Loch Lomond Balloch
Country Park
2nd August, 2008

Pete entered the stage for a headline solo spot, with only a guitar, Arthur Daley coat and pork pie hat. He got rapturous applause from a mainly non-partisan crowd, one which wouldn’t remain so. A quick cover of The Libertines Can’t Stand Me Now got most on side, but what followed was shambolic. Highpoints such as Albion were more than cancelled out by atrocious versions of Clash and Pistols numbers, with Pretty Vacant plumbing the depths. The most outrageous, however, was The Stone Roses’ Your Star Will Shine, so bad that not many knew what he was singing – like a bad busker in Sauchiehall Street. Audience members then started throwing 10p pieces at him, to which he asked if that was all he was worth? If I’d thrown one, I’d have asked for change.