Clutha Vaults, 27th December 2006

This was a very unusual wednesday evening, in that the Vagabonds were playing for part of the evening, and then jammed along with some of the singers and musicians from the Open mic nights. The Vagabonds (Brian McLachlan on electric guitar, Stevie Westwater on Bass, Gavin Smith on Drums& harmonies, and Sandy on acoustic & vocals) opened with about 6 songs before getting Annie up to sing her favourite country song of the moment 'Ramona'.

Next their good friend Barry Campbell sang his version of the John Lennon Classic 'Working Class Hero'.

Barry Campbell with the Vagabonds

Next to be called over was Arthur
who covered the classic song 'The Gambler'.

Stuart and Jenny Workman were next giving us one of their favourites 'Pharoh's army' [with some harmonies coming from the audience. Sandy then got Steve who did a blues song, followed by 'Please help me' from Gavin.

The old rascal, Andy the Candy Logan, was up next, to give us 'The Games people play'.

This was quickly followed by Willie Mathews, with Fraser Lindsay on Electric guitar, giving us the Ry Cooder classic 'The Breeze'.

Jer McDade was next with his popular song 'Bob Treetop'.

Annie and Marlene were then up to sing 'I will fly away' harmonising with extra vocals from Sandy.

To give some of the Vagabonds a rest then, Johnny T Miller took over Bass, Fraser Lindsay on the Electric guitar, (but with Gavin still on drums) with Andy Lindsay singing 'All day, & all of the night'.

Joe Kidd was the next performer,with Johnny T and Gavin.
Then the Workmans(Stuart & Jenny) gave us 'The Erie Canal', accompanied on saxaphone by Frank Moony [an ex-original Vagabond player, back over on holiday from California!),Fraser on Electric guitar and Gavin on Drums.

Then Jukebox Willie Mathews was next to play with the ensemble - giving us 'Everyday'
the phrase "Welcome back to Scotland", heralded Joe Macatamy's singing of the scottish folk song 'The Broom of the Cowdenknowes'.

Next ensemble was John Fleming,Johnny T, Fraser and Frank giving us a bluesy little number.
Andy the Candy and Izzy were then called up by Sandy and Izzy sang her most popular ditty -'I want a hug' which was joined in with during the refrain, by all the regulars in the audience.


Last Open mic song of the evening was Elspeth Durkin, who sang an old Julie London classic 'What are you doing New Year's Eve?' a song which can really only be sung at this particular time of year. Unfortunately for Elspeth, Bob Leslie who normally plays guitar with her, was not present this evening, so she had to sing accapella - to a rather noisy audience - which did quieten down a little.

The Vagabonds with Frank Moony, then finished of the evening with some rousing rock & roll which had quite a lot of people out of their seats and up on the floor dancing!! A great end to the evening.