SEPTEMBER 2000
Friday 1 September - Zen Arcade celebrates Spring Day with a gig at Abelarde Sanction, also featuring Slow, Martin from a>e>b and  Sharkbrother. Not About You is introduced to the crowd, which is unanimous in its approval

Monday 4 September - Zen Arcade is invited to play at the orientation week of Johannesburg College of Education, aka  the Teenage Crush/American Beauty Tour. Only 20 minutes are allocated to the set (
Step Back, Crazy, Summer Sun, Not About You). Warm response. The same procedure is repeated on Wednesday morning, 6 September - this time, with a crowd of about 1200. The stage sound is much improved and the crowd gets into the music. Proceeds are put towards the impending recording at RP records with Neal Snyman, pencilled in for the end of the month.
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OCTOBER 2000
Sunday 1 October - The band spends an intensive 3 hours at Sharp Street Studios, recording 6 "scratch" demos with guitar virtuoso Willem Moller. The songs, Lopsided Affair, Up, Summer Sun, Queen of Make Do, Not About You and Take Out The Trash , are laid straight onto 2 tracks.

Wednesday 13 October - Zen Arcade play at Bugsys Beat Bar with opening act The Sherly Temples. The sound is excellent.The band kicks off with the uncharacteristically quiet new song,
Ode, before delivering an upbeat, noisy set.