Forthcoming gigs ......
Saturday, 12th May 2007 at The Hope And Anchor, Upper Street, Islington
Friday 23rd March at Up All Night, The Wilmington, 69 Roseberry Avenue, Clerkenwell, London.
If you want a flyer for either gig, email Too Drunk
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Too Drunk's 20th Anniversary Party
Too Drunk are top of the bill and will be hammered long before they come on stage
Also playing are Semion, The Bearded Ladies and Geisha
Admission is only £4.50 with a flyer (otherwise £6, no reduction for pensioners)
Nearest Tube : Faringdon
Too Drunk are on first, so get there for 8ish. Also playing are Sleeper Curve and Mickey P.
Admission is only £5 with a flyer (otherwise £6, no reduction for pensioners)
It's been a while, and they've played a few gigs, at a casual pace, obviously (it's better to sit on a sofa watching telly and drinking lager than to burn out, as Neil Young so wisely once said).
Here's a list of the gigs that they can remember doing (in reverse order ..... a bit like at Miss World). If you can think of any more, or if you were at some of these gigs and can remember how crap they were, feel free to email Too Drunk and remind them.
7th June, The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon (?)
10th December, The Flag, Watford (Bearded Ladies, G String Quartet). The Bearded Ladies 10th Birthday party (they look a LOT older than that). Featuring the return of Nelly on bass and a special appearance by Rob Drunk.
9th December, The Hope & Anchor, Islington (Beat Poets, Tan Hauser Gate)
3rd September, Sailaid, Silver Wing Sailing Club, Staines (with the Bearded Ladies and loads of other bands), featuring a guest appearance by the legendary Ella Drunk
20th July, The Horn St Albans (The Bearded Ladies, Spacemaster, Jodowroskis Ape)
15th July, Hope & Anchor, Islington (The Deltas & The London Dirthole Company)
26th May, The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon, London (The Mandarins and Ali De Siati)
21st May, Hitchin Football Club
11th March, All Manna, Kilburn (Semion and The Bronco Busters)
10th December, The Hope & Anchor, Islington (The Butterflies and Jag)
4th November, The Underground, Frankfurt ... yes, in Germany
15th July, The Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon, London (Talulah)
30th June, The FIMU festival, Belfort, France
29th June, The FIMU festival, Belfort, France
15th May, The Dublin Castle, Camden (Gaffer Hexam)
9th April, The 100 Club, Oxford Street, London (The Slammers, 4 ManTrio, Second Offence)
5th March, The Dublin Castle, Camden (The Vibrators and Red Letter Day)
28th February, The Flag, Watford (Dirty Habits & Bearded Ladies)
23rd January, Hitchin Football Club (The Slammers and many others)
6th December, The Hope & Anchor, Islington (Eddie And The Hot Rods, Kentucky AFC)
4th November, The Flag, Watford (Jackie & Parifica)
25th October, The Railway Inn, Winchester (B-Movie Heroes, Right Turn Clyde, Red 5, Kristtina), featuring a guest spot by the Legendary Matt Drunk
3rd September, On The Rocks, Shoreditch (Baschi & Dog45)
12th July, Monkeyboy Festival at The Flag, Watford (Headrush, Too Drunk, Yumi Yumi, Bamblefog, Death to Logan, Fred and Al, The Bearded Ladies). Excellent gig, all the other bands were really friendly, especially Fred And Al, who gave a very pissed Ant a lift home.
1st March, 100th gig and CD launch at The Hope And Anchor, with the truly marvellous Slammers and the ever-so-lovely Semion.
1st February somewhere in Tooting called Wolfies.
Sun 15th December, The Buffalo Bar, Islington. (The Slammers and The Useless). Bottom of the bill, so relatively sober, messed up a few tracks and another good night.
Sat 2nd November, The George, Hitchin. (The Slammers and loads of other Hitchin bands). Tim couldn't make it, so Olivier from Twister took over from him. Great night. Arrived at 7 and went on at 11, uncontrollably smashed. A vintage performance, songs stopped halfway through, restarted, then abandoned. Gave up half way through the set. Can't remember getting home.
Thu 26th September, The Horn, St Albans. (The Slammers, The Sindys)
Thu 10th September, The Verge, Camden. (The Hollow Bodies, ??)
Thu 15th August, The Hope & Anchor, Islington. (Ant's birthday gig). Great gig, loads of people. Got paid £85, time to give up the day job.
