Burry Man / FOPP

Friday: Run, run as fast as you can, you won't catch me I'm the Burry Man. South Queensferry's finest takes to the streets for the annual gala outing, so that's town's fertility sorted for another year.

Saturday came along and so off to the Capital Models gig at FOPP. Unfortunately the band numbers were depleted due our drummer being unexpectedly too unwell to play, so a three piece, non drumming combo took to the stage. Obviously we'd no time to rehearse as three so we just dug in and got on with it. The promised "minimal" performance concept now being stretched close to it's minimalistic limit. 

As Oasis were in town, about to perform only half a mile away from where we stood, there were a numerous fans circulating and milling around in the shop looking for retail therapy. The beanie brigade were about to be disappointed by our Bowie, Eno, Roxy, Velvets mix but in fairness the shop had been playing Oasis "live" over the set up and sound check so maybe even they had had enough by the time we ploughed into our tunes. 

We missed not having drums, counting in wasn't so easy and some aspects of the songs may have suffered slightly but we got there with a competent performance. The shop was busier than I'd expected and we managed to generate decent applause, a few video moments and a nice vibe amongst the listeners and browsers. The store manager also said "come back and play again anytime". 👍

FOPP green room teddy.