November 21 2004

Busy weekend, lot's heartache, laughs and hard work.

Friday 19 November
Father's need justice too!
Decent run up to Sunderland, then a change of plans meant I was mooching around for most of the afternoon.
Travelled to tonight's gig with "Super Sub" himself David fairclough, ex. Liverpool legend. He was doing a dinner at another venue in town. My gig was with Alan Kennedy, the venue was full and there were lot's of faces I recognised in the crowd. There were problems with the sound again (why can't venues get this right, it really spoils the night when the crowd are struggling to hear what the guest speaker is saying) nevertheless AK went down a storm and with new batteries for the mic sorted (courtesy of my emergency supply) I took the stage and really had a great gig, they laughed in all the right places, were very attentive and I ended up getting a standing ovation in my home city..it doesn't often get better than that!

Saturday 20 November
Had a lovely couple of hours with my daughter, we went to a pub and for the first time in my life I ordered a pot of tea and a coffee...in a pub!!
Popped into one of my favourite venues, The Magnesia Bank in North Shields. Turns out that the landlord's wife recently won "Pudding Chef" of the year at a swanky night in that London, well done Dee, we Mackems are taking over North Tyneside!The real reason I went, was to see if the posters for my Christmas Roadshow were up, they were, but not enough of them, what an ego I have! And seemingly there's romance in the air at The Maggy!
The evening gig was in a tiny pit village in County Durham, amazingly it was a Pigeon Fanciers annual do (I kid you not) I was on with a really feisty club singer who got the crowd going. I didn't, unfortunately. I sort of guessed it would be hard as the average age of the crowd was about 200. I did ok and had to tone some stuff down, did 40 minutes and went off to decent applause. I was approached by a guy afterwards who told me I was "too blue son, too blue".
FTM!