Last week....

Back on schedule this week, with 2 gigs done over the weekend. The first was with Atlanta Soul at the Bakers Vaults in Stockport on Friday night. My old band played here and had a really good night too, it's a great venue, better than the average pub gig. It has a PA system and a member of staff to do the soundcheck. Will other venues PLEASE take note of this, I'm not the only musician who loves venues with their own PAs!! It gets busy too, and the audience were soon dancing to the music, it's a great atmosphere on a Friday night.

Next up was my acoustic 3-piece at The Hole In T'Wall, which also has it's OWN PA downstairs!! This was our first 'full' 30 minute set and it was great to finally get to play some of the songs we've been rehearsing. It was busy enough but not over-crowded, and people listened. I was pleased with the response we got and can't wait to play the set again. We've got two local festival appearances over the summer to come.

Well, another weekend has now become available to me seeing as the Bulls are now out of the Challenge Cup. It's a case of 'what can go wrong will' at the moment, even though we gave it our best shot and could have beaten Warrington with a bit more luck. I couldn't fault the effort but it's going to be another hard season if various rumours actually occur. The main one concerns our main man wanting to go back to Australia. I mean, Manly Beach versus Bradford, the great Aussie Climate, our shit one. Why would he possibly want to leave??

This just left stock cars at Belle Vue yesterday (bank hol Monday). It's not rained much lately, although that's being rectified as we speak (!), so a very fine dry track caused lots of dust to find it's way into my ears. The last two races were terrific though, and I was back in the pub before the quiz finished.

This week...

I'm playing at the New Inn, Barwick-in-Elmet, with a new PA amp, which will hopefully work, on Sunday (June 6th), starting at 9pm, I'll be playing originals and covers to the usual intimate audience, I wish there was a venue like this in every village!