GIG 0021: That Voodoo at Speakeasy, Llandudno

 

High on last night's successful Anhrefn gig in Colwyn Bay, we got the bus to Llandudno to The Speakeasy to watch That Voodoo play, being pretty impressed with them last month in Rhyl. 

With alternative gigs / bands few and far between in the area we have to make the most of what’s given to us. The band set up in the corner on the dancefloor next to the DJ booth, they had a lot of local friends and family there to support, although I felt a bit more detached from the performance this time.

The Speakeasy was a pub hours night club underneath the Imperial Hotel in Llandudno on a Monday night and had become a regular jaunt, although filled with punks and goths, they would occasionally play the March Violets or Bauhaus to keep us marginally happy, but as Wayne said, ‘The DJ was such a tosser and we ended up being banned when Edi got into a fight with James Baguley [who played in Sleepless Dream] and glasses were smashed.’

GIG 0018: That Voodoo at The Bee Hotel, Rhyl

 

Saw That Voodoo play at The Bee Hotel in Rhyl, a bit of a dive of a place just by the train station, (we jumped the train from the Bay). 

Took my little tape recorder to bootleg the gig cos if I’m gonna take being a fanzine editor seriously then I need to support local bands and cover them in the next issue of Crud. 

The band came from Llandudno and formed last year after MCM split and they featured Andre Valero (bass,voc), Matt Davies (gtr,voc), Simon (drms), Julie (keys,voc), Sally (b.voc). 

Also featured at some point Shaun Davies who later joined the marines (not doubt after watching Full Metal Jacket, which hit the big screens later this year). 

That Voodoo had a delay pedal rigged up to the microphone that made some cool effects. They were definitely influenced by B.A.D. and Spear of Destiny, two bands I didn’t at the time particularly rank highly, apart from SOD’s Liberator, which we slam danced ourselves into bruised oblivion on the Bistro dancefloor. 

Matt later formed Charlex Dexter Ward Experiment, and sadly died in 2002.