DAY 10- SATURDAY MARCH 20TH 2004

EARLY MORNING YOB NOISES AT CHEZ MARIANNE WERE RATHER PREDICTABLE….
" JESUS, AAAAAARGHHHHH…THAT'S DISGUSTING…. OPEN THE WINDOW-QUICK!…."
YES, THE FIENDISH ANAL METHANE DEMONS HAD STRUCK AGAIN…..
AFTER CLEARING THE AIR, CLEARING UP THE ROOM, CLEARING THE DECKS AND MAKING TEA, THE YOBS CLEARED OUT….AND BID A FOND FARE-THEE-WELL TO MISS MARIANNE. THE LADS THANKED HER FOR PUTTING UP WITH COCKNEY ROCKERY AND FOR GENERALLY BEING A BONA FIDE DIAMOND, GLAMOROUS MERCH CHICK, DRIVER AND HOSTESS ON THE YOB TOUR.
NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA WAS BREKKIE, THIS TIME AT AN EATERIE CALLED AL AND BETTY'S DINER IN PROVIDENCE……SCRAMBLED EGGS, HOMEFRIES, CORNED BEEF HASH AND TOAST AND COFFEE , VERY NICE TOO. (8 OUT OF 10 SCORE FOR YOBGRUB VALUE INDEX) THEN, AFTER ADMIRING THE SIGNED PICTURE OF FRANK SINATRA ON THE CAFÉ WALL AND SAYING 'CIAO' TO THE OWNERS, SUPERYOB DEPARTED HUMMING A FEW LINES OF 'STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT' AND HOPPED ABOARD THE ROCKIN YOB WAGON, TO GET ROLLING ON THE ROAD TO NEWARK, DELAWARE…..AND AFTER LISTENING TO SOME OF ACE'S BRITISH INDIE COMPILATION CDS' ON THE JOURNEY, DULY ARRIVED MANY HOURS LATER THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO CHIPSHOP'S WIZARD DRIVING AND HAYSTACKS EXPERT NAVIGATION. AFTER STEAMING THROUGH NEW YORK AND A FAIR OLD HIKE DOWN THE JERSEY TURNPIKE, THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE LENGTHY TRIP WAS CHIPSHOP DRIVING OVER THE FAMOUS MEMORIAL BRIDGE FROM NEW JERSEY INTO DELAWARE AND CHEWING A HOLE IN THE DRIVERS SEAT WITH HIS CLENCHED ARSE CHEEKS. CHIPPY IS NOT SCARED OF HEIGHTS, JUST SCARED OF FUCKIN' GREAT BRIDGES, AND THE WORLD'S LARGEST TWIN SUSPENSION BRIDGE WAS ALMOST TOO MUCH FOR HIM. "SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!" WAS HIS CRY AS HIS KNUCKLES SHINED BRIGHT WHITE GRIPPING THE STEERING WHEEL. IT WAS THE LONGEST TEN MINUTES OF HIS LIFE BUT HE MADE IT:-SWEATING SHAKING AND TREMBING ALL THE WAY.

MEMORIAL BRIDGE SEEN FROM THE DELAWARE RIVER

AN HOUR OR TWO OF EXPLORATION FOLLOWED AS THE INTREPID YOBS LOOKED AROUND NEWARK, AND AFTER EATING AN EVENING MEAL, FOUND THE VENUE...SITTING SLAP BANG IN THE MIDDLE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE.

