The 286
The 286
Billions of years ago (the 90's...) Spencer had a band called "Jay Curtis And The Fore Beatnix Of Tambour". Then their guitarist Chandler left to drive buses. The route in question was the 286. I found his ad and joined. My first practise round his involved me getting a bus. The 286 to be exact. He'd come round mine, I'd go round his and we wrote tons of Mersey Rip-Offs, er- I mean, songs together. 286 to be exact. Things were dandy until Liam Chaps Watt-Sohn told us to change our name to The Fore. I thought "bum this" and left... 286 gigs after handing in my notice!
Then in 2009 I re-joined, purely because Mr. H had mad ideas about adding strings and horns and stuff. So we met back up and despite the fact that he had moved house and I had moved house, I STILL had to get that ruddy 286 bus! We thought "sod this" and decided to meet exactly half way between each other's houses... AT A 286 BUS STOP FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!!! So we sought and found an arranger. Her name is Liv. I won't tell you what the middle 3 numbers of her phone number was, but this was starting to get SCARY. We were from then on "The 286". We did our first Fox gig and discovered that the legendary "Not That There's Anything Wrong With That Sort Of Thing If It's Between Consulting Adults In The Privacy Of Their Own Homes, Stop Being So Homophobic" nightclub a few doors down called Stonewall's had changed its name to... you guessed it!