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WELL THE STORY STARTS WITH ME WALKING DOWN GEORGE STREET AND BUMPING INTO A FRIEND THAT I HAD NOT SEEN IN A WHILE.. YORSTON ASKED ME WHAT YA DOING TONITE AND THEN TOLD ME ABOUT THIS HILL BILLY BAND WHO DID COVERS OF ACE OF SPADES,AC/DC ETC.. SOUNDED WEIRD BUT HELL WASN,T DOING ANY THING ELSE...

PHONED MY BROTHER MO TO SEE IF HE WANTED TO COME TOO, AND HE SAID YEAH AS HE HAD HEARD THEM ON THE RADIO..GOT TICKETS AND SET OF TO KEF,WONDERING WHAT IT WAS GOING TO BE LIKE, 2 SONGS IN AND I WAS THINKING THEY ARE GREAT,BY THE TIME THEY GOT TO ACE OF SPADES, I WAS BLOWN AWAY + WHEN THEY DID POOP ON A JAR, I FELL IN A HEAP, IT WAS FUNNY BUT BRILLAINT TOO...AND THE BANJO TEST WAS THE MOST AMAZING THING I HAD SEEN IN AGES..

THAT NIGHT THE BAND MEMBERS WAS BARLEY SCOTCH,REVERENED DON WAYNE RENO,DEACON DALE RENO, AND JEFF...MET THE GUYS AFTER TOLD THEM THEY WERE GREAT AND WOULD DEF SEE THEM AGAIN..

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SAW THE GUYS WERE PLAYING HERE AND WAS GETTING TICKETS NO MATTER WHAT(BY THIS TIME HAD JOINED THE HAYSEED FORUM  OUTHOUSE)  http://www.hayseed-dixie.com/outhouse.html I HAD SENT A MESSAGE TO JOHN ASKING IF I COULD FILM THE GIG (THE BOUNCERS WERE NOT GOING TO LET ME AND THEY FOUND OUT I COULD BUT THEY MADE ME STAND AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM)...AND WAS ALSO WONDERING WILL THEY BE AS GOOD THIS TIME AROUND... ALSO JEFF HAD LEFT AND WAS REPLACED BY JASON D SMITH, WHO I HAD A BREIF CHAT WITH  BEFORE THE GIG... THEY WERE AWSOME AGAIN AND EVEN DID A BANGLES SONG THAT THE CROWD SANG ALONG WITH AND THIS MESSED WITH JOHNS  HEAD AS HE SAID U LOT ARE EVEN SICKER THAN US..

WHEN I GOT HOME TURNED FOOTAGE INTO A DVD AND SHARED AMONGST FELLOW OUTHOUSERS A TRADITION THAT I STILL DO TODAY..

THIS WAS THE GIG I WAS WAITING FOR MY LOCAL, COULD NOT BELIEVE MY LUCK THEY WERE PLAYING HERE...http://www.cafedrummond.co.uk/content/about.asp TALKED WITH ERIC (THE OWNER) AND ARRANGED TO FILM THE GUYS AND THERE SOUNDCHECK....THE GUYS ARRIVED AND WE SPOKE MAINLY TO JASON EVEN THOUGH HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND A WORD THAT I SAID TO START WITH.... FINALLY HE COTTONED ON THAT I WAS UPSETTER ON THE HAYSEED FORUM AND WITH THAT HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE ME TO TALK TO HIS WIFE, BUT HE DIDNT HAVE A FONE NO WORRIES I SAID ERIC WILL LET YOU USE HIS, HE DID AND I SPOKE TO EMILY FOR THE FIRST TIME NOT REALISING THET THEY WERE TO BECOME MY BEST FRIENDS AND FAMILY TO ME...

DALE HAD A PAIR OF DUNGAREES WHICH HAD BEEN SIGNED BY BRIDGETTE NEILSON...

HAD USED MY TRIPOD TO FILM THIS ONE BUT THE SOUND DID NOT COME OUT, BUT LUCKILY A GUY HAD RECORDED THE AUDIO AND TRANSFERED IT ONTO MY FOOTAGE ADDING CHAPTERS ETC..BEST DVD I,V DONE STILL...

SO WE DECIDED AFTER SPEAKING TO THE GUYS THAT WE WOULD GO TO FORT WILLIAM THE NEXT DAY TOO..( I HAD GIVEN UP MY TICKETS FOR 2 BILLY CONNOLLY SHOWS)..

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HAD A GREAT TRIP TO FORT WILLAIM, CHANCE TO MEET UP WITH MY MATES TOTO + LIZ..

