Well, falling across the beer festival at the Castle pretty much took care of all that in the end.
Gig was fully amazing. Mr Chris Goss might well be a god of some kind who only walks amongst us for the craic sometimes. Incredible tone from a Tele, seemingly one with mini-humbuckers/firebird pickups, and a Supro Tremolectric. It's truly mystifying how he hammers out such huge riffage with such a lazy, laid-back style of playing.
The whole thing is soured slightly by some pricks deciding to relieve me of mobile and cash afterwards, resulting in some damage to the ould face, but I'm going to go on record and say it was totally worth it.