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29.  Friday, July 21st 2000. Venue: The Railway Tavern, Hungerford with Chamfer
28.  Thursday, May 18th 2000. Venue: The Swan, Wantage supported by
Cargo Cult Collective
27.  Friday, 28th April 2000. Venue: The Jericho, Oxford with
Atomika & Five Mile Drive
26.  Thursday, March 9th 2000. Venue: The Swan, Wantage with
Perfect 10
25.  Friday, January 14th 2000. Venue: The Railway Tavern, Hungerford supported by
Perfect 10
24.  Thursday, January 13th 2000. Venue: The Swan, Wantage supporting
Vade Macum
23.  Friday, November 26th 1999. Venue: The Point, Oxford supporting
King Prawn & Ex Cathedra
22.  Saturday, November 13th 1999. Venue: The Jericho, Oxford supported by
Fuse, Cobalt 60
21.  Friday, November 5th 1999. Venue: The George, Swindon supported by
Vade Macum
20.  Friday, October 29th 1999. Venue: The Pit, Witney with
Five Mile Drive
19.  Friday, October 21st 1999. Venue: The George, Swindon supported by Cobalt 60
18.  Thursday, October 21st 1999. Venue: The Elm Tree, Oxford supported by
Perfect 10, Cobalt 60
17.  Saturday, August 21st 1999. Venue: The Point, Oxford
'Your Song' Covers night
16.
  Thursday, July 22nd 1999. Venue: The Jericho, Oxford with Seren
15.
  Friday, July 16th 1999. Venue: The Pit, Witney with Five Mile Drive
14.  Saturday, July 3rd 1999. Venue: The Waterside Centre, Newbury with Khymera
13.
  Friday, June 11th 1999. Venue: The Elm Tree, Oxford with Buster Move
12.
  Thursday, May 13th 1999. Venue: The Dolly, Oxford with Black Candy, Callous, XI
11.  Thursday, April 24th 1999. Venue: The Alleycat, Reading with
Toploader, Chinki, Flynn
10.
  Thursday, March 25th 1999. Venue: The Jericho, Oxford supporting: Stack
09.   Friday, February 26th 1999. Venue: The Point, Oxford supporting:
Mindsurfer
08.   Friday, February 16th 1999. Venue: The Pit, Oxford supporting:
Full Frontal Assault
07.   Saturday, January 9th 1999. Venue: The Jericho, Oxford supporting: Callous
06.   Saturday, December 19th 1998. Venue: The Waterside Centre, Newbury with
Hepworth & Implosion
05.   Saturday, November 28th 1998. Venue: The Pit, Witney supporting:
Ruf Cut
04.   Wednesday, November 25th 1998. Venue: The Alleycat, Reading supporting:
Pull
03.   Friday, November 20th 1998. Venue: The Pit, Witney supporting: Overground
02.
  Saturday, October 31st 1998. Venue: The Pit, Witney supporting: Chamfer
01.
  Wednesday, September 2nd 1998. Venue: The Dolly, Oxford supporting: Chamfer


 

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Bob: First gig in a long while – certainly  playing our own songs and it showed! The evening began with ‘Cobalt 60’s debut. Their first gig as a band and the first gig ever for three out of the four members. All things considered you couldn’t fault their set. Second up were ‘Perfect 10’. I caught this band the previous Saturday supporting a local favourite band of mine, ‘Wingnut’. ‘Perfect 10’ have accessible material. They enjoyed themselves on stage and they’re quite tight. For their young age they’re talented musicians too. They recently relocated to Oxford, living in a house together, so I’m sure we’ll see more of them soon. When we finally appeared, we cracked into our usual set. I couldn’t help smiling throughout, as for us things were very loose and quite amusing. Paul and I were competing for volume, I kept dropping plectrums and I kept forgetting the titles of our songs and the names of the band that supported us. I also forgot when our forthcoming gig dates were. Saying that the set wasn’t a struggle it was just extremely relaxed. We tried another new number tonight, ‘Performance’ which went down a treat. It’s de-tuned and has a solid groove to it. It was by far the best song we played all evening. It was quite nice to see a few familiar faces there too. The general feedback was very positive. Everyone appeared to enjoy the casualness of the whole event including us. All in all it’s nice to just be gigging again.

