Hi Bud sorry to be moaning at you so soon in the year but can you tell me if there were any problems with the Edinburgh hogmanay gig ( I think I must be the only one moaning about it and it has taken me a wee while to work out what to say cos I absolutly love you guys and never thought I would be giving you grief about anything sorry ) because you seemed to come onstage late ( 23.35 ) and finished very early ( 00.43 ) when the concert was advertised to go on to one o clock and it was just a very basic greatest hits set you played and was a great let down to me,reviews of the xmas tour mentioned early tracks which I was really looking forward to hearing ( ernie, tarzans nuts, on the beat pete, etc ) and you could have easily played four or five more tracks in the time alloted, it was also not recorded as you promised by concert live so noone could buy a copy, even the merchandise was total crap ( just the stuff left over from madstock ) so I couldnt even get a prog
ramme or a badge ( I am now going to have to pay more than it cost from retro-madness to get a copy as I collect them ) I have to say I was really unhappy with the whole concert as I have saw you many times in the past and I know what you guys can do and how good you can be when you are not just going through the motions ( a you seemed to be that night )maybe you can tell the fans in future when you are just going to do a greatest hits set so we can save our money for the better gigs ( bearing in mind that this was the most expensive ticket in the whole tour and I could have saw you for a lot less money elswhere ) if ther were any problems which caused this I would really like to hear them as I dont want to tarnish my memories of you lot but this has done so a little bit ( even the support band the were on stage longer than you were )cheers Terry B fae Kirkcaldy

Dear Terry
We went on a bit late as Thommos sax was left behind. The band decided to do the Greatest Hits as it was New Years Eve, a big party I suppose. Programmes I don’t know anything about. You can’t really add the Hogmany one to your collection if there was no Hogmany programme surely? I didn’t know we would be on and off so quick but they tried to get us off at 11.45 to do the count down and I recall us still playing right up to 11.55 as the guy was really panicking I was watching a TV screen which was counting down to the fireworks. I also think the whole show was running a bit late. Next time come to a regular show. So far you are the only complaint but I have not answered anything for 4 months and there may be a good few more.
Please accept my apologies CB