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Moonlit Sky at Her Majesty's Theatre
on 27th July 2008
A Musical written
by Luci Fitzpatrick and Robert Scott
The cast, crew,
producer, director....
in fact everything is done
by local 14-24 year olds
including Robert Scott and Lucy Ward
who are well known to the RMC.
They are desperate to sell tickets
to create a special atmosphere
for their West End dream
and have sold almost 300 already.
They need to sell 500 to break-even.
Coaches are picking up/dropping off at
Burton on Trent, Lichfield and Tamworth
Contact Robert on 01283 701656 for details
Return fare £15 but places limited
TICKETS £21 (+ booking fee)
Tickets are on sale from
Tel: 0844 412 4657
"Only when you've been to hell and back
can you truly appreciate heaven"
Don't Miss this Unique Opportunity to see a
Brand New, Totally Original Musical showcasing
the Best and Brightest of our Young Talent
For One Night Only
Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London
Sunday 27 July 2008
Doors 7pm. 7.30pm start
Summer Sessions 2008
June 19th at the Green Man
Review by Kris
Born on this day: Kathleen Turner, Salman Rushdie, Wallace Simpson, James I.
Humid tonight – yet breezy. All the old familiar faces, and ones from as far afield as Australia. Neil has materialised, giving no reason for his absence last week – will have to get his his mum to send in a note.
Neil started the evening with with his own version of Tequila Sunrise, ably assisted by Graham on harmonica and Dez on harmonies. In the second set he gave us You Can Tell
Dave played us a number he had composed with Neil, Rhino Willy, and they both gave us their ‘drunken lads night out’ version tonight, followed by Cousin Jane, recorded by The Troggs and written by Dave himself, after the break.
Ken gave us the gentle traditional song, An English Country Garden, and got us all singing along to the refrain, likewise with Pub With No Beer after the break when John accompanied him on the harmonica.
Kris continued the mellow mood with Gentle On My Mind accompanied by bass line notation played on the top string as she strummed the rhythm on the guitar. Mesmeric! An acoustic arrangement of Desperado followed in the second set.
Graham gave us Ticket To Ride and the mixed harmonies were provided by a well lubricated audience. After the break he gave us McCartney’s My Love
Nigel gave us a Joe Brown song, That Wonderful Picture Of You, reminding some of us about our youth.
Dez, also in gentle mood gave us the self-penned Wherever You Are which celebrates its one month birthday, followed after the break with a subtle switch of mood to the slightly depressed, and Are You Up There.
Terry, our visitor from afar, treated us to an Eagles number, Saturday Night from the Desperado Album and followed that after the break with Garden Party
Chris Payne played On My Way Again, the range of the melody suiting his voice very well, as did Wonderful Tonight after the break
Pam wrote a poem about her job and for the first time, after many months of listening to us singing she got up and read The Lesson
John has recently had a problem with his hearing, but as is his wont he used this temporary disability to his advantage and would have us believe that the song he played for us on the autoharp was what he heard from the frogs that had made their home in his strawberry patch. It was just the ears wasn’t it John? He followed this with his own song, Waves, after the break
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Chris Sweetman also sang a new song this week about a catholic priest who was a POW during the second world war- Maximillian Colby. He followed this with another thought provoking song after the break.
Robin played a number off his new CD called Freedom – no mean feat distilling a complex arrangement down to a single acoustic guitar and voice. Bored On A Thursday Afternoon (but never on a Thursday night) followed after the break
Corinna reminded us all about the bitter irony that is free will, with a self-penned song called Bitter Sweet Woman. Arbour Low followed after the break.
Stuart and Corinna then gave us a duet of Stuart’s song Fragments – great synchronised guitars, sweet harmonies.
Peter, on flute, gave us a lovely arrangement of The Keel Row – a well known traditional melody on the subject of boats.
Raine brought along her mandolin tonight and gave us a medley of melodies which included Begin The Beguine and Save The Last Dance For Me.