Thu 21st March, The Hope & Anchor, Islington. (Flicknife Rickshaw, Brain Washington)
Wed 13th February, The Bull & Gate Kentish Tn London (Normal, Odd Man Out, Camera Red)
Thu 24th January, Pleasure Island Boston Arms, Tufnel Park, London (The Ulcers, The Bad Hats, The Brazen Hussies, Seed, The Traitors, Koogaphone, The Rasberry Boulders, Shantuzi)
Thu 22nd November, Joey Ramone Tribute Night, The Horn, St Albans (53rd&3rd, Teenage Lobotomies)
Sat 3rd October, The Cavern, Liverpool (Purity jar, Big Water, Dark Season)
Sat 18th August, Dublin Castle, Camden. (Jet Suzette & Lunaticrash)
Thu 28th June, Pleasure Island at The Boston Arms, Tufnel Park (Glorious, The Bearded Ladies, Limehouse Link)
Fri 22nd June, The Boston Arms, Tufnel Park (The Cannibals & The Parkinsons)
Fri 18th May, The Verge, Kentish Tn (I.C Red & Loaded)
Sat 3rd February, The Hope & Anchor, Islington (Twisted Charm & The Brazen Hussies)
Wed 9th August, The Horn Reborn, St Albans (Broken Arrow)
Fri 28th July, The Hope & Anchor, Islington (Bufflehead and A-Cartel
Fri 28th April, The Half Moon, Putney (Sweetleaf and Kinky Journo)
Sat 18th March, The Hope And Anchor, Islington (Frowser and Wooden Dog)
Sat 19th February, Platform 1, Central Bar, Acton (Coney Green)
Wed 2nd February, The Horn Reborn, St Albans (Hollowstone, Flak)
Wed 5th January, The Dublin Castle, Camden (Girls Night Out, Blutarsky)
Saturday 23rd June, The Horn Reborn, St Albans (The Sindys, Bamblefog)
Saturday 22nd May, FIMU, Belfort, France (Top of The Bill with Les Losbos, etc.). Can you believe it, Too drunk headlining an outdoor festival in front of thousands, etc, etc, etc.
Saturday 27th March, Mike And Tim's Party, The Philanthropist And Firkin, St Albans (The Pet Lemmings). Mike and Tim sand Teenage Kicks with us (all of their relatives left the room).
Thursday 18th February, The Hope And Anchor, Islington (Carbine and Streaker)
Saturday, 3rd October , The Hope And Anchor, Islington (The Janes Earl Group and The Talk)
Friday, 28th August , The Boot, Hemel Hempstead (The Bearded Ladies). I think that we got two hundred quid for this unbelievably terrible performance. Hoorah !
Wednesday, 22nd July , The Horn Reborn, St Albans (Hot And Horny)
Wednesday, 29th April , The Horn Reborn, St Albans (The Bearded Ladies)
Tuesday, 14th April , The Red Eye, Kings Cross (Travis Cut and April Floor)
Thursday 5th March , The Boston Arms, Tufnel Park (The Coyote Men and The Unchayned)
Friday 2nd January, The Falcon, Camden (Supported by Dolls House and some moptop bunch of kids). Brilliant, we thought. Headlining at the Falcon on a Friday night. Two days after New Years eve, nobody in London left their house.
Saturday 20th December, The Hope And Anchor, Islington (The John Wayne Army and Jude)
Thursday 6th November, The Boston Arms, Tufnel Park (53rd And 3rd and The Brazen Hussies)
Thursday 21st August, The Boston Arms, Tufnel Park (The Country Teasers and The Babe Magnets). Rich get's chatted up by a very drunk, very attractive, very under-dressed latino girl. Obviously he craps himself and runs away, leaving her to throw drinks over, and attack, the Country Teasers.
Tuesday 19th August, The Horn Of Plenty, St Albans (Twister and The Shandy Boys/Girlzone). Top quality line-up.
Thursday 3rd April, The Boston Arms, Tufnel Park
Sunday 2nd March, The Crown, St Albans. Another memorably terrible gig, Ant was so drunk, he forgot all of the chords, and kept pretendng that his amp was broken to try and cover up. Got a hundred quid though. Ha !
Thursday 16th January, The Boston Arms, Tufnel Park (The Mystreated, Curious yellow and The Disturbed)
Monday 13th January, The Horn Of Plenty, St Albans (Paul Drunk and Nelly Drunk solo(duo?) gig supporting The Bearded Ladies)
Sunday 12th January, The Philanthropist And Firkin, St Albans (The Dead Marines)
Monday 16th September, St Johns Tavern, Archways (The Purple Gang and The Lunkheads)
Sunday 18th December, The Cricketers (The Bearded Ladies)
Tuesday 4th June, St Johns Tavern, Archways (The Griswalds and The Disturbed)
Sunday 3rd January , The Beehive
Monday 11th December, St Johns Tavern, Archways (Witchdoktors)
Wednesday 22nd November, South Bank Students Union (King Prawn, The Mighty Balzac)
Thursday 2nd November, St Johns Tavern, Archways (Rubbish)
Sunday 31st August , The Beehive
Friday in July, The Abbey Tavern, St Albans (The Dead Marines)
Saturday 17th June, Giles' House, London Rd, St Albans
Friday 9th December, The Nurses Social Club, St Albans (King Prawn)
Tuesday 23rd August, St Johns Tavern, Archways (Headroom ??)
