Phoenix Bar, [Near George Square],
Quite a quiet night - probably due to the atrocious stormy weather and practically horizontal rain which had been prevalent all day! However, there were still a few good musicians who turned up.
Big Bob Leslie runs this Open Mic and usually starts off the evening with some blues and rock numbers. A young student - Adam got up and sang a couple of ballads of his own as well as a couple of James Blunt songs - “You’re Beautiful” being his best rendition of the evening.
Alex, a member of Bob’s band ‘The Outfit’ then arrived with his banjo, and gave us a couple of tunes, and later did some duets with Bob.
Joe Kidd also turned up and gave us some soulful renditions of his own songs ‘Good Day’ and his newest song “Listen - don’t talk”.
Bob also got Elspeth Durkin up do a couple of songs “Autumn Leaves” and “Lyin’ eyes” and she also joined Bob in a duet of his song “Different World”, as well as providing some ‘backing vocals’ on a couple of other songs such as the Little Feat song “Dixie Chicken” towards the end of the evening. After the ‘mic’ session had ended the musicians had a small jam session whilst Bob was putting the rest of the equipment away, and were joined by a young man Ian McLeod who had a fiddle with him and surprised them all by joining in on a couple of Rod Stewart numbers they were all singing. All in all it ended up being an enjoyable evening.
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