Rick, arriving rather late after a wander round the local geography, gave us Padstow Bay
Summer Sessions
June 12th at The Green Man
Review by Kris
Born on this day: Anne Frank, George Bush Snr, Anthony Eden, David Rockefeller, and Vic Damone.
Our resident MC, Neil, went AWOL, so we muddled through as best we could: Graham declined the honours – wanting a quiet night, Dez started the evening off, but quickly decided he too wanted a quiet night, so they were left with me and my complete lack of tact to run the evening!! So….
Dez started the evening with his own quality song, I Cried Inside. Later he joined forces with Kris, and together they gave us Still Got The Blues – lead and rhythm guitar arrangement. Later still, Graham made up the trio, bass and rhythm guitars and harmonica, to give us Sentimental Journey – the three part harmonies taking us back to a gentler era.
Graham gave us a lovely self-penned song called The Tide’s Not Turning Anymore, relaxed, smooth and polished performance as ever.
Nigel gave us Old Kentucky Home with a gloriously unapologetic Brummie accent, followed in the second set with Bad World and You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away. Great entertainment, lovely sing-a-long atmosphere.
Rick sang Memories Of You first off. During the performance, a well timed extended car horn sounded just as he was singing the following line: I stopped the car……priceless! Later he gave us Blackwater Estuary and Bedsit Town. Rick writes all of his own material and performs it with a complex guitar accompaniment and a talking/singing style that is unique to theis guy.
Gene treated us to a visit tonight and gave us an American traditional song called The Lone Pilgrim followed after the break with The Lily of The West and then a piece written by himself called A Place Called Liberty. This guy plays a mean guitar, but the range and quality of his voice are what makes us sit and listen in absolute silence….and he writes his own memorable songs too…….life is so unfair!
Mick had to follow Gene, but his version of Woodstock was easily up to the task, as were the If I Were A Carpenter and Barricades after the break.
Robin debutted his newest song for us tonight, a little number entitled Cowboys and Indians and the first song after the break was a collaboration practised over the internet with Dez (!?) called I Had A Gun followed by Tennessee Place sung solo. He was giving away free copies of his CD all night, and thus became Mr Popular – tight bunch that we are!! Having listened to it I can recommend it.
Corinna got Stuart to tune the guitar before she gave us the self-penned, When Dreams Are Lost, followed in the second set by Height Of Heather and Not About You – both self-penned. The magic is in the words, the charm in the understated delivery.
Stuart, who only ever sings his own brilliant songs, played Paragon to begin with and then, courtesy of Julian giving up his second slot, he gave us Natural Like Rain and Bitter, Angry. The mystery is in the words, the humour in the ‘rabbit in the headlights’ delivery.
Julian played Cheryl Crowe’s If It Makes You Happy and The Wizard with style and aplomb
Tony entertained us with Reviewing The Situation from the musical Oliver, acting out the words brilliantly as he sung them
Raine played us a medley of tunes, including Abba’s Fernando, on the mandolin.
Summer Sessions
May 29th at The Green Man
Review by Kris
Born on this day: John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, Isaac Albeniz, Charles II.
The ‘Do’ over the bank holiday is behind us now and people have been very kind about our part in the festival. As always, after a busy musical weekend, a kind of anti-climactic apathy has emerged and I, for one, hope that tonight will lift us out of it. We were thin on the ground at eight o’clock, but that didn’t stop the talent emerging, as the evening relaxed into the night, from this select group.
Neil roused us from our various conversations and gave us What Can I Say, even though he was suffering terribly with a cold and sore throat. Filling in for badly timed absences from our later arrivals, Neil recited Bare Knuckle Fight. After the break he recited Batman’s Not In Gotham City
Dez played his new song, Where Ever You Are. Must be something about the evening mood, but tonight he was so much more laid back than last week and the song seemed mellower. Second public outing and all that may play a part too. Before You Accuse Me was his ‘throw away tune’ after the break.
