A little fun while I was on holidays - two weeks in California (+Las Vegas).

12 Galaxies is a great venue, symmetrical with a high stage and an all-round balcony above so you can look directly down on the band and check them for bald spots (there are none) while they play and you play pool.

This was billed as 'Dema's Birthday Party', it's her in the last photo, and sure enough she got a shout out and song dedication.

Loud, loose and rocking like a bastard, Mudhoney were the band that kick started the Seattle grunge bubble at the tail end of the eighties with the EP 'Superfuzz Bigmuff' (guitarist Steve Turner had a Big Muff pedal on his effects board tonight) and the single 'Touch Me I'm Sick' - which they played tonight, obviously, getting the biggest reaction.