Monday, 29 December 2025

When I Should Have Been Celebrating My Dad's 60th Birthday....

... I was at Fiddlers in Bristol with Mrs. K for a Minotaur Shock gig.

In fairness, at the time (Sunday 2nd June 2002), Mum and Dad were living in Eire, a gruelling 14-hour door-to-door trip each way, there wasn’t an 'official' party on that date and I'd spoken to Dad on the phone to wish him happy birthday earlier in the day.

I remember that it was an enjoyable gig, not least because it was also being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 as part of their Mixing It programme, presented by Robert Sandall and Mark Russell.

I might be misremembering this bit, but I seem to recall that we all spent a lot of time sitting on the floor!

A great line-up: in addition to headlining hometown heroes Minotaur Shock, Foehn aka Debbie Parsons, also from Bristol and previously one-half of Third Eye Foundation, plus Manchester trio Mum & Dad, whose releases on Andy Votel and Damon Gough's Twisted Nerve label had caught my ear. 

So on a technicality, I did spend the night with Mum and Dad, just not mine…!

A lovely surprise to find that Future TuesDay has posted the entire show on YouTube. Enjoy!

 
 

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