Thursday the 8th of August was Irish Theme Night featuring "Mick's
Kitchen" & Guests
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On
arrival @ the venue you missed Steve the Doorman who usually asks
for your Entrance Fee of just £3 which goes towards a different
local Charity for each event, plus this years Ely Feast, itself
a Charitable Community Organisation and lastly, if enough "Hillman
Hunters" show up, the Band..!
Mick's Kitchen Gig - The Score;
Money Raised, Result soon.
£Result
soon.
To a local Charity. Held over till
next gig. |
On Paddy's Night you should get
out your banjo and your upside-down face and sing your heart out about
how you "so hate" the
English...
Apart
from Blues and deep Country Artists can there be a more melancholy
breed than the poor, forever oppressed Paddy Peasants.?
But
not so the happy and contented English geezers, John, Colin &
Shaun that are "Mick's Kitchen" and who presented an eager
audience with a set of Irish jigs and laments to tap, clap & slap
to..!
Mick's
Kitchen don't have a drummer but that doesn't seem to matter as together
the good ol'boys give plenty of beat to clap and sing along to. From
"The Leaving of Liverpool" to "Whiskey in the Jar",
"The Black Velvet Band" to "The Holy Ground",
Mick's Kitchen cooks all them ol'favourites to a turn..!
THE
BIT IN THE MIDDLE
L!VE G!Gs @ PURE
proudly present
"The Bit in the Middle"
 Wot
no AL..?!?
Where was big gay Al this week I heard the audience whisper...
 Al
has put in an appearance @ PURE for the last 4 Fund Raising
Charity shows and felt he was over-exposing himself a little
to much. As he has "previous" for "over-exposure"
who can blame him, and it was left up to his lonely mate Mick
to kick off the "Bit in the Middle"
Opening
up with "One", made famous by that well known Irish
Folk group U2 Mick must have thought he'd picked a bogey but
the warm audience gave him such a good clap that he continued
with a version of "The Fields of Athen Rye" a tear
jerking hard done by Irish Rebel Song.
That was enough of his Solo Career and Mick was joined by
Alan the Flutist-cum-Whistle player
for a couple of Irish-ish jigs that also went down very warmly.
Performing
in the
"Bit in the Middle" again this
week was "FF", or half of the great Local Band "JEFF"
who
gave us a couple of new songs in an Irish style.
 Ian
& Andrew once again delivered a professional set of songs
with good harmonies and bags of confidence..
Andrew has got such a great voice that I know for sure that
if Ely held it's own "Pop Idol" Competition Andrew
would be there @ the top of the pile..!
Check them out when you get the chance.
http://www.jeffofficial.co.uk
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Well,
a good
"Bit in the Middle" completed, the audience were now all
reved and ready to jig to Mick's
Kitchen...
While we are on the subject, apparently PURE
are looking for Kitchen Staff so if you are interested go
here to apply.
As
the "Kitchen" pumped out classic tune after classic tune
it was not long before the audience became intoxicated on Stout and
good vibrations and were dancing on the tables before you could say
"Whyde y'wanna Kilkenny"..?
The Bouncers
"Andy & Jamie" only got scuffed a little as all in all
a wild night was had by Uncle Shamus McCobley and all.
This
was a fitting conclusion to the current run of Feast Fund Raisers
for 6 weeks which will bring us into the Indian Summer of Music run
of gigs starting around THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 19th when it will be 50's Night with Local Rockers "Blue
Suede Ouse"
WEAR YOUR BROTHEL CREEPERS, DRAPES & BOOT-LACES
Review - Michael Gillett
mg@ely.org.uk