Gosher was more laid back than usual as he gave us with much use of picked strings and thirds followed in the second half by A Soft Place To Fall and Johnny be Good with Neil after the break
Kris sang Streets of London, followed by the instrumental, Signe after the break.
Terry sang a Damien Rice song, Lonely Soldier followed after the break with Paris In Summer, a song about a moment captured in time with his wife.
Graham gave us Ain’t Misbehaving – he protesteth too much methinks – in his easy, sing-a-long, swing style. The trombone solo by Jonathan Sweetman was a great addition. What A Wonderful World on harmonica, with Kris messing it up on vocals and guitar followed after the break.
Stuart, after reclaiming a long lost plectrum (shades of violins and grand romantic slow motion reunions), gave us his own song Burn Me Alive followed in the second half by Almost Perfect
Corinna, as unassuming as ever, gave us a lovely version of Where Ravens Feed followed after the break by Arbour Low
Chris P, ensuring he put his capo at the right fret, played Dolphins and later gave us Positively 4th Street
John, armed with autoharp and harmonica, gave us Maggie and followed it after the break with an instrumental on the autoharp written by Hisself, called Waves
Chris and Jonathan Sweetman, guitar and trombone, gave us I Got Music and Jarda. Why do acorns never fall far from the tree? I would hate to witness a difference of opinion in this highly talented household!!!
Peter, on recorder gave us two melodies, each entitled Bonaparte Crossing The Rhine followed after the break by a pair of country dance tunes. Mister Fast Fingers indeed!!
Robin played a self-penned song called Annie And Me, but he just wouldn’t be drawn on just who Annie was. Intriguing. After the break he descended to the depths of typical folk despair to bring us (We’re All Going To) Hell.
Julian, making a welcomed return to playing at the club after an extended break, played Maggie May, followed after the break with Feel Like Makin’ Love.
Dez and Kris played Runaway to close the evening.
The Willington
Arts Festival
Music In The Air
I wanted to thank everyone who took part in the
'Music In The Air' programme at
The First Willington Arts Festival.
It was a great shame that the weather wasn't kinder to us all
- it curtailed much of the outdoor singing and playing,
although Stuart did brave the gales on Sunday,
and played on regardless outside on the Marina edge,
and sold a CD into the bargain.
Despite the weather though,
it was terrific to hear so many people from
The Real-Music-Club
playing around and about the homes and halls of Willington.
We, and no doubt the artists who were exhibiting,
would have welcomed more visitors,
but everyone I talked to thought the
'Music in the Air'
was a great idea and success.
People made a point of coming up to me
and commenting on how good everyone was
and that they hadn't realised how talented you all were.
A number of people were really delighted to find someone singing and playing inside people's homes.
Personally, I found everyone I met really friendly and welcoming and I think you've helped us
make many new friends in Willington.
Certainly, everyone who asked
for someone to come and play
in their venue was delighted
with the performers who came and played.
So Thank You.
The ‘Sunday-Sundowner’ concert
(indoors) at the Green Man
and organised by Dez,
was a real success.
I don't think the saloon bar of the Green Man
has ever been so full on any night
never mind on a damp Sunday evening.
Those of you who played managed to
turn a pub crowd into a listening audience
and some of you even managed to get
the place silent with attention - no mean feat that!
The whole atmosphere you generated was one of
good natured, easy-going fun.
For those of you who weren't able to get to
the Gordon Giltrap concert
on the Monday evening at the Village Hall,
I can tell you that it was a brilliant night.
I was the night's MC while
Dez and Stuart were on sound/PA duties
and they did a great job.
Gordon brings a whole bag of electronic guitar tricks
with him and managing the sound
for someone of his undoubted calibre
is no easy task.
Stuart and Dez
took it all in their not inconsiderable stride.
Gordon is just a terrific player, he gives a real full on, physically exhausting performance while at the same time
being engaging, funny and self-deprecating.
This night was a real success for
the Willington Arts Festival.
So thank you to everyone who took part
and thank you especially for putting
a big smile on the face of Willington
this week-end.
