A Night Out and a Job in the Beast

The very first time I met the band was all down to a lovely guy called Troggy.

We were in Smokey Joe’s nightclub in Maidenhead on a Friday night when he turned to me and said, “Would you like to go and see this band called Cobweb Strange in London?”

“Yeah, okay,” I said. “Whatever.”

So on the Saturday we travelled up to London and went to the Orange Club. We watched the band play, and it was amazing.

Troggy being Troggy, he got us backstage. We started talking to these guys called Martin, Johnny, Jamie and JB, and the next thing I knew, I was back in the van—the Beast.

By the time we got back to Maidenhead, I’d become their roadie.