Kirk White, who runs the UK Monkee fanclub, was not a huge fan of ours, and despite our great reception at the 1996 convention, when we played for free, declined to pay us expenses in 97. When we declined to play for free again he paid for a pro-band who played only 1 Monkee tune. We were keen to play this year, however, as we thought the cds, with their Monkee tunes on them, would sell well at a Monkees convention. Thus we agreed to play for the princely sum of £30 petrol money :).
We had been scheduled for a 1.30 in the afternoon slot, which was hardly prime gigging time, as another Non-Monkees songs playing band had the prime-time evening slot. It was sweltering hot in the room, and after a good start, things rapidly began to go wrong.
Left: The delicious 'Suitcase' cake made by Mystic's mum.
Right: Dan, Saul, Mal and Aiden, with the banner Mark's children made.
First, Aiden's g-string began to go out of tune, with ever increasing frequency, due to the heat. At one stage , even if it were tuned before each song, it would go out of tune in the next song. Then Mal broke a string and we had to stop to give him time to replace it, and then, during our brief set of 3 originals, Mal's amp died, and could not be rescued, meaning the Guitar had to go through Mark's PA, which didn't help the sound balance. And with no sound engineer, for the first and last time in our career, no-one could put right any problems in the sound balance, and apparantly it wasn't that good, especially in the second half. About half of the audience were really getting into it, and enjoying the songs, even waving cigarette lighters in the slow tunes, but the others were not getting into it at all.
When the final tune of the main set finished, we put down our instruments, and prepared to leave the stage for a reasonable time before returning for the encore, but the applause died very quickly indeed so we just carried on with our last 2 numbers. 
Setlist:Girl I knew Somewhere, For Pete's Sake, Star Collector, It's Not Too Late, Circle Sky, Kelloggs Jingle, Gonna Buy Me A Dog, No No No, Would You Ever?, Star Wars Vision, Propinquity, I Got A Woman, No Time, I Wanna Be Free, Pleasnat Valley Sunday, Last Train To Clarksville, Theme, Steppin' Stone, Daydream Believer, Listen To The Band, I'm A Believer.