Despite any first night issues/nerves, the chaps were on fine form on Tuesday at MK. They’ve done a few tweaks on a couple of songs which enhance them. Chris’ voice is excellent, but he seems to have dropped a few semitones so doesn’t get quite the high notes as before. (I did think Peggy looked unwell, but it may have been the lighting/shadows on stage)
An enjoyable evening…..mind you I always go without expectations etc so enjoy the performance ‘in the moment’. Yes, I may have noted a few things, but they didn’t matter…..I don’t want perfection, I want a gig that makes me feel good. This one did. Thanks chaps.

I see set list.fm are on the case. Looks like a good show!

Thanks

Better ask the lads this evening - they are more likely to know than the rest of us!

No decent pubs that I know of. Plentiful parking, drive into the Uni main entrance, the venue itself is great and there's a decent bar

Have fun!

Ummmmm....this confused me.  May next year - is this really the five piece?

https://dice.fm/event/dkmr96-fairport-convention-60th-anniversary-celebration-25th-may-new-century-manchester-tickets

Wille and the Bandits at Acapela on Wednesday, first time since they played Cropredy 10 years ago. Definitely worth going to see, tons of energy and the new proggy keyboard player was right up my street  

As Cornish lads fond of a bit of surfing, they're rightly concerned about sewage disposal into the sea and have written a song about it: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8b59G7Uoq-w&si=kH1SsbszFW6Ophnx

And yet it was (just over) a year ago!

Seems about 5 minutes since you were going to the last Exeter 5-piece gig!

Sound of the Sirens were very good last Friday - I hadn't seen them since Cropredy (8 years ago now, I think?), but they are just as good, if not better.

Blackbeard's Tea Party a week before were a little more disappointing, I felt.  The very poor turnout probably didn't help, but I felt it took a while for them to get into the groove - I was struggling to pull the tunes out of the noise and energy, but when they did break through, they were fine.