Friends of Friends of Merlin

 Still on a high from last weekend's sellout, tonight was an all-too-common situation of bands playing to other bands kind of a deal, though it's always nice to meet up and hang out with our fellows in this role called "Muso". Flooding from storm Babet put paid to rehearsal so we stuck to familiar recent setlist material. 

Photo by Maz from Friends of Merlin 

Pre-soundcheck
double espresso 

Rock the Cap's Bar!

 Today we headed to our 1st festival of the year and our debut show at the Captain's Bar in Hanley. This was for BOGFEST - a festival with a very direct fundraising campaign to support this venue and increase its toilet capacity.

Along with the festival comes a compilation album my gang The Blue Yellows are a part of, which you can download at Rock the Cap's Bar

Unfortunately for Dave, it was his turn to epitomise the doctrine of "the show must go on" as he was playing with a migraine.

It was great to see so much musical variety in a one day festival with acts from the world's of electronica, folk, world music and more - fabulous!

 

#YC19 Festival

We were festival virgins for Your City Festival, set among the still fairly numerous (for today) music venues in the centre of Stoke On Tent.
For those who don't know, the city centre is Hanley, though most from other parts of the country have never heard of it, confusion added by the fact that the town of 'Stoke', though in Stoke On Trent, is today a bit of an offshoot from the main centre of things in Hanley. On top of this 'the D-Road' is an A-road duel carriageway... Oh I'll shut up now..

Anyway it was a pleasure to play #YCF19 in the tasty environs of Mart's Brewhouse and Tap and we felt like we were on form and playing well, albeit just to other musicians who had just been on, or were about to go on.
Good fun nonetheless!