The 1-2-5: Past Gigs

The 1-2-5

Note to bewildered visitors from Foreign Parts: all gigs refer to places in the Netherlands unless indicated otherwise.

2008
Fri, 27 June 2008	Primitive Festival 5	Rotterdam
Five-day festival!!!
Fri, 18 April 2008	Beat Explosion 2	Darmstadt, Germany
Two-day festival!
Fri, 14 March 2008	Maloe Melo	Amsterdam
The Happening party
2007
Sat, 24 Nov 2007	Maloe Melo	Amsterdam
with the Spinshots
Fri, 25 May 2007	Walrus	Groningen
with the Waistcoats and The Rumblers
Sat, 21 Apr 2007	Club Rendezvous	Wigan, UK
with the Kiss Off
Fri, 20 Apr 2007	Dirty Water Club	London, UK
with the Frantic V and the Thanes
2006
Fri, 8 Dec 2006	Exit	Rotterdam
The first Rotterdam Beat Explosion, with the Dorktones
Sun, 22 Oct 2006	Xilourgeio	Thessaloniki, Greece
With The Frantic V and No Sin
Sat, 21 Oct 2006	An Club	Athens, Greece
With The Teddy Boys From The Crypt
Sat, 9 Sep 2006	Flèche d'Or	Paris, France
Soirée Suicide Twist
Thu, 23 Mar 2006	Waterfront Café	Rotterdam
With The Sonic Litter
2004
Thu, 5 Nov 2004	Café Kwatro	Alphen a/d Rijn
Gig for local radio
2003
Tue, 30 Dec 2003	So What	Gouda
See De Goudse Afrekening—also broadcast on Radio Gouwestad
Fri, 26 Dec 2003	Het Kasteel	Alphen a/d Rijn
Part of the Super Trio Night
Fri, 19 Dec 2003	Going Underground	Radio Gouwestad
Slightly unplugged on Gouda local radio
Sat, 8 Nov 2003	Café Kwatro	Alphen a/d Rijn
Pete and Tommy's Day Out gig -- «Was fijn hè, die Rockopera afgelopen zaterdag? Meesterlijk optreden met spetterende gitaren en toch nostalgisch.»
Sat, 22 Mar 2003	Het Kasteel	Alphen a/d Rijn
Pete and Tommy's First Day Out at the Easy Tune Festival.
2002
Fri, 29 Nov 2002	Het Kasteel	Alphen a/d Rijn
Part of some local festival or other.
Sat, 26 Oct 2002	The Freebutt	Brighton, UK	[pics]
With our pals The Waistcoats and The Charles Napiers.
Fri, 25 Oct 2002	Dirty Water Club	London, UK	[pics]
With our pals The Waistcoats and The Charles Napiers.
Thu, 15 Aug 2002	Het Kasteel	Alphen a/d Rijn
Premiering A Quick One (While He's Away).
Fri, 22 Mar 2002	Dirty Water Club	London, UK
«You guys were great. Even without the organ. Everyone was VERY impressed!»—PJ
2001
Thu, 2 Aug 2001	Pit's	Kortrijk, Belgium
Alright! So we did only one song, but it was the first true 1-2-5 gig since 1995!
1998
Sun, 6 Sep 1998	Fuzzfest '98	Atlanta GA, USA
Same as the Italian job.
Sat, 27 Jun 1998	Festival Beat	Piacenza, Italy
Emergency line-up with only two original members.
1995
Mon, 30 Oct 1995	Archeon	Alphen a/d Rijn
Sat, 12 Aug 1995	Gonz	Gouda
Thu, 1 Jun 1995	private party	Stolwijk
Playing at the looney bin.
Fri, 31 Mar 1995	Nighttown	Rotterdam
Our best paying gig ever. Shame only 5 people turned up, really.
Fri, 24 Mar 1995	Café Mono	Amsterdam
Fri, 17 Mar 1995	Big Confusion	Den Haag
Mon, 30 Jan 1995	local radio	Utrecht
The poor sods had been expecting an acoustic band.
1994
Mon, 31 Oct 1994	Archeon	Alphen a/d Rijn
Fri, 24 Jun 1994	So What	Gouda
Only gig ever in So What in our then home town of Gouda (they'd never have us, probably because they're a bit of a pretentious bunch, really). A dispute with the soundman about what garage music sounds like ended with the guitarist playing at full blast without the aid of the PA system - they way it should be! :-)
Fri, 17 Jun 1994	Gonz	Gouda
Sat, 4 Jun 1994	LVC	Leiden
Wed, 25 May 1994	Paradiso	Amsterdam
Hitting the big time in the Small Room.
Spring 1994	De Tunnel	Boskoop
Local talent hunt. We won the first round, so they changed the rules to make sure all the bands of round one ended up ranking below all the bands of round two.
Fri, 25 Mar 1994	Vrije Vloer	Utrecht
Fri, 11 Feb 1994	Gonz	Gouda
1993
Sat, 11 Dec 1993	[some youth joint]	Koudekerk a/d Rijn
Is this where my mighty organ broke down and someone from the audience had to run home to lend us his/her electronic toy organ? Can't remember.
Fri, 3 Dec 1993	Koornbeurs	Delft
We almost got into a fist fight with the band we were opening for! In hindsight, upstaging the main act was not a good idea.
Sat, 14 Aug 1993	De Greep	Gouda
Cut short after 45 minutes because the rain was threatening to electrocute the guitarist through his infamous custom fuzzbox power supply.
Sat, 14 Aug 1993	[some open air festivalette]	Waddinxveen
We only played for 10 minutes because we had to rush off to the Gouda gig.
Sat, 12 Jun 1993	Stathuys	Leiden
Fri, 28 May 1993	Gonz	Gouda
The Gonz was our home base, really. Except that turnaround of both visitors and staff was so fast there that after six months there would be nobody left remembering our previous gig, but in our mind it was our home base.
Sat, 13 Mar 1993	private party	Den Haag
1992
Formation of The 1-2-5 (no records on gigs before early 1993 survive).

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