By this stage I'm starting to feel quite tired. Lydia prepares a fantastic lunch with the pies from Bromsgrove with mash and peas with a bottle of cider from Pete at the Hop Pole.
Then I try to sleep for an hour or so before leaving for Yeovil.
The weather is miserable, just rain, rain. It's dark by the time I get to woods wine bar.
Chris greets me and we do a quick sound check. the PA seems quite good but neither of us know how to use it very well. We get something of a sound. The acoustics of the venue are such that even just two or three people talking is enough to create a substantial noise.
This will be a tough gig and I prepare myself for an hour and a half of playing to a wall of sound.
A couple of people on the table in front of me turn their heads to listen and must like it because they buy a Cd at half time.
I get talking to Charlie who has come down to see me play, he writes about music in several journals. During our conversation it turns out he graduated as a sound engineer; needless to say the second half sounds a lot better, he likes the music, buys a Cd and takes several more to give to venues in New York where he is going soon.
At the end I pick up my fee and Kenny asks if I will come back to play again. At first I am reluctant but he convinces me that another Friday would be worth a go. On the way home I consider that it might be a better gig with the band.
Charlie writes a lovely review of this gig, He should have been at The Hop Pole.
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