THE GROUND FLOOR, NEWARK, DELAWARE

-FEATURING-

SUPERYOB
ROAD TO RUIN

THE INCITED

THE FIRST THREE HOURS OF THIS EVENING AT THE GROUND FLOOR WAS GIVEN OVER TO SOME YOUNG NU-METAL AND HARD CORE BANDS, (PLAYING SETS THAT LASTED ALL OF FIFTEEN MINUTES IF YOU WERE LUCKY) WITH AN AUDIENCE MOSTLY OF STUDENTS WHO SEEMED VERY ENTHUSIASTIC IN THEIR STUDENT-Y KIND OF WAY…….GRADUALLY HOWEVER, PUNKS AND SKINS STARTED TO FILL THE VENUE, AND THE AMBIENCE OF THE GIG BECAME DISTINCTLY MORE STREET ROCK N' ROLL .
THE MAIN EVENT OF THE EVENING KICKED OFF WITH A SET FROM THE INCITED, FOLLOWED BY A ROUSING PERFORMANCE FROM ROAD TO RUIN……MANIC, SWEATY PUNK ROCK & ROLL LED BY A BELLOWING DUSTY ON VOCALS. DANCE FLOOR ACIVITY WAS CRAZED AND VIOLENT WITH BEER CANS, CHAIRS, TABLES AND BODIES FLYING IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
AS SUPERYOB TUNED UP, PLUGGED IN, AND SWITCHED ON, THE PUNK /OI! SECTION OF THE AUDIENCE STARTED TO MOVE TOWARDS THE ACTION, AND SOON THE FAMILIAR STRAINS OF 'GHETTO BLASTER' HAMMERED THE GROUND FLOOR. AFTER THREE NUMBERS IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THE CROWD WERE LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF SUPERYOBBERY, AND SOON DEMENTED 'WHIRLING
FREAK OUT BEER CAN FRENZY' DANCING WAS THE ORDER OF THE MOMENT…..THE STUDENT CONTINGENT WHO WERE STILL PRESENT COULD ONLY STARE OPEN MOUTHED AT THE MIGHTY YOBS BLISTERING AND UNCOMPROMISING MUSICAL DELIVERY OF STREET LEVEL REALITY, AND THE FEROCIOUS ENERGY AND DEDICATION OF THE MOSH PIT CREW. FROM THE START THE BAND GRIPPED ALL THOSE PRESENT WITH THE 'YOB SHOW, AND BY THE TIME THE BAND WERE INTO 'MACHINE GUNS 'N' ALCOHOL' THE ENERGY VORTEX AT THE GIG WENT INTO WARP SPEED… NOW THE FLOOR WAS AWASH WITH AN OCEAN OF BEER, CANS, AND BODIES IN VARIOUS STAGES OF MOSHING, BANGING HEADS, FALLING OVER, GETTING UP AND FALLING OVER AGAIN…..ONCE MORE, THE CROWD SEEMED VERY EAGER TO ASSIST THE YOBS BY SINGING ALONG, AND AS USUAL THE LAST PART OF THE YOBS SET FEATURED THE BAND AUGMENTED BY MANY WILLING VOICES…..
A BEER FUELLED STREETROCK CHORUS SUPREME!
"A FREAKIN' GREAT SHOW, YOU GUYS…." MANY OF THE PUNTERS TOLD THE BAND LATER, AS THE YOBS REFRESHED THEMSELVES WITH ANOTHER LIVENER FROM THE BAR. A-W-E-S-O-M-E, DUDE…….

SUPERYOB SET
GHETTO BLASTER, BANG TO RIGHTS, STRENGTH OF THE NATION, VICIOUS CIRCLE,
MACHINE GUNS N' ALCOHOL, AIN'T GONNA TAKE IT, THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT('YOB),
HEARTBREAK BRIDGE, ON YER BIKE, DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO

AFTER THE PROCEEDINGS IN THE GROUND FLOOR HAD FINISHED, SUPERYOB WITH HAYSTACKS AT THE WHEEL FOR A CHANGE DROVE TO NEARBY ACCOMMODATION AT TONY'S, (FROM SUPPORT BAND ROAD TO RUIN) WHO HAD KINDLY AGREED TO LET THE FOUR YOBSTERS CRASH AT HIS PLACE…..
IT SEEMED LIKE HALF THE POPULATION OF NEWARK HAD ALSO TURNED UP THERE FOR THE AFTER SHOW PARTY, AND THE MERRIMENT CONTINUED WELL INTO THE WEE HOURS………AS THE RIVERS OF BEER FLOWED, FRANKY AND ACE, CHIPSHOP AND HAYSTACKS CONCENTRATED ON THEIR MISSION TO GET PISSED AND ENTERTAINED THE ASSEMBLED PARTY WITH TALES OF ENGLISH LIFE AND HOW IT FELT TO BE LIMEYS IN AMERICA;- ACE, IN PARTICULAR, FELT MOVED TO COMMENT ON THE WEAKNESS OF AMERICAN BEER; THE FACT THAT NO-ONE IN AMERICA ATE WALLS PORK SAUSAGES; AND WHAT ABOUT THE LOW STANDARD OF AMERICAN TV, AND THE FACT THAT OPRAH WINFREY, JERRY SPRINGER AND RICKY LAKE WERE ALL CRAP….. (THIS WAS JUST BEFORE HAYSTACKS SAT ON HIM BY MISTAKE, MISTAKING ACE FOR A NICE WARM COMFORTABLE BLANKET…HE WAS THAT PISSED)…ACE RECOVERED BRAVELY, BUT IT MADE HIS EYES WATER…HAYSTACKS,MEANWHILE, WAS CROSS EYED WITH ALES….
FRANKY WAS HEARD TALKING TO HIMSELF AND TRYING TO CONVINCE HIMSELF HE STILL HAD A VOICE LEFT…AND ALSO RANTING TO PARTYGOERS ABOUT THE NEW WORLD ORDER; CRAP CORPORATE PUNK BANDS, MACDONALDS; AND FAST FOOD IN GENERAL……. BUT HE WAS UPSTAGED BY CHIPSHOP WHO SAID THE MACDONALDS EXTRA LARGE TRIPLE CHEESBURGER WITH EXTRA LARGE FRIES, DOUBLE APPLE PIE AND EXTRA LARGE COKE HELD NO CHALLENGES FOR HIM ANYMORE. "WHY IS YOUR NAME CHIPSHOP JOHN?" ASKED A YOUNG LADY….
"I DON'T LIKE LETTUCE, LUV," THE BIG MAN REPLIED WITH A CHARMING BOYISH GRIN, AND PROMPTLY SET ABOUT ASKING HER IF SHE WANTED TO SEE HIS TATTOO…… LUCKILY, THE USUAL NUCLEAR STRENGTH, TERRIFYINGLY THICK AND FIENDISHLY STINKING BLAST OF CHIPS' ANAL METHANE SOMEHOW STAYED CORKED ON THIS OCCASION…… (TILL LATER, WHEN THE PARTY WAS WINDING DOWN, AND THEN THE ROOM CLEARED AMAZINGLY QUICKLY……) NOW THE YOBS HIT THE SACK IN VARIOUS PARTS OF TONY'S PLACE, AND ONCE AGAIN SLUMBER ENGULFED OUR HEROES, THIS TIME AT THE AMAZINGLY EARLY HOUR OF 4.AM……….
…..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ……