Tuesday 5th July, St Johns Tavern, Archways (Headshop)
Wednesday 27th April, St Johns Tavern, Archways (Ruby and The Kneivels)
Saturday 26th March, The Horn Of Plenty, St Albans (The Usuals and The Kneivels)
Saturday 22nd January, The Horn Of Plenty, St Albans (The Usuals and Louis XVI And The Last Eighth)
Tuesday 18th January, St Johns Tavern, Archways (The Grumpy Egg)
Friday 17th December, The Marlborough Club, St Albans (The Scissormen)
Tuesday 7th December, St Johns Tavern, Archways (The Green Hornets, The Sugar Rays and The Prescriptions). Our first gig at The Western Rooms. Aaaah, God bless you Slim.
Saturday 27th November, The Hare And Hounds, Islington (Kennedy)
Friday 12th November, The Horn Of Plenty, St Albans (Freakapotamus and The Kneivels)
Saturday 18th September, Party At Mark and Rachel's (The Pop Tarts)
Friday 9th September, The Hare And Hounds, Islington (Louis XVI And The Last Eighth). Guesty's girlfriend tried to get him off stage, because we were so terrible.
Saturday, Autumn, Stanhope Road, St Albans
Saturday 7th August, The Dog And Parrot, Newcastle (Kennedy)
Friday 30th July, The Pineapple, St Albans (Obscure Objects Of Desire)
Monday 5th July, The Hare And Hounds Islington (Louis XVI And The Last Eighth). I don't remeber this one at all. Did it ever happen ?
Friday 11th June, The Pineapple, St Albans (DC Reefer)
Thursday 3rd June, The Marlborough Club, St Albans (The Astronauts and The Popular Pants People)
Saturday 22nd May, The Horn Of Plenty, St Albans (Panhandle, The Legendary Steve Drunk Band, and 'some kind of acoustic thing'). Steve Freeman stands in for Fatboy.
Monday 12th April The Steamship, Poplar (Poptarts, Peepshow)
Friday 9th April, The Marlborough Club, St Albans (Premonition Now and Oregon)
Thursday 18th March, The Leviathan, Watford (The Usuals)
Friday 5th February, Stick Of Rock, Bethnal Green (Demented Are Go and Braindance), Ant gets bottled and taken to hospital (aaah, happy times)
Thursday 28th January, Amersham Arms, New Cross (Axis and Mad Carson)
Friday 15th January, Stick Of Rock, Bethnal Green (The Usuals)
Thursday 14th January, The Marlborough Club, St Albans (The Usuals)
Wednesday 30th December, The Marlborough Club, St Albans (Supposed to be with The State We're In, but someone else played instead). Our first experience of dry ice and strobe lights. Magic.
Friday 11th December, The Pineapple, St Albans (The Usuals)
Saturday 28th November, Stick Of Rock, Bethnal Green
Thursday 26th November, Stick Of Rock, Bethnal Green (The Mavericks)
Thursday 5th November , Bull and Gate, Kentish Town (The Hoovers and The New Rays). I think that the New Rays and us shared £11 for the gig.
Thursday 29th October , first gig at the Stick Of Rock, Bethnal Green (with Axis)
Saturday 5th September, party at Tim James' house in Hatfield
Saturday 8th August, Gig at Ian Jackson's, Marshallswick Road, St Albans
Friday 31st July, Pioneer Club, St Albans (Bathroom Sponge, Second Nature and The New Rays)
Saturday 25th July , The Winchester Festival (Chumbawamba, Leatherface, DF.118, Papa Brittle, Older Than Dirt, Sarajevo, Tombsday)
Saturday 21st March, The Pineapple, St Albans (The Relatively Warm Pimentos)
Tuesday 15th October, The Horn Of Plenty, St Albans (The Iced Diamonds)
Summer, Hart Road, St Albans Party
Early Summer, Hedley Road, St Albans Party
Wednesday 18th July, The Horn of Plenty, St Albans (The Naval Gazers, Disneyhood and The Paul Bailey Experience)
Wednesday 26th May, The Horn Of Plenty, St Albans (Amnesty International Benefit gig - Too Drunk were switched off half-way through by the organiser, so much for human rights)
Autumn, 209a Hatfield Rd, St Albans (Freakapotamus)
Summer, 209a Hatfield Rd, St Albans (Lorna And The Mingers)
Friday 12th May, Hatfield Poly Garden Party
Another day in May, Hatfield Poly Kitchen 17
A Friday in May, Hatfield Poly Garden Party