Craig - Manager of The Afterglow

Everybody knows Craig as the geezer who sits at the mixing desk every gig playing with his knobs. However this is not Craig's only job for the band, he is also our chief gig getter, our lights engineer, our effects engineer, our deputy singer when Dunc's not there, our manager, our wardrobe and makeup supervisor, our hairdresser, our confidante, the Band caterer, our tour bus driver, the man who brings all his mates to gigs to increase our regular audience to about 12 etc….. THE LIST IS ENDLESS.

Saying all that, what Craig likes best of all is to get gigs. As all our regular venues know, Craig is a 1st class salesman by trade, (well he must be to get us dosser's gigs).
Craig learnt his trade as a door to door salesman at the tender age of 14, selling anything from dust pans and brushes to ladies peep-toe sandals. Due to his success at selling, he was snapped up by a Multi National Company in Sweden selling condoms, but unfortunately this didn't work out as Craig had a weakness for Swedish girls and used most of his stock personally.

One of Craig's highlights so far with The Afterglow was when he arranged for the Band to play in a marquee in Higham to celebrate the Queen Mothers 100 birthday. The Afterglow were the support to a band who looked remarkably like Tight Fit dressed in Zebra print, who played barefoot and mimed to most songs. Unfortunately, the Afterglows set failed to impress and the Tight Fit zebras stole the show to Craig's dissapointment. But saying that the lead singer of the other Band was rather fit and did wear exceedingly short skirts, and kept doing high kicks…… in fact they were pretty damn good, we might have to try and get Dunc doing these kinds of moves.

Craig, like Dunc, often gets mistaken for famous people. In Craig's case it is either Ryan Giggs, and it is usually a pissed Liverpool fan who spots him, and then chases him down the street threatening to kick seven bells out of him, or ET, due to his almost ET-like head shape, which has got him a few star spots at fund raising events for local UFO clubs.

Although Craig is now part of one of the worlds greatest bands, musically he is completely inept, and despite trying to learn the guitar for well over a year now, he can still only master the first three notes of Smoke on the Water. This does seem rather strange considering that whilst at the age of 8, he represented England playing the Spoons.

Although well into punk, new wave, mod etc… now, Craig's first love and soft spot, (not often his girlfriend can say that - the beast) is Metallica, which probably accounts for the reason he never hears what you say when speaking to him.

As with most Managers, Craig takes the major cut of all the Band's earnings, which leads to his affluent lifestyle, and his life of luxury. The C reg lada riva GTI he drives now is just a smokescreen for the immense wealth that The Afterglow has earned him. An example of his earnings potential can be seen from the 1 T-shirt and 1 CD the band sold last year, which yielded Craig the huge sum of £2.34.