I remember we had to cancel a number of shows at that time, Wedgewood rooms being one, because my missus' mum died of cancer that week. Very hard times for me.
A few of my personal favourites are:
1. Reading 1995 - we'd arrived and it was the first time we'd walked out on stage to more than 50 people - in fact it was about 6 thousand!
2. Brixton Academy with Reef and Travis in 97 - we peeped thru the curtains before we went on and shit ourselves at the full to capacity venue that we'd always dreamed of playing.
3. Oxford Sound City 1998 - ok, we were 2nd fiddle to Echobelly, but we were Peeley's choice and the man himself announced us. We spent a brilliant evening in his company, the set was blinding we were treated like stars because of John. I cried the day he died and felt ashamed that I was in a proper job now and only 'playing' at being in a band. We owed John so much and I felt that real alternative music in the UK had lost it's only champion.
4. Cable's last ever gig, Dingwalls, May 1999. 700 kids sang along to every song and stormed the stage at the end. Marvellous. I put my guitar down carefully for once, stepped off the stage into the dressing room and cried like a baby, knowing that anything I was involved in musically after that, no matter how successful, would never come close to what that group had meant to me.