It was a real pleasure and I felt very proud
to be associated with you all.
See you soon - maybe even
Thursday night
at The Green Man,
Neil
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Perfectly put as always Neil.
I can only reiterate your comments
and equal your pride in what the musicians
contributed to the festival.
Sunday night was just wonderful
and the music in the air 'busking'
was so fitting to the art events and displays.
I only saw 3 or 4 performances over the weekend
but all were delightful
and appreciated by those who were there
- public and artists.
Can I just add a big THANK YOU to
the three of you (Neil, Dez & Fay)
for all the work and creativity
you put into organising
the "Music in the Air",
the "Sunday Sundowner Concert"
and
the Gordon Giltrap concert.
I believe you should be proud of what was achieved.
Well done everyone.
regards
Rob
Spring Sessions
May 22nd at the Rising Sun
Review by Kris
Born on this day: Richard Wagner, Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Aznavore and Herge (Belgian cartoonist).
Well, the bank holiday weekend is upon us and many of us are nervously anticipating our performances in the Willington Arts Festival, whether that be being involved in the Music In The Air events, or the Sunday evening concert.
Usual waifs and strays first, followed by those with things to finish before they are allowed out to play!!
The RMC Band started the evening with a couple of the numbers they intend to play on Sunday: Daydream with Dez, Graham, Neil and Kris, and He’s Not There with Dez, Graham and Kris.
Drew then gave us the gently played Kristofferson number, Sunday Morning Coming Down, followed by Where Do You Go To My Lovely after the break.
Maz and Ken teamed up, vocal and guitar, to give us that perennial Beatles favourite Yesterday. followed by Scarborough Fair after the break.
Gosher played a Clapton classic Wonderful Tonight – great arrangement on the introduction and laid back delivery to follow.
Terry tells us a joke about a reunion of sorts and then played Blue Wing He definitely plays a mean song, and the least said about the jokes, the better. He gave us Under Tow after the break
Keyna sang sweetly about The Farmer, entrancing us all within the spell she weaves every time she sings. After the break, she and Neil performed a re-arranged version of Neil’s song No Man’s Land
Mick played a lerv song (his pronunciation) called Run. which he proceeded to run down and then surprised us all by producing a song that was really quite listenable to. He and Maz duetted in the second half, adding complex rhythms on the bodrun to Mick’s hypnotic strumming.
John cleaned up a joke that he’d filched off the internet and finally did what he does best: played Gershwin’s Summertime on harmonica – complete wit h his trademark modulation.
Chris Payne, he with the golden basso profundo voice, gave us Handle Me With Care after delivering a one-liner that had us all groaning.
Stuart, avoiding any attempt at a joke, gave us Believe – another well-crafted self penned number.
Corinna sang a gentle song she has written about her dad called Taken She just gets better and better
Rick tuned his guitar so professionally we thought it was his performance (new nylon strings are a real nightmare – especially in the summer) but he went on to perform Blackwater Song
Rob gave us a recitation entitled The Bird In The Cage and got us all thinking about what we do with our lives, followed by The Door – another thought provoking observation centreing on our preconceptions and biases.
Robin played The Optimist – a semi-cheerful song by his standards and after the break One Day, both written by this talented visitor to our shores.
Cecelia and Michael, on hurdy gurdy and clarinet – a rare mix of instruments - sang a beautiful Hungarian folk song. Cecelia’s voice is well suited to the songs she chooses to sing and her hurdy gurdy had such a beautifully mellow, mature and well-rounded sound.
Raine played us to the break with Good Things To Think on the mandolin.
Dez sang a new song for us this week, Where Ever You Are, which possessed a touch of swing and a smattering of mellow jazz in its timbre and delivery.
Graham, taking time from his band duties, gave us the self-penned Wait Until Spring
Kris gave us the reflective Now And Forever classic from Richard Marx
Spring Sessions
May 5th at the Green Man
Review by Kris
Those born on this day:Karl Marx, Tyrone Power, Michael Palin, Tammy Wynette, Emperor Justinian.
