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friday 12th july
strange ...
steppenwolf was the first sound to greet me
this morning, staggering through the kitchen and fumbling with
the dial. i could tell you where i found it, but they never do us
any favours so to hell with 'em. strange, because "born
to be wild" was the song with which real "groovy"
numbers brought their sixties set to a close at pure last night. was
it possible that He had attended in person [something had certainly
possessed dil] and had given us his blessing. have
faith, children. yours is the way that is good and righteous.
live music will flourish in ely. ps. relegation will not be a concern
this season, and your tyres need a little air. doesn't your head do
funny things when you're waking up. it's as if it has a mind of its
own.
anyone attending the cloisters last night, divine or otherwise, picked
the right night to appear. i have no hesitation in declaring it the
best pure live gig so far. having billed the gig as a sixties
night we sat back and awaited a horde of wrinklies with bus passes
and invalid carriages. what we got was a contingent
of predominantly female teenagers. i've never seen so much
i.d. flashed in one evening. scratch the plans
for a cloakroom and install skateboard parking facilities.
what these kids were doing gathering on a sixities night, celebrating
music that was popular not so much before they were born, but when
their mums were very young indeed, is beyond me. but we were glad
they were there, and hope they were, too
groovy numbers were certainly glad of it - delivering a bludgeoning
set that welded sixties pop standards to nineties rock technology,
and so what if it wasn't authentic. you were expecting psychedelic
volkswagens and lambretta scooters? groovy numbers
claim to be east anglia's hottest covers band and few of last night's
crowd would argue with that. nice to hear guitarist anil's
vocals well up in the mix, too. and did you notice how i casually
slipped the word "crowd" into
that sentence. yesterday's gig was the first in six dates where numbers
got close to non libellous use of collective nouns.
and here i have to announce, with deep regret, that i
observed several unseemly outbursts of spontaneous dancing at the
club. this irregular and immoral practice can spread throughout the
whole audience and can become very difficult to contain. towards
the end of the evening i was disturbed to realise that i was the only
person in the club to have remained seated. standards must be maintained,
you know. i expect not to have to tell you again.
our regular duo of al me pal and sir michael of gilletshire again
occupied the open mic spot, which is fast becoming their exclusive
domain. in what was a very boisterous evening, al's
sublime sax and earnest vocals provided the perfect foil to sir michael's
thoughtful and sensitive strumming. students
of the six string were treated to a rare exhibition of complex and
challenging chord progressions unlikely to feature in any guitar manual..;-)
no pure now for four weeks. due to an
administrative hitch, the next gig has been blown out, so look forward
to friday, 8th august, when we host an evening
of irish music and welcome mick's kitchen to waitrose car park.
Now off to ely folk weekend,
driver, and don't spare the horses...
fil
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