Scottish National Scooter Rally, Kelso 25/05/07

Despite Gordy and Stan being fully paid up scooterboys, it had been a long time since the 'meanies played a scooter rally, pretty much because we¹d got tired of dealing with crowds who didn¹y want to hear anything but cover versions.

However, the organisers of this one pestered us rotten, and were very emphatic that they wanted us to play our own stuff, so we went for it, and had a top time. There wasn¹t much dancing from the crowd, right enough, but they¹re were lots of them (700 plus) and they seemed happy to be there, and some of them HAD just driven hundreds of miles on 30-year-old Italian shopping bikes, so it was maybe unreasonable to expect a complete knees-up.

Were heartened afterwards by lots of nice chat from random strangers, and a huge flurry of myspace friend requests from southern scooter boys.

Highlight: a masterful crowd-warming set from DJs Kev the Mod and Lukey-Luke, the Morecambe and Wise of scooter rally entertainment.

Lowlight: The silencer fell off Gordy¹s vespa on the way back along the M8, so he rode into Glasgow sounding quite like an eastern european tractor.