Well, I reckon summer’s here. By 7:30 it’s still light and it’s warm enough to walk around without a coat on. You can hear the children still playing outside and the traffic is still heavy around that ridiculous double roundabout that serves as traffic management in this village.
We couldn’t switch off the light to signal the start of the music, so Dez switched it on and off again!
Neil played a self-penned song, One Little Girl all about those news stories that have a morbid fascination, to start us off – put us right there in the mood for a folk evening! Another homespun song, Easy Street started us off after the break, followed by You Can Tell
Robin came in extraordinarily early tonight for him, so on a whim, I decided to call on him to follow with a song called Blue Sky that he’d written - on a whim. Another cheerful song about angst – but very good! He gave us Magenta Boulevard and I’m Just a Teenage Dirt Bag after the break.
John quickly made a few hurried attire adjustments, much to the humour of the crowd, to give us My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean and Waves (a song he’d written himself) on the autoharp, by way of a melody medley. With a Girl in Your Arms and Grandfather’s Clock followed the break
Kris, Dez and Graham, with Neil on harmonica swung their way through a Sentimental Journey – rather like the journey we all make every Thursday to get to the Real Music Club. Kris sang Sweetest of All and Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue in the second half.
Graham remained in the desk lamp light (actually, three stolen from someone’s desk and taped to a roof truss) to give us the easy listening melody, Til There Was You. Wait until Spring and She’s Just Like You were the songs he played after the break
Dez gave us a gently sung and deftly picked, When You Need Someone, a song written by himself. Up A Mountain – dedicated to Stuart and Corinna – and then, livening it up, with Real Music after the break.
Keyna continued the gentle theme with The Farmer – sung in her haunting acapella style. Her voice on a summer’s evening has a charm all of its own. The Bitter Boy and When I Fall In Love followed after the break
Drew played Streets Of London, equally as gentle as the preceding songs – and elicited mixed harmonies around the room. Gift Of A Brand New Day and Just a Little Rain were the songs he gave us after the break.
Matt gave us an assured performance of one of his best songs, Wind In My Sails– lots of light and shade and contrasting dynamics adding to the interest. In the second half he gave us The Thing That Never Was and recited Pot Pies and Puddings in Pitmatic dialect. More of that please Pet!!
Stuart, after a ‘massive re-tune’ at the top of the stairs, played a song we all know very well here at the RMC, Fragments. We don’t see much of Stuart these days….probably down to the fact that his student days are over and he’s joined the workforce. The Silence and Forgotten followed after the break.
Corinna played Not About You and Height and Heather after the break – both songs written by herself and very gently delivered.
Rick delivered his self-penned Pictures in a style reminiscent of Peter Sarstedt – musically full and half spoken. To close the evening he gave us two more songs, but I didn’t catch the titles!!
Raine, on mandolin, played a self-penned melody called Jungle Bird, and took us to the break
Spring Sessions
April 24th at The Rising Sun
Review by Kris
Born on this Day: Barbra Sreisand, William i, Shirley MacLaine, Karl Rothschild, John Williams,
The night started early – it wasn’t even dark when I drew the curtains!! There were a whole gaggle of rehearsals going on when I got here. And nearly everyone was saying how hot it was – ‘Why don’t they switch off the radiators?’ exclaimed Dez.
Neil did his weekly practice as Drew adjusted the PA settings and then he started us off with Nobody Loves Me Now, just to get the sympathy of the audience.
Ken and Drew gave us Paddy McGinty’s Goat. It sounded really good even though Ken wiped a bead of sweat from his brow as they finished because he thought it went ‘a bit quick’.
Dave gave us a lounge melody by the title of Mr Song Writing Man – autobiographical then! In the second half he gave us his comical Mr Universe
Maz then gave us an acapella performance of her own song, Melody. You’d never know it was the first time she’d used the microphone – well done. Maz and Dave joined forces in the second half to give us The Last Rose Of Summer
Drew took time away from his sound engineer duties to give us Searching For Soldiers Brave. He always chooses interesting and tuneful pieces.
rew and Keyna then teamed up to perform If I Needed You – a lovely mix of voices and guitar that got lots of us joining in.
