I did 3 gigs last week. Wednesday and Thursday were solo in Leeds. They were both fairly short notice sets, which shows someone must love me. The Library on Wednesday was better than expected considering it wasn't very busy. There were just enough to make it a show and it turned out pretty well. I even managed to sell a few CDs! I played Shadow, Words, Whiskey, Gods n Angels, Won't Back Down, If He Knew You and These Eyes.

Onto Thursday which was a last minute call-up to The Primrose. It was supposedly for Lynne's birthday but she wasn't actually there! I had another good set, a favourable reaction in front of a smallish crowd. This time I did Old Wishing Well and left out Words. As usual the keyboard had a big sound. I've come to realise that there's more chance of a small crowd listening than a large one sometimes, and this means you get proportionally more attention. I wasn't really looking forward to these sets but they were 2 of the better ones. Oh and Matt Baxter's set on Wednesday was superb!

On Saturday night a ventured out in search of new venues and bands. I scored 0 out of 3! 2 pubs I called into advertised bands but of them there was no sign. The other pub has been boarded up and thus becomes another pub to point out which I managed to close down. (Ok I hadn't played there for 6 years but you get the general idea!). A less than fruitful recee and worse still for having to go into Bradford city centre.

Back to my birth city for the Bridge Tavern last night (Sunday). A normally quiet and peaceful gig to round off the week was livened up considerably by a possee of scrotes who came in after the football. A couple of years ago this would have spelt big trouble for me but now I can't say I was over-bothered. They didn't really cause any trouble, other than being roudy. They got a bit close once or twice but the landlord actually made some attempt to move them. In all my hundreds of pub gigs I think that's the first time I've ever seen the management intervene when a scrote has croseed the line. They normally couldn't give a monkey's.

We introduced some new very old classic rock covers. Wishing Well (not mine) is a song just about every Bradford band plays. So I thought we should do it as well. It's actually a song I really like, just that it got over-played. Ive always found I can sing it pretty well and we really had a good sound on that one. It was hard to concentrate with idiots close by but we managed to get through the new songs pretty well. Talk about a baptism of fire!