Damn, I’m writing the blog on the way to a gig nearly a week later in the back of Kat's car. Well, I must admit it’s hard to remember it all but i'll give it a go.
It’s a Friday night and Karen is able to make the gig with me which is good for a change. We make our way to Farnham in the snow and when we get to The Maltings we discover the car park is like an ice rink. After one attempt of moving my bass drum across the car park to the venue and nearly falling flat on my arse I decide I am gonna back the car up right outside the door. It’s nice and early as I’m providing the kit tonight and wanted to get it set up properly in time for the other bands.
Around half six the rest of the band turn up and we get straight up for a soundcheck, all sounds good. So we chill out ready for the other bands and slowly people start to arrive. This venue is always really good and tonight I think is going to be no exception. It’s great that people have made the effort to come and see us, even in the bad weather.
Well, 'Thinking for Tuesday' are on stage and they sound good, we have played with these guys before so it was good to see how far they have come on.
Shortly after their set we are up. Whilst I’m setting up the kit the compere decides to try and tell some jokes which I’m sure everyone will agree were the biggest pile of shit you have ever heard. Then, whilst still setting up some crazy old guy gets on the stage and starts singing, which was odd to say the least, but yet more entertaining than the compere. We have a 20 min set tonight so we are straight in with 'Sensitive But A Bit Of A 'Rong 'Un' and 'Treasure It Because You Care, Natasha'. These sounded great apart from the slight technical hitches of the acoustic guitar cutting out, my drums moving around on stage and Sid accidently unplugging his guitar whilst jumping around. We finish with our usual 'Depression is a young something or other' as Kat puts it. ('Depression Is A Young Persons Art Form' - Ed !). What a great anthem and great response as usual from family and friends.
We are followed by a young up and coming band called 'Eddys Lane' who seem ok, young but they were ok. And then Julia K the headline took the stage for a great end to the evening. This was the first time I have ever seen her play and I must say I really enjoyed the set and great vocals. They also decided to nab Kat for 1 song to help them along and unfortunately Julia forgot to sing the song to Kat before she got on stage, so Kat was a little confused, but Neil came to the rescue holding up the chords on the back of some paper for her to barely see across the room !
Thanks 'Yellow Tambourine' for a well organised night once again!
Mark
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