The Linkuns were amongst the hardest working touring bands of the late 80's,
putting in a whole two appearances for their fans (David Cousins, paid, didn't actually turn up)
at a variety of top UK venues. Due to last minute problems with stadia, the chosen
real estate to be bestowed with the 'sound of tomorrow', as it never came
to be called, were the Ship Inn, Park Row, which went on to become an IMAX theatre
and mission control centre for the European Space Agency, before converting back
to a crappy Bristol pub with a lax attitude to booking musical acts fairly
soon after. Buoyed up by the massive positive reception (a thrilled fan ram-raided
the Linkun-Mobile as it drove to the gig in a misjudged goodwill gesture),
the band, now battling drug problems (none of us could get any, and even had problems
with trying to desire any), went on to accept an invitation to headline at Le Cav,
a subterranean untiled urinal with a reputation of quite literally being called
"Le Cav".

That gig was to become legendary. Burns McKett pulled a tuning fork out of a stone and
was pronounced true King of the Britons, Matt Bluu battled a fire-breathing
dragon by foxing it with his views on the three-body problem and Duggy ate some
'legendary' toast. Critical acclaim was mixed, with the Melody Maker insistent
that this was 'mythic' instead, and NME making a jibe that it was 'rehashed epic
ballad'. And that, friends and neighbours, is satire on the classification of music.
Weak satire.

Gig dates

28th November 1989 The Ship Inn, Lower Park Row, Bristol
18th August 1990 Le Cav, St Nicholas St, Bristol