It never fails to surprise us that every year when Nicky heads off for his annual holiday to the US attendances immediately improve. Coincidence, I'll let you decide ?

With Deamon and Gaynor looking after the business end of things and the soundcheck taken care of early , we in the band had plenty of time to get our gig-heads on in the time honoured District fashion, outside with the serious smokers.

The Lunatics have only been gigging seriously for couple of months, but although we've been getting lots of positive feedback wherever we've played, it's still quite daunting to play at a venue where you know that the audience knows a thing or two about live music. Knowing most of the people in the crowd can also be a bit of a mixed blessing - if you're shit you'll soon be told.

I'll not dwell too long on our performance other than to say that I think that we played reasonably well. Mike our guitarist pulled out all the stops for our version of Like a Hurricane and Johnny Norris blew some lovely harp when he guested on Back Door Man.

We rounded off the evening with an encore of Hawkwind's Silver Machine which as usual descended into a extended jam.

A real fun night for us Lunatics, I know I'm a bit biased but there really aren't many better venues to play in South Wales.

If anyone has got something nice to say about the band we'd really appreciate it if you could take 5 minutes to sign the guestbook on our website. Here's the link to it:

http://www.freewebs.com/thelunaticfringe/guestbook.htm