Hey ho Subsetters!
The lads have finally managed to grab a few moments to reflect on their most memorable moments of the ‘You Will Never Make it Back Home Tour 2010′.
Some of you were there and witnessed these first hand and some of you may already be familiar with the tales.
Either way SUBSET HQ thought you Subsetters might be interested in this candid snap shot of what it’s like to be a member of this particular fuzz rock foursome that spends most of their time on trains, trying to figure out GPS when they’re fortunate enough to get a ride in a car and the dangers of sharing rooms with mad felines.
Here’s a quick list in no particular order:
- Watching Rob going bonkers with the sat-nav with Steve wondering wtf is going on as the TomTom repeatedly orders us to do a u-turn on the motorway
- Rom’s tonsilitis and wisdom tooth crisis before the Dunstable Festival and watching him get on stage shaking stuffed with drugs and tablets
- Doing newly synthesised MDPD in the train with a dude called “The Doc”
- A huge Rainbow in High Wycombe above the Nag’s Head before hitting the stage
- Hearing the news that a guy got stabbed during the “Love Music Hate Racism” festival in Luton after we played – some people really don’t get the idea
- Making it to the Regional Final for the Unsigned Competition. We found out after Steve left so called him up telling him we didnt make it and then screamed our arses off on the phone telling him we actually made it!
- Sleeping with neuropsycho cats in High Wycombe crashing at a fan’s place
- Jay’s trolley finally got smashed to bits and had to be put out of its misery after dragging it up and down railway station stairs during sprints to catch the last train
- Loosing an audience contest against Top Gear on TV while playing in Aylsbury – i.e. 5 dudes were in the venue and preferred watching Clarkson on TV than us live for real
- Playing sooo loud on a hippy stage in a cool but way too small venue in Newport Pagnel and scaring middle aged tourists trying to enjoy their cocktails in peace.
- Broke Rob’s guitar on stage in Camden but carried on playing and resulting in triple huge deafening feedback problems while performing in front of a judge panel
- Cheap Ginsters pasties warmed up at a petrol station managed by a rude Indian dude on the way to St Ives
- Watching Jay selling a yellow lighter to a craving crack head in Bricklane for 43p – bargain!
- Rob getting nasty food poisoning in Bedford after having the worst kebab on the planet but still managed to get on stage and headbang his way through the set
Well, there you have the highs and oddities (that the lads can remember) of SUBSET’s first tour.
They can’t wait to hit the road again soon 
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