The only surviving photo from Delaware sees a morning after pose with the Yobs plus Soup Campbell and buddy. Chipshop is sporting an attractive cycling hat modfoed to look like a WWI German helmet.

DAY 11- SUNDAY MARCH 21ST 2004

THE YOBS AROSE BLEARY EYED TO THE SOUND OF VISITORS, WHO HAD COME TO SEE IF TONY HAD SURVIVED THE 'AFTER GIG DRINKING MARATHON' EVENT, AND BEING ROUSED FROM HIS CORPSE-LIKE STATE, THE YOBS HOST INVITED FRANKY TO RUSTLE UP SOME EGG AND BACON SARNIES FOR THE ASSEMBLY. EVEN THOUGH FRANKY SWORE BLIND HE KNEW ABOUT AS MUCH ABOUT COOKING AS A POLAR BEAR, HE MANAGED TO DO THIS SUCCESSFULLY, 'EGGED' ON (ARF! ARF!) BY HAYSTACKS, WHO SHOUTED INSTRUCTIONS ACROSS THE ROOM AS HE ATTEMPTED TO CONTEMPLATE HIS OWN NAVEL FLUFF……
THE SARNIES WERE SPEEDILY DESPATCHED, FRANKY GOT THE THUMBS UP FOR HIS CULINARY EFFORTS, AND TEA ALL ROUND WAS NOW SERVED…..THEN A PHOTO CALL SESSION WAS ORGANISED FEATURING THE YOB HEROES AND MEIN HOST ANTHONY PLUS THE LOCAL DIE-HARDS WHO HAD RETURNED TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME THIS MORNING……CHIPSHOP LOOKED ESPECIALLY FETCHING IN A BIKER'S SPIKED HELMET, AS BEFITTING THE BIG LAD'S STATUS AS A MOTORBIKE COURIER. ACE AND FRANKY AS USUAL LOOKED LIKE THE LONSDALE TWINS, AND HAYSTACKS WORE HIS TRADEMARK SHORTS AND A JOLLY GRIN…….
THE YOBS SWAPPED JOKES AND STORIES OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT WITH 'SOUP' CAMPBELL AND PALS, AND THEN ONCE MORE IT WAS TIME TO RACK OFF ONTO THE LONG GREY RIBBON OF ROAD TOWARDS 'NOO JOIYSEY'…..FIRST SAYING A GRAND 'THANKS MATE' TO OUR HOST AND CREW, WHO BY NOW WERE LOOKING FOR THE SAME KIND OF DRINKING ACTION AS LAST NIGHT, ALL OVER AGAIN…….
THE YOBMOBILE ATE UP THE ROAD ON A SUNNY MORNING AND 'SOUP' CAMPBELL DROVE PART OF THE WAY WITH THE BAND IN HIS OWN MOTOR, WAVING TA-TA AS HE TOOK A SLIP ROAD OFF THE HIGHWAY.
MEMORIES OF A SPECIAL NIGHT WITH SOME GREAT PEOPLE WAS THE MAIN TOPIC OF CONVERSATION FOR THE FOUR ADVENTURERS IN SUPERYOB AS THEY MOTORED ON, WITH CHIPSHOP ON STEERING WHEEL, CLUTCH N' GEARSTICK, ACCELERATOR, BRAKES AND MIRRORS; AND HAYSTACKS ON MAP, AND PENCIL BEHIND LEFT EAR'OLE.
AFTER NEGOTIATING THE JERSEY TURNPIKE AGAIN THE YOB WHEELS MADE A PITSTOP AT THE SERVICE AREA TO GET PETROL AND TO MAKE PHONE CALLS TO ENGLAND. THE TURNPIKE GIFTSHOP BECKONED AND 'YOB-THE-TOURIST' MODE KICKED IN FOR A WHILE, PLUS A QUICK SNACK AND A JIMMY RIDDLE……..
