DEAD LANE CROSS OLD NEWS PAGE 4

 

In Devon, on the way back from the Beautiful Days Festival on Monday 23rd August - holiday snap of the Source of Inspiration.....

 

 

 

John Peel played Winning the Past on his BBC Radio 1 programme last Wednesday - thanks again, John!
If anyone would like to buy either of the albums ONLINE, this is now possible, by courtesy of BURBs Rock Shop - links on the Merchandise pages.
THANKS TO THE FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH COACHLOAD and other people who came to the gig under their own steam! The moshpit was great! (see artistic representation below.....)

THE HELL THAT IS THE DEAD LANE CROSS MOSHPIT!!!!!

 

The totally bewildering ending to the gig was down to the following sequence of events:
1. Kevin was told we were to go on at 10.45 and do an hour's set.
2. The DLC team rang up the Venue to check, and after consultation amongst the Venue's organisers, were told we'd go onstage at 10.45 and finish 11.30/11.45.
3. George says that during the soundcheck the soundman mentioned bands playing 40-minute sets, but as we'd been told our set would be 45 - 60 minutes, assumed he was talking about the other 2 bands.
4. At the beginning of Deadly Loving Care, Linden's nice new radio microphone stopped working. He assumed the battery had gone, and with George's help swopped it for Ceri's. George tested the radio mic, it worked again, and he gave it back to Linden.
5. Although it was patently obvious DLC were about to do another song, the stage lights & PA went off and some truly horrible recorded music started up. We couldn't communicate with the pit, or with anyone else, as the PA was off , and we didn't know what was going on.
6. It subsequently transpired that the soundman was of the opinion that we knew we were supposed to be playing a 40-minute set, that he'd given us warnings 10 and 5 minutes before the time was up, over the monitors, and that he thought we overran on purpose. He'd switched the radio mic off deliberately. The fact was, we'd been told differently about the length of the set, we didn't hear either of his warnings (Ceri heard a faint mumbling but assumed it was something about the radio mic) because the monitors hadn't been working properly throughout the set, and WE NEVER OVERRUN ON PURPOSE. We know how to round off a set to everyone's satisfaction, and would have done that, despite ending up with a shorter set, if we'd heard the warnings. And if we'd been able to do the rest of the set, we'd still have finished by 11.30.
7. We weren't able to resolve this lack of communication with the soundman afterwards because he upset Barney by handling his beloved (and valuable) drumkit carelessly, apparently on purpose because he was cross, and then started swearing at us for overrunning.

ROCK ' N ' ROLL, EH...?

MP3 clips from Falling... now in the Music department.

Falling... and the badges are now in the Merchandise section.
As usual, we give you plenty of time to prepare for our next gig, which is on TUESDAY 5TH OCTOBER!!! Sorry, we were only offered it today (Friday 1st Oct.) We do believe in spontaneity.....
The gig is at The White Hart, Saxmundham, which is rapidly becoming a music venue of high repute & popularness in the region. DLC will be supporting a band which is apparently called Death Inside - we suspect they might in fact be This Death Inside from Norfolk.

Unfortunately, Ray the White Hart Saxmundham Man tells us it has to be 18s and over, due to the terms of his music licence. This is, as always, a real bummer. However, Youth Wing of the DLC Crowd, please be reassured that we are indeed in the throes of organising another gig at the Riverside Club - the current delay in announcing details is due to Barney having been suffering from some flu-type thing for the past few days and not being up to finalising the arrangements. All will be revealed soon.....

NEXT GIG! THIS WEDNESDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER!! IN SWANSEA!!!

at THE MONKEY BAR, SWANSEA. DOORS OPEN ABOUT 9 P.M.

WE'RE ONSTAGE SOMETIME 10.30/11 O'CLOCKISH, FOR ABOUT 40 MINUTES.

HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD YET WHO ELSE Is PLAYING - WE ONLY GOT THESE DETAILS TODAY (mONDAY 20th).

NEXT GIG - THIS WEEK!!!
DLC have been asked to play as main support for
METHODS OF PUNISHMENT
at The Priors, Bury St. Edmunds, on Thursday 26th August.
Opening band will hopefully be CAMINO BLACK (tbc), who played a great set for us at the Riverside Club in February.
Details probably the same as usual :
Doors open 8 p.m.
Admission £4

WARNING Will all Dead Lane Cross fans kindly desist from jumping off high buildings and tall objects. It's no good for you, and could lead to wheelchair congestion in the moshpit. Thank you.
No sooner does Ray have the casts taken off his legs than Simon crocks himself up down Pike's.....what's going ON here...?
OK folks, seems like a good time to tell you a bit about what's been going on with us lately, causing urgent last-minute gigs, delays in getting things put on the website etc. (Some of you will have picked up on this by now anyway...).
When we were playing at the Ipswich Music Day on 4th July, this bloke starts talking to George (about the very lovely and popular Zephyr Security to start with, actually), and the upshot is, briefly, that his name's Kevin Camp, he's from London, he has much experience of working on tours and at gigs, and many SERIOUS contacts in the biz (a couple of whom have already e-mailed us!), and wants to set up a management deal with us and our existing team. He's very enthusiastic, has BIG ambitions for us, and has already introduced us to a prominent Tour Manager, lined up a professional photoshoot for us next week, and set up the Braintree gig detailed below. By the way, he took note of what we told him about the age of a lot of our noble followers, and has made sure the gig will admit people of 16 and over (sorry, 15-year-olds, you'll have to dig out the old false moustaches again.....).
Anyway, this is all amazing and rather scary, so stick with us, please, we need you.....
NEXT GIG :- THE VENUE, BRAINTREE
FRIDAY 13th AUGUST
TOTAL MOSH NIGHT!!!
DLC HEADLINING, PLUS ARCADE and DECEIVER
£3 Admission
Doors open 8.30 p.m.
Please let us know SOON if you'd like a coach ticket.

