13th October 2007 - BBL's first gig at Southampton's famous Soul Cellar. The band have been waiting a wee while to get a spot at this venue and it was well worth the wait. The Lulu's took the stage at around 11:30pm to a packed house and played a blistering, non stop set, opening up with a version of Sock it to Em JB, "are you ready for this..? I told you we was coming..." The Captain announces, and were glad they did. This is followed by the famous opening guitar break of Have Love Will Travel, wih Miss D taking up the lead vocal and the Captain adding a rap, like The Sonics ran headlong into Snoop Dog and they traded Strychnine for Ice. Then the band shift into Ska mode and laydown a version of the old Ska classic, Papa Shango and a skanin version of the Fats Domino standard, Be My Guest. "Anyone like Shakin Stevens?" the Captain asks the bemused crowd, what follows is a Hammond instrumental, with Dave showboating and tearing it up with his take on Green Door, the Hammond is screaming, snarling and grinding, i'm not sure Shaky would have approved, but bollocks to him?

The BBL's play a few more cover songs and then bust into a few of their original tunes, with the crowd singing along to Monster Ska like they grew up listening to it, then its time to dust off the grooves and play some Northern and let the Soulies get they're dance on. "Anyone here from the Solent Cougars" the Captain shouts, of course there is... This part of the evening showcases Miss D's amazing voice as she takes on the mighty Northern dancefloor classic, Barbeque and it smokes and sizzles like a T Bone.

The band launches into another Ska'athon, with 3 uptempo ska classics in a row, and everyone's still dancing at the end, fit as a butcher's dog they are in Southampton.

The set winds up with another Hammond instro, this time it's the old BarKays classic "Last Night", better known as the theme tune to the TV show Bottom. Then the horns are sounding so sweet as they play that familiar opening refrain to the Dexys anthem Geno. BBL pay due respect and the audience clearly feel the same, who could ever forget the Dexys eh?.

BBL exit the stage, but everone knows it ain't over, they havent even played Joe 90 yet. It doesnt take much encouragement to bring the Bangers back out, and yep, it's Joe 90, and the crowd go nuts, sometimes predictability is a nice comforting thing and BBL arent a band that likes to cheat a crowd. This is rounded off by the BBL take on the Jools Hooland number Riffin the Griffin, with the band each doing their feature part, again this song just serves to demonstrate how on the money that horn section is.

The evening ends with a trip down memory lane to the early 80's, a few 2 Tone favourites and the final song Gangsters is just too much for some self respecting rudies to take lying down and they leap up on stage and join in the chorus with the band.

Then it's over, except it ain't over, cause Lloyd the DJ's up and he knows what the crowd wants, they want to dance. So he keeps the floor filled for the next few hours while the crowd gradually drift away into the night. Meanwhile BBL chill out backstage, sat round a candle in the dressing room, cause the lightbulbs busted. See, how rock n roll is that?