Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone out there!!
This was an excellent evening with great songs and lots of audience interaction.
Sandy Watson as ever started the ball rolling, and one of his songs was the Woody Guthrie ballad ‘Deportee’.
Andy the Candy Logan was up next with his ever popular rendition of ‘St. James’s Infirmary’. An old friend of Sandy’s was next up, his first time at the Clutha Vaults Open Mic,
Steven McCafferty sang ‘Above the Clouds’.
Duncan Adams was in relatively early for him and he performed an anti-valentine’s song ‘You don’t love me anymore’!
Gavin Watt then gave us a Creedance Clearwater Revival song ‘As long as I can see the light’.
Bob Leslie and Johnny T Miller [on Bass] were next up with Bob’s love song ‘Texas’ - about how love can be found anywhere - even in Caledonia! Then Elspeth Durkin got up and sang a very slow version of ‘After the Goldrush’ with Bob and JT. JT stayed up and was joined by Stuart Workman with Sandy harmonising on the Bob Dylan song ‘Billy’.
Then Joe Kidd and JT gave us Joe’s song ‘Nothin’ wrong.’ [which was probably what a lot of people who had forgotten about Valentine’s day were thinking this evening!]
Arthur then got up to play [with JT on Bass] and gave us ‘Me and Bobby Magee’ to which a lot of people were singing along with.
His friend Stevie then gave us ‘Fourteen Days in the Jailhouse’ [accompanied by Bob Leslie on acoustic and JT on Bass].
The next performer was Davie [ from the Victoria Bar] who gave a great performance of ‘Down on the corner’.
Next up was Robert Walser, who was giving his last performance as he is heading back to Switzerland, He gave us an outstanding arrangement of ‘Strolling down the Highway’ followed by his farewell song ‘Don’t think twice, it’s alright’. He was given a resounding ovation , and we are all sorry to see him leaving us, but hope that he will return sometime in the future.
Sandy then got Annie Fagen up - and she said “How can I follow that?” but did her usual excellent performance of the ballad ‘Ramona’accompanied by Sandy on acoustic guitar.
Jer McDade was next with, as he said “ as it is Valentine’s Day, the only song he has where no-one dies!” which was ‘The Unsinkable Boat’ [Not the Titanic then].
Willie Jukebox Mathews was next on stage and he gave us a T Bone Walker blues song ‘Stormy Monday’, with JT on Bass.
Gavin was back up then, and gave us a Rolling Stones number ‘Dear Doctor’. Duncan ‘s second performance was ‘Where am I gonna live..’ an ironic song for Valentine’s, followed by the ever popular Joe Macatamy with ‘Gallipoli’.
The Edinburgh contingent were next, Jenny and Stuart Workman [ with JT] giving us ‘Pharaoh’s Army’ with harmonisations from the audience. Stuart Nugent and JT then gave us a brilliant rendition of ‘the Subterranean Homesick Blues’.
Although we are losing Robert to Switzerland, we now have Cedric Bertrand from France performing with us. He did an English song this week ‘Portobello Belle’.
Arthur was back up with JT then and gave us ‘ The Green Fields of France’ [ or Willie McBride]. Bob Leslie, JT and Elspeth were the penultimate performers with 'Take Another Little Piece of my Heart' with assistance on the chorus from the audience.
Last up was Willie Mathews with another Bob Marley song which EVERYBODY sang!!
An excellent evening full of fun and good music.
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