CALLING ENGLAND ON A PUBLIC TELEPHONE PROVED TO BE RIDICULOUSLY DIFFICULT, FOR SOME REASON PROBABLY KNOWN ONLY BY MYSTIC MEG, ALBERT EINSTEIN AND THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY….HOWEVER, PERSEVERANCE PAID OFF AND AT LAST THE COINS DROPPED!- ONLY TO HEAR A RECORDED VOICE SAY 'WE CAN'T CONNECT YOU, SORRY'.
AFTER THIS,'YOB-THE-TOURIST TELEPHONE RAGE' KICKED IN AND THE OFFENDING APPARATUS GOT A GOOD KICKING TOO…….
MOVING ON TOWARDS PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY FRANKIE SNAPPED THE IMPOSING NEW YORK SKYLINE FROMTHE VAN WINDOW AS IT SLOWLY DAWNED ON THE BOYS THAT SUPERYOB WERE ON THEIR LAST GIG ON THE 'COCKNEY ROCK IN THE USA TOUR'.
ENTERING THE LATIN FLAVOURED DISTRICT OF PASSAIC, THE YOBS ASKED DIRECTIONS TO THE CLUB, AND AFTER SOME NIFTY TRANSLATIONS FROM SPANISH INTO ENGLISH BY FRANKY AND 'STACKS, AND A MERRY DRIVE THROUGH THE STREETS, THE YOB MOB LOCATED THE VENUE.
THIS DONE, IT WAS TIME TO FIND SOME GRUB, AND TRY TO HAVE ANOTHER STAB AT RINGING ENGLAND.
LOCAL EATERIE 'BROTHERS 2 DINER' PROVIDED FISH AND CHIPS AND BURGERS FOR THE HUNGRY YOBS. ADI THE PROMOTER HELPED OUT WITH A FREE PIZZA AND WHIST EATING, THE YOBS WERE ENTERTAINED BY RAMPAGING HORDES OF YOUTHS USING THE ENTRANCE AND FRONT TABLES IN THE PLACE TO 'HANG, CHILL, GROOVE, SHOW OUT,AND LOOK COOL WITH THEIR BITCHES'…..
(BY A YOB CONCENSUS THIS PLACE WAS GIVEN A RATING OF 4 OUT OF 10 ON THE YOBGRUB VALUE INDEX)….AND THEN ONCE AGAIN IT WAS 'TRY AND CALL HOME'……THIS WAS ONLY POSSIBLE BY CALLING 'COLLECT' (REVERSE CHARGE'), AND ONE BY ONE THE BAND ALL CHATTED TO THEIR CHOSEN IN THE UK…IT BEING FRANKY'S DAUGHTER'S BIRTHDAY, FRANK RANG HIS MISSUS FOR A CHAT AND TALKED NEWS OF THE BAND'S EXPLOITS, AND THEN RANG HIS DAUGHTER AND SANG 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU' OVER THE PHONE TO HER. MEANWHILE BEMUSED LOCALS LOOKED ON AND MADE "HE'S RADIO RENTAL,ABSOLUTELY GURGLING MAD" SIGNALS TO EACH OTHER.
CHIPSHOP RANG HIS MA, AND ALSO DOUBLE CHECKED ON A 'HANDY- HALF-HUNDREDWEIGHT' CRATE OF PIES AND SEVERAL GALLONS OF BEER HE'D ORDERED FOR HIS RETURN TO BLIGHTY; ACE SHARED PRECIOUS MOMENTS AND NARRATED THE BAND'S STATESIDE ADVENTURES TO HIS OTHER HALF, AND HAYSTACKS CHATTED WITH HIS COMPATRIOTS IN ENGLAND AND ALSO PUT IN A BID FOR A LIFETIME'S SUPPLY OF CHILLI SAUCE, AND A NEW PAIR OF TROUSERS………….
THIS DONE, THE SUPERYOB STREETROCK COLOSSUS TRUNDLED UP TO THE CLUB:-

