nights in a row? You can't help but slaughter it. Fuck ups be damned! Nothing is getting in the way of the Hickoid, three day freight train. We were even stronger than when we tour because we'd all slept in our own beds every night. I could tour like this forever.


It was a big pile of a lovefest at the Lost Well. It was Tub Rex from the Gringos' birthday and folks from all around made it out. I've never see the Lost Well that packed before. It didn't hurt that it was still cold as hell outside so there wasn't that much "going out side to smoke" going on.



Rio Jordan started it off. Holy shit. I missed them at ACL so glad I chance to make up for that. It seems real traditional at first, but that quickly changed when they started mixing up some pretty serious Jazz in the middle. And they didn't do it like they were showing off, they just whip that shit out whenever they want. Got to see them as much as I can.


Me Thinks made it down for their first show in Austin ever. Hard to believe I saw them for the first time nearly ten years ago and they've NEVER played Austin, crazy. Anyway they kicked ass, hard. So hard it made us step up our game when we went up next.



Gringos did a mini set after us. They were wearing pig masks when they did "Nurture My Pig." It was pretty disturbing. The mouths moved just a little and it looked like some kinda shitty animatronic doll that Disney scrapped in the fifties. Thanks for the nightmares fellas...


Beaumonts and Cunto finished things off. I was loading out and chatting folks up while the Beaumonts were on. I caught a fair amount of the set but I wasn't paying too much attention. I was so whipped after the last three days of working and playing I was gone with an Irish goodbye before Cunto even started.

1/6/17

When I pulled up to the Deanville bar and grill it was 22 degrees outside and the wind was blowing at around 20 miles an hour. There were only a few cars in the lot, pretty obvious we weren't gonna set any attendance records. Most people in Central Texas like the heat. Dry, cracked earth and no rain for a month heat. We stay home when it's this cold out.


We were gonna play from 8-11 but we didn't get going until around 8:45. Almost immediately we drove off of the older couples and we were left with a handful. Some of them were actually proud that they braved the elements to see the Hickoids!


By the time we packed up the temperature was 18, and the wind chill was 12. We hadn't been this cold since Berlin. Earlier we'd played a 20+ minute version of "Stop It" and a 20+ minute version of "Truck/Bronto". There was a little bit of phoning it in, but we hit 'em pretty hard for a bunch of old men, slugging out rock and roll for two hours during the coldest night of the winter.



More tomorrow.

1/5/17

Free week in San Antonio. Lots of clubs with lots of bands and it was all free!!!!
At this point, I don't know if we got paid so it really could be free ignoring the two drinks got and the gas I used...


We were on at 11 at the Paper Tiger. I think we were third of four. That place was cold as hell. The barn doors were closed, but they don't really have any heating in there. Originally it was a garage, no fixing it. I love it in the summer!


A decent amount of people we there when we went on. Our set was pretty good. I kept the coat on for the first few cause I was freezing. I screwed up a bunch. I'm still figuring out that new bass. At times it sounds amazing, then my hand moves position a little and it starts sounding wrong. I'll figure it out in a few shows.


More tomorrow.

12/31/16

A New Years Twofer!

#1) 8:30PM

This was the Hickoids at the Spiderhouse Ballroom. They had all three stages going, each with their own themed decade from the 60's-80's. We were on the 70's stage and we took that to heart. All covers, no crap! Well it was mostly crap... China Grove and Take it Easy were our first two songs... Jesus Fuck what a horrible bunch of shit. I hate those songs even more now that I know how to play them.

Anyway we did eight tunes, got free keg beer and got paid! Not a bad way to start things off. Fingerpistol was after us. I had fun hanging out with Jill and Kim, but I didn't get to see them play because....

#2) 11PM 

Swishbucklers at the Nomad. We were opening for the Pocket Fishermen. THe crow was small but spirited and we gave them all we had! We gay-pirated their faces off!

Fishermen went up after everyone tucked in to cheap champagne and rubbed and slobbered all over anyone they were allowed to hug and slobber all over. Their set was great as usual. They went long and eventually I went home tired (IE lazy).