Little more I can add to Waynes accurate account the evening.

I will start by saying thankyou to Charlotte and Nigel for choosing us to play for them.....twas our pleasure. I hope the INXS one for the first dance was ok. (Gibbeaux giving it some Hutchence).

Its all true about the staff at Headlam being somewhat discourteous and obtrusive, especially where we were concerned....."We have nothing but contempt for...BANDS..here at Headlam".

As Wayne said...we had to spend some time hanging around due to things running behind...not to worry though, was a great laugh in the cribbage parlour (braaaandy, are you a member?) with Belamy and his mistress, bet he stovved her knot in after the medievel banquet. Pauls pump nearly gave me a stroke with laughter.....bet its still echoing round the ...

Well…after turning up promptly on time so that the “Military operation” could go to plan, we were told that they were running late…well I never thought such a professional organization as Headl*m Hall could possibly stray from their strict timetable,

While we were waiting for them to finish desserts and speeches, we were asked to wait in a small area near reception that wouldn’t have looked out of place as a murder scene from Agatha Christies “Poirot”. We noticed that th ...

It was remarkably like driving to the Bates motel in the movie 'Psycho', driving to Sleepers last night. The Rain was pelting down and visibility was about 19 inches ahead. Not to worry though, Wayne and I made it there unscathed. Wayne had to follow me through so as not to get lost is the vast chasms of Boldon.

The venue must have been recently re-furbished, it smelled new, or as Wayne said, "you can smell the Ikea-ness" ha ha ha ha. It looked really nice inside and the sound was nice due to the shape of the room and the low ceiling.

It was quite a good turnout, the people were polite and appreciative. Lots of people giving us great feeback after the gig, complementing us on our performance and set diversity etc. So many thanks for that. Its really good that we can make that much of an impression on people, on our first visit to any venue.

"Come on!!!! Haway!!!".....we shouted, willing the van up the hill from Shildon to Brusselton as it gasped and spluttered its way to the top, smelling like it was burning 50cm to a gallon of oil getting us to our gig in Richmond...which it did, ye of little faith and all that.

Mal stood laughing at us as we pulled up behind his car in 'The Dingle mobile' on the delivery driveway to the rear of the Black Lion Hotel in the scenic Richmond.

The venue was really nice, cosy and in keeping with the rustic facia of the surrounding buildings. The people were really nice too, well up for a good time, which made for a great night for all, trully cracking!

Now then, a very interesting and somewhat eerie incident occured during our time there. Our Drummer Paul was casually urinating in ...

Travellers gig was tremendous, our following in that area is second to none, so many thanks to all who turned out to watch us again...much appreciated. With three brilliant gigs in Cockerton so far I'm definately looking forward to playing the club in November, it should be awesome. Got some great up and coming gigs too ( check the gig list). We're beig recorded at the Horseshoe gig in Crook so I'm hoping for a full house for that one....lots of noisy people! Every gig we've played there has been great so far so.....should be mint.

There's a few new venues for us too soon such as Sleepers (Boldon) and Harleys (Sunderland) so I'm interested to see what they're like to play. Thanks to Linda Cross, (whom I'm yet to meet lol), for booking us for those. We've played Olivers, which is not too far away from Harleys....It was more like a night club than a live music venue and the band accounted for two thirds of the people i ...