CONNECTIONS CLUB, PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY

THIS WAS SUPERYOB'S USA TOUR FAREWELL GIG, AND THE BAND WALKED TO THE CLUB ENTRANCE, AND OPENED THE DOOR…. "GOOD AFTERNOON, WE'RE SUPERYOB" SAID FRANKY TO THE BLOKE AT THE DOOR SELLING TICKETS. "HEY, HOW YOO DOOIN" CAME THE RESPONSE….. RECENT EPISODES OF 'THE SOPRANOS' SUDDENLY CAME TO MIND FOR SOME REASON………..THE YOBS SPEEDILY CLAIMED A TABLE FOR WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE MERCH, AND TAPED UP ONE OF FRANKY'S HAND WRITTEN 'SUPERYOB STUFF HERE' POSTERS ON THE WALL. THEN, THE BAR WAS NEXT FOR THE THIRSTY YOB MOB, WHO TASTED A LOCAL NEW JERSEY SPECIALITY CALLED 'IT LOOKS LIKE GUINNESS BUT IT AINT' WHICH PROVED TO BE REFRESHING AND QUITE A FULL BODIED GLASS OF WALLOP. ITS REAL NAME WAS 'MIX'….NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH 'TWIX' WHICH IS WHAT CHIPSHOP WAS CALLING IT LATER WHEN HE WAS THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND. (WIND….? AAAARGHH, NOT THAT AGAIN!) HAYSTACKS SAMPLED THE YUENGLING AS IF IT WAS GOINGOUT OF FASHION.
THE CONNECTIONS CLUB HAD A GOOD STAGE AND P.A. SOUND, AND A GOOD SOUND ENGINEER TO BOOT IT WAS GOOD TO SEE A FEW FACES WHO'S MADE THE TRIP FROM PREVIOUS SHOWS AND ALSO TO HANG OUT WITH CHAPS FROM OTHER BANDS:- PHIL FROM THE TEMPLARS WAS THERE ALONG WITH ANDY FROM CRANKED UP AND BIG MIKE McGUINNESS FROM AMERICAN NOISE.

WARM UP BAND DEAD HEROS PLAYED A RABBLE ROUSING SET WITH FRONTMAN JJ IN COLOSSAL FORM:- STRIPPED TO THE WAIST, CLIMBING ALL OVER THE STAGE AND SPRAYING BEER OVER THE PUNTERS. THEY WERE ON HOME TURF AND PLAYED LIKE IT TOO. SHOUTY STREET PUNK TO BE PROUD OF. TALKING TO HAYSTACKS LATER, JJ INFORMED HIM THAT THEIR PERFORMANCE HAD JUST GOTTEN THEM BANNED FROM THE VENUE AGAIN...ROCK AND BLOODY ROLL!!!!!

AT THE ALLOTTED TIME THE YOBS TOOK TO THE STAGE AND THE BAR RAPIDLY EMPTIED AS THE PUNKS, SKINS, AND OTHERS IN THE CLUB CROWD EAGERLY PRESSED FORWARD TOWARDS THE STAGE. SUPERYOB DELIVERED ONE OF THE BEST AND MOST MEMORABLE SHOWS THEY HAVE EVER PLAYED…..VOCALIST FRANKY THE RABBLE ROUSER SINGING IN HIS TRADEMARK GRAINY, NICOTINE COCKNEY VOCAL STYLE, URGING THE CROWD TO GET INVOLVED LIKE A MAN POSSESSED; ACE AS USUAL KEEPING THE BEAT OF THE BAND THUDDING, WHACKING AND CRASHING BEHIND THE KIT; CHIPSHOP JOHN HURLING THUNDERING BASS LINES INTO THE FRAY AND SINGING BEEFY BACK UP VOCALS, DAVE HAYSTACKS DELIVERING LUSTY, DIAMOND HARD GUITAR RAUNCH AND MATCHING CHIPSHOP'S CHORUS VOCALS WITH HIS OWN.'GHETTO BLASTER' OPENED THE YOB ACCOUNT BRILLIANTLY AND 'BANG TO RIGHTS' SAW THE START OF SOME SERIOUS APPRECIATION OF THE EXCELLENCE OF SUPERYOBBERY ON THE PART OF THE AUDIENCE, WHO CHEERED THIS SONG WILDLY…'STRENGTH OF THE NATION' GOT A HUGE RESPONSE AS FRANKY CALLED FOR THE CROWD TO SING THE CHORUS, DOING HIS USUAL BICEPS FLEXING AS HE SANG THE TITLE / CHORUS, AND 'THE STRENGTH OF THE NATION' WAS REPEATED AND FLUNG BACK AT THE YOBS BY THE RAUCOUS WILD EYED CROWD…
THEN DURING 'VICIOUS CIRCLE', 'MACHINE GUNS 'N' ALCOHOL', AND 'AINT GONNA TAKE IT', THE CRAZY MOSHPIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE VENUE WAS GOING BALLISTIC, AS THE SPIKED AND SHAVEN CROWD OF JUICED UP PUNKSTERS AND SKINS CELEBRATED THEIR DATE WITH THE YOBS THE BEST WAY THEY KNEW…..'THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT' GOT A HUGE CHEER AS A CORE ANTHEM FOR THE SCENE, THEN IT WAS STRAIGHT INTO THE ROCKIN' HEADLONG RUSH OF 'HEARTBREAK BRIDGE'. THIS SONG FROM THE STREETS OF LONDON IS JOINED BY A NIFTY DRUM LINK FROM ACE TO 'ON YER BIKE', WHICH AGAIN DREW A LOUD AND LAIRY CHORUS SINGALONG FROM THE YOB AUDIENCE.
A TRIUMPHANT 'DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO' AS THE LAST SONG IN THE SET, MADE THE FINAL GLORIOUS IMPACT ON THE CROWD WHO BY NOW WERE PROBABLY SUPERYOB FANS FOR LIFE, AND REFUSED TO LET THE LONDON LOUTS LEAVE WITHOUT AN ENCORE..…THE YOBS DULY OBLIGED WITH THE SMALL FACES 'ALL OR NOTHING',
AND AS THE LAST NOTES OF THE CLASSIC RANG OUT, THE ASSEMBLED CONCERT GOERS GAVE THE BAND A ROUSING ROAR OF APPROVAL AND SUSTAINED APPLAUSE. AND SO, SUPERYOB LEFT THE STAGE … THIS WAS INDEED A NIGHT TO REMEMBER .

