When my old band split up a few years back, the singer and I decided we weren’t ready to ditch our material so we started going out with me on acoustic guitar and him still singing. Our material was fairly politically charged anti establishment type stuff, with a lot of it relating to but not taking any sides in our country’s (Northern Ireland) violent past. We’d played a couple of gigs that we weren’t sure about but the least appropriate was when we were asked to play in the Officers’ Mess in Palace Barracks. We thought it a bit odd but were assured that they’d love us and that we didn’t need to change anything in our set. Boy was that bad advice! We’d just finished playing a particularly charged tune called The Vacuum and had about another 5 tunes to go when we were abruptly told that we’d run out of time! Couldn’t wait to get out of the place! Still got paid though, which was nice.