Toftwood Social

Good run over on a warm sunny September day. Met up with Nigel and whiled away 10 minutes before the club opened. Got set up, quite a lot of room. Nige and I did a bit of glad handing. Not many in by start time. Usual start. Low volume gave a good on stage sound but the guitar sound was wrong. I was getting an unpleasant distortion and was fairly distracted trying to sort it out which resulted in a nervy start with odd things going wrong. But we were generally going down well with the small crowd. Finally fixed guitar problem in “Easily Fall In Love” - that volume knob on the Roland FX had shifted to max again!! With the sound fixed we carried on with Apache. No takers for playing our tennis rackets so I went out front for a solitary Shadows walk. But out there I could hear a really good sound boys! We did some country successfully and once again Martin delivered on the big numbers. So, despite the small audience, we did a good job. The guvnor acknowledged it was not our fault there were only about 40 in and complimented Martin on his vocals – he liked the mimicry. Uneventful ride home to face an early start the next day for our long planned rail trip to Spain.