I am pretty sure I saw The Beta Band a quarter of a century ago today, an NME Brats show. My own records are notoriously unreliable though, no ticket for this, no pass or anything. Oh, but this is not the very early one that I am sure I went to but can find no record of, there's plenty of info on this one. There's a Guardian review of this gig, and it's on https://betaband.co.uk/gigography/. There's an old nme article too promoting the gig.
The full line-up for the NME Premier Shows is nearly complete and now boasts Beta Band with support from DJ Iceberg Slim, Gorkys Zygotic Mynci, Sigur Ros (January 25), Feeder, Terris, A and My Vitriol (26), Asian Dub Foundation, Regular Fries and Invasian plus guests (27), Embrace, Ooberman and Doves (28), Elastica, Fridge, Zan Lyons and Contempo (29), the NME Premier Tour final date with Shack, Les Rythmes Digitales, Campag Velocet and Coldplay (30) and January 31 sees Radio One’s Steve Lamacq Live with Ash, Angelica, Muse and guests.
I know I went to the Elastica one too, maybe the others. Not sure about that one with Coldplay at the bottom of the bill and I'm not sure about Muse being third on the bill to Ash, but maybe.
I have no blog posts from 2000, but there are popex news articles from 2000. Just none from January. I will have a look see if I can recover any more from archive.org.
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