Chris Payne gave us an easy listening classic, Who Knows Where The Time Goes? Gentle guitar strum and Chris’ characteristically resonant vocals. He gave us Days after the break.
Graham then treated us to one of his own songs, The Tide’s Not Turning Anymore. Soft, relaxed and full of meaning.
Dez and Kris gave us Runaway, mixed guitars and two part vocals. Kris fumbled the odd (very odd) note or two, which gave rise to Dez’s eyebrows!!
Gosher gently played his guitar to Cardboard City – lots of descending bass notes and subtle ligados on top. Finished off with what Neil calls an ‘air tremelo’
Terry sang a moody melody from Paul Weller by the name of Wild Wood. He gave us another song in the second half, but typically he announced the composer, but not the title!!
John regaled us with a tune on the autoharp which he didn’t know the title to, so what hope have I got?? I have to be told the title of almost every song played by almost everyone!! It was very nice though….. Danny Boy.
Alex and Beth, guitar and vocals, sang Volcanoes. Well phrased and great contrasting vocal styles, and went on to give us Inner Circle.
Mick gave us a hypnotic version of Learned the Sea. Mick and Maz played Love Come Back To Me with guitar and tambor after the break.
Chris Sweetman delved back into his childhood prodigy days and gave us an instrumental piece called She’s Funny That Way, that his old physics teacher had sabotaged the first time around. Good job Chris isn’t the sensitive kind – otherwise we’d never have enjoyed his guitar playing!! A Chris-style syncopated Blackbird was played after the break.
Robin gave us a gentle song about his childhood home - Tearing The Neighbourhood Down
Rick took to the stage, and borrowing Graham’s guitar gave a virtuoso showing of guitar playing which accompanied his unique way of sing-talking a song. Great. Somewhere In England was his second half offering
Hugh started the second half on the piano accordion with a medley of reel-type songs and got us into the swing again.
Raine played us to the break on the mandolin with a self-penned number Ice Cube
Dez then played his beautiful piece about the Boxing Day Tsunami. My own personal favourite melody written by this talented guy.
Kris sang The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face after the break, and forgot one chord - all the way through – at least she was consistent!
Another hugely busy night. It remains for me to thank those of you who come along week after week, not to play or sing, but to listen to the varied musical talents that grace our club. Without you all, it would not be the same.
Spring Sessions
April 10th at the Rising Sun
Review by Kris
Born on this day:
Joseph Pulitzer, William Booth, Omar Shariff
This evening we were thinner on the ground than of late, but as you will see, the quality was not missing.
Neil sang two self-penned numbers, No Longer Lovers and Daily News. Lovely songs, great performer.
Drew gave us Surfer Girl and There but for Fortune. He has become one of us regulars and the quality of his music never disappoints. He was also chiefly responsible for operating the PA all evening.
John, on autoharp and harmonica gave us Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring and on harmonica only, Danny Boy.
Dez gave us a self-penned song, Time Stands Still and later duetted with Kris to perform Killer Queen. He also set up and dismantled the equipment at the venue. Kris’ other song was Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word.
Chris Payne sang No Regrets and a Simon/Garfunkel number starting with the words A Winter’s Day possibly entitled I Am a Rock.
Graham gave us a little swing tonight with I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself a Letter and Ain’t Misbehaving.
Mick sang a self-penned song, Someone Else’s Game and Long Way From Here To There.
Keyna sang two songs accapella: Last Thing On My Mind and Where Have All The Flowers Gone?
Chris Sweetman gave us two self-penned numbers on a new guitar, Welcome Home Son and Mark and David, despite a sore back.
Robin also sang two self-penned numbers: Whole Lies and Half Truths and Stage which had some great chord sequences.
Peter gave us Jerusalem Ridge on his flute and another melody in the second half that I didn’t catch the name of.