SUPERYOB SET
GHETTO BLASTER, BANG TO RIGHTS, STRENGTH OF THE NATION, VICIOUS CIRCLE,
MACHINE GUNS 'N' ALCOHOL, AIN'T GONNA TAKE IT, THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT,
(YOBSONG, NOT THE 'OO), HEARTBREAK BRIDGE, ON YER BIKE,
DO ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO.

-ENCORE-
ALL OR NOTHING

LATER THE BAND SHARED OPINIONS WITH SUPPORT TROUPERS U.S. POLICESTATE AND MANY OTHER PUNK AND OI! FOLK, INCLUDING SOME WHO HAD SEEN SUPERYOB AT OTHER VENUES AND DECIDED TO MAKE A POINT OF FOLLOWING THE PROGRESS OF THEIR FAVOURITE BEERY LIMEYS……CHIPS AND FRANKY TOOK TURNS TO STAY AT THE MERCH TABLE AND BUY SOME MORE 'LOOKS LIKE GUINNESS BUT IT AINT' (MIX? TWIX?) FROM THE BAR.
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES WERE PLENTIFUL, AND THE YOBS DUTIFULLY MADE FACES AT LOTS OF DIFFERENT CAMERAS, SURROUNDED BY BEERED UP PUNTERS. EVEN ACE CRACKED A SMILE OR TWO…..CHIPSHOP SURPASSED HIMSELF IN THE 'GURNING' STAKES , AND SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF A FEW PEOPLE. HAYSTACKS AND FRANKY MANAGED CHARMING, THOUGH RATHER SQUIFFY, GRINS.LATER THE RESTARTS PLAYED THEIR AGGRESSIVELY SNOTTY BLASTS OF PROTEST PUNK FROM THE STREETS OF EAST LONDON (VIA IRELAND AND CANADA). TO TOP THE EVENING THE KRAYS PLAYED A GREAT ROUSING PUNK SET TO THE ASSEMBLY....ONE DRUNKEN GUITAR PLAYER DOWN, BUT STILL WITH ENOUGH WIT AND ENERGY TO ENTERTAIN WITH THEIR FAINTLY BRIT SOUNDING PUNK/NEW WAVE DELIVERY. HIGHLIGHT OF THEIR SET WAS THE RESTARTS JOINING THEM ONSTAGE FOR A DRUNKEN VERSION OF ABBA'S 'DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW'.

NOW THE YOBS GIRDED UP THEIR LOINS TO DEPART, WITH A HEARTY THANKS TO PROMOTER ADIAND SAID CHEERIO TO ALL…..PACKING UP THE YOB CLOBBER FOR THE LAST TIME, THE FOUR MONSTERS OF STREETROCK CLIMBED INTO THE YOB WAGON AND DROVE OFF IN THE DIRECTION OF BOSTON.

