unclechristo | Linford Song Club (Reply)

After a long day of rehearsing for the next days theremin event, and packing equipment for that, and sorting out CDs and things rehearsing for the song gig with Dan Britton at the Linford in Newtown Linford I was oddly in hyped up mood for the Song Club event, organised by Wally from Yellowbelly, a band that goes right back to Storm Thieves days 15 years ago - we used to be on the same circuit. The club is hugely succesful and the night was packed with performers and over 100 audience. Yellowbelly were up first in new 5 piece format - country rock sounds with great harmonies, Stevie Jones & Mark Gill (+harmonica player) played a strong set of songs from the heart. Sara Space is a singer songwriter I haven;t seen in years - this was her new band and it was a delight - violin, bass, mandolin, drums and Sara often on ukelele singing songs with a fun 30s even cabaret type feel. Natalie Squance played solo and captured the audience's hearts with her uniw=que voice - she made abig thing about forgettign her words but the audience loved her all th emore for it.
Dan & I hadnt played a duo (non Govannen) gig for many months - but it came back to us - we stuck to a safe set tho - we had Neil Rabjohn on cajon. We offered a big CD deal 1 duo cd and 2 solo cds for a tenner - we made 10 such deals - plus I sold a couple of DVDs.

Then it was pack up - get home - swap kit for electronic kit and drive on to London - getting to bed in hotel at 3.10am for a 8.30 wake up.