Of Butterflies and Bands.

A great weekend, a gig in Emma's local with the band. For this gig at The Market Tavern, we tried out the idea of a seperate "acoustic section" of the main set where the whole atmosphere and instrumentation is changed for a portion of the night, rather than mixing it up through the set and compromising on instrumentation. Thanks to the many of you that gave us really positive feedback about this, I think it may well become a regular feature of our longer sets now. Local music fan Chris Salmon filmed us playing "You Want My Head" (not as stated here!) Thanks Chris.



The next day I was stunned to see over 200 Red Admirals and other assorted lepidopterra on a small patch of ivy by the canal, filmed it on my mobile and put it to "Jewel" a song off my "Happy Juice" album :)



SETLIST
Cry Cry Kill, Love Limpet, New Song (un-named), Jolene, You Want My Head, Owl & the Willow, Killing Me, Feels Like Sunshine, These Boots, Minute In The Sun, Beachcombing, Lazy Sunday Afternoon, Back In The Real World, Galleries, Just Like Nero, Humankind, No Tobacco, No Jesus!, Farmer John.

Music Squared.

We returned to Sqaure One, Crewe this time in full band mode and with some new material. There's also a little blog post about the night by our sound-peeps, The Angry Badgers right here.

Set List No Tobacco No Jesus, Love Limpet, The Owl & The Willow, Back in the Real World, Jolene, Beachcombing, Killing Me, New Song (not yet named), Cry Cry Kill, Galleries, Lazy Sunday Afternoon, You Want My Head, Feels Like Sunshine, Farmer John, Just Like Nero, Humankind, These Boots Were Made For Walking, (Encore) No Tobacco No Jesus (extended).

Thanks to Rob Icke for the photo.

Dates, dates, dates.

Gratuitous knob shot

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A break of sorts...

Well in spite of a slow-down of BlueYellows gigs, the whole band have actually had a pretty busy summer through some special private musical performances and finally the main event itself at the wonderful wedding of our keyboard player, accordionist and backing vocalist extraordinaire Emma Alcock (previously Burgess) and good friend of all in the band, Pete. It was of course a private event so I'll leave it at that except to say it was a fantastic day and we wish them a lifetime of love and happiness together. I've also done a few solo gigs lately including including The Alsager Festival and a special charity festival at The Hop Pole Hotel, Crewe and what a fab atmosphere it was there. I was also delighted that the superb vocalist and songwriter Hayley Strangelove joined me for some impromptu backing vocals on "No Tobacco, No Jesus!". I was thrilled!

Thanks to Tom Bloor for the photos.

P.S As I write the band are due to meet tomorrow for our first rehearsal back in The BlueYellows mode for quite a while, with shows booked from the end of the month - Oh yes!