Well we did our comeback gig at the Purple Turtle, Camden Town on June 4th 2008, almost 10 years to the day since
I played my first band gig with Jeray at the (now empty) Laurel Tree not too far away. Paul Constable, guitarist of
indie band Gnap, was kind enough to point his video camera at us while we were playing, and the sound engineer supplied me
with a (slightly incomplete) multitrack sound recording of the event. From these sources I have produced a 24-minute
DVD of the event, which you can now watch (albeit with much reduced picture quality) in the frame below courtesy
of MySpaceTV. Enjoy!
And ten days after the Monophobia comeback special, the unlikely - and possibly the only - appearance of Spaghelli
and the Dogbytes on stage! Saturday night, 14th June 2008, the Dogbytes headlined at Watford's largest pub venue the
Flag. As shambolic and under-rehearsed as the performance undeniably was, we were graced with remarkable turnout
from an enthusiastic and appreciative audience who had come from all over London and Cambridge to see Steve Pelly's latest
band. Adjectives used to describe the gig include 'different', 'thoughtful', 'entertaining', 'brilliant', but the best
complement was seeing the free beers lining up along the top of my amp and at other strategic points on the stage at the end
of the gig. A very nice crowd.
As I have already mentioned, Watford was the town where I first met Steve Pelly and where I first felt inspired to make
music so it felt like a bit of a homecoming.
Once again Paul Constable was in the crowd with his video camera, although it was playing up a bit which is why he didn't
manage to film the whole gig. However, someone else was also filming bits of the gig on a camera phone, so using these
two sources I have been able to reconstruct about three quarters of the performance, albeit with variable (sometimes very
poor) sound quality. Check it out:
