High Speed Hangover had its inaugural gig at The Mayor’s Arms, Bristol on the 23rd July 2008.

Richard W took the lead on the vocals, as Catalina had not yet joined the band.   The band played for a full two hours – 26 songs – so the audience definitely got their money’s worth.  Particularly as the gig was free .

We’d prepared songs for the encore in advance, as is the custom, but ended up changing things – the audience requested we did ‘Poison’ again, and Richard performed one of his own songs ‘Transfusion’ – a comedy rap song about an injury-prone guy struggling to get the blood transfusion he so desperately needs.  We hadn’t actually ever played this song together before so it was a bit of a surprise when Richard started it off!

You can download an mp3 remix of ‘Transfusion’ produced by our drummer Ben Clayton

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Here’s the full set that we played..

Part 1

Don’t Stop Moving

Park Life

Stacy’s Mom

All The Small Things

The Final Countdown

Poison

Disco 2000

Sit Down

A Little Respect

Cotton Eye Joe

You Get What You Give

The One And Only

Part 2

I Believe In A Thing Called Love

Tubthumping

Don’t Stop Me Now

Blow The House Down

Is This The Way To Amarillo?

Read My Mind

Grace Kelly

Hard Habit To Break

Hound Dog

Sweet Home Alabama

Dizzy

Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

You Sexy Thing

Transfusion (a song by Richard Wadsworth, our keyboard player)