Last night we played a great show at Dumbleton Village Hall, a lovely small venue tucked away in the Cotswolds. We had an interesting journey across, when an apparently simple straight line across the map was turned by the satnav into a magical mystery tour. We were heading south, then west, then north....
we passed the through Moreton on the Marsh, where we saw a stage set up for a concert in the market square featuring the Blockheads. A few miles later and we passed through Chipping Camden. A few more miles and it was Broadway. Finally we arrived and set up.
People travel miles to the venue, and they get there early to get a seat, so it wasn't possible to run through any of the songs that needed tidying up. We needn't have worried. Almost all the songs that we struggled with the previous night went without a hitch and I can confidently state that any mistakes I made were new ones!
The crowd love Nicki. She made such an impression last year that they'd been looking forward to this show for ages. They wouldn't let her go until she'd sung Waltzing Matilda (one that we hadn't planned on performing this time around)and the applause that heralded the end of the show almost took the roof off.
As we packed the gear away I could still hear some of the crowd singing away. Oh, and the song that we tried at Greenford went really well again. We're going to have to rehearse it and make it Nicki's feature number to close the show.
We drove back by the main roads. I dozed off on the front seat and if it wasn't for the seat belt almost strangling me I'd have ended up sleeping in the footwell. Ah, the rock n roll lifestyle!
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