In 1979 me and my girlfriend Leonie were in the UK. I kept waiting for one of the bands I'd heard of to play a gig but nothing turned up. Then I read in NME that Purple Hearts were playing in Edinburgh so we thought lets go to Scotland. As well as doing a bit of sight seeing on the saturday night we went down to a disco called Clouds and saw the number two Mod band in the UK. The place was packed with Mods. Must of been a bit cold because there was a lack of scooters out the front.
Before the band came on there just a Mod disco, an idea I would later use at our Market Hotel gigs. I bought myself a half pint from the bar and immediately was surrounded by a bunch of Scots asking "waht's wrong wiv yee?" "we only drink pints up here..where are you from?...type stuff" luckily I got us away from this gang of half pissed Scots and git ourselves swallowed up by the dance floor. Then the bnad came on. Starting with this song..and ending with this song too! Pushing the latest single of course. It was a brilliant gig. They had a great sound, a good crowd and all the Mod moves down pat. Frustration was the best song on the night. And we had finally got to see a UK Mod band. I wrote a review in one of the Melbourne Mod fanzines when I got back to Melbourne.
Last year I did the Stark Raving Mod book launch joining the Sets on stage at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. One of the best songs the Sets did on the night was Frustration. And the crowd loved it.
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