Clutha Vaults, Wednesday 13th December 2006

Howling gales, flooded roads, the River looking like it was about to

burst its banks...........but still the dedicated band of Open Mic performers braved the foul weather to make their various ways to the Clutha on Wednesday, to perform!

It was very quiet at the start of the evening, but Sandy started the ball rolling with four songs including 'Don't walk away' and 'I'm looking through you'.

First up was Big Bob Leslie, who performed two of his own compositions - 'Adios to Rock and Roll' and 'First man on the moon' [available on the Outfit cd 'Tales from the Mine"]. These got people into a party mood and some even started dancing!
Sandy then got Elspeth Durkin up - and, without any rehearsal, she and Bob gave a rendition of the Eartha Kitt song 'Santa Baby'.

The next up were a duo - Ian Hamilton and Elaine Feeney who gave a fantastic blues rendition of 'Whole lotta medecine and 'Since I fell', both very well received by the crowd.





Jer McDade then gave us a couple of his songs 'Singsong' and 'Until we die', protest songs about segregation etc.


Next up was George Campbell and his sister-in-law Elaine, who sang 'Bring it on Home' and 'To Love somebody' followed by George singing 'Lyin Eyes' although Elaine jumped in at the end to help with the last verses!
Then the old romeo himself was up - Andy 'the Candy' Logan, performed Crossroads and then 'The games people play' - which was duly accompanied on the choruses by the audience!




Joe Kidd and Johnny 'T' Miller had arrived and settled in by this point, so Sandy got them up next - singing 'Don't talk,listen' and 'Good day' both excellent cmpositions of Joes.




Johnny stayed up to accompany a few of the next singers.









Kevin Young was up next singing 'I might as well be down and out' another of his own songs.












Two brave Edinburgh folk [braving the weather that is] were next up - Jenny with Stuart Workman sang 'Moon River', followed by 'The Erie Canal'








and then scottish stalwart Joe Macatamy who gave us 'Haul away'.






Duo Paul and Evelynn got up and gave us 'In the real world'. George Campbell was back up then to give us 'Cod liver oil and the Orange juice' [not literally thankfully].


The penultimate performer was Ian Adie [with Johnny T] singing 'Take the ribbons fron your hair'.


POSERS! [for a photo that is!]





Last performance of the evening was from singer/songwriter Stevie Maguire who gave an emotional performance of 'Faultless'.


The official evening ended there, but there followed a bit of a jam session for about twenty minutes, until the bar staff insisted on everyone packing up and leaving!