The Gig
That Wasn't
The George And Dragon, Epping - 29th May
1989
They came,
They saw,
They left.
What was to be the highlight of the Bank Holiday turned into
a disastrous farce. The Epping Constabulary got wind (PARP!!)
of the hideous debauchery and appalling depravity inherent
at all Acolytes shows and decided to act. They stopped the
show.
"We were really disappointed," said hunky singer
Andy, "we had so much planned for this gig..." He
drifts off into a daze thinking of what might have been. "Al
and I met Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) at the pub and arranged
to borrow their stage set for a nominal fee." This fee
was later found to be a pint of Guinness, two lagers and a
packet of peanuts. "Incorporated into this was some of
our own special effects," continued Al. "We had
specially imported a quarter of a ton of Belgian goat dung
to be fired from cannons over the crowd during "Euroshit",
five hundred stampeding Canadian Wildebeast for "Rawhide"
and arranged for the R.A.F. to hurl six horses out of an aircraft
for "Crazy Horses".
At this point his pint ran out and he departed for a refill
and I was left wandering about the spectacle that never was.
Maybe next time eh?
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