Recent gigs

[ColinB]

I've posted a review of last night's gig by The George Harrison Project on my blog.

The shortened version is that we got about a dozen Beatles songs, another dozen from his solo records and various misc including Ringo's Photograph, a Dylan song unknown to me, a couple of Wilburys songs and a bit of rock n roll at the end with Everybody's Trying to be my Baby and Roll over Beethoven.

The sound wasn't great in the first half with the lead guitarist lacking the subtleties of Harrison's slide guitar playing and the keyboards almost inaudible. But things improved after the interval and there was a nice ukulele section which included I'll See You in my Dreams.

Longer write-up at https://colinbertram.blogspot.com/2026/07/george-harrison-project-at-lancaster.html

[Alan2]

Nev Clay.

Local songwriter  whom we treasure. In-store gig,  and his first such in 40 years,  apparently .

[ColinB]

The sound wasn't great in the first half with the lead guitarist lacking the subtleties of Harrison's slide guitar playing and the keyboards almost inaudible. But things improved after the interval and there was a nice ukulele section which included I'll See You in my Dreams.

Turns out that their usual guitarist had been taken into hospital for an urgent eye operation so they'd called in a friend to cover for him at short notice. Knowing that, I'd say he did a pretty impressive job.

[PJayBe]

Attended a concert about the 1826 Lancashire Loom Breakers riots when workers turned against the increasing mechanisation of their jobs and rampaged around East Lancashire for a week destroying the new fangled looms.
A mix of narration, song and dance, that was a wonderful afternoon. Of course it all failed. The mill owners hijacked the money coming in to look after the poor to rebuild their mills with even better equipment, but at least the workers tried.
Sadly some died, but many who were sentenced to death had their sentences commuted and were imprisoned for a maximum of 18 months.

See more here :

https://digspag.org.uk/riot-the-story-of-the-east-lancashire-loom-breakers-in-1826/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTLWUxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEejaWW-p7OqJGRseK2OQNWMFwNBPrX6lSpdYJ7KN2XTrlLPxtTqI5FuTRdq98_aem_Eq6oa1TO3T8ZvjFIcyEOCw

Sounds grand.  Who were the musicians involved?

Narration : Nick Caffrey, Julie Proctor
Song & Poetry : Mark Dowding, Sid Calderbank, Nick Caffrey, Robin Madge, Ed McGurk
Music : Robin Madge, Julie Proctor, Ed McGurk, Mark Dowding
Clog Dance : Alex Fisher

[davidmjs]

Narration : Nick Caffrey, Julie Proctor
Song & Poetry : Mark Dowding, Sid Calderbank, Nick Caffrey, Robin Madge, Ed McGurk
Music : Robin Madge, Julie Proctor, Ed McGurk, Mark Dowding
Clog Dance : Alex Fisher

Many thanks