Standing Interlude

They got knocked down... but they got up again. If you read last month's headline article, you will already know about West One Four (a bar)'s ploy to rip off Standing Interlude (BrianMay and Bjork Baby's band). They needed 30 people to come to a gig last month to redeem a £80 deposit. Twenty-six people came. *gasp!* Luckily, the band were only forced to pay the cost of the four lacking people, instead of losing the full amount. Nevertheless, the venue were incooperative to the end, refusing the band a soundcheck with the ridiculous claim that "soundcheck time is over", to which BrianMay made the alltime comeback of: "You're being an.... idiot."

In the end the evening was enjoyable anyway. Thank you to all who came to support (especially Bonzai, who magically materialised in the crowd when he was supposed to be in Oxford). Standing Interlude played well, in spite of the general animosity lingering in the air from the soundcheck (or lack thereof). After favourites like "Out On The Tide" and "-[fade]-", they ended with a cover of "Hey Joe" which sent BrianMay and Bjork leaping wildly about the stage, to the extent that I had serious concern that they would either collide or that BrianMay would trip on the guitar lead that was by then wound several times round his right leg.

The band after Standing Interlude were unavoidably memorable for the singer unfastening his trousers onstage in order to insert the microphone lead through his fly, shortly before diving offstage and crawling under Bonzai and Beware's legs.

A week later Standing Interlude played a Battle of the Bands at Thames Valley University and went home with a shiny little trophy and a lot of praise from the audience.

Article by Bad Baby. Photographs by Beware-of-the Baby.

Babies in this photo album: Bjork Baby, Brianmay Baby