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Thursday 28th August 2008
Golden Plectrum Awards
Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

The Dawn Chorus
The Rebs
The Racketeers
The B of the Bang
The Autons
Wyldside
Belligerence
Venice Ahoy

Last year we went to this awards ceremony as punters. It was OK but there were too many bands to hold the audience's attention and the awards went to some bizarre recipients. A year later...

To be fair, the acts on the night were better this year, but although I enjoyed The Autons, The B of the Bang and Venice Ahoy very much, there were still too many bands playing. We played at about 11 and after 8 acts I think people just lost interest really. All the awards had been dished out so a lot of people left. Still, Ben got to play at the Wedge for the first time so all was not lost. And myself and Neil also played with the B of the Bang on 'Last Night on Earth', though we were a little disappointed not to win an award for dreariest alt.folk collaboration.

Moving on...