19th July 07 - Stripped 2nd Birthday At Wellington Inn (1/2) By Perry Farrell Photographs By Michelle Dee

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I made notes at the gig, then got a bit too drunk and dropped them into the bar room spittoon at The Queens Hotel just before last orders. Thankfully, I can still remember enough to provide this brief but highly accurate and concise review of proceedings. By the way - for those of you who can't be arsed to stray off Prinny Ave these days - The Wellington Inn is a great little boozer, with loads of proper beer and a fantastic walk-in cooler, stacked high with lovely bottles of all shapes, sizes and colours, from all nine corners of the world.

In fact, you can actually sit and stare at that cooler for hours on end. Especially if you're a lonesome drinker with no mates. Or even if you are with mates but you're all very dull, with little of interest to impart. Not that I have actually sat and stared at that cooler for hours on end myself, of course.

I'm not speaking for me here, obviously; I have an enormous circle of friends (too large, actually - I'm thinking of selling some. Cilla, maybe I could advertise them on thisisUll.com?) and we are all highly entertaining and popular people, so I'm clearly speaking on the behalf of other folk here. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to be dull and uninteresting and/or uninterested. I'm not dull. I am interesting and interested - I just want to make this clear. Hopefully now you'll understand that I'm obviously not speaking for myself here, just other less fortunate and less gregarious people. I must reiterate that.

It's certainly not me. Nope, not me. I'm happy and popular, I am; no question about that. Anyway, that walk-in cooler; you really should check it out. It'd be worth the admission money alone, if there was any admission money.

So, to the performers. First up were Scarborough lads, The Producers. Normally a four-piece, they presented a simple acoustic set that featured Olly Barron on cello and Matt Dunn on guitar and vocals, mostly sung in a falsetto style. Now, in the wrong hands - say, The Bee Gees - this can be a highly irritating experience (sorry all you fans of the toothy, hirsute Aussies, but the only way I could ever tell the difference between them and Pinky and Perky was by counting. God knows how I'll manage now that the BGs have been reduced to two...).

Thankfully, Matt avoided this fate and delivered the lyrics beautifully and with real passion. The only negative to their set was the poor mix on the PA, which was bottom-heavy (a bit like me, actually) and just didn't allow enough detail through on either Matt's vocals or the more intricate passages of his guitar work.

Next up was Fudgey. "It's Fudgey" I said, knowingly, to one of my many drinking colleagues. "Naaahh - she sounds alright to me" replied one of them (I can't remember exactly which one, as there were so many of my interesting and gregarious friends present). To be honest, none of my many interesting and gregarious friends actually did say that, but I couldn't resist putting it in. It's quite conceivable that one of them might have said it at some point though, seeing as how they're all such gregarious, quick-witted and articulate people. And popular. Gregarious, too; did I mention that?

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