Lets wind the clock back a little and tell you about last Friday night- what a great time we had with everyone at Bingham Folk Club.
This is such a warm and friendly club and it was great to be back playing for them again! Tickets were sold out long before the actual date so apologies to all those who wanted to come along and couldn't this time.
We thoroughly enjoyed everyone who sang and played for us before our first set- Dave Smith, Marion Downs and Al Harris gave us a fantastic start to the evening.
Being the 11.11.22 there were some songs to reflect the date and we decided to do one which we'd never performed before, Eric Bogle's very poignant All The Fine Young Men and we paired that with our version of Hector The Hero which we play as a slow lament.
In fact, we did a few songs which were Folk Club Firsts for us including our own song, Dr Syn, written by Helen and based on a poem by her good friend Nick Weekes with the tune coming from Patrick. Watch out for this one popping up in our sets!
The Scottish contingent of lads at the back of the room were especially happy that we were including songs like 'A Parcel of Rogues' and 'Sober Men' in the set as we approach St Andrew's Night at the end of November and the evening flowed along very smoothly- well, in the main.
There was a little thing that happened in the first set...
I have to say that I had been feeling very happy with myself because a flight case I'd ordered had finally arrived from Germany. I'd always planned to have a go at kitting it out with foam and material lining myself in a foolish fit of feelings of adequacy. Don't ask me where they came from but Thursday evening I decided to tackle the job and I was so pleased with the results! It's not perfect but it looks good and is such a better fit for the accordion.
You're probably wondering what this has to do with Friday night (apart from an opportunity to show off!) well we were getting towards the very end of the first set when I had a slight feeling of wooziness and the thought went through my mind that there was a strong smell of glue where I was sitting. Trying to be subtle, I was glancing around me wondering where this was coming from until I realised that it was, literally, right under my nose! Not only did the instrument I'd been playing for the last half hour smell strongly of it but the flight case which was at my feet being used as a stand was emitting an Eau de Adhesive aroma from all the contact adhesive I'd used to attach the shiny new lining!!
Don't look too closely at my eyes in these photos from the night
A big thank you to Mick Herring for taking some great photos of us and his permission to use them. And a big thankyou to Dave Downs for use of his PA and for being our sound engineer for the night.
