Next up was 4 gigs with the Rubettes.

The first was near Zürich. All went well, if I remember writely it was an MH3 which (from my Cavern Club days) made the gig easy. The only restriction was the 93db limit made all the more difficult by the fact the audience cheering peaked at 106db!! Heaven help “The Sweet” that was on after us.

The great thing was the day after as we had a day off and I caught a train in to Zürich and spent the day there.

The following day we had an outside gig which due to the fact there was going to be a lot of kids around we had a limit of 88db!!!! Argh, you’re killing me, we were outside for gods sake.

Again, all went great but at this point I was really getting fed up with the number of flies in Switzerland, “get off my food”.

2 more gigs followed in Belgium, practically in the same place. The first was on the back of a moving trailer (a float if you prefer) which consisted of me mixing on the trailer with headphones and trying to not inhale carbon monoxide.

The second was a full on gig in the town square which we had previously driven through earlier in the day. It was raining and I was getting blinded by a knob with a laser. FUN!