Set List: Infinite, Believe, Some Time, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide, Performance.
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Bob: Breaking onto new turf following an amusing first gig of the season in Oxford, ‘Flume’ find themselves in Swindon. The George felt familiar although the locals didn’t. The George reminds me of the many cosy Pubs I’ve played where you’re left to run the whole show: The timing, the equipment and the P.A  (Ollie’s old P.A. that we use for rehearsing, no less!). To be perfectly modest, we surprised ourselves with the fantastic balance of loud sound. ‘Cobalt 60’ joined us again for their second gig ever and they outperformed themselves in comparison to the night before. With a much better sound, a little more confidence and a totally out of town venue many others and I were quietly impressed. Tonight’s gig for Flume was a considerably better performance than the night before. The songs were tight, the sound was great and each song rolled into the next beautifully. The new song, ‘Performance’ wasn’t quite as good as the night before but we were well accepted, we got paid and we all went home pretty content with the whole show. Despite requests for ‘Fish’ (the water residing ones as opposed to the ex-Marillion singer – it’s a local thing apparently), The George was a different experience for Flume and a new one for the Cobalt 60 guys….

Set List: Infinite, Believe, Some Time, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide, Performance.
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Nick: Friday 29th October and one year after the madness and mayhem at the last Halloween night, Flume embark on another fun packed evening at the Hollybush (the Pit) in Witney.  Its a double headline with Five Mile Drive providing the later entertainment!  As only proper for such an evening we had to do the make-up bit and all looking like death with devils horns (Kiss look-a-likes) we fired into the set!  Infinite, Believe, Sometime, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide and to end it all a new track "Performance" which we didn't play as well as usual but it was alright!   The crowd was great, seemed to like the noise we made and was quite big for The Pit.  Five Mile Drive are very Nirvana orientated with some of their own material thrown in for good measure.  It was good to see the whole band unlike last time when their drummer was in the states and they were forced to play a very good acoustic set.   Nice one guys!

Set List: Infinite, Believe, Some Time, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide, Performance.
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Bob: Following our last gig for Halloween. This was another traditional occasion,   Bonfire night. The evening’s treason began with friends. Talented local band, ‘Vade Mecum’. Kicking up a stir in Wiltshire with funky grooves that stretch from Chilli Pepper ditties to Rage against the Machine, almost grunge-like, Rock. Adding fuel to the fire we appeared and played a pretty tight and solid 40-minute set. Shame none of our friends from Oxford were here to share it with us. Occasional gestures to ‘turn the bass down’ gave a little creative restraint performance wise but we all had fun playing. It’s easy to forget we’re playing on the floor of a Pub and not at a Venue so there is always that tendency to ‘crank it’. Saying that though, I was outside briefly during Vade’s set and the Pub windows were shaking, which definitely beats your biggest firework display and trying to write your name with a sparkler in the cold miserable November rain. Our new song, ‘Performance’ is coming on and sounded a treat as it becomes more stomping the more we play it. Old favourite ‘Sweet’ sounded really good tonight too. Other than being desperate for a slash, having missed the turning to the Service station on the M4 on the way home I think, all-in-all, this years Firework night wasn’t a bad one – even if we didn’t see that many.

Set List: Infinite, Believe, Some Time, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide, Performance.
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Bob: I always remember the Jericho (or Jericho Tavern as it was back then) from my mid-teens. I saw so many great bands back in the early Nineties I always feel a small sense of pleasure treading the same boards as they. There’s something about this place which makes me feel comfortable, like I’m at home, despite the inclusion of Chandeliers from when it was briefly some kind of Bistro. Admittedly it has never been the same since but to me it’s still the place of many fond memories. It’s funny how things change though. Back then it was 49p cans of Co-op special brew down by the river beforehand, yet last night I was mixing Labatt’s Lager, bottles and bottles of red wine and many vodka cocktails at ‘Dinner’. And tonight (Michael) I paid for it. Despite feeling like I had been kicked-boxed in the stomach I really did enjoy the whole event. I was pleasantly surprised to see ‘Spike’ (once of the now closed ‘Dolly’) engineering. Many others and I were noticeably impressed with the fantastic sound he managed to produce on the P.A., which I am told, he had never worked with before.
First up were recent Flume support favourites, ‘Cobalt 60’. Considering this is their third gig ever their confidence, presence and ‘musical togetherness’ has significantly improved. Songs such as ‘Lights Out’ simply grooved.
‘Fuse’ were second up and brought a fresh collection of powerful, classic, melodic rock to Oxford. Again a good sound and good songs with some corking solos making me want to reach for the air guitar.
Shortly after ten we were up and we kicked in with ‘Infinite’. Tonight, on stage, the music was rocking. It was loud and you could really feel it. I could feel Ollie’s Bass thundering through my feet and on the few occasions I turned around it was nice to see Nick and Ollie sweating like fresh BK employees. My stomach was twisting tighter and halfway through the set I was struggling to bellow out without blowing out. Nevertheless, ‘Easy’, ‘Sometime’ and ‘On My Own’ all really rocked tonight. I take it the other tunes did too as the three young non-stop lady dancers in the corner were certainly having some fun! Finishing again with ‘Performance’ Nick kindly tried something new which made it interesting. We were then requested by a few for an Encore that caught us out slightly (as we had played all of our material!). So we had another crack at ‘Infinite’ and then it was definitely time to call it a night. Despite my minor ailment it was a really good evening watching our friends’ good bands and having the opportunity to play ourselves in front of a fair few people. Other than Alka-Seltzer there’s not a lot more you can ask for. A thanks definitely goes to Spike who provided a tremendous sound.

