Thursday, June 14, 2007

2a Price Street

Well, it was one of those surreal gigs in Birkenhead last night. It was organised by Peter Jones (hi Peter!) who reads this on Sundays while the Antiques Roadshow is on, and was in aid of a children's charity called Jellybean. There was a giant green fur jelly bean playing drums when we got there, and no microphone although there was a PA system; someone phoned for a microphone, and then we noticed that there was no clip on the mike stand to fix it into, although there was a roll of sellotape which was just being wrapped round the microphone to stick it to the stand, when an audience member said they had a mike stand in their car boot and went to get it. So sound materialised; Martin and myself had out photos taken by Paul Chong (who keeps finches and also reads this, hi to you too!) with the giant green fur jellybean.
There were people there from the guitar weekend- it was nice to see them again, and Mike and June were there too (hi Mike and June) with Mike feeling guilty for having a bootleg copy of the Helen and the Horns album, but I told him it wasn't his fault as he'd bought it in good faith off the internet, but I'll have to write a Letter to the Japanese company to tell them to stop manufacturing it.
It was a good gig, all in all, with a great atmosphere once everything got going, the giant green fur jelly bean got everyone dancing (including me with my rusty old joints) and by the end the floor had so many jellybeans on it that everyone's feet were sticking to it.
Weird but fun!
And I rushed back today to do Song Club; I wasn't standing any nonsense today AT ALL CHILDREN and miraculously, we actually got something done, at jammy dodgers, and were all still speaking to each other at the end.

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