After Enda Byrne took down with the ominous Dublin flu bug, panic stations were put on red alert ... "Don't let Campbell sing!!" were the cries heard from the top of a well known Dublin high rise ... "Anyone but him...." However, in a statement made the day before the gig, Campbell declared that if the worst came to the worst, he would be left to sing once again, and a compatriote of the band, by the name of Nine Inch Niall, would join the band for their rendition of friends Metallica's "Enter Sandman," which has been going down very well at these recent gigs. However, all did not quite go to plan. Due to a hectic schedule in their "social lives" not all the band could make time for rehearsal, and therefore several new songs which had been planned to be showcased were omitted from the set list. Omitted in fact several minutes before they were about to be played, omitted by Delanee. "they would just be too shit" said the troubled bassist. "Definitely, we'd have been laughed offstage" said drummer Jon Leech. Worried words from the beat master, but prophetic, in more ways than one. After running out of songs with five minutes stage time left, ongoing guitar-tech Mark Duffy was called onstage, to perform the final ever messiah operation rendition of Placebo's Every You Every Me. This in fact was so bad that the band were laughed offstage, but fortunately not because of any musical inability. As they say in endings like these, a good night was had by all.

The band kicked off with a rousing rendition of Metallica's "Enter Sandman." The crowd were mad for it, and cheered madly as Placebo's "Every You Every Me" was covered. B4 Anaesthesia went down a bomb. Once again, Tadhg Peavoy, former member leapt up onto the stage to join in in the rework of Pure Energy, retitled Sympathy. This spur-of-the-moment barrage however did not go well with the furious sound men. With shouts and screams aplenty the band were ordered offstage, and given a good talking to. Unhappy about the situation, the band demanded an apology, which they offered themselves wholeheartedly. This was inly returned in proxy, by the Second Manager of the venue. Unfortunate as it was the band were fabulous and will really be up for next Wednesday.

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