Triplet from after the New Jersey show. Frank, Chippy and 'Stacks arsing about (top)and in the company of 'Strange Bowler Hat Man' who came to most of our shows (middle) and Dustin from support band New York Police State.(bottom)

DAY 12- MONDAY MARCH 22ND 2004

THE PROSPECT OF 'NO SLEEP TILL BOSTON' DID'NT APPEAL, AND ABOUT FOUR HOURS OUT OF NEW JERSEY THE YOBMOBILE STOPPED SO THAT THE BAND COULD SNATCH A FEW HOURS KIP IN THE MOTOR…..BUT AN 'AUTO-MOBILE' AINT A BED, AND SO THE RESULT WAS 'NO PROPER SLEEP TILL BOSTON' AFTER MUCH DIFFICULTY GETTING A REAL KIP. SO, FOUR HOURS LATER THE BLEARY EYED YOBS MADE FOR A CAFÉ AND HAD EARLY MORNING TEA. WITH EYES THAT LOOKED LIKE PISSHOLES IN THE SNOW, OUR FOUR ROCKERS DROOPED OVER THEIR TEACUPS, AND BRAVELY CONTEMPLATED THE LONG HAUL BACK TO THE DROPKICK MURPHYS HOMETOWN… ONCE AGAIN THE SLOG OF DRIVING FELL TO HIGHWAY HERO CHIPSHOP JOHN, WHO RESOLUTELY TOOK THE WHEEL, AND AFTER WHAT SEEMED LIKE AN ETERNITY ON THE HIGHWAY, CHIPS SAFELY DELIVERED HIS YOB PARTNERS TO BOSTON.
WHAT A CHAMPION.
FIRST STOP WAS BRIAN'S PLACE IN MALDEN, WHERE MATT KELLY'S BASS THAT CHIPS HAD LOANED WAS GRATEFULLY RETURNED, AND THE BAND SAID A BIG CHEERIO AND THANKS MATE TO MISTER BRIAN FOR BEING A GENEROUS HOST, DRIVER, AND DIAMOND GEEZER EXTRORDINAIRE…. THEN TRACKS WERE MADE TO THE HOSTEL ON HEMINGWAY STREET, WHICH UNFORTUNATELY WAS FULL….HAYSTACKS EVEN THREATENED TO SIT ON THE DESK CLERK, TO NO AVAIL…NO ROOM AT THE INN. EVENTUALLY AFTER PHONE CALLS, THE BAND FOUND SANCTUARY AT THE PRESCOTT HOTEL IN EVERETT, AND WERE GIVEN A CHEAP AND CHEERFUL BILLET COMPRISING FOUR BUNK BEDS IN ONE ROOM, WITH A SHOWER AND TOILET ADJOINING…WOT LUXURY AFTER DOSSING IN THE YOBMOBILE! SHOWERS AND MORE SLEEP WERE THE ORDER OF THE DAY, AFTER FIRST FILLING THE YOB WAGON WITH GAS, TAKING IT TO A CARWASH TO REMOVE THE GRIME OF APPROXIMATELY TWO THOUSAND MILES OF DRIVING, AND RETURNING IT TO THE RENTAL COMPANY. THEN, AFTER HAVING A SNOOZE AT THE HO(S)TEL, THE YOBS WENT IN SEARCH OF VICTUALS TO SATISFY THE URGENT NEED FOR GRUB…..THE PANGS OF HUNGER GRIPPED ALL FOUR YOBS, BUT THE TWO LARGER MEMBERS OF SUPERYOB ('THREE DINNERS' HAYSTACKS AND 'NO CHALLENGE TOO LARGE' CHIPSHOP) WERE SO HUNGRY THEY WERE SERIOUSLY DISCUSSING CANNIBALISM………….
LUCKILY, THE HUNGRY FOURSOME OF YOB MARAUDERS CHANCED UPON A LOCAL NOSH EMPORIUM CALLED CAFÉ BELLO, AND SAT DOWN TO A SUMPTUOUS MEAL. THIS WAS A BUFFET OF RICE, BEEF AND VEGETABLES….SATISFYING, NOT TOO EXPENSIVE, AND AN ALL ROUND OK DEAL, SCORING EIGHT OUT OF TEN ON THE YOBGRUB VALUE INDEX. SOME BEERS AT A LOCAL BAR NEXT, BUT WHEN IT WAS CLEAR THE BAR ENTERTAINMENT FEATURED A THREE PIECE CABARET BAND PLAYING SUCH GEMS AS 'LIKE A VIRGIN', SUPERYOB SCARPERED SHARPISH, AND RETURNED TO THE HOTEL. THE TROUBLE WITH THIS MOVE WAS THAT THE ONLY BEER AVAILABLE AT THE HOTEL WAS - BUD LITE. GROAN. IS THERE NO JUSTICE…..
HOW ANYONE CAN DRINK THIS PISS REMAINS ONE OF THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD.
STILL, IT WAS ALL THAT WAS ON OFFER, AND SUPERYOB BRAVELY SWALLOWED SOME AS THEY DISCUSSED THE EVENTS OF RECENT DAYS. THEN IT WAS TIME TO GO UP THE STAIRS TO BEDFORDSHIRE, AND SNATCH SOME WELL NEEDED BO-PEEP. CHIPSHOP HAD CUNNINGLY POSITIONED HIMSELF IN ONE OF THE LOWER BUNKS, AND DURING THE NIGHT LET GO ONE LAST HUGE NOCTURNAL NASTY, A DENSE, GROWLING FOG-LIKE CLOUD OF SATANIC, THERMO-NUCLEAR STINKING ARSE-GAS…..DEATH BY ASPHYXIATION WAS NARROWLY AVOIDED AS ACE OPENED A WINDOW…FRANKY WAS THE OCCUPANT OF THE BUNK ABOVE CHIPS AND SWORE LATER THAT CHEMICAL WARFARE HELD NO TERRORS FOR HIM COMPARED WITH CHIPSHOP DROPPING HIS GUTS…..ANAL METHANE ASIDE, THE YOBS SLEPT SOUNDLY ON THEIR LAST NIGHT IN AMERICA