GIG WAS IN A WORKING MANS CLUB, (FILMED SOME OF THIS TOO)..1ST TIME THAT I MET THE DUMBARTON CREW BIG CASEY,GRAHAM,GAVIN.. AND BECAUSE IT WAS DEBZ BIRTHDAY (FRIEND FROM THE OUTHOUSE,MY 1ST AND LONGEST FRIEND FROM THERE)WE HELD UP HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIGNS TO HER....SHOW WAS REALLY GOOD (HARD TO REMEMBER ALL SHOWS JUST WEE HIGHLIGHTS)...AFTER SHOW GAVE JASON A UK FONE AS I HAD A SPARE ONE, AND HE COULD NOT BELIEVE THE KINDNESS THAT I SHOWED HIM AND ALL OTHER SCOTTISH PEOPLE..THIS CEMENTED OUR RELATIONSHIP..

ME AND JASON   I WANNA WIN LOL...

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CANNOT REMEMBER MUCH ABOUT THIS ONE, COULD JUST LOOK AT THE FOOTAGE I TOOK..WAS A MONDAY NITE..

MET THE GUYS AND GOT MY FIRST PHOTO WITH ALL 4, BOY THIS IS HARD TO TO GET..THEY JUST DONT SIT DOWN FOR A MOMENT ...

 ME AND ALL THE GUYS..    MMM NICE SANDWICHES   WOOAH THIS BEER SUCKS

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DROVE ALL THEY WAY TO YORK, AND HAD A WALK AROUND THE WALLS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY..

MET THE GUYS AT SOUNDCHECK, AND ALSO BEX MARSHALL, NICE LADY WHO WAS SUPPORTING THEM AT THE TIME..http://www.bexmarshall.co.uk/welcometobexmars.html 

QUITE A SMALL VENUE, WHERE IT WAS EASIER TO GO TO THE LOO OUT OF THE BACK DOOR AND GO ALL THEY AROUND TO THE FRONT DOOR...

.    MO PISSED

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AFTER THE YORK GIG WE DECIDED TO GO TO WALES WITH THE GUYS..SO ON THE TO A CD SIGNING IN WREXHAM WE STOPPED AT SOME CASTLES AND THEN ON TO MEET ANDY FROM THE BIG BALL CONVENTION...THANX TO ANDY WE HAD SOMEWHERE TO STAY AS WE COULDNT GET A B+ B... THE DAY WAS SPENT 1ST AT THE RECORD STORE, THEN THE GUYS DID THEIR WASHING,THEN OFF TO THE PUB FOR THE REST OF THAT DAY...WAS ALSO THE DAY I MET JILL + MIKE MOORES FOR THE 1ST TIME...ALSO A TRIP TO A WELSH RADIO STATION..

LOTS OF FUN..  MORE PHOTOS AT http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/WREXHAM/

FROM WREXHAM TO SWANSEA WAS A NICE DRIVE..AS THIS WAS AN IMPROMTU TOUR WITH THE GUYS WE DIDNT HAVE A  B+ B SO WE BOOKED IN WITH THEM AT THERE HOTEL..THEN SET OFF FOR THE VENUE...

BY THE TIME THE GUYS GOT ON STAGE,THE VENUE WAS THE HOTTEST PLACE EVER. STILL IS..... THE GUYS HAD WIND FANS ON STAGE AND STILL COULD NOT COOL DOWN, SO ME AND MO HAD TO KEEP GIVING THEM TOWELS..IT WAS AS A HOT AS HELL..

MORE PHOTOS AT  http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/HAYSEED%20SWANSEA/

THIS WAS GOING TO BE AN A HAPPY GIG FOR ME + JASON... 1ST OF ALL WAS GOING TO AIRPORT TO MEET EMILY AND FINALLY MEET MY FRIEND  + OF COURSE JASON GOT TO HANG WITH HIS WIFE... WE PICKED EM UP FROM THE AIRPORT AS THE GUYS WERE STILL IN NEWCASTLE. SO WE SHOWED EMILY AROUND GLASGOW TILL THE GUYS GOT THERE...

THE FERRY IS EXACTLY THAT A FERRY BOAT ON THE RIVER CLYDE..NICE VENUE, ALSO THERE WAS  FRAN E (ALL THE WAY FROM THE STATES). GUYS DID A VERSION OF BRYAN ADAMS SUMMER OF 69....

AFTERWARDS IT WAS BACK TO EDINBURGH AS THATS WHERE THEY WERE PLAYING NEXT NITE...WE HAD NOWHERE TO STAY. SO ME, MO + WARD HAD TO CRASH IN JASON/EMILYS ROOM... CHEERS FOR THAT GUYS...

 FRAN E, ME + EM     JASON + EM         JW  

GREAT NITE..  MORE PHOTOS AT http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/ferry%20glasgow/

DAY STARTED OFF WTH ME TAKING JASON + EMILY FOR A HEARTY BREAKFAST (EMILYS 1ST TASTE OF HAGGIS)..AND WALK AROUND THE TOWN..THIS IS A GREAT CITY.. WITH LOTS OF ATTRACTIONS..

