The Godfathers @ Mean Fiddler 1996

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Wed Feb 14 1996

Mean Fiddler 157 Charing Cross Road, London WC2 0EN

I liked one Godfathers song ¹, and was in London as part of two or three weeks off work driving round in my vw camper ². Also I had in my head that the support band "Changing Man" was going to be Paul Weller doing a secret gig. It was not. The posters called this "The St Valentines Day Massacre".

I did a full circuit of the circle line as an opportunity for a sit down amid a day of comic shopping.

I did 21 gigs in 21 days around this period, so where are the others? Most of them were rubbish I'm sure but I remember seeing Tripping Daisy at least twice, in Southampton and Manchester ³, plus MN8 ⁴, The Wurzels and I think Underworld at this time.

date	my gigs	other gigs possibly of interest ⁵
Wed Jan 31
Thu Feb 1
2	Mike Flowers Pops ⁶
3
4	60ft Dolls ⁷
5	Northern Uproar ⁸
6
7
8	Frank Black ⁶
9
10
11	Number One Cup ⁸
12
13
14	The Godfathers
15
16
17
18
19
20
21		Battery ⁸, Silverchair ⁹
22	Tripping Daisy ¹⁰	Bullyrag ⁸
23		Pele ¹¹, Kula Shaker ¹², Pulp ¹³
24
25	The Bigger The God ⁷	Moloko ⁸
26	Christian Death ⁸	Echobelly ¹⁴
27		David Devant And His Spirit Wife ¹⁵, Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants ⁸

Expanding this table to 14 days either side while I try to figure out my "twenty bands in twenty days" schedule...

Birth, School, Work, Death.
I wasn't really driving round the whole two weeks as I went up to Manchester at some point, surely I went up on the train? I don't actually remember, maybe that was in the camper. London was definitely in the camper, I parked it up in Clapham or somewhere like that and slept in it by the side of the road.
Went to stay with Richy in at university.
One hit wonders MN8 were doing a record store performance so maybe Virgin Megastore or HMV, and if this git and that gig are really part of the same trip then MN8 would likely be from the 13th to the 15th of Feb 1996.
And possibly not.
Portsmouth Pyramids.
University of Surrey Students Union.
Southampton Joiners.
London Astoria.
Manchester Roadhouse.
Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms.
Tunbridge Wells Forum.
Manchester Arena.
Southampton Guildhall.
Kings Cross Water Rats.

I went to this one, more from this year in my gig history for 1996. Part of a list of every gig I went to from 1987 to 2026. A natural step from my Best Gigs Ever blog post. Yeah I know it's a bit geeky, let's let that go though, I'm having fun remembering these things.

Wed Feb 14 1996