Trimingham Caravan Park

Put 2 seats back in the Galaxy; still some room left ‘cos the Bose gear doesn’t take up much space. Good run over and met up with Nigel in the car park just before 7pm. Dave and Martin arrived shortly after and Nige showed off his toy cigarette, which generates nicotine flavoured steam. Andy dropped by with the passcard and Dave and I went through; Nige elected to shift his gear through to the front of the club from the car park. Got set up with the Bose’s on the floor. We set up with the sound level down a bit and we did manage a brief soundcheck with “How Long” and it sounded pretty good. Had a water and a beer because I was very thirsty and then we were on for Set 1. All went very well from the off. It was a good sound balance, Dave was holding the drum pace in check and taking his time over the banter which started to work well; even Nige got a couple of remarks in. The audience was a bit bigger than usual and they were generally attentive and applauded in all the right places. Only trouble was it was going so well I forgot the order and forgot to put on the 12 string – so we did the Hollies Medley on 6 string – still no one noticed much. Got back on track and an old boy came up to do tambourine on Mr Tambourine Man. Played through to “I Believe” and got a great reception. We were dead chuffed ‘cos it was the first time since Dan left that things had gone so smoothly. Laura and friends arrived in the interval. Set 2 went similarly well; starting with a good rendition of “Travelodge” the whole set was nicely paced, with good banter and good audience reaction. Towards the end of the set we even had a few come up and dance to the Bay City Rollers and “Love Is All Around”. For set 3 I got the boys to open up with “Crazy Little Thing” (which needs some maintenance attention on the harmonies) and then we played through “500 Miles to Hi Ho” without stopping (but at an easy pace), attracting a few dancers along the way. We then did “Unchained and Trilogy”; and I thought a fair rendition of the Spencer Davis sequence (Nige not convinced) and “Dance the Night Away” before moving into the closing sequence. Rather than announce the individuals at the end of “Pretty Woman”, Dave gave a little talk on the value of supporting your local club and that went well. So we encored with “Wonderful” finishing spot on midnight. It had been a very good night for the band and we were happy bunnies as we packed up. Got away at 12:45 and home for 2:25am It was foggy in places and I missed the turn onto the A140 just outside Cromer, but picked it back up by following the Felbrigg road. I was a bit tired the next day and even more so after I had a very hard game of squash with Rocky which left us both gasping for breath as we called it a draw.