Two gigs this weekend restricted my sailing to a Sunday race around the cans on the lake with Amanda and the Albacore, but that's always a treat. The gigs were fun though. Both were outdoors, but the weather was kind.
Friday night was the opening of the Tewkesbury Live Free Music Festival. Our stage was a trailer in a field on the site of Tewkesbury RFC, the seating a semi-circle spread of straw bales. Despite the space, open air and raised stage, it felt comfortably intimate.
On Saturday night we played at the Welland Steam Rally beneath the Malvern hills. It was quite the night. The stage, sound and lighting were superb, which is to be hoped for, but never a given with these things, so a real treat for the band when the three do magically come together.
The following couple of clips are from Saturday night, a cover of Oasis's Wonderwall, and the Kaiser Chiefs' Predict a Riot. The sound quality is, of course, live, so due caution with your volume control is advised.
As always, Dad came along to both gigs, took lots of pictures and shot lots of video, including both the clips here. However, credit for the photo at the top of this post goes out our drummer, Leah.
I love that Dad's in shot, up against the rail at the front of the crowd, just beneath my right elbow.
It's his 79th birthday tomorrow, and to my shame, I still haven't decided what to get him for a gift. It will probably be something liquid, because the men in our family are predictably easy to please in that respect. Just as we're predictably uninventive when it comes to choosing birthday gifts.
Then Sunday we'll head down to the boat and, hopefully, by this time next week be somewhere off the Cornish coast and heading west.
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