Broad Farm Flegborough

Weather has been cool and cloudy and set to continue over the bank holiday. But this evening it was still, sunny and a bit muggy as I set off with time to spare to deal with bank holiday traffic. Actually the roads were fairly clear, so I made good time to Acle and arrived at the gig about 6:25pm. The club was open and as I walked in I took a look at the entertainments board - only to see we weren’t on it? Panik were scheduled for this evening? Nige arrived about then so we went to find Linda the booker. She said, “sorry”, but she had cancelled the band with Mark (the agent) some time ago because they wanted a more modern image at the club. I got on the phone to Mark who confirmed it had been cancelled by letter and email - neither of which had arrived with me? Anyway, I agreed to check it all out after the weekend and Nige and I put in a call to young Greg to head him off. In the end Greg said, “lets meet anyway”, so we met up and made our way to the Hemsby California Tavern to have a beer and watch the Glamtastics for a while. They are a tight two guitar, bass, drums and lead vocal outfit playing up-beat stuff from the 70’s. A bit loud for my tastes but clearly popular. It remained a mild, still night so, on the way back, Nige and I called in a Broad Farm for a brief listen outside to ‘PaNick’ – a dad and daughter duo singing over backing tracks. Not that impressive really but this is the age of X Factor and I suppose we are now ‘old fashioned’. A bit like the jazzy dance bands of the 1950’s who were displaced by unskilled youths in beat groups in the 1960’s! Made my way home and had another beer as I slouched in front of the tele feeling a bit down about it all.