AT THE GIG AT NITE MET DON WAYNES GIRLFRIEND RACHEL, AND JOHNS WIFE BETH...

ALSO BEFORE WE WENT TO THE GIG WE SPENT OUR 1ST OF MANY TIMES IN THE BLIND BEGGAR BIKER PUB IN EDINBURGH..AND THE SAME BLIND BEGGAR AS THE GUYS PLAY ABOUT IN THE SONG BLIND BEGGAR BREAKDOWN..

  JASON,EM + ME       1ST HAGGIS   SMEE                  BEST SOLD OUT SIGN EVER.

MORE PHOTOS AT http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/studio%2024%20edinburgh/

NEXT DAY IT WAS OFF TO HAYSEEDS 1ST FESTIVAL IN ULLAPOOL..JOHN AND PROMOTER ROBERT HICKS HAD GOT TOGETHER IN APRIL AND HAD DECIDED TO PUT ON A FESTIVAL..AND 5 MONTHS LATER THEY DID..  BOY WHAT A GREAT IDEA..THE ULLAPOOL PIPE BAND OPENED THE EVENT AND FOLLOWED BY A SHORT HAYSEED SET.. ALSO IN BETWEEN FRI/SAT WE HAD, THE UNDERTONES, THE DYSFUNKITIONALS,SALT FISH FORTY,SHOOGLENIFTY....

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LOTS TO REMEMBER HERE, MEETING ALL THE OUTHOUSERS, DRINKING BUCKETLOADS WITH JASON + EMILY IN THE ARCH INN..WALKING AROUND THE CAMPSITE LATE ON WITH JOHN, HOW FRIENDLY ALL THE PEOPLE WHERE... LOVE AND PEACE WAS ALL AROUND.. AND LITTLE DID I KNOW THAT MY LOVELY FIANCEE WAS THERE TOO... WAS VERY WET AND WINDY,MUDDY THAT JOHN CALLED EVERYONE THE NAVY SEALS OF FESTIVAL GOERS..

JANICE LONG WAS THERE AS A COMPERE TOO..A LOCAL COUPLE HAD THEIR WEDDING RECEPTION HERE...AND I WAS ASKED ALONG WITH FAMILY FRIENDS TO COME ON STAGE AT THE END...

 THE UNDERTONES   

         WET AND MUDDY

           OUTHOUSERS

MORE PHOTOS  1ST NITE   http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/loopallu%201st%20nite/?start=all

                             2ND NITE  http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/loopallu%202nd%20nite/?start=all

MORE PHOTOS http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/more%20loopallu/

BY THE TIME I HAD FLOWN TO LUTON FOR THIS SHOW. I HAD BEEN WITH SALLY AFTER GOING BACK + FORTH TO BRISTOL (ANOTHER STORY) BUT I LOVED HER ALMOST AS AS SOON AS I MET HER...THE GUYS HAD GOT US TOGETHER THROUGH THEIR MUSIC, THAT I HAD ASKED SAL TO MARRY ME, SO WE TOLD THE GUYS BEFORE THE GIG (OUR 1ST TOGETHER).. WAS GREAT SHOW KATEWITHCAKE WAS ALSO THERE...JUST BEFORE THE ENCORE THE JOHN TOLD EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE ABOUT OUT  OUR ENGAGEMENT, WITH SHOUTS FROM DALE  "DONT DO IT".. WE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AS WE HADNT TOLD ANYONE ELSE YET INCLUDING OUR PARENTS......WE HAVE THE AUDIO OF THIS SHOW TOO..GREAT REMINDER OF WHEN WE GOT ENGAGED...

MORE PHOTOS AT  http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/hayseed%20live%20bedford%2010-12-05/

TRAVELLED DOWN FROM ABERDEEN, TO MEET UP WITH SALLY + JESS.. THEN WE MET UP WITH JASON + EMILY AND THE REST OF THE HAYSEED GANG..WENT TO THE BLIND BEGGAR AND MUCH DRINKING ENSUED...

GREAT NITE.... MORE PHOTOS AT http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/blind%20beggar%20%2030-12-05/

HAYSEED WERE TO PLAY TOP OF THE MOUND, BESIDE THE GARDENS IN THE CITY CENTRE..THOUSANDS OF NEW YEAR REVELERS WERE ON THE STREET, RAINING MOST OF THE NITE,BUT GREAT GIG..DON+ DALE HAD THERE SISTER MITZI OVER WITH THEM TOO..

MORE PHOTOS AT http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v680/dixiemania/top%20of%20the%20mound%2031-12-05/?start=all