Set List: Infinite, Believe, Some Time, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide, Performance, Infinite.
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Ollie: This was a gig that I was looking forward to as soon as it was booked. King Prawn were a band who had blown me away last time I'd seen them and had a reputation in Oxford that meant this gig was going to be packed to the gills.
By the time the other two bands had finished soundchecking things were getting tight and so our own soundcheck was very hasty. Luckily engineer Mac is the master of the two minute soundcheck and managed to get us a great sound. The three band bill meant that we were on at the unusually early time of 8.30 pm and although there was already a pretty decent crowd by then. Some of our own fans who we knew were coming still had not arrived, but it seemed that by the end of the first two songs everyone had got in. We had worked out a special set list for tonight dropping Some Time and Sweet to make a short driving set of thirty minutes and it really paid dividends. Everyone in the band seemed really fired up and I had a blast. If this is the last gig we play this year it will worthy of remembrance.
I didn't watch too much of Ex Cathedra to be honest, but they had a cool sax thing going. The air conditioning has been broken at this venue for a while now and it sure gets hot. So I took some time out to cool down before again entering the inferno to witness King Prawn. I can only say they were fabulous. They play a cool ska come hardcore/rap type thing that brings comparisons to The Clash, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Senser. They put on a superb show too, swapping instruments and featuring horns and an amazingly weird bass player. Great. Catch this band if you can.

Set List: On My Own, Believe, Bench, Easy, Infinite, Provide, Performance.
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Ollie: A new venue for Flume and it was a pleasant surprise. Bob had played here before in one of his old bands but he hadn't told me what to expect. It was a nice sized venue with a large low stage and a vocal PA. Vade Mecum who had set up the gig were headlining and it was good to meet up with them again. The great thing about playing with them is that they have the same 3-piece line-up, so it makes setting up and soundchecks so much easier and gives more room on stage. I was a tad nervous about the gig as we hadn't played for a while and as fired up the backline ready to play the electricity tripped, and again, and again. Was this going to be one of those nights? But no,  once we up and running things went fine. Maybe not the tightest gig we've ever played but the substantial crowd were grooving and you can ask for more.

Set List: On My Own, Believe, Bench, Easy, Infinite, Provide, Performance.
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Ollie: Another new venue. Another great venue. This gig was organised by Nick who had once lived in Hungerford for a while.  We asked the Lads from Perfect 10 to come down and support us who are for my money one of the best bands in Oxford at the moment and still so young! They played a mixture of cool covers and their own material including the great 'Anticipation'.  The venue was fairly big and as its name suggests is straight off Hungerford station. Having been fired up by the gig we had played the night before I was itching to play this one and I got the distinct impressions that Bob & Nick felt the same. Right from the word go the Flume were firing on all cylinders and the large crowd were right behind us. Definitely a Top Gig.

Set List: Infinite, Believe, Some Time, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide, Performance.
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Ollie: Back at the Swan with Perfect 10 who get better every time I see them. We decided to play first this time as their set is so much longer than ours. I spent the time in-between our sound check and set putting a new stereo into my van, one way to while away the time! Good gig using our own P.A. which did a great job and sounded cool. Bob broke a string at the end of Bench but luckily had his spare guitar with him. During Perfect 10's set their bassist also broke a string so I let him use my bass for the rest of their set.

Set List: Infinite, Believe, Some Time, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide, Performance.
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Ollie: This was a gig to promote the LSCD compilations CD which we appear on along with the other bands playing tonight. Good to play with Five Mile Drive again.

Set List: Infinite, Believe, Some Time, Easy, Bench, Sweet, On My Own, Provide, Performance.
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