At last, some news from TDHB house!!!

Now it must be something to do with living in the same house, but when any one of us goes down with a bug, the others soon follow. This is exactly what happened two weeks ago, which led to two more gigs being cancelled. One was at The Queen’s Knees in Balham, and the other was at the Newt and Banana in Penge. Apologies are due to anyone who came to see us, but thanks are due to our last minute replacements, a lively local band called “The Last Minute Replacements” (they get a lot of this type of work), and I’m sure they were very entertaining.

However, we were very excited in TDHB house a couple of days ago, a gig was booked!

We arrived at the gig, and were informed by the venue management that we had been double booked with a Combat 18 supporting punk/skin group called Black Death And Other Fantastic Stories. After a combination of complex negotiations, our goodwill and the fact that 400 of their violent looking fans had already arrived, we decided to cut our losses, accept another date when one became available, and leaving “Sticks” Flashman (no relation) and “Fingers” behind to inform our fans of the change of plan, the rest of us made our excuses and left.

nasty nazis

As it turned out, no fans of ours appeared. Also, according to “Sticks” and “Fingers”, it’s harder than you’d think to refuse the offer of a spit-meth and Jack Daniels cocktail when offered by a 10 foot tall, tattooed skinhead monster. After three of them each, their memory of the evening gets a little hazy. All we know for sure is that “Bassman” got a call the following morning to bail them both out of the local nick after they’d been charged with trespassing on a nearby building site.

A crane

They were found in the early hours of the morning, curled up asleep in the control cabin of a massive tower crane by its operator. They were covered in a foul smelling vomit, unable to speak due to the sheer terror of waking up 100 feet above the ground and freezing cold. We all trawled over to the police holding cells, bailed them out, made our apologies and left.

There was some good news in TDHB house this week however, as our broadband connection finally got sorted, (I think that bug got into the computer as well) and the updates should be a bit more regular from now on.