Bear with me on this one, I *am* going somewhere with this. When I ran a bar me and my best friend who also worked there started messing around with the drinks. Necessity may be the mother of invention but boredom is the absentee father. Soft drink served in bars are what is called ‘post-mix’, which basically means what I delivered to the pub is a thick syrup base which contains all the e-numbers colouring, flavour and caffeine, this is then dispensed through the taps mixed with fizzy water. Now we worked out that if you could dismantle the machine you could reap the warm thick syrup by angling a shot glass under on of the valves. As I sad we were bored. We dubbed the mixture ‘Cracksi’ it was an acquired taste but got us through some hard shifts with the nervous paranoid energy I’ve only really seen from really good cheap Speed.
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Music: Bad For Lazarus, Black Fangs, and Vinny and the Curse @ the Rainbow
Music: The Twang Live at The Rainbow
When the Twang released their debut album “Love It When I Feel Like This”, the boys from Quinton seemingly rocketed from nowhere to the moon….and back in scarily quick time. Now, two years later, the lads with more swagger than the Gallaghers are back and tonight they screamed onto the tiny stage in a very packed Rainbow. Within seconds the air was thick with premium lagers and testosterone as Phil Etheridge asked, “Is this Birmingham? Well let’s have a little party then!”
