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Venue: The Embankment, Peterborough
Date: Friday 25th August 2000
Occasion: Peterborough Beer Festival 2000

Well.  The main gig that the band was preparing for all summer.  Drafting in no fewer than ten extra musicians, having a set list for the first time since the very first gig, and having an absolute hoot.  It was questionable whether the band would remain the same under the circumstances, but these fears were laid to rest as soon as they sparked up and started enjoying the whole thing, taking it all in stride.

the line up

As a one-off (well, we'll see how it goes!), the One Eyed Cats bought in some of the extra musicians that have played with them over the years.  For one nite they put together the band that they have always wanted to, but have never been able to afford.  The line up for this nite was as follows:

• Simon Russell, Piano & Vocals

• Gary Wellington, Guitar

• Dave Colton, Bass

• Paul Rogers, Drums

• Mark Rogers, Percussion (drummer for Kendrick)

The Pussycats

• Vikki George

• Tonia Markus

The Cats Ass Brass

• Jerome Hunt, Tenor Sax

• Geoff Green, Trumpet

• Gaz Brown, Trumpet (also for Chris Watson)

• Martin from Take 6, Alto Sax (also for Take 6)

• Louis Slack, Alto Sax (also for Chris Watson & Zanzara - has since joined)

• John Farrington, Baritone Sax (also for Soke Jazz, Peterborough Big Band, etc.)

• Mark Hurrell, Trombone (also for Zanzara - has since joined)

• Other bloke (Nick?  Paul?), Trombone (I'll get his name later, it all happened so fast!).

memorabilia & stuff

Somehow, the band managed to keep at least two beer tokens, so something must've gone wrong somewhere.  Also, you can find a snippet from the front cover of Camra's Beer Around 'Ere magazine (No. 95, September/October 2000) which can only be good publicity!

Click on the above images to see the full sized versions, won't you just.  Be sure to click on the back button that came free with your browser when you're done viewing.  Incidentally, those beer tokens weren't spent for some reason.

Click here to see the set list used for the beer festival.  It'll load into Word, and you may have to change the zoom level, since it's the A3 file that the band used on the nite.

photographs

Because we have had so many fantastic photographs in from the Beer Festival, they have been split up over several pages, otherwise the cows would have come home in the time this page would have taken to load.

• Click here to see the Beer Festival photographs.

The One Eyed Cats were a support act between 7:15 and 8:15 for the Fab Beatles at the 23rd Peterborough Beer Festival.  Thank you very much for your enthusiastic support - it was so much fun.

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