He began with a gig at the Blue Angel, in London in 1957, which he always referred to as an unmitigated failure, and he did not begin writing poetry until he was 42 - maintaining he was not any good until he was 48.
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Francis Hannan, 41, opened the 133-seat restaurant two years ago, after a kitchen career that began with a dishwashing gig at 12 and has included prep work at myriad seafood restaurants, the culinary training program at the Restaurant School in Philadelphia, tour chef for the Rolling Stones and executive chef and general manager for the now-shuttered Garden State Racetrack.
Until Phish gets back onstage, here's a temporary phix: The Phish Companion (Miller Freeman, $23), an encyclopedic archive of every known set list, beginning with the first gig in 1983 (where a hockey stick doubled as the microphone stand) to last October's finale, featuring a Japanese version of "The Meatstick," a Macarena-esque song and dance.
Austentatious A handful of pre-Christmas shows for the Regency-themed long-form improv troupe – which features Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees Cariad Lloyd and Joseph Morpurgo – begin with a one-off Edinburgh gig.
The single-set gig began with a hymn by 4th-century scholar/composer Mesrop Mashtots, in which a low vocal hum was shaded by briefly flicked treble-note elisions from Hamasyan.
Opening July 4, 1969, on the Pine Ridge Reservation, The Red Bird All-Indian Traveling Band begins with a raucous Fourth of July gig that abruptly ends with the Red Birds ducking out of the performance in a hilarious hail of beer bottles.
Often, such side gigs begin with a deeply personal story.
Plus ça change for this gig in Marseille, which began with a film about the Africa Express jaunt across the UK last year – for which 100-plus musicians commandeered their own train for a week – and ended in a haze of pastis over seven hours later.
As we all sit down to post-gig fish-finger sandwiches in a nearby pub, Milligan tells me the album's concept began with a bus.