DAY 13- TUESDAY MARCH 23RD 2004

AN ALARM CALL AT 5.00 AM ROUSED THE SLEEPING SUPERYOB BEAUTIES, AND IT WAS ALL HANDS ON DECK TO WASH, CHECK BAGS, CHECK MONEY, AND CHECK OUT OF THE PRESCOTT. THE BOSS OF THE HOTEL/HOSTEL DROVE THE YOBS TO LOGAN AIRPORT,(AFTER HIS PALM WAS GREASED WITH GREENBACKS) - GIVING A MERRY 'SIGHTSEEING COMMENTARY'AS HE DROVE AT BREAKNECK SPEED THROUGH BOSTON; THOUGH MUCH OF WHAT HE SAID WAS LOST ON THE EARLY MORNING YOBBOS, WHO GAZED LONGINGLY AT EVERY DINER THEY PASSED, DREAMING OF BREAKFAST. AT LAST THE BAND ARRIVED AT LOGAN, AND HAD SOME SCOFF AT THE AIRPORT CAFÉ…..THEN THE YOBS CHECKED IN,
WENT THROUGH SECURITY, WHICH WAS TIGHT WITH MANY QUESTIONS; AND BOARDED THE BRITISH AIRWAYS PLANE THAT WOULD TAKE THEM BACK TO BLIGHTY…..SUN AND CLEAR BLUE SKIES, PLUS ALMOST NO TURBULENCE MADE THE FLIGHT A BREEZE, WITH A TAILWIND SHORTENING THE FLIGHT TIME. (HAYSTACKS AND CHIPS CLAIMED THEY ADDED 'TAILWINDS' OF THEIR OWN…ARF! ARF!)
ON THIS OCCASION, BRITISH AIRWAYS INFLIGHT FOOD REALLY HIT THE SPOT, BEING VERY TASTY; THEN IT WAS TIME FOR MORE ALE AND A CELEBRATION FOR LONDON'S FINEST STREETROCK OUTFIT, AND MEMORIES OF THEIR WELL RECEIVED AND TRIUMPHANT TOUR IN THE USA.

AS SUPERYOB TOUCHED DOWN AT HEATHROW, IT FELT GOOD TO BE BACK IN BRITANNIA…..BUT THE YOB EXPLOITS ON TOUR IN THE LAND OF UNCLE SAM HAD ALSO BEEN A GREAT ADVENTURE; A WHOLE LOT OF FUN, AND A LANDMARK ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF SUPERYOB.

COMMENDATIONS GO TO THE FOLLOWING:-

MATT KELLY; JOHNNY D; BRIAN DESMOND; LENNY AND DARKBUSTER AND TOMMY AND ALL HIS TERRIFYING TERRORS IN BOSTON; MARIANNE & THE CASTLE IRONSKULLS INMATES IN PROVIDENCE; RUBEN, CAM, PADDY AND JEREMY IN BUFFALO; ANDRÉ AND NOAH FROM NORTH OF THE BORDER; AARON, CRENDALL AND BLACK LABELLED IN ITHACA; CHRIS, COLLEEN AND JIMMY POGO IN ALBANY, AL AT THE BOMB SHELTER IN NH; DUSTY, TONY, SOUP AND THE GUYS IN NEWARK DE; ADI (PUNKNITE) AND JJ (DEAD HEROS) IN NJ AND ALL THOSE WHO HELPED THE BAND, THE SUPPORT BANDS, THE CHARACTERS WE MET ON THE WAY AND ALL THE AUDIENCES AT SUPERYOB'S SHOWS. YOU GET A BIG THUMBS UP FROM THE YOB GEEZERS …..

THANKS A LOT FOR HAVING US, AMERICA. NICE ONE.

SEE YOU NEXT TIME

WELL, THAT CONCLUDES THE SUPERYOB 2004 'COCKNEY ROCK IN THE USA' TOUR DIARY
PHEW….!!!!!

I'M OFF DOWN THE PUB.

TA-TA FER NOW FOLKS.

FRANKIE