Solid Rock Cafe, Glasgow (06/04/1999)

I was there too...I don't remember that setlist. I have no memory at all of them playing 'The Way it Goes', 'Twenty Wild Horses', or 'Under the Influence'. Guess I just blocked that crap from my mind.

I asked Boab Alexander (the owner of the Solid) if he would ask the band if I could go on stage and sing 'Don't Waste my Time' with them. He came back five minutes later and said "They said fuck off". 

Happy days. 

I'll post some pics when I find them.

I had no interest in the band at that time, apart from the classic lineup. With hindsight, had I even known about it, I'd probably have gone along.

Didn't the band say they hated it?

I would've liked to been there, drinking a few pints & watching the band afterwards. 

I suppose the set list shows where the bands headspace where they were. A band that was a Mystery Song away from cracking America imo to end up playing some pub finishing the gig with a bunch of sugar covers. Should’ve finished with Big Fatty.

I would've liked to been there, drinking a few pints & watching the band afterwards. 

They did. They said it was "like playing in a toothpaste tube".

I know you've been in the Solid, but for those that haven't, this is how it was:

The Solid is a two level pub - a main bar on street level, and a basement bar. The basement bar is where every band that has played the Solid plays....except Quo and Wet Wet Wet. The basement bar doesn't hold as many folk as the street level bar.

When you enter the Solid from Hope Street, it is a long, narrow bar that opens up wider at the back, once you are past the bar which runs along the length of the left hand wall. Just in the door, and to the left, is a raised seating area at the window. It ain't big.

This is where Quo set up and played. How they fitted in, feck knows, but they did. The view from that area is of a long, thin pub - hence the 'toothpaste tube' analogy.

Boab Alexander is fond of collecting cash, so that's why they played up there instead of in the basement. Of course, in the basement, the blokes' lavvy is on the left of the "stage" area, and the wummins' lavvy is on the right of it, so that maybe played a part in it.

On the evening of the gig - if memory serves - the pub shut so that all the plebs without tickets could be booted out, and those of us with tickets were then all shoved doonstairs into the basement while Quo got sorted out. Think "veal train" and you'll get the picture.

We were let upstairs about half an hour before they started. Most folk saw feck all because of the shape of the pub - me included - but I went behind the bar and down to the front to get a couple of pics. Canny find the feckin things though. i'll keep looking.

It was a good night, but as I already said, I have no memory of what they played.