DLC went to Northampton on Wednesday (28th July) for a professional photoshoot, had a good time, are really looking forward to seeing the results - we got to bring back a couple of small polaroid shots which look pretty damn good, so we think the 4 films'worth of pics we have yet to see are likely to be v. impressive indeed! We'll tell you the photographer's name when we find out what it is - we only know him as Rhys (or possibly Reese) so far.

Band photos from Riverside Club 24th June and Brandon gig 14th July now in the Gallery. Fans' Pages, & pics from the Twist, soon.
Once again we have cause to thank our faithful followers for faithfully following us, this time all the way to Brandon on Wednesday. The event was, as Ceri put it, intimate, in a smallish bar with a stage the size of a drum-riser, but nice atmosphere, and scary moshpit including Ray complete with broken leg. The following poster was to be seen around the venue, and was later yoinked in great numbers by the DLC entourage:

 

Thanks to our hosts, Deadlug, er, leg, who were excellent as usual.

There will of course be photos onsite soon, of the band and in the Fans' Pages - bear with us, there's a bit of a backlog with pics at the moment but hopefully they'll all be in the Gallery sometime in the next few days.

 

Thanks to the noble Coachload who supported us at the Twist, and apologies to those who would have liked to come but couldn't make it due to the short notice. We were well pleased with the way the gig went, and hope to play there again in due course. Pics onsite soon.
Good to see so many of you at the Ipswich Music Day - cheers for defying the weather. Sorry that a) Ceri's guitar joined the proceedings 2 songs later than everything else - bod in charge mysteriously omitted to soundcheck the guitars, and it sounded fine through the stage monitors so we didn't realise anything was wrong. And b) our set was cut short so you had 3 songs less than you should have done. This was because the band before us, King Billy & the Marvelous, just wouldn't stop. The stage crew were pissed off because they apparently couldn't do anything about it. Then we were pissed off because we were co-operating with them and they cut our set short, so, sorry about that. Anyway, never mind, you were ace as usual, and our audience was BIG.

 

 

By the way, no you can't have our new Derrick & the Signpost banner, neither is it for sale, we want to use it again.....

 

 

 





Thanks to everyone who turned up on Thursday 24th, despite exams, football, lack of money and waiting for the free gig this Sunday..... Ace mad moshpits again, notable for Ray's wheelchair*, and very strange support band due to the lack of most of Fat Alice - cheers to Rob Gisby for risking life and street cred by joining with DLC to form an almost entirely unrehearsed covers band..... Pics onsite soon.....
* "ppl who do the wall of death in a wheelchair rule! " Quote from Message Board posting by Callis of Fight for the Better Side

was released on Thursday 24th June and is now on sale, price £10, in Asda Stowmarket Music & Video Shop, and in Rex Records, Ipswich, as well as from members of DLC.

Ceri and Derrick have a good ol' chinwag during the recent photoshoot.

NEXT DLC GIG !!!

ATTENTION ALL NOBLE DEAD LANE CROSS FOLLOWERS!
We would be very glad to see ALL OF YOU on the occasion of the following :

BIG DLC APPEARANCE : 4th JULY
IPSWICH MUSIC DAY!!!
On the GOFER STAGE at 3 p.m.

and please bring LOADS OF OTHER PEOPLE with you if you can for the ENORMOUS MOSHPIT !!!

Thursday 24th June...Riverside Club, Stowmarket
with
FAT ALICE

This WILL now be the occasion of the launch of the new album
!!!!!!

BARNEY'S NEW DRUM KIT HAS ARRIVED! HE TOOK DELIVERY OF A PEARL MASTERWORKS, BUILT TO HIS OWN SPEC, TODAY, AFTER WAITING 8 MONTHS FOR IT. IT SOUNDS AND LOOKS AMAZING.

Barney's previous kit has been bought by Ray, prominent DLC follower and member of the So Metal Crew, whose purchase of the kit was marked by the presentation of a drumskin signed by the band.

   

DLC WENT INTO THE STUDIO ON FRIDAY 7th MAY AND RECORDED ALL 12 TRACKS OF THEIR FORTHCOMING ALBUM FALLING LIKE A BLEEDING SKY, TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE ENIGMATIC Mr. MORTRAKOVSKI. THE FINAL MIX WILL BE DONE IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS' TIME, AND WE WILL BE RELEASING THE ALBUM AS SOON AS WE CAN. FOR A PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE DAY OF THE RECORDING, CLICK HERE.

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