We were back on the road again and heading up to Peterlee in the North East. Cozy had arranged accomodation for us in Darlington, so we called in there first to say hello and drop our bags off.
Our hosts Eddie & Dee had seen us playing at the Americana festival the previous weekend and they'd been involved in country music for many years. They now organise an annual festival locally and run a club on Sunday evenings. It's people like these who keep country music going and I'm indebted to them for their hospitality.
Eddie kindly gave us clear instructions on how to get to the booking and we promptly set off in the opposite direction! However, it's not far from one town to another so we soon arrived at the venue- just as it started raining heavily.
We've been blessed with good weather so far, so it was bound to happen sooner or later. We unloaded the van in the rain.
The venue itself had an odd shaped stage in one corner and try as we might, we couldn't get a good sound. Maybe it was one of those nights, maybe it was the miles we'd travelled or just a let-down after the highs of Americana, but the show seemed a bit flat.
We also had equipment problems when one of the amplifiers, fresh from repair was found to have the same fault that caused us to send it in! That will need to be sorted on our next day off.
The people were great and had a good evening. All the little niggles and various indefinable things meant that we didn't.
Sorry Peterlee, but this was one to forget.
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