Band: Ginger & Anti Product Venue: The Office, South Shields, UK Date: 5 June 2001 (Evening)
The evening's jollies
was started off with our fav's AntiProduct. This set was different by far
to their normal stage show.
They all came onto the stage in evening dress, looking every bit the
'classic ensemble'. In fact we were just waiting for Clare to get her
violin out, when they went straight into audience participation time!
No hesitation from Alex at all, he just got the crowd singing "Bungee"
while he strummed along to it on his acoustic guitar.
This was a truly fantastic sight. Clare, Toshi and Milena all sitting on
stools with their posh attire playing along to their hearts content on the
electric machines, while Alex strummed out the heart strings of "Rules we
Rock n Roll By", "Goin' All the Way" and "Psychedelic Girlfriend" to the
audience.
No blood, no make-up, no spray paints, just PURE PRODUCT and my God do
they shine.
ALL can play (we know
that) ALL can sing (we know that) but with out any of the gimmicks - like
the stage make up and the head butting of mikes, ALL shone so bright, they
were SO tight - they have got to make it to the big time, they quite
simply have too go far.
I hope to God that you BIG record companies out there are reading this and
taking notice!!!!
Headliner Ginger would have to pull ten million rabbits out of hats to
follow this!!!
Our Ginge came out on stage very quietly and all alone looking very
forlorn. He sat down on a stool in the middle of the stage and started to
sing Geordie in Wonderland.
This solo act lasted all of 10 seconds as a huge bunch of Geordies tried
to drown him out singing it back at him.
They warmed to his tones and to the fact that he was back on home ground,
as did he too the home crowd.
The second song was Inside Out a SG5 number, for which he was joined on
stage by Alex (this is now his fourth set of the day) and Jon from earlier
in the day.
The acoustic set was
well into the swing of things with the three top guys playing She's So
Taboo, Scotch Chaser High, Sonic Shake, Anyway But Maybe and There's all
Ways Someone more Fu*ked up Than You. Along with a harmony or just a
general piss take of Stand and Deliver, I just Called to Say I Love You
and Purple Haze which then turned into Purple Rain which became Purple
Vain!!
The floor just bounced with excitement and I don't just mean that in a
literal way - I mean it physically bounced.
The crowd had become that strong at the front, with a mosh pit forming
(yes, even at an acoustic gig) the floor literally started to move. As the
crowd became more excited, it was obviously time to increase the tempo.
Two Wildhearts fanatics joined them on stage (AntiProduct's, Toshi on bass
and Simon on drums). Now we got full blown Wildhearts songs, with Head
Fu*k and I Wanna Go, the crowd went totally mad.
* Ginger did say later that they were going to play Nita Nitro, but the
crowd surge was unbelievable at the front, from what they could see on
stage and decided against it to avoid any injuries.*
To end on such a high was unbelievable, leaving the crowd hungry for more.
The night belonged to both AntiProduct and Ginger and as they are all good
friends it made the night and the atmosphere even more fantastic.
We have got to admit four of us out of five from the Mall were at the gig
and we had such a good time.
The gig was different to a normal acoustic set because it still turned out
to be manic at the end - we wouldn't have missed it for the world, we all
went home four very happy bunnies!@#!!
ALL can play (we know
that) ALL can sing (we know that) but with out any of the gimmicks - like
the stage make up and the head butting of mikes, ALL shone so bright, they
were SO tight - they have got to make it to the big time, they quite
simply have too go far.
The acoustic set was
well into the swing of things with the three top guys playing She's So
Taboo, Scotch Chaser High, Sonic Shake, Anyway But Maybe and There's all
Ways Someone more Fu*ked up Than You. Along with a harmony or just a
general piss take of Stand and Deliver, I just Called to Say I Love You
and Purple Haze which then turned into Purple Rain which became Purple
Vain!!
The floor just bounced with excitement and I don't just mean that in a
literal way - I mean it physically bounced.
