Single Bass history
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June 1986
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- first Single Bass gig - two songs at
Nottingham University's "Longest Day" festival
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December 1986
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- UK tour supporting Sheffield band
Haze,
with singer/songwriter/guitarist
Rog Patterson
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Autumn 1987
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- two-and-a-half-week tour of the Netherlands,
with that same lineup
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1987 to 1989
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- lots of gigs in England, mostly in the
Midlands & Yorkshire - Nottingham, Sheffield, Birmingham,
Leicester, Leeds, Bradford etc. Some were support slots,
with all kinds of other bands; others were "alternative
cabaret" gigs with poets and comedians; others included
Oxford & Cambridge College Balls, lots of University
Student Union gigs and Glastonbury Festival 1989.
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April / May 1990
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- 19 dates around the UK supporting
Enid (a mutation of
The Enid
that only did the one tour), including London Marquee &
Subterania
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December 1991
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- Be Your Friend album
released on own label Material
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April 1992
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- featured in
Guitarist magazine
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1992 to 1994
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- radio sessions at BBC Radios
Derby, Leicester & Northampton
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- radio play of the album
on BBC Radio 1 from Bob Harris and John Peel
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May 1993
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- UK tour supporting guitarist/composer
Allan Holdsworth,
including Glasgow Mayfest, Bath International Festival &
London Orange & Jazz Café
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September 1993
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- supported
The Enid
at London Astoria
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October 1994
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- another tour supporting
Allan H,
including two excellent nights at the Jazz Cafe,
but most dates missed because of a back injury
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July 1996
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- session for Bob Harris on Greater
London Radio (GLR)
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July 1997
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- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Pride
festival appearances, in the Bi tent and on the Wow
bar stage (London)
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September 1997
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- UK Bisexual Conference, London, supporting
Tom Robinson
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May 1998
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- 3 SB songs as special guest at the Nottingham gig
of Tom Robinson's UK tour - and joined Tom for a version of
Power in the Darkness
during the encores
(click
here for a picture (38k))
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August 1998
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- Edinburgh Festival Fringe as special guest of TR again -
two excellent nights at the Assembly Rooms
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Throughout 1999
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- a few excellent gigs, notably at ULU for BiFest and several nights at London's award-winning, tiny, atmospheric
live music venue the
Twelve Bar Club
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October 1999
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- article in
Making Music
magazine
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December 2000 till February 2002
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- MC in residence at
Nottingham Songwriters International,
"promoting and encouraging singer/songwriters and the art of songwriting in Nottingham".
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August 2002
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Derby Ecofest, playing through a solar- and wind-powered PA system! How cool is that?! And BiCon 2002.
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2003 to 2007
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Mostly dormant, more in a "falling back to regroup" kind of way than a
"lost all interest" kind of way.