Jazz Cafe Review: self aggrandisement and bigging up The Daintees

What a gig last night! I really enjoyed playing my set because the audience was listening and I seem to feel so much more confident these days. I loved it, I loved it! Thank you audience for listening to me and thank you to the people who came up later and said they liked it. Thank you to The Daintees for inviting me to support them, too! It more than made up for all the awful ones where people haven't paid any attention. And if anyone had told me a couple of years ago that I'd play the Jazz Cafe I don't think I would have believed them.
The crowd carried on in good spirits for the Daintees- they were really looking forward to seeing them and they weren't disappointed. The band wasn't the big festival band of last year- there was no Andrea Mackie and no John Steel, but they were much more focused and much rockier. Interesting to see how the songs work whatever way they are presented. The sound was great out front; Martin sang really well and they'd been rehearsing which really showed, because they were as tight as a ducks arse in a sandstorm! Like last year the audience sang along to loads of the songs- Little Red Bottle, Rain, more than that, and when the band left the stage after a two hour full-on set, they were still yelling for more twenty minutes later. What a brilliant night! Daisy Flowers was there doing the merchandise, a proper rock'n'roll girl, and Johnny Guitar went up and played harmonica on a couple of songs (earlier he told a wonderful story about being on Gardener's World with his band, having won a competition to write a song to celebrate the Year of the Potato- you have to have met him to see how funny that is- he is just like the missing member of the Rolling Stones!)
Rob from Voiceprint was there too, smiling away. Poetry and Rhyme will be out in September so I shall have to organise a launch party, won't I?
Today, knackered. But Sean's emailed to say he's put Loverman on Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji1jAOHh1eY with a bit from the interview I did with Shippy when I was in Newcastle.