Best post-set comment ever. I'm still fairly clueless as to what the guy was getting at, but at least he bought me a pint. I liked Rick Astley at the time. So yeah, I went to the Folk Club on Friday and played "Magnetic or Rhetorical" again and "Cold Case". It was a nice night, though conversation was pretty preoccupied with descriptions of Cambridge United defender Brian Saah's freak injury, followed by a lot of wincing and leg crossing and saying of "NINE stitches? Seriously? Big boy!". Alias Grace did a half hour set, and it was really lovely to see them. It's been far too long.
Saturday was a case in point about not giving up drinking for the month before the weekend that contains a televised Merseyside derby that kicks off at 12.45 in a town where there are pubs that shut at 3.30am. Feast and Famine. Good times though. There was some mid-afternoon darts, which, disappointingly, my arm still hurts from.
On Sunday I did a shortish, moderately hungover set at The Cornerhouse (new hangover improver - a shot of tequila followed by a kiwi and grape J2O) with a particlarly out of tune guitar and noisy hand drier as accompaniment. I wonder at which point getting a tuner that I can only be arsed to take to 'proper' things robbed me of my ability to tune things by ear. I thought my voice sounded really good though, so that's something. I did: The Ghost of Paddy's Night Past, You Won't Break My Heart, Watertight, This Place is Dead Anyway, A Folly or a Fortress.
There was a great act later on, whose name I've annoyingly forgotten. Two guys in their early 20s dressed as Richie Sambora and Nikki Sixx circa 1987 - as well as some originals they did "Every Rose Has it's Thorn", "18 & Life" (did I ever tell my Skid Row story about the turd on the Victoria Line? Probably) and "Livin' on a Prayer". It's heartwarming to see the tradition living on in the younger generation. It made me think seriously about getting back up to speed on my soft metal guitar solos.
First Travis Waltons show with backing vocals tomorrow. I'm a bit nervous I'll bottle my bits. I've only sung in harmony a couple of times before and I've always been doing the main part. We're spporting Hot Club de Paris, and I think there'll be quite a lot of people there...
God, Hollyoaks is really stabby these days.