Wednesday 6th July 05 - Farewell to the Raywells? (1/5) By Joe Hakim Photo Gallery By Michelle Dee

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Ah, wet Wednesday, if it's not a cliché already, then it should be. It's The Raywells' reunion gig at The Piper, so I decide to go. The fact that I'm getting in for nowt, has absolutely nothing to do with it, honest. I'm one skint motherfucker, so I have to walk to Newland Avenue from the town centre. It's a bit of a fuckin' hike, especially when it's pissing it down.

The shit British summer weather does it best to send me home, but I'm not broken that easy. In my mind I play the Most ridiculous names for a new band game. The best two are the Raging Hard-Ons and End-of-Level Bad Guy, so if any up and coming bands start using either of these names, then you'll be hearing from my imaginary legal shortly.

It's so fuckin' dank and damp that the chavs don't even bother to sit outside of McDonald's on Beverley Road. Ah, grey Wednesday, if it's not a cliché already, then it should be. When I finally reach The Piper, my worst nightmare happens. There's this kid on the door, and when I tell him who I am and what I'm doing, he looks at me blankly. Thisisull...erm, I'm not sure, just let me check...erm, he says, ruffling through scraps of paper.

There's a queue of people behind me, so I'm already beginning to feel like a twat. I decide to let him off the hook.

I go away and make a couple of calls, and when I come back it's sorted, but even then the door staff still look at me funny. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, or maybe it's the Bumfights tattoo that I still have to get removed from my forehead. It's on my to-do list. So I finally get in, and I head straight for the bar, as any sane man in this situation would. Thanks to the fuck-about on the door, I miss the first band, Substitute.

Sorry guys. I'm not causing trouble or owt, but it was those fuckers on the door, blame them.

It's a funny crowd in The Piper - they have a kinda style that I can't really put my finger on, like an indie/chav cross. Chindie or Indav or something, y'know, dressed in really expensive shit in an effort to look cheap. I get my notebook out and stick it on the bar. It's the first time I've really done this. Usually the kinda shit I write leads me into some pretty freaky situations, and getting a notebook out would be a sure fire way to get my arse killed or kicked-in. But this is an attempt to do a review, goddamn it, so I feel a duty to try and look professional, even if for the first ten minutes I feel as though I'm exposing myself.

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