Dave travelled from the Scragg End club to give us two self-penned songs: Two Apple Trees and You Were Always There.
Rick using the nylon strung classical guitar and played two self-penned numbers: Strangers In The Forest and Above Padstow Bay
Paul, all the way from south Leicestershire gave us two self-penned numbers: Punch and Judy Man and Running On Empty. Lovely voice, great songs. Come back soon, you will always be welcome.
Raine sang her own song, Step Out In Style accapella because there was no piano in the room tonight.
We had a large proportion of good, self-penned songs this evening which speaks volumes for the amount of talent we pack into the room on a Thursday night. It is great to know that many, many people out there are willing to keeping music live and travel to The RMC on Thursday. Thank You to every one of you.
Finally, this review is short and sweet due to lack of time – it won’t happen too often!!!
Spring Sessions 2008
April 3rd at the Green Man
Review by Kris
Born on this day:
Marlon Brando, Eddie Murphy, Doris Day, Richard II, Helmut Kohl, Alec Baldwin, Leslie Howard.
Well, April Fool’s day and it’s flying penguins have been safely consigned to the annals of history (my dear old mum was well and truly taken in, and having missed the reveal, will be eternally convinced of it’s veracity – ta very much BBC – do you not realise the almost gospel status your words assume to a section of your audience.)
Neil brought us to order with a self-penned number, William James’ Funeral – a great poem set to lovely music and played with consummate ease. After the break he gave us Daily News
Drew gave us the gentle classic Kathy’s Song, played and sung softly and with feeling, followed by Catch The Wind in the second half.
Graham continued the gentle mood with a self-penned number called She’s Just Like You. Our own resident Bacharach. followed this after the break with Ticket To Ride which gave us all a chance to join in
Bob gave us a self-penned song with a mixed beat entitled Pictures In My Mind. Lovely guitar playing, lovely song. In the second half he gave us Dancing In The Snow written for an absent Gemma
Keyna sang Somewhere Along the Road and we were glad to be in the room listening to her rather than somewhere along the road to Burton! She told us all to Turn Around after the break because some of us had got to Brum!!!
Chris P, he with the Robeson voice, gave us the Dylan classic, Blowing In The Wind, ably assisted by the audience. He gave us his syncopated version of Lyin’ Eyes after the break.
Liam, on his first visit to the club, played James Blunt’s latest release, Carry You Home. You’d never guess he only heard it on his way home from work tonight! He gave us Uncomfortably Slow after the break
Kris stunned us into silence with her rendition of Joan Baez’s Diamonds and Rust
John read us a joke from his piece of paper…….and then entertained us with Stranger on the Shore played on harmonica and after the break, There’s a Kind of Hush
Chris S sang a song to his wife called The Weakness of Me Accompanying himself, in his usual accomplished way, on a sweetly played guitar. (sorry about the language play folks). After the break he sang a self-penned number, I Should Like to Hold Your Hand
Julian gave us a new song tonight, Lady In Black by Uriah Heap –another great song and performance. Lovely to see you playing for us again. After the break he gave us Stealin’ – in the inimitable style only Julian could get away with. Magic!!
Dez went for it tonight with his brilliant version of Stairway To Heaven – and that is just where he led us! He continued the mood with I’ll Be Waiting after the break.
Robin played us a reject from his latest album called Perfect and the irony of the situation is that the song was about how the female population seem to reject him! Hmmm….poetic justice or what? But there was Hope after the break!
Maz took us to the break with an acapella performance of A Bunch of Time.
Hugh, dry as ever, observing that not many of us could speak Gaelic chose to sing Sine Bhan, a Gaelic song. Lovely.
Terry sang a Steve Knightly song, Poppy Day. Always does a good job does Terry.
After telling us a joke about a dog, cat and fox, Raine played Good Things to Think on the mandolin. Both were equally entertaining.
Spring Sessions 2008
March 27th at the Rising Sun
Review by Kris
Born